Forthmade - GOD T-Shirts

Two years ago during winter break, I made a series of vector images that depicted different creatures with the word "GOD" slapped across their foreheads. My concept was a mix of playing on the tendency people have to assume as well as the varying personal accounts and definitions people tend to take the meaning of the word to. When my friend asked me to contribute a piece to a project he was doing for class, Forthmade (http://forthmade.com), I was stuck on ideas as to what to put on a t-shirt. After talking with a friend or two, and remembering what brought me to creating the image in the first place, I happily chose this little lion man:

My friend Ian Ballantyne (http://ianerballantyne.com) taught me how to screenprint one weekend, and I ended up with nine new tees as well a handful of other clothes I stamped with the king of the jungle:

As a first experience with t-shits and screenprinting, I am really interested to try again and continue efforts such as this. I still have a handful of shirts left and am wanting to give them to happy new homes! If you are interested, let me know!

Illustration Band Project Process 2

 Sketches/comps! A little bit more of my process of making a few designs and slapping them down on tees for class tomorrow. We had to make three different designs and give them some varying looks with 4 colors a piece for class - after critique, we'll decide which one we'll run with and what direction to start taking it.

I tried to make three very different designs: one is heavily based on reference (http://www.lussierphoto.com/wp-content/gallery/off-season/20101106_rtl5840_hdr-edit.jpg), one is loosely based on reference(http://home.comcast.net/~bygonebyways/80-NM-Deming-Mirador_Motel_Sign.jpg), and one is totally random and obnoxious, like a handful of band tees I have ran into in my lifetime.

Illustration Band Project Process

As we round the corner to finals this semester, our Illustration class is tackling a big month-long project involving an imaginary band. We drew a genre out of a hat, and then went to a random band-name generator to create our "client" (without choice - emphasizing, "you don't usually get to pick your clients). I got "indie" and "Careless Motel".

First we did a collection and handful of thumbnails for a logo - then we narrowed those down into 6 black and white examples. Next, we tackle the idea of a t-shirt design - I have three ideas down, an intricately structural drawing of a motel, a more graphic motel-sign, and a very random one (not complete yet). I went to town on the motel sketch as well as the one that isn't pictured, but I kept fumbling over and over with the sign sketch (below) - I'm totally fine with it, since I am thinking of making the design more shape-based and simplistic.

We also had to write a "buyer description" - that was fun! I named him Winston Lindenberry.