T-Shirt Design for my Aunt's Birthday

This is a little less playful than Chucks, but I had fun with the ink drawing.

My aunt wanted an Asian theme printed on red. The animals on the back represent the Chinese astrological signs of each of her 5 daughters.

I tried to keep it as simple as possible...

Front

Back

Sleeping Bear

Since I can't show a lot of my recent commercial work, I thought I'd post the latest shirt design for my cousin's Boy Scout Troop. They're camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan.

Here's the composite sketch before going to final:

..and an unused warm-up sketch:

I left more sketches and a bit of added information here.

Bat-tastic T-Shirts

I am going to be at the 4th Annual Indiana Bat Festival with my book Little Red Bat and did these shirt designs both for selling and to wear at signings (Books By the Banks, Blue Manatee, Bat Fest, etc.).

It is going to be a batty fall. HabitatSpy, the book I am finishing the illustratons for now, features a spread on caves with Mexican Freetail Bats so I get to illustrate quite the range... It will be out in spring 2011.

The next book children's book up is a biography with only *gasp* people in the paintings.

Mammoth Cave

This is a T-shirt design I created last month for my cousin's Boy Scout troop.

I had a lot of fun with it, so I posted it on my blog, along with unused sketches like the one below, and far too many details about how the design came to be.

Sky Buckets as Inspiration

This is an image I did thinking it may be an interesting t-shirt design. The method is a digitally colored ink drawing.

Does anyone remember the sky buckets at amusement parks? This was my inspiration. I am still playing with the funky scales seen in fairy illustration.

I wonder why they don't have many of these rides anymore...