June Theme: Shirts!
I’ve been trying the Threadless thing a little now, and want to get better at shirt design, maybe even manage to get one printed. And what better way than to do it daily? So this month, I’ll be posting a shirt design a day, using the Threadless template. A bit of a [...]
June 1: Cranes
One of the interesting aspects of this whole shirt design thing is trying to work with a limited palette (3 colours, in this case, plus the shirt itself), not to mention using things like tones for practical reasons rather than simply to look cool.
I’m not even sure if this is a viable submission – might [...]
June 2: His Master’s Beats
The more I look at this, the more sure I am that it’s a super-obvious idea that somebody must have done before. May not even submit it anywhere, but at any rate, I did have fun, as I am secretly still nine years old deep down, and thus find dogs in sunglasses hilarious.
June 3: War
Why yes, this IS a rehash of an old illo. I make the rules here, and I can do that! It still took a good hour and a half to beat it into this form!
June 5: Death Star
Obvious Pun Is Obvious II: Throw More Obvious
Somebody MUST have done this already but I’m a day behind due to a friend visiting, and I’m exhausted and… yeah.
June 6: Hellscout
While this may look like yet another interpretation of “Come to the dark side, we have cookies!”, it’s actually inspired by an old Whose Line episode – Wayne Brady as a possessed girl scout. “And I shall earn my merit badge… for DAMNATION!”
June 9: Catflap
This is one of those ones that seemed like a much better idea before I actually did it.
It would help if I knew how to draw a cat.
June 11: Citrus
Another rehash of an old illo, because it’s late and I’m tired, although this one was redrawn from scratch!
June 12: Pirates of the Antarctic
Yet another rehash of an old idea. Brand new ideas this week, I promise! As well as finally catching up! WATCH THIS SPACE.
Oh, and since I keep forgetting to point out when these shirts actually end up for voting, here’s the only one currently in the running. Vote for me? [...]
June 13: Steampunk Pizza
Alternate title: “This Has Gone Too Far”.
I love steampunk so bad, but man, you can’t just stick gears on everything. …can you?
(This is basically a rough draft really, but I already spent 4 hours on it and that’s too long for a daily as it is!)
June 15: It’s Strange Down Here
Gotta rethink the size, spacing, and colour scheme, but I like this one, in all its goofiness.
June 16: Bird Bath
I finished this last night and then totally forgot to post it. Uh. Oops.
This probably makes much less sense than I thought it would. I was just playing with the idea that my shorthand for clouds looks remarkably like my shorthand for bubble baths.
June 17: Snow Angel
OH HI, here is another rehash of an old illo, and also I am now another day behind; I kind of want to cry. I’ll dig myself outta this hole before the end of the month, just you watch!
June 19: Dreamcatcher
Old idea, new image.
As well as being a couple days behind on finishing stuff, I’m now an additional couple days behind on POSTING stuff, due to illness, internet trouble, and general forgetful laziness.
June 20: A Million Little Robots
Actually about six.
I drew most of these robots a couple of years ago, but as they were all in a cluster then, I had to draw a whole lot of parts from scratch.
June 21: This Can’t Be Good
Too simple? Yeah, way too simple, probably. I don’t care. I’m beginning to realize that shirtmonth is a failed experiment; the first real misstep in the picking of daily themes. It’s really not appropriate for the whole one-a-day thing, and it’s the first time in the past half-year that I’ve got [...]
June 22: Kite
Been sick-ish for a couple of days, and thus even farther behind. And so, the slow crawl to the end of the month begins!
June 23: Lifesaver
This is one of those ideas that’s so obvious I’m positive somebody must’ve done it before, but does that stop me? Uh, apparently not. But almost.
June 25: M-Birds
Lazy shirt is lazy.
Two major stipulations I remember from highschool art – no m-birds, and the sun does not have sticks coming out of it.
June 26: It Goes Something Like This
This is one of those cases where I wish I hadn’t pledged to upload everything because, while the concept amuses me, I hate hate hate hate hate the execution. Not to mention at this size it’s easy to miss half the details that make up the joke – that’s he’s wearing a stethoscope, that [...]
June 27: Disco’s Dead
At no point in my life did I expect to have to use Illustrator to create a broken disco ball.
But, uh, there’s always a first time…?
June 28: iBod
This seemed like such a good idea before I found myself staring at Wikipedia at 2 AM trying to think of a clever abstract way to represent a pancreas.
(Yeah, some of these need work JUST A BIT.)
June 30: Bike Larper
A late birthday/Father’s Day gift for my dad, who goes to spin classes, which are basically just bike larping. Or so I say. I mean, I’m going to make a real shirt. A picture of a shirt isn’t a very good gift. Happy, uh, Canada Day, Dad.
And so ends SHIRTMONTH. [...]
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