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Ninja T-shirt design
Been toying with vectors today, trying to do a cute character for a change…
Threadless – tee design – W.I.P
How can you not love (or at least – really enjoy) English language with all those imaginative phrases that can so easily be turned into illustrations or designs? If not in a straightforward way, then at least on the inspirational level – the language is IT! This one started as my take on “Bear with me” phrase and initially consisted of only the middle graphic of little girl hugging a bear. However, as with most of my designs – things tend to take nasty spins, so there you go… Looking at this now, it’s more “Bear in mind”… I’ve submitted if to some critique on the threadless.com and will rework it before I put it through to print but I think it’s going somewhere… I sacrificed my lunch break to make it so it’s worth at least a shish kebab and fries (which is what I fancied that day)…
Bleaching Tees – lizzard style
I have just applied some more bleach to my Halloween t-shirt from the previous post and while that is drying I would like to share a short illustrated example of what me and my rubber fake dinosaur toy (no euphemisms here) did to yet another old t-shirt. This was all before I started the main t-shirt project and all I was after here was to test the power of bleach on fabric.
Here’s the Lizzard in question, all cleaned up, resting and really pissed off:
Here’s the same lizard doing his part time gig as a stencil…
Working hard – coz he revels in creative process:
After doing a couple of rounds, moving lizard from one place to another at random and bleach shooting, flipping the t-shirt and shooting some more, Lizzard was free.
When bleaching was done, I washed the t-shirt in cold water and hung to dry… pretty x-rayed, huh?
Once dried, I used yellow POSCA pen to add some yellow eyes to the X-rayed Lizzards.
and the back..
That’s all folks, do try this at home;)
Halloween blues and bleached t-shirt designs…
I said I was going to put pics from my adventure with bleached t-shirt designs and here it is.
Before I start I would like to state that the inspiration for this came from:
1. Jon Schindehette, founder of ArtOrder (http://artorder.ning.com/) community, who came up with this particular challenge and pointed me to:
2. Instructables, where you can learn plenty about creative DIY & recycling
Ok, here are the steps I took. And since I played it safe and arrived at pretty much unexpected results, I would like to really stress the importance of self-initiative…
Tools used: Bottle of bleach, large piece of cardboard to stretch your t-shirt on, scissors, stanley knife (or anything else you’re comfortable cutting the shapes out), paper towels (do come in handy to wipe out the excess of bleach), drawing materials, camera, computer, image editing software (last three – totally optional)
Let’s begin.
1. Take a plain guy in a plain polo-shirt and chop the head off…
2. By means of cutting edge technology, transfer the image into your editing software, doodle the graphic onto the t-shirt. What I did here is I created a new layer above the t-shirt layer, set it’s mode to “screen” and roughly painted with brighter colour, then I erased out shapes from it to reveal darker areas. Because I am going to use posca pens at a later stage, I took some liberties marking the highlights and notes onto the design, too…
3. Grab a piece of cardboard, draw your shape and cut it out. I went really easy on the design so again… did not bother that much with the accuracy.
4. Some measures had to be taken and the quality check was called for at one stage…
5. Another look to assure it’s… identical. so NOT.
6. Combine the elements, while taking a chance to show off your wacom…
7. Secure the perimeter (I didn’t and now some of my sheet, that just happened to be drying out in the spare room) smell of bleach…
8. Go trigger happy with your bleach bottle… ( had to cut that scene out…)
9. Admire the results while asking yourself: “Where did I go wrong?”
That is what I thought on immediate comparison between what was initially planned and the result but must say – it has grown on me since. I am still going to try with posca highlights and try to add a logo or type elements but I am now quite taken by the creepiness of this work.
This subject is to be continued… as you can see there’s another t-shirt drying out behind this one on which I tested the power of my bleach, but this is yet another story;)
Cheers!
Kratos Linework – finishing touches, punches and headbutts
Almost done! My Cartoon-Kratos t-shirt is this(index finger and thumb almost touching) close from finish. I’ve been slaving away with the good old Stabilo, skipping my sleeping hours to make sure this is perfect and now it’s paying off!
I have now scanned it back into photoshop and will be erasing all the dirt and stray dots – a part of the job I would not mind outsourcing…
Just kidding, it’s cool – I love cleaning up – don’t send me emails with outsorcing services you outsourcing companies out there…
DeviantWear battle – T-shirt designs take 2 and 3
I have just submitted two new design for the DeviantArt contest. In fact, it is one but with with some extra vector chaos added to one of them so I guess it’s fair to submit two (I will only win once, I know…).
if you’d like to fave it – go ahead and click here
If you would like to favor this one it can be done here
There is no pressure. Just gentle persuasion…;) If you happened to look at them – I would love the feedback.
Cheers
Please help me get this design up!
