Thought this was good enought to submit it for scoring on threadless. If you like it, click on one of the links below to give it some love. Thanks!
Score this design: “dawg,” to help it get printed on Threadless!
Thought this was good enought to submit it for scoring on threadless. If you like it, click on one of the links below to give it some love. Thanks!
Score this design: “dawg,” to help it get printed on Threadless!
My first one in the series of Animal Mugshots . I keep wanting to use “Crinimals” but it somehow doesn’t seem to fly;) Anyways – meet “The Dawg”. Soon he’ll be available in print. I am planning to work on a cat first, but I am open to suggestions, should someone had any… anyone? Well, I guess it’s cats then;) Stay tuned:)
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)…
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;)
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…
As PR-esent for my father-in-law. The wording is an insight joke. I don’t think anyone actually says “absolutne spoko” except for that one guy that I met once and at the bus stop, nicked this catch-phrase from and sold it to my F-I-L. He loved it, so he loves skiing and, apparently, the t-shirt.
I must get a hold of a good t-shirt screen printing company.
This one here did not, in fact print as well as expected.
There is an interesting paragraph in the Rough Guide to Thailand warning tourist from trying to travel at night as the road is then ruled by ruthless, oblivious road rules and mostly high-on-amphetamine truck and bus drivers.
Inspired by this and completely not by my own impression of this beautiful country (although a tuk tuk ride in Bangkok and sight of motobikers there tells this might be true) this is my soon to be t-shirt design.
In the meantime – did you hear about the Sketch Jam? Something’s really cool is cooking at Southwarks Nando’s and if I am not viewing houses (yes, I need to find somewhere to live from 1st May) I would love to come!
It’s organized by Opus Artz guys. I am, shamefully, not familiar with them yet so need to do some reading. Check those guys out here
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