A few weeks ago a friend received a t-shirt she had ordered and was not that impressed with it. Uh-oh….
I checked it out and had to agree. When they print on dark t-shirts Cafepress prints a coat of white first, which means – among other things – that transparencies will show white instead of the shirt’s color. Earlier this year I though I could use this to my advantage when I made my first skeleton designs. Since the slight blurring of the black edges would give the design a small white outline I figured that was all that was needed for the fine details to show up.
I ordered one for myself, liked it and began making other designs using the same idea.
It turns out that at one point they stopped printing the coat of white when the design is just black with no colors. So suddenly all my skeleton designs are not as they should be and have needed to be removed. I have just spent the last two weeks reworking most of them, have ordered two, and am waiting to see the result before putting them back into the shop.
This annoying mishap has had it’s positive side however since it confirmed my growing suspicion that in the long run I was better off making vector based designs than just drawing them out, which I had already begun to do. But as usual, new techniques always seem to take more time at first until you get the hang of them.
Now how to get back to what was supposed to be today’s main subject? Well seen above on a dark blue men’s t-shirt is my new Crawfish Blues Band design which can be found on a choice of paraphernalia for all you folks who would like to be awesomely cool. Indeed now is your chance to prove you were a fan of the band while we still are utterly unknown and possibly even before seeing us!