Student Leadership Shirt Design

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," but it was painful to send that proof off because what I wanted to do was start over from scratch. I learened a lot about the process but just didn't have any more time I could spend on that one project.

What do you think about my final? Did I really ruin it?

"Follow Me as I Follow Christ" - boy, does that need work!