Christopher Delorenzo

Hey, Cool Shirt: Designing Effective T-shirt Graphics

Elaine,I like your T-Shirt Mock-ups where did you get the mock-ups from?  I have designs that I would like to mock up like you have.  Thanks.

Try out the Arsenal T-Shirt mock-ups from GoMedia. 

Superb work and execution Elaine, love the overall concept!

the toy guy on back to go with the phone, genius! and think all the final colour choices are perfect spesh with JC!

this is amazing, like really good ideas and think youre going to win this! I dont know if this is cool on here but whats your contact details for possiable work in future as i'm looking for someone like you for work on my own branding! my email is steventbrooks@hotmail.co.uk i would love to have you to help me as i have many ideas but a useless on creating the final art pieces.thanks.hope to hear from you

love it. great color choice and the line work is great.

congratulations Elaine! I love it!

Amazing on blue and yellow tees! Hope this gets picked up by Johnny Cupcakes! Good job Elaine and thanks so much for all of your feedback!

Thanks Wan! It's been a pleasure trading feedback with you as well!

Oh man this is so juicy! This looks beautiful Elaine. The colors on the orange one are fantastic. I love the little cupcake wheels. And great job carrying the design around to the back of the shirt using the littler person big kid (oxymoron alert) to tie it all together. This would definitely not look out of place on the shelves of a Johnny Cupcakes store. Techpack looks good too! send to print! Thanks for being so responsive to everybody else's projects too.

Hey Chris - thanks so much! I'm really stoked that you're happy with the finals! And it's been a real pleasure taking the course and trading feedback with other students - thanks again for your time and help!

Jeez, I love the phone design! You really nailed the presentation! Also, I may not have said this but your general presentation for your project was great, to go into this much detail for your progress made this project enjoyable to read up on. Gotta take some pointers from you in that regard.

Thanks Jordan! I really do appreciate it. :) And thanks for the comments on the presentation - it was done more so out of frustration, as I had issues posting my work properly with the Skillshare editor in a previous class! I just wanted better control of my layouts, so I laid out all of my text and images in Illustrator, and outputted screen grabs to post here. Also, I've had issues with people taking my posted work (not here on Skillshare, but elsewhere online) so as a precaution, my images files are branded with my name or additional text. Especially important if your image gets grabbed by Google and is cached in their search engines. (You can never be too careful! :)

Love it Elaine! Your shirt came out really good.

Wow, this came out so cool. It's been so great watching your process and the final is so well done it's inspiring. I really like the first color scheme, but I gotta say the black and pink is a real cool take on it and really keeps the design playful and lighthearted but gives it a bit of an edge. I'd be proud to rock that.

Thanks John! I've been keeping close tabs on your own amazing project as well, taking a lot of inspiration too! :) And I'm glad to hear your comments about the black shirt, as I'm kinda leaning towards that as well for the same reasons - thanks again for your thoughts!

LOVE LOVE LOVE! The orange version is the best for a print, but I think the black white is the go to for a t-shirt. It is just perfect! Adding the "little people" as a back hit on the neck= GOLD. Keep up the great work Elaine!

Thanks again Carlos! Your support and enthusiasm for me - and for everyone else's projects - has been a real booster over the course of the class! I'll be in touch with you over email soon, to follow-up on our conversation! Cheers!

Elaine, I LOVE THIS!!!!! So, so fun! I love seeing his face / personality on the phone. I'm biased toward the first color option (it's great!) but I also like the black and white version as well. Great job!

That finished phone look incredible! Wouldn't look out of place on a Johnny Cupcakes t-shirt or even Threadless. Amazing work as always Elaine!

Awesome! The first color-way works best but your're using about 6 colors and you could probably get the same effect with only 4, maybe even 3.

Hi Andrew - REALLY appreciate the feedback, as I'm in need of some more advice on the colours!On the first yellow version for example, I have the light-grey shade on the bottom edge of the phone, and the dark yellow as a shadow under the phone - do you know if I can get away with using perhaps the black ink printed at, say, 10-20% to get a similar shading?I know Chris Delorenzo mentioned in his video that we can print gradients, so I'm imagining that printing at different ink opacities won't be an issue? Or do you recommend a different method? (Sorry for the long question!)

No worries. Thanks for your feedback on my design too!So printers turn gradients into half-tones where the dots of ink eventually get smaller and give the illusion of a gradient. You have to make sure you call that out in your print file. I know you can screen print inks onto paper at different opacities but I don't think it works very well for textiles (if anyone knows different feel free to chime in). Your best bet would to either call out areas in the design that you want half-toned or just reduce the colors you're using. I don't think you need the gray shadow on the phone and if you made the blue wheels and dial that dark yellow with the shirt color for highlights you'd still get to keep the shadow under the phone. Hope this helps!

Thanks SO much Andrew - I've taken your advice and made some fixes. Really helpful, and I really appreciate the thorough response. :) (You ought to teach your own class, as you obviously know your stuff! :)

Elaine I just love this so much! Amazing style. It is so difficult too get things look this cool and simple. Everything you showed us here is awesome. keep up the great work.

Love the little character for the neck

Hi everyone - thanks SO much for the feedback and comments - you're all super awesome! As per the teacher's suggestion, I'm gonna try to also produce a finished phone version, so please check back then and let me know your thoughts! Cheers everyone!

This is great! Love the style and the concept is awesome!

Wow! This is coming out really nice!

These little guys are awesome! I really like the style of them too. That Big Kid telephone is the best. I think that one works the best for a shirt at the moment. The cash register is a great idea but not sure if it is complete yet, might be too boxy, not organic enough to live on a shirt. Maybe you write johnny Cupcakes somewhere else and where you have it now write an extra phrase like "always fresh" or something. The colors will really make this shirt great. Wonderful job so far. You've definitely hit on something we haven't touched yet. It could be cool too to do a little delivery van in that same playschool style.

Thanks so much Chris - I know you're a busy guy, so I really appreciate the feedback! But CRIKEY I need to get my butt into gear and produce a version of the phone! I hope to have that posted soon. And the Playskool delivery van is brilliant! Augh, so many great ideas, so little time. Anyhow, thanks again! :)

Hi Elaine Hsu! Awesome sketches... The cleaned up drawings have great line work. Do you have a vintage color palette in mind? As much as I like the drawings I would really like to see how they come together on a shirt or "in their world". Do you have any ideas? Great Work! Can you please take a look over "My Project" as I am looking for feedback to move the designs to a finished state. All the Best :-D

Thanks Christopher! I really appreciate the feedback! :) I'm still figuring out the colouring - probably primary colours like the original FP toy (red, blue, yellow) and I should have something posted later this week.

I'm really liking this design! It seems you have everything sorted out here. The only thing that sorta doesn't agree with me is the cupcake/coins. How come you went with them instead of a coin with a cupcake on it or whatever? Also, what colors do you think you'll run with for the finished product?

Hi Jordan! I really appreciate the detailed feedback! I decided to go for a "cupcake currency" because I didn't want to copy the original Fisher-Price toy too closely - mainly for copyright reasons, but I also wanted to integrate an unmistakable Johnny Cupcakes element (aside from the small icons in the register.) I did originally consider using coins with a JC icon stamped on them, and I may revisit that if I have the time. :)As for the colouring: FP typically uses a lot of primary colours (red, yellow, blue) so that will probably dictate the final design. Thanks again for your thoughts!

Looking great, you should put in some fake quarters or something. But love the concept. Are you going to add in color?

Thanks Kum! Ha, yeah, the little cupcakes are suppose to be like the plastic coins, but I suppose colouring will make that more obvious! And I will be adding in colours (still trying to figure that out!)

I had that Fisher Price toy cash register as a kid and it was the bomb. Seriously, this is looking great, Elaine!

Thanks Kevin! I coveted this register SO badly as a kid! Had to make due with playing with the second-hand one at school, with most of the coins missing! :P

Now I feel like an overprivileged jerk! Haha. P.S. Your design is looking great!

Nice. It fits the JC profile well.

This is too damn good! Damn, now you make all of us look bad! :P

Aw, thanks so much Irwan! You're too kind!

Little People Big Boy is wonderful.  Wish they made those!

Thanks Jerry! I seriously loved playing with Little People as a kid!

Thank you Albert! I went with your suggestions :)

Amazing and awesome!!!! I REALLY look forward to watching this project development. Thank you for participating in the class!

Very good! Great concept and creative direction. Also loved you sketching, you have a great hand Elaine.

awesome content !! looking forward to this !!

Looking good, I like your explanation and the direction you are heading. ;)

Nice to meet you! Can't wait to see your concepts. So far, your style is  GrrrrrrrrrrreaT!

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