Jul 11
THE BIRTH OF A SHIRT! Part Two: Completed Illustration
Welcome to another addition to “The Birth of a Design” where I’m taking you on a journey from the concept phase of the design all the way to finally printing it on a shirt. If you haven’t read part one yet, check it out here! Otherwise, read on for another addition….
After our last discussion about the Zombie Vs. Shark design, I let Jeff go off and do his thing with the illustration to see what he could do with my comments. A week or so later I received an interesting email from him :
“Ok so I was like more than half-way through the coloring of zombi vs shark last night…when the most horrid thing happened.
I REALIZED IT SUCKED!
Well, the drawing as nice I guess, but not as dramatic as it SHOULD have been, SO I had a quick freak-out, and RE -DREW THE WHOLE THING!”
I had to laugh because the initial sketch was exactly how I pictured it in my head. But then he showed me his re-worked version, which was this….
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!
He did it…he made it even better. We both agreed that this was the way to go so now it was on to final color and text. A day later, he sent this over:
At this point, I was undecided on whether or not to include any text on the shirt. I just felt that the illustration was so good that any text would compete with it. But one thing I knew for sure….the text would have to be much more dynamic than this if we were going to have it as part of the design. So, I decided to try my own hand at it and show Jeff what I was going for:
Although my idea was just a guide to let him know what I was going for, he still had reservations on some of my choices like the blue drop-shadow, and typeface. I encouraged him to go for it and try to whip up something sick. And Jeff, as always, did not disappoint:
And there you have it, the finished design! But wait, how does that exactly get onto the shirt you are wearing? Stay tuned…much more to come!
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Great Shirt Ben, will be getting one.
Awesome! This shirt looks fucking great. I’ll be sure to buy this when it comes out.
For the record my thinking with the text for SHARK was something reminisent of the logo for JAWS…one of my all-time favorite movies…but yeah…it looked weird.
Awesome! Great looking shirt, but I won’t be able to wear it to work because of the nudity.
@ Randroid - Actually, there is no nudity in it. The woman scuba-diver is wearing a wetsuit.
ur a f**king idiot… if youve seen the movie youd know shes naked ben.
@ zombz - Thanks for reminding me. To be honest, I haven’t seen that movie in several years so I forgot that she was naked…I just remember the zombie standing on the ocean floor and then trying to attack the shark by biting him in the side.
I actually bought the DVD a couple weeks ago (I had a VHS copy) so I’m looking forward to seeing it again as soon as I get a spare minute.
movie is almost 30 years old and thats still one of the most real looking scenes I’ve ever seen. Love the shirt! Any word on when this will get released? Course I figure it won’t be till part 3 comes out
Great design, I’ll buy this shirt for sure
I hate to be that guy, but did anyone else notice that the zombie is missing his right arm and yet it’s his left arm that is in the shark’s mouth? Other then that the design is spectacular!
Amazing shirt!! Definitely not Fulci’s best film but it is by far one of the best zombie scenes ever.
@ Zac - Yeah, we noticed this at the end of the design stage. Rather than risk the look of the piece by re-doing it, Jeff and I decided it was better to leave it alone. We figured in most cases people probably wouldn’t notice, and if they did, it’s kind of a quirky little Easter Egg (for lack of a better term)
But seriously, we really thought it would have ruined the artwork had we messed with it just to fix that flaw.
I frickin’ love it! Only TRUE horror fans will know where this comes from!
I want one NOW!
Completely understandable and like I said, I still love the design. And if this is any inclination, I can’t wait to see the next round of shirts!
This shirt went from kind of lame and confusing, to a shirt I will hopefully be wearing soon! Amazing.
HEY ZORNOW, If you ever get tired of doing it all, and you’re looking for a great artist get at me. I would love to do what you do but i’m a rapper and you’re a rocker but we’re both artists…. sounds like the best of both worlds! Anyway, i’m a great here in indianapolis in the “HOOD” but i’m beyond drawing for the hood and want to get to where you are so to speak! If you can just give me some advice it would be cvery much appreciated, Bro! Keep it up, homie!
wow that looks effing badass
Woah! Sick shirt man! Rock on!
http://www.nakedshirts.co.nz
Wow…looks sick. Much better then the original in pt 1 of this blog!