Week 3 at last!

ZOMG I finally got a shirt design! This was not the original one I had in mind (and I still want that one, but perspective drawing a tank still boggles my brain), but I'd wear it! Dave at work teases me about being a Bolo Tech, so that's partly where this design comes from. The "LMR-2593" on the back would be the Bolo to whose team this tech is assigned. In this case, the designation is itself a tribute to Keith Laumer (1925-1993), who first wrote about Bolos.

This could in theory be printed on any color combination, but for simplicity and an echo of some Army shirt designs, my preference is white on heather grey. I would totally buy this shirt ... and might just have to print one somehow. >.> Still needs some touchups, that's a real quick cutout job on the Bolo, but its good enough for screen res. :)

Week 3 - Personal T-Shirt Design

 Well amid some delays on this end, I finally got my assignment for Week 3 at what I view as a decent stopping point. 

Since this week's assignment focused on something "I" would wear, that made it sort of a fun and unique challenge.  I had a few initial ideas which I narrowed down to a final four set of ideas (seen on the left), but I kept coming back to the hawk idea since it felt like it made for a better composition.

Due to time constraints, I opted not to go the Illustrator/vector route, but I had a lot of fun applying color in a sort of Kymba-y, color-happy way. :)  I went with a lighter sort of sea-foam background than I originally intended.  I'd thought at first about making it sort of a combination between the moon and the sun and to pull in both daytime and nighttime in a composition, but it just started looking way too complex and convoluted.

 Here is my larger redrawing of the design I wanted to go with followed by my "final" pass of what I was considering for the colors of it.  I'd also consider muting the hawk to be more "blue," but I'm decently pleased with how it turned out. :)

Week 3 .. der!

Not going to happen for me again tonight. Bit off more than I could chew with the design in my head, and have had another busy week besides. I do at least have a little more idea of what I am doing now, and hopefully I will get it posted sooner than next Wednesday. ;)