Atomic Moo Shirt Design

I thought a good way to begin working tonight on this site would be to start with a post of my most recent project. This was a t-shirt concept I worked up for a blog I run, AtomicMoo.com. The idea came from a series of comments on one of my posts. I thought I’d run with it and see what happens. I think the part I liked best on this was working on the type. The font I used as a guide was Sans Serif Extra Bold Condensed. I then took some brushes I made and built the letter forms with their shapes. The zombies were also pretty fun to draw. I used some stock photos I found on DeviantArt.com as model references, and drew them up in my sketch book and tried to play with the poses and stylization a bit. To save time, I just left them as silhouettes.

After it was completed, I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I wish I had the money to have these screen printed, but I don’t. So I decided to try Zazzle.com. I still have to work on setting up the store, but here’s a link to what I have so far. I’m not sure about the whole digital print on demand stuff; I’m not sure about the quality. I did order a print of the shirt to see what it would look like, but it’ll be a few days until I get it. That also brought up another issue: the price. For a digital print on an American Apparel shirt, where I did all the design work, I feel they’re charging way too much. I need to see what I can do to bring that down, or maybe find something else.

Here’s some images of what it should look like on a shirt. Here’s hoping it turns out alright.

Getting Back on Track.

I haven’t done anything with this site for awhile now, but the other day I decided it was time to get it all straightened out. I got a new theme for it on Sunday. It’s called Dandelion by Pexeto. I picked it up from Themeforest for a decent price. Seems alright so far, though I’m still going through and trying to figure it all out. There’s still a lot to do on here. The front page is a mess, and I have to upload my portfolio. Once I get all the content on here that I need, I’ll do what I can to stylize it to how I want it to look. There’s some other stuff I was just thinking that I need to do, like set up the categories for one. I’m hoping by the end of this weekend I can get it all done.