JFlah's Blunders

This is the stuff I'd been using to promote Student Leadership. The student minister asked for a student leadership shirt for his kids. I had been using an optical flare and some shiny metallic text to promote it and he said that's the look he wanted for the shirt, but I didn't believe it would translate well - besides it would cost a pretty penny. Here's the whole shirt design After a few shots in the dark and showing him several samples of shirt designs I found online, he said he liked the idea of words building words and gave me a concept to run with. Once I got into the thick of things, I realized that I am not good at fitting words within a letter shaped container. The sample I was studying looked so much nicer and oh, so much more refined than mine ended up looking like - that's probably because that designer started with only five letter shapes to fill with synonyms. Anyway, I did finally come to a point where I decided the artwork was "done,...

Here's the final sketch with some color pencil magic. I've been working on stuff for this year's VBS today. You should see my face. I took a look in the mirror and I had pencil smudges all over the place. Anyway, you're probably looking at that mess I've been slaving over. I used the visitor map sample that came in the supply package and pulled some bits and pieces from it to make something that fit our building and class layout. The perspective is wacked on my version since I just dropped things into the layout without much thought other than the standard "that will be there." I don't think the layout suffered too much from the multiple perspectives. It's just a fun sketch of things. I changed several bits and pieces from sketch to final before sending them the sketch they could use on the board and once that was finally done, I put some color pencils to work on a print out of the corrected clean sketch so they'd have some color sugges...

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt

Every year I've been designing the summer camp shirts for the day camps that they do here at work. There are usually four or five camps each year that I get to design for around this time. I did all of those mascot lightbulb things and we were planning to use those for the shirts but when all was said and done, those shirts were too busy and didn't really look great in one or two colors. So, we went back to the drawing board, scratched our heads a little and the children's minister said he wanted to go simple. Here are two samples of the end results. My favorite by far is the cooking camp design. I'm not sure how many kids will appreciate it but the children's minister and his wife thought they were great. Basketball Camp shirt design 2013 Cooking Camp apron design 2013