MERCH & IMAGE BREAKDOWNS
Created/written: 02.28.26
LAST EDITED: 03.05.26
AT THE END OF EVERY SECTION is a VIDEO PLAYLIST of ALL OF THE PRODUCT BREAKDOWNS (that have videos), and also THE FULL LIST OF ALL PRODUCTS AND CATEGORIES so you can get to what you came here for easily. Each section should have a comments section if you have any comments or suggestions on that design or the products. OR YOU CAN CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE STORE.
Graphic design one of the thing I've come to do, and after having done it for a little while, I gotta say, it's pretty fun to do... when you're doing it for your self. Building your own brand is a whole other world, so if you're on that path, here's some of the behind the scenes in the whole "clothing brand" side of Samurai Ruach. Designing is great, and the most fun part for me, and maybe for you too, but I have to do all of the other parts as well, and unless you have a team or some top notch AI agents, it becomes a balance and battle of staying motivated to set goals and do all of the boring crap that "someone" has to do but there's no one but you to do them... staying inspired to keep creating and keep the fire and passion for what you love doing... even staying on top of things like technology in your field and trending themes. If you're into doing print-on-demand, there's keeping tabs on the leading products, methods, and companies, I get into a lot of these things, and you see it in real time, in the videos. Not only that, but if you were looking for the meanings to the designs-- because there's a lot packed into them, and how they were done, you're in the right place. I've done some written blog posts if you're a reader, and because of how things are as far as living situations, doing videos ended up being faster, so here's both.
TAKE A SABBATH is really one of the more needed designs. All of the designs I've done i did because , says me, it's a thing that needed to be said, but taking a Sabbath is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood things out there, and it really saves lives, minds, souls, money, time, etc.
What is a SABBATH? Sunday, right? No. Saturday! Kind of. Saturday became the day it gets "remembered" but it doesn't really get remembered, more like kind of observed. Basically people say it and only do manybe 10% of what it's supposed to be, to be honest. So what is it then? Thee computer will tell you "The Sabbath is a weekly day of rest, Ceasing, or worship observed in Abrahamic religions, originating from the Hebrew word Shabbat, meaning "to cease" or "rest". It commemorates God resting on the seventh day of creation, observed by Jews on Saturday and many Christians on Sunday." which is pretty honest, thank you computer. If you ask me, which you didn't, directly, but you're here, so... indirectly, ok... it's a day (knowing) of your divine self. When you cease or pause or stop being divided and return to your wholly state of being your self... you return to your pure, divine, whole, real, natural, complete, full, abundant, etc. self. The BEING (I'll say) stopped being "Creator" or it stepped out of being in the spirit of Creator, and went back to being it's full complete self... which is all things. You have access to all spirits, and you pick one at a time to know that portion of your self, however you want to express it, but in that sabbath state, you just bask in your fullness and everythingness. A lot of people are programmed to not think that way, which is just one of the spirits that exist, which you're conscious so you can use it to express that part of your self. Everything is something to do. C'est la vie, la guerre, et le jeu.
THE NAME? commeth from the 10 commandments. Fun fact, if you consider this fun..."The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, delivered by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and recorded in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. They constitute fundamental moral laws for Judaism and Christianity, emphasizing worship of one God, honoring family, and prohibitions against murder, theft, adultery, and dishonesty."... thank you computer.
So, yeah, 10 Commandments, the big stone tablets that the flaming hurricane gave to Charlton Heston. I didn't see the remakes. But, basically, it's El Shaddai talking to Moses on Mount Horeb/Mount Saini. It's actually the 4th Commandment, and is punishable by death. Don't believe me? EXODUS 20:8-11, and this is the NIV or New International Version (translation/ wording).... "8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
THE DESIGN? OH SWEET SWEET FUN. I think i have the making of this one recorded. Photoshop 6 like the rest, until I learn to use (whatever the other thing is... KRITA). Time, Mind, and Resources... when they align, then I'll learn Krita. Until then, I'm doing what I can do, because it's working when it works. BUT, as for the design, it was one of those things where I know what I wanted, and getting it kind of changed what I wanted.
The words TAKE A SABBATH are the main things you see. I wanted them big and blocky, but also scratchy, and kinda metal (music) or gothic. As you can see, that last part didn't really happen. It makes me want to do another one. You know how you can just see it in your head, and then life screws with you when you try to make it a reality? I might just have to draw it out on the tablet. The big thick font is to let the image and color through. I did go back and add an outline to the letters for some of the designs, just to highlight the words better, because they got drowned in the shirt color bleeding through on some shirt colors, but at the same time, i wanted the shirt color to bleed through and be the outline color of the letters, so it just comes down to personal preference there.
The image that's bleeding through is a woman floating in water. It's pretty much being pure in spirit, and bathing in it... like a play on words, SabBATH-- completely immersed in it. TO ME, it shows how free and effortless things are when you're in the flow of your wholly Sabbath state. So she's basically flowing in the currency.
Created/written: 05.04.26
LAST EDITED: 05.04.26
TRY ANGLES (Mask and Clown) is one of the RUGPULL designs, or at least it was on of the first designs done that led me to make a whole category for the Rugpull stuff. There are two versions, as the yellow says, the MASK VERSION, which is the one with the split mask, and the CLOWN VERSION, which is the one with the clown with the cigar. I like the clown one more.
THE MESSAGE is a redo of the BEING SYMBOL in a way, but more so, i wanted a way to show some of the trinities of life and living it (trinities of BEING if you will) in an easily understandable but still cool looking way. It's broken down by words or phrases in rows which are separated by bullets (dots). So you can read the design by the position of the words. The second row, middle words (Pure Being, The Business, and The Game) are all related. Also, when talking about the positions, there are the sides the words are on, which is like the BEING SYMBOL. The right side is the MIND or Mental level, the left side is the SPIRIT or Spiritual level, and the bottom is the BODY/SOUL or the Physical/tangible level. Once you know how the systems work, how the currency flows from one position to the next, the design gets pretty easy to read and is an informative reminder kind of thing when you get off balance or distracted. It's a neat jump-start back to production or divinity.
THE DESIGN was done in Photoshop 6 like all of the others. The clown i drew on the tablet (XP Pen Pro) but the mask one i did the whole thing in Photoshop. It's basic shapes, so... not hard to do. There's a color system, where on the right side (MIND) the colors of the mind (which are best seen on the SKULL Version BEING SYMBOL), so there's the gold/sun and the light, and red fire/masculine thing going on, the left side has the blue water feminine, silver moon dark void stuff going on, and the bottom physical tangible manifested has the balance of the two and the purple. Where the designs get deep, as if that's not deep enough-- which, to me, all of that is pretty basic and easy to grasp-- there's the main differences in the two, which is the MASK or the CLOWN.
THE MASK is a classic kind of thing that you may have seen before. It's one half happy, on half sad... half dark and half light, so right off the bat you know you're dealing with balance... or duality, whichever way you want to see it. The mask is a really simplified version, and because it may be so familiar, and basic, then it's more universal in a way, and less terrifying for people who are afraid of clowns. If you ask me, the clown version is more honest, and has more going on.
Honestly, in all sorts of videos, because of the layout and content in the design, it comes up a lot, so i know there are more than a few videos in the playlist for this design. As of today (05.04.26) i probably still have videos of this design that need to get edited. Yay life. I still got time. I'll add them to what's here, because maybe they might explain things easier. May The 4th be with you.
Send In The Clowns
Send In The Clowns
The Master Clowns (Clown History)
Warm Jesters Drawing
2025 12 19 12 12 44 Feel Spirit Touch Logic
Created/written: 02.28.26
LAST EDITED: 03.05.26
NOTE: The items above go from TRYANGLES (Clown) to TRY ANGLES (Mask).
VTRYING TO HAVE A NICE DAY is about exactly that... TRYING to Have A Nice Day. I did a few different versions of the face there, because each time it almost feels like what I was going for, but never quite exactly it. It's a work in progress, but i just put all of the work out until I get what I'm aiming for. Later on, since there were a few different ones I just designed a face to fit the moods, instead of making one face and limiting it to the moods. For instance, if you took Charlie Brown's face and made him angry, sad, happy, confused... versus making a face specifically to express each of those things, so the face and design is more pure and honest.
THE MESSAGE is a simple one... "I'm TRYING to have a nice day." This is what it looks like. Everyone is fighting a battle, which is dumb honestly, but everything is something to do, and all things have to be expressed by sone version of one, in one moment. Yeah, its a play on the "Have A Nice Day" shirts because sometimes you just want to slap the people wearing those, like, "I'm TRYING but everything is against me, and I don't need your shirt rubbing it in my face on top of that. I should punch you in your shirt face, but that's even MORE CRAP that i'd have to deal with, and all i did was be born, which i had no choice, and now I'm just trying to have a nice day." Yeah, that's a little long, but you get the point. Life is life. Living is what we make of life-- how we see it, what we want from it, what gets done... it's the twisting and manipulation of what's actually there. We don't always see the Nice Day in the moment.
THE DESIGN was done in Photoshop 6 like all of the others, with some AI help. I basically made a distorted happy face, but several versions, and then took the parts that came out how i wanted them to come out (because AI specializes in NOT giving you what you asked for, so you can keep playing the game), and then I put them all together in one face in photoshop, and manipulated them a little more there. In future versions, the drawing pad was working with the laptop, so I just drew them out. When it's working I have to strike when the iron is hot.
Created/written: 02.28.26
LAST EDITED: 03.05.26
TURN YOUR FROWN (Something Something...) Yeah, there's a lot of honesty in these designs. Every t-shirt should be an honest from the gut, heart, soul, and mind statement-- even if it's just an image. Like music, a t-shirt is a vibration people go out and get. They raise or lower their self to the vibration, or mindset, that the song and t-shirt has. You literally walk around in that energy, and not only bring it into your self but you share it with others. They catch the vibes. SO... even if sarcastic or edgy, regardless of how cool they look, I still try to put out some energy that will help someone get to a better place. It's so they can express their self even when (especially when) they don't know how.
THE MESSAGE is a fun one, based on a combination of an old popular phrase, "Turn Your Frown Upside Down," and the fact that not everyone is in that frame of mind when they're trying to do it, which is why the phrase even comes up. Some folks are trying to have a nice day but might not be there just yet. And YES, it is good advice, but people have to b in a position to receive that advice AND to put it to good use. So, their heart and mind might be trying to turn their frown, but life and living it are having a rough time, so it comes out a bit grumbly, "Turn Your Frown... something something." They're trying to turn it, but not sure which way, or what good it'll do... but, still trying. It's like, "Yeah yeah yeah, I know... I'm trying.. shut up and mind your own business."
THE DESIGN goof old Photoshop 6 like all of the others. The smile on the face is actually the word "FROWN" in the shape of a frown, turned upside-down. I remember recording the making of the design but can't remember if the video was edited, or where it went (as of today 04.05.26). But, yeah, it's "FROWN" that I sketched out to look like a jagged, almost jack-o-lantern teeth or something, so when flipped it's a jagged kind of smile. Then i just turned the frown upside down.
Then there's the part where people might not be able to read the "FROWN" or understand the design, and just see a creepy smile-- which is a cool side-effect, but might be distracting, so i just made a text image and put that on the back. I was going to put it on the front, but for one, to me, it would read weird "Turn that Frown... FROWN... Something Something" if curved around the image. Basically it would have the word FROWN in there twice, so if all of the words were on top, or on the bottom below the design, it would look funny-- to me. SO, i did it 2 sided.
2-SIDED PRINTS VS ALL-OVER PRINTS... The only gripe with 2-sided designs is they add an extra $5-$6 to print on the back, which raises the price of the shirt-- not really what you want when you're trying to keep costs low and keep the shirt affordable. True, it does add more value, but the production costs goes up. To get around that, I could do the "ALL-OVER PRINT" designs, which is an all white item that gets printed all over it, so if it looks like a yellow shirt with black lettering, both the yellow and black are printed. There's one flat price for the print, which can be less than the regular 2 sided prints because with the all-over prints, the WHOLE ITEM (shirt, hat, bag, etc.) is one print. The only drawback there is with the all-over prints you only get the one print (one color shirt), whereas the traditional more expensive prints you get to choose different shirt color options. Bigger print area, so cooler designs vs only one single item that has to be redone for every other color, and also split between 1 men's and 1 women's (and youth, or boys and girls, etc.). Another way to look at that is you get a more expensive, multi color option, basic image, unisex shirt, by printing one design onto multiple sides of whatever color unisex shirt is picked, which saves space... or... a less expensive, one color option, better design, single sex shirt, by printing one design onto a fabric made into a shirt, so you have to design more of them which crowds the store.
Created/written: 04.05.26
LAST EDITED: 04.06.26
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ALL DESIGNS: Agnanadi; AllLies; The ArtWork's Outside The Box; BEING Symbol (Classics); BEING Symbol (Skull version); BEING BE-ing Being (Str8 Outta); BLACKLIGHT; Blacklight Quotes (Be Honest); Blacklight Quotes (No One Or Thing...); Blacklight Quotes (One Fire To Another); Blacklight Quotes (Peace & Blessings); Blacklight Quotes (The Only Thing Illegal...); Blacklight Quotes (You Still Have Time); Black Knight; Boney Phace; Charlie Beats; Coal Diamond; DefTrap Ronin; DefTrap Ronin (B.EL.YEWS); DefTrap Ronin (kNo Choice); DefTrap Ronin (The ONE); Don't Jesus The Christ Out of Yeshua, Your Self, or me (Artist & Park); THE DOORS ARE NOT EXITS; Fire Warning; Frank V. Durden; For Shore; Future's So Bright; Garuda VI; Get Crossed At Your Own Risk; Green Hero Man Guy or Girl Woman Person Thing; HappAi Face; Head In The Clouds; I Love Um...; I'm Doing My Best; Just Let AI Do It; Kemuri Ashain; Meditate On The Word Night & Day; Mind Over Matter (Game); NOT OK; OM-A-ZING; Rugpull (The Seein' Clown); Samurai Ruach (brand); Shmokey Phace; Sky's The Limit; Take A Sabbath; TryAngles; Trying To Have A Nice Day; Turn Your Frown something something...; Vesti La Giubba; Warm Jesters; WorldWide Royalty (WWR SERIES); You Fell Asleep On Purpose;
COLLECTIONS/ CATEGORIES: Agninadi (Fire dragon); Bags; BEING Symbols; Blacklight Vibe; Books, Games, & Music; Coal Diamond; Computer Love; EVERYTHING ELSE; Garuda VI; Hats & Headwear; Jackets, Jerseys, Long-Sleeves; Ladies Only; Mainly Text; Rugpull's Big Top; Samurai Ruach (Brand); Spiritual Fire; Tees (Raglan baseball tees); Tees (short-sleeve & tanks); Trying To Have A Nice Day; Vibrant Vibes; WorldWide Royalty (WWR); .
