Stay Gold: Kid at Heart Tee Design
Christian from Stay Gold Clothing Company hired me to, er, flesh out a design he referred to as Kid at Heart. Essentially, the brief called for toys of my choosing to protrude from inside the heart. There were requests for playing cards, but I was otherwise left to my own devices.
Christian was super easy to work with. Aside from one or two minor changes, my original vision was left almost entirely intact. Essentially, the original brief hadn’t mentioned a need for the company’s name to appear on the shirt and that was added in. The composition didn’t even need a tweaking; everything worked out swimmingly! The final design is five spot colors and the shirt color and can be seen here:
All in all, I completed this tee in one full business day. I wish all jobs went as clean and satisfying! There are detail shots and some process after the jump.
Details:
Some textless process:
Jun 12th, 2008 #
good use of the word ‘smidge’
Jun 12th, 2008 #
love the toy soldier. colors are hurting me eyes tho… or maybe I’m just stoned at the moment. ;)
Jun 12th, 2008 #
Have you ever considered medical illustration? ;)
Jun 12th, 2008 #
Frank, noted!
Alan, put the smokes down. Heh.
GC, I could do a style that lent itself to that, but I’d get bored really quick.
Jun 12th, 2008 #
The note about colors being tentative made me curious whether you use an aliased brush or not. I’d guess no since that would make color changes easier.
Jun 12th, 2008 #
I did, but that doesn’t change things. Hear me out.
I use a different layer for every spot color.
If you check “preserve transparency” in Painter or “lock transparent areas” (I think that’s what the checkbox on the layer palette is called) in Photoshop, you can fill the layer and all the aliasing remains intact.
This lets you quickly swap out color schemes in a non-destructive way! All the alpha channel info remains intact.
Jun 12th, 2008 #
looks good man. the way you color always takes me on a ride.
since my complete jump to digital mark making i have been in the color lurch. dunno why but i am. i wouldnt mind if you took a look at a recent piece and toss in your two bits. great work l8r -d!
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Jun 12th, 2008 #
wow thanks for the pop-in ! gracias amigo!
i do so enjoy pop-ins ! :)
Jul 29th, 2008 #
Wow youre work is amazing!
Aug 28th, 2008 #
where can i buy this shirt? ha
Nov 1st, 2010 #
i bought one of these at Cornerstone Festival a few years back