I have been at this T-shirt designing business for a while now. Fantastic news, I still really love it! Especially the test printing process. It is no holds barred studio playtime. Sometimes I go through five different colors or print locations to make a shirt just right, and sometimes (very rarely) I hit the nail on the head. Either way watching the shirt go from plain colored cotton to a finished product is far and away my favorite part of this madness I call Bias Design.
I have always thought that the progression of the more layered shirts is really interesting. This particular screen was printed quite differently for the last two years, but, much to my initial chagrin Alternative Apparel has discontinued the foxy burnout T this image used to be printed on. I love the design though, it took me forever to draw all of the tiny line work and I would be damned if I was going to just let this screen fade into obscurity in the studio. I have tried to find a solution for this image for the better part of the spring, to no avail. Initially, before I flipped it over and printed it on the bottom of the shirt way back when, I intended this shirt to look like a giant mane or beard, but pretty enough so ladies could rock it. But it never looked quite right, the color was off, the print location was wrong, or it looked too much like a beard. I tried printing it on different style T’s and it was always kind of meh. Finally, (enter chorus of angels, sun beams, and parting clouds) I worked it out! AND since my camera was handy I decided to document the progression of this lovely layered T. Check it out!
The first layer:
Layer number two:
Layer three:
Layer four, the final layer:
