hey guys me and my buddy are working on getting our tee company off the ground we have a lot of ideas and sketches but we need a little guidance making them a reality
here is a few of the 20+ they are based around looking like graffiti
this has been re drawn but the idea is there
alien?
Call this guy chomp
water mellon
pokaspot
least favorite of the five
EDIT
here are a few more i have saved on my comp
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at the time i took this it was half finished and it some how was reversed
the redraw
G-unot
these arnt shirts but i love em neway to show the power of the gelly roll
sublime sun
some creatures
27 Comments
gameyy said 5 months ago
2nd is my fav. The colors on these are looking great, especially for paper. What are you using? Prismacolor?
suffoca said 5 months ago
man i realy like water mellon could looks sick on a top man, mock some up on a tee
maybe on a heather gray
skullface said 5 months ago
I adore the second one!
quakerninja said 5 months ago
The colors are amazing but for vectoring I would keep the sketches black and white, so that live trace doesn’t kill them, the only thing to be cautious of are pesky gaps, and expect the lines to be thickened about 5-10% Live trace treats color like a virus and will attack without mercy. Side effects include hair loss and heartache, premature aging, and festering depression. Here is an example from my work flow.
Poser 7 render of baby/print and trace with ink/scan and trace with illustrator/ color and add other elements.
greens said 5 months ago
lol actually i use gelly roll gel pens i know its kinda gay but i love how smooth they go down and the interesting thing about some of these pens is they change color or glow under a black light
Simply Complicated said 5 months ago
dude live trace can screw up your illustration when going to print sometimes, the only good tracing method to use that i have found fool proof is vector magic which does an amazing job and doesn’t mess up your lines like Illustrator does, but then again the best tracing is path by path ha I hate live trace it’s so crappy for tracing to me, I tried tracing a straight black and white image with no midtones or halftones and it still came out crap
gameyy said 5 months ago
I used to use jelly rolls all the time when they first came out. You should definitely look into Prismacolor Markers, though. Use the jellies for your linework if you must, but inking will be 1000x faster with the markers, and they won’t leave stroke stripes like other brands.
quakerninja said 5 months ago
some creatures would be a hit, I would buy one. as far as starting out. what did you have in mind. even a small run 100 shirts 1 color single plasement will run a fair amount with no garantee of sales. I would start with vectorizing a trial design doing some mock ups and some reading around here and the other forums. My first run ran about $440 for the shirts, than add buttons, a business license and vender fees and some set up gear, banner, canopy, table, racks ect. all before my first gig next month. (also give aways to friends and family)
anyway you have friends here so long as you don’t freak out on us, or do something stupid like underpay or yoink a design. My point is that you have to be realistic, committed 100% and understand that success can be a slow bitch sometimes.
Cole said 5 months ago
those gelly pens are just ball point right? you are laying down massive amounts of ink and tons of passes to pull it off. it would probably be better for you to move to paint pens for base colors and a good black sharpie and fine point for the black.
Joe said 5 months ago
Yeah, Vector Magic is actually really good. And it’s pretty easy to touch-up the trace it does using Vector Magic’s abnormal editing tools.
Reliique said 5 months ago
As talanted grafitti artists i would suggest you to try to make custom mesh/trucker caps.
j3concepts said 5 months ago
Can I suggest not using livetrace or vector magic (i’ve used both) or any of that stuff and actually redrawing them? it’ll take alot of more time, but the final product will be worth it. also the colours are great, just with those designs you might want to spend the extra cash and get them huge on the tee, possibly off the edges.
skull with hair said 5 months ago
cajun metal said 5 months ago
You can also scan it into Photoshop at the size you want, find the channel that that isolates the black best (I used the Blue Channel in RGB mode for that here), stamp it, work it, whatever you gotta do you’ll have your outline. Repeat that for the colors and you’ll end up with a seperation for a simulated process print. I don’t know if you’re going to print it that way though. But that’s one way to isolate colors. My example looks like ass: a nice scan of at least 300 dpi is better to work from than a photo but you get the idea
greens said 5 months ago
ok here is the thing i am a poor collage student and i have none of these programs and on top of that i run a mac so...anyone know where i can get em for free?
and i alos like the second one but the problem is our company is called Greens and the drawing is missing the S kinds gay....
cajun metal said 5 months ago
If you’re talking about the thing I did that’s just to give you a rough idea of what you can do with channels in Photoshop. If you’re calling it kinda gay then I should remind you that it came from your drawing not mine. Just trying to help
Master_Control said 5 months ago
i wish someone would make an animation of someone punting this baby.
i fucking hate that baby.
justgeoff said 5 months ago
How did you get into college when you can’t even spell "college"?
Randomentity said 5 months ago
someone’s feeling testy. lol
i think more importantly, how did you get into college and still not know how to properly download software?
mattschoch said 5 months ago
by properly download, are you inferring that using illegal rips of a piece of software costing over a thousand dollars is ok?...yeah, i think so to.
quakerninja said 5 months ago
hay greens whats yur mail I may be able to hook you up.
Randomentity said 5 months ago
i would never! That’s stealing, and stealing is wrong.
we all know i’m pure as the virgin snow.
greens said 5 months ago
mechanical engineering major lol
don’t really do the whole english thing very well esp spelling
My Bad
no i am talking about the one that looks like an alien when i first drew it the sketch was a little mis-spaced so i couldn’t add the S not yours lol
if you have the eye to read them you will notice that 3 of them actually say Green not Greens
my e mail is Badfish55@hotmail.com
quakerninja said 5 months ago
I don’t know if you have one yet but I sent ya a demonoid invite so you can grab some gear.
mattschoch said 5 months ago
demonoid’s back up? i didn' thear about that!
Randomentity said 5 months ago
you should have gotten an email if you have an account.
mattschoch said 5 months ago
alas i never got an account, my friend sent me an invite like the week before it was shut down and i never actually activated it. i normally just use the pirate bay