Congrats! This a cool shirt.

This tee has been ripped off twice bySoul-Flower.com. Once as their Tree Guitar Tee and also as their Nature Guitar Tee. Just wanted to point it out.

http://www.soul-flower.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SOS&Product_Code=FVC003&Product_Count=&Category_Code

This is so lame. Did this take like, five seconds to do?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/stardancer101/fullresfullsizecopy.jpg

I picked this as my favorite submission in the Lomography contest, and I'm so glad it won. Congratulations! This shirt is sweet.

Damn. This shirt look pretty awesome. Love the orange.

...was cuter.... So many themes here repeat like crazy.... It's funny how people flip out in the blogs about how a design is similar to something printed, when clearly if it's good enough it doesn't matter.

Congratulations on your print.

How does one go about designing a campaign poster for a legend of the paranormal realm, the one, the only, the great Chupacabras? Now you can find out. I had so much fun doing this design. No moral or hidden metaphors, just fun and my favorite cryptozoological critter!




First came a very vague concept. Here's what it looked like:



I decided I liked the idea enough to go through with it. I wanted to capture the look of a modern day campaign poster, but also the look of the old fashioned ones, with all the trappings and old timey charm. I realized the image of Chupacabras would have to be painted, and then converted to a more rough printed look to capture the beginning of the last century printed look. So the first step was painting.



It was pretty easy to convert the image to half-tone after tthe touch-ups were all done. I noticed that it all the old printed campaign posters they tended to have the image in blue, so I went with that. Some of the format had to be laid out at this point, so I could get an idea of how it would look.



Next it was time to play with fonts. This step wasn't done until the very end. I kept changing and experimenting all the way through, and eventually hand wrote some of them.



More polishing, more testing... it's starting to come together, but there's a lot of work still.



Now the details are starting to come in. There's a lot more finishing of lines to be done, and everything will keep getting tweeked.



I didn't save all the steps in between here, they wre all small and picky, but they really added up to produce the final result, which anyone will admit is a *little* snazzier than the first. All of this was done on one document, and yes, those stars were hand drawn!




Please vote and comment! El Chupacabras needs all the help he can get!

Hey, my first design is almost done with voting. Please vote if you haven't, because otherwise nudibranchs will eat your nostrils. I'm only asking you to do this for your own good.