you may have noticed the new element i put on the right. its a clustr map. it shows where everyone that visited this site lives. i found it interesting that people in india and indonesia stopped by. i was wondering if i could get some comments telling me where you guys hail (no, i am not going to stalk you or even, for that matter, send your information to my stalker friends) i just thought it would be cool...
about the latest art. i decided that it might work out for a strictly female shirt and only if i could touch it up some. i am working on two new shirts now and hope to get them put up here soon. thanks for reading. :)
God bless.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
praise theme tee
i am finished with a rough draft of a t-shirt i have been planning on design for some time. well, ever since that hand design i did a while back. i want to hear some good critiques about this design. you don't need to be in anyway an artistically experienced design. a bunch of fine art da vincis arn't going to buy my shirt. i need a common view, your first impression. help me out here. i would give me own personal critiques but i don't want you leaving comments like, "yeah, cool, but you are right. its too..." this comment = lame. i'll put a nice and big pic of the design right under here. thank you.
God bless.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
new tee
got you excited didn't i? :P they arn't done yet but i am working on them now. keep updated so you can diss my work when i post it here.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
i scream for ice cream
the title is barely relevant to this post but don't get discouraged just yet (read this blog, post a comment, THEN you can get discouraged all you want)
i got another little job to do. its for a little ice cream shop, called Mixed Point, right next to the t-shirt place. don't ask me what the title means, just sounds cool to the brazilians. the place apperantly already had a t-shirt made but their only copy is medium and the guy that works there is more like a GG. just got a pic of it... (ok, this picture came out awkwardly gay, ignore) other then the shirt being to small for the ice cream guy, the graphic is...alright quality. there are some printing errors and the white base shows around the edges. they want to take advantage of making a new shirt by putting a smaller pocket size graphic (10cm long) on the front and a larger (25cm) on the back.
they gave me one of the stickers they stick on the side of the coolers. i scanned it in and came up with the image below. as you can see, there are some crinkles here and there but i can work around that. i am going to work in illustrator to do this. simply going to trace the colors (only white and purple because the shirt is orange) with the pen tool. i'll post some screen shots of the steps and the final draft when finish.
i first outlined the purple
with the pen tool. the fine blue
lines is what i came up with.
i used the "Fill Subpath"
to fill the paths i made with
the pen tool. i am making the
purple black for now and
the background white.
i outlined the white this time
and will it with black using
the same "Fill Subpath"
command.
here is a screenshot of
everything back, the purple
and the white.
this one i used to show the
sizes (pocket vs. back) and
took advantage and separated
the colors. the pocket size is
white and the back is purple.
now it is ready to be printed and handed in to get paid. :D
God bless.
i got another little job to do. its for a little ice cream shop, called Mixed Point, right next to the t-shirt place. don't ask me what the title means, just sounds cool to the brazilians. the place apperantly already had a t-shirt made but their only copy is medium and the guy that works there is more like a GG. just got a pic of it... (ok, this picture came out awkwardly gay, ignore) other then the shirt being to small for the ice cream guy, the graphic is...alright quality. there are some printing errors and the white base shows around the edges. they want to take advantage of making a new shirt by putting a smaller pocket size graphic (10cm long) on the front and a larger (25cm) on the back.they gave me one of the stickers they stick on the side of the coolers. i scanned it in and came up with the image below. as you can see, there are some crinkles here and there but i can work around that. i am going to work in illustrator to do this. simply going to trace the colors (only white and purple because the shirt is orange) with the pen tool. i'll post some screen shots of the steps and the final draft when finish.
i first outlined the purple
with the pen tool. the fine blue
lines is what i came up with.
i used the "Fill Subpath"
to fill the paths i made with
the pen tool. i am making the
purple black for now and
the background white.
i outlined the white this time
and will it with black using
the same "Fill Subpath"
command.
here is a screenshot of
everything back, the purple
and the white.
this one i used to show the
sizes (pocket vs. back) and
took advantage and separated
the colors. the pocket size is
white and the back is purple.
now it is ready to be printed and handed in to get paid. :D
God bless.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
pain in the butt
frankly, printing this stuff is a pain in the butt, but i got it done.
as you can see, there are alot of pages. i needed to cut the big crosshair in half and i needed to make a second sheet for the names too. ok, let me explain how i did this. maybe this could help someone who is trying some screenprinting at home.
a little curious fact: epson printer black ink bleeds while HP black ink doesn't. i would need about 50 more printers to actually be able to adopt that as fact, but so far its true. unfortunately, my non-bleeding HP printer is that kind that sucks the paper from the bottom, pushes the paper through a complete 180-degree-U-turn, and pops out where it left off. you get the picture right? well, the flimsy veggie paper doesn't like that. i succeeded in printing color #1 page out without any smashing, crunching, or smearing going on inside of that demon printer. but to print color #2 i smashed two pages up. i am telling you, demon HPs. i finally just decided to print it out on my epson printer. it bleed (bleeded, blead, bled, blad, blooded, blod, bleded, bladed, blaeded, red little cells shot furiously out of) a small amount compared to what i had imagended. it is the background color so it didn't matter too much. i quite for the night. the next day i bought more veggie paper (apperantly, my HP likes salad. dang it) and started to print more. my dad gave me an interesting idea to actually tape the veggie paper on to the norm A4 page. this would help it be fed into the printer at the right size and in a more...sturdy manner. it worked, and that is how i printed the rest of the pages. any questions?
funny incident: you may have noticed in the list of names, i cut a freakin chunk of the paper. well, curiously enough, alcohol doesn't go well with ink. something about completely ruining one or the other. interestingly being the exact reason why this evil alcohol substance was by my precious ink. some of the prints smudged. well, q-tips and alcohol. perfect to take away those pesty little smudges (only $19.99 and if you call in the next 10 minutes you get this evil HP printer. $49.99 value pack!) to make this short story that is getting longer by the minute, well, short, i will cut to the stupidity. i shot my alcohol (its that stupid spray bottle gel stuff) across my work area and happened to hit my name printout. i ended up cutting the screwed up letters plain out of the picture and printing them out again. i'll let the lady work with these peaces now. if that didn't make too much sense, well, then it didn't make any sense at all (make sense?)
God bless.
as you can see, there are alot of pages. i needed to cut the big crosshair in half and i needed to make a second sheet for the names too. ok, let me explain how i did this. maybe this could help someone who is trying some screenprinting at home.a little curious fact: epson printer black ink bleeds while HP black ink doesn't. i would need about 50 more printers to actually be able to adopt that as fact, but so far its true. unfortunately, my non-bleeding HP printer is that kind that sucks the paper from the bottom, pushes the paper through a complete 180-degree-U-turn, and pops out where it left off. you get the picture right? well, the flimsy veggie paper doesn't like that. i succeeded in printing color #1 page out without any smashing, crunching, or smearing going on inside of that demon printer. but to print color #2 i smashed two pages up. i am telling you, demon HPs. i finally just decided to print it out on my epson printer. it bleed (bleeded, blead, bled, blad, blooded, blod, bleded, bladed, blaeded, red little cells shot furiously out of) a small amount compared to what i had imagended. it is the background color so it didn't matter too much. i quite for the night. the next day i bought more veggie paper (apperantly, my HP likes salad. dang it) and started to print more. my dad gave me an interesting idea to actually tape the veggie paper on to the norm A4 page. this would help it be fed into the printer at the right size and in a more...sturdy manner. it worked, and that is how i printed the rest of the pages. any questions?
funny incident: you may have noticed in the list of names, i cut a freakin chunk of the paper. well, curiously enough, alcohol doesn't go well with ink. something about completely ruining one or the other. interestingly being the exact reason why this evil alcohol substance was by my precious ink. some of the prints smudged. well, q-tips and alcohol. perfect to take away those pesty little smudges (only $19.99 and if you call in the next 10 minutes you get this evil HP printer. $49.99 value pack!) to make this short story that is getting longer by the minute, well, short, i will cut to the stupidity. i shot my alcohol (its that stupid spray bottle gel stuff) across my work area and happened to hit my name printout. i ended up cutting the screwed up letters plain out of the picture and printing them out again. i'll let the lady work with these peaces now. if that didn't make too much sense, well, then it didn't make any sense at all (make sense?)
God bless.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
work, maybe.
i have been visiting the t-shirt place quite frequently these days. every time i show up the lady there is giving me little odds and ends to do. i quickly figured out this isn't going to pay much (for just a text "art" i'll prob get a little less than R$5 but for real arts, like that shirt i designed, i'll get around R$30. you gotta take into consideration the fact that the text "arts" only take 5 mins to do anyway.) anyway, now through Sunday i am going to work with trying to separate the colors on that shirt and then printing them (with the right sizes so they fit together perfectly) on veggie paper (and no, i figured out pretty fast it doesn't taste good with ranch.) vegetable paper is a semi-transparent and cheap substitute for the more expensive polyester paper.
i got the front done with the right measurements (27cm length) i should get the back done tomorrow.
ok, so i tried to print some text out on some veggie paper with my ink printer and i figured out why you are suppose to use lazer printers. the ink on veggie paper blotches and bleeds. well, so i thought. so i took the text to a local lan house that was suppose to have a lazer printer, they didn't. but the guy said that his prints didn't bleed. so either, his ink is differant, his printer, or his settings. i am going to try this at home on anther HP printer (the same brand the guy at the lan house used) and i will keep you posted on how my printing of my color separated art works out.
that's it. God bless.
i got the front done with the right measurements (27cm length) i should get the back done tomorrow.
ok, so i tried to print some text out on some veggie paper with my ink printer and i figured out why you are suppose to use lazer printers. the ink on veggie paper blotches and bleeds. well, so i thought. so i took the text to a local lan house that was suppose to have a lazer printer, they didn't. but the guy said that his prints didn't bleed. so either, his ink is differant, his printer, or his settings. i am going to try this at home on anther HP printer (the same brand the guy at the lan house used) and i will keep you posted on how my printing of my color separated art works out.
that's it. God bless.
Monday, August 6, 2007
new job(s)
interesting thing happened today. when i woke up in the morning (well, more like lunch time) i checked my email. there was an email from the t-shirt design place. she wanted me (i understood) to make the company logo. not invent it, nothing new, just get what they had and put in on the comp. so i did, came up with this. tried to match the fonts as well as i could, came out pretty nice i thought.well, in the later afternoon, i stopped by to see what was up and if they had gotten my design. they had and like it but she wanted to know if i could re-make the design. she wanted something more creative and "modern." i said sure and will keep you guys updated on that...
i was there talking to them when they mentioned a different kind of screen printing technique they called chromo-something or other. he then pulled out a t-shirt design a client wanted done (one that would use this other kind of technique) frankly, the design was horrendous. (once i get my scanner working i will scan the thing in and post it right here)
the design was for a lan house called "game over." i said, "man, that is ugly. i could do something better with that." he then explained that if i could do something better than this and the client like my new design, the client could pay me for the design and not them. something around 20 bucks or something. nothing big. so i brought the paper home and i am working on it. its turning out, well, interesting. i can't get it down the way i want but we'll see. when i get a rough draft done i will put the image up here.click to make is BIG.
well, thats all folks. God bless.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
whats up
nothing much has been happening (as you can see, because my last post was only on the first) those college kids decided on a whole new design that i will probably get monday. good news though, i sold a total of six shirts (though two of the buyers owe me money) and i have 5 more reserved for later. that leaves me 1 more to sell to be able to pay back my investors. soon i should be working on my next shirt designs. my plans are to make three different designs this time and a lot more color variants. i'll probably end up making 10 shirts (the minimum) of each kind. hopefully they sell =\
God bless.
God bless.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
that networking design
like i had said at the end of my last post, i got a little job design a shirt for a computer networking course for a local college class. the students had an idea they wanted me to work with and this is what i came up with...
ok, for the explanation. the college's name is UNIC (i made the hammock out of those letters.) in portugues, the word for network is "rede" which is the same name they use for hammocks. so consequently, there is a computer in a "network" ( the literal translation for the course's name "computacao em rede" ) so anyway, that is where lies the humor of the graphic. sidenote: this art isn't done yet...i need to work on getting the computer to look like it is actually "in" the hammock. color selection is still on the to-do list. whoever is reading this is very welcome to give critiques. feel free to diss my work ;)
ok, for the explanation. the college's name is UNIC (i made the hammock out of those letters.) in portugues, the word for network is "rede" which is the same name they use for hammocks. so consequently, there is a computer in a "network" ( the literal translation for the course's name "computacao em rede" ) so anyway, that is where lies the humor of the graphic. sidenote: this art isn't done yet...i need to work on getting the computer to look like it is actually "in" the hammock. color selection is still on the to-do list. whoever is reading this is very welcome to give critiques. feel free to diss my work ;)
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