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T-Shirtification
As some of you know, I've been churning out a few t-shirt designs which I've made for sale on RedBubble. This is actually the design I started first, but due to the amount of work involved, I set it aside to focus on simpler designs.
I love photography (no surprise there), but when it comes to t-shirt designs, a photo is just not a very good option. You can't get clear and sharp edges and in most cases you want to use an image with a lot more contrast to it.
It's Not My Fault has been one of my most popular photos, and so I thought it might make a good shirt design—but only if converted to vector artwork. The first part of this process is bringing the photo into the vector app and essentially tracing the contours of the figures in the original photo. (As any vector artist will tell you, this is nowhere near as easy as it sounds!) The next step is to lay down the color and apply shading. I opted for flat shadowing to enhance contrast, as you can see.
If you're playing spot the difference, you'll no doubt notice that I've made a number of changes in the conversion to illustration. I didn't want the troopers to look like action figures, so I took out all of the obvious visual cues that they are toys. The left trooper's hands are the most obvious change, I think; I just felt he needs to have a more natural, expressive pose.
The blue in the bottom illustration represents the color of the blue shirt available from RedBubble. It's darker than the original sky, of course, but the troopers really pop out from the background now.
Anyway, hope you like it!
T-Shirtification
As some of you know, I've been churning out a few t-shirt designs which I've made for sale on RedBubble. This is actually the design I started first, but due to the amount of work involved, I set it aside to focus on simpler designs.
I love photography (no surprise there), but when it comes to t-shirt designs, a photo is just not a very good option. You can't get clear and sharp edges and in most cases you want to use an image with a lot more contrast to it.
It's Not My Fault has been one of my most popular photos, and so I thought it might make a good shirt design—but only if converted to vector artwork. The first part of this process is bringing the photo into the vector app and essentially tracing the contours of the figures in the original photo. (As any vector artist will tell you, this is nowhere near as easy as it sounds!) The next step is to lay down the color and apply shading. I opted for flat shadowing to enhance contrast, as you can see.
If you're playing spot the difference, you'll no doubt notice that I've made a number of changes in the conversion to illustration. I didn't want the troopers to look like action figures, so I took out all of the obvious visual cues that they are toys. The left trooper's hands are the most obvious change, I think; I just felt he needs to have a more natural, expressive pose.
The blue in the bottom illustration represents the color of the blue shirt available from RedBubble. It's darker than the original sky, of course, but the troopers really pop out from the background now.
Anyway, hope you like it!