So our Charity T-shirt competition is now in its final phase and the most important phase. This is the time everything comes together and we can finally start raising some money for Cancer Research.

The t-shirts are in today and look incredible. I am really pleased with the final results. Big thanks to Shirty Something for making this possible.

If you have already preordered a shirt it will be dispatched today and should be with you shortly along with a massive pack of stickers. If you haven’t bought a shirt yet, DO IT NOW!

Click here to get to our shop and buy buy buy!

The charity t-shirt competition voting stage is now over. The designs we received were outstanding and I’d be happy to print all of them but unfortunately my wallet won’t, hence why we started the voting stage. We would like to thank everyone that made a submission, everyone that raised the profile of the competition and everyone that voted. Thanks to all.

The votes have been tallied, and after a frantic last battle between FAKE and inkJoy (maybe some unsportmanship there) it was a close one to the end. inkJoy won it by just 3 votes. Below is inkJoy’s design that we will be getting printed. You’ll be able to preorder these later today:

But, we have left you in the dark dear reader. From the outset we always planned to have the top 2 designs printed (although we never told you this) and released for Cancer Research. So, we’d like to announce that we’ll also be getting FAKE’s design (seen below) printed too.

As I said earlier, you’ll be able to preorder these designs and they will be despatched to you as soon as we get them. Preorders will open later today so keep checking back for our new shop to open.

A big congratulations to FAKE and an even bigger congratulations to inkJoy!

EDIT: Shop won’t be up tonight, sorry, been having a few issues with the rip off merchants Paypal and their damn fees. Expect it up tomorrow.

Well the deadline for the inkJoy card artwork has been and gone and the winners are here.

A big thanks to everyone for joining up on the forum and also a huge thankyou to inkJoy for supplying the prizes.

The winners are:

• Greg
• RuSo
• brady
• .AON.

Congratulations to you guys!

For more details about the competition click here.

To coincide with the launch of our new forum we have our first competition giveaway here on Concrete Canvas. We have very kindly been donated 4 inkJoy pieces on card by inkJoy himself- and these are beautiful.

We first wrote about inkJoy’s cheeky characters back on our Character Safari post.

So how can you win one of these badboys? Well, just sign up on the forum and make 15 posts by Sunday 3rd August to be eligible for one of these card pieces.

The winners will be announced at 10pm on Sunday 3rd August.

Dotted around urban environments are a whole range of critters and I don’t mean your usual city wildlife. If you know where to look, you can find some awesome character designs. So this is a safari guide to finding those little bastards ;).

First up is a rare beauty found across the UK by a young artist known as inkJoy. The critter in question seems to be some form of drunk dinosaur - you better keep an eye on him as he’s often up to mischief.

If you look to the right ladies and gentlemen you’ll see a fantastic Cat/human hybrid by O Dear! Another sticker based artist who produces some great character work on and off the street.

The last stop on our tour is Starheadboy - if you look through those trees you can just about make out his ears. Another great artist, Starheadboy is based in Seattle, United States.

That concludes our safari tour, thank you for coming along. On your way out you can pick up some souvernirs from our gift shop!