The Officer Down Shirts Are Done

Printed, Done, Dusted. Not much more to say. I think this is the first time I've ever had anything printed on a t-shirt. Enjoyable. Hopefully more to come, should be picking up the new album cover & booklet work in the new year.

Officer Down Returns

So there was just a few more edits to do after sending the full piece off last time. Here's the final situation. The city scape has been cut completely and were down to the basics. Dead cop + blood. Fair enough. T-shirts coming soon.

Officer Down T-Shirt Edit

So sent the first version off. I knew it was a little bit dodgy and I shouldn't of sent it to be honest but I was trying to knock it out in one session. Some sections were inversed while others weren't and it was a bit scratchy still. So the issue came back about the scratchiness but I though I'd sort out the inversed colour parts as well because the eyes just looked wrong. So I used illustrator, layered the original image underneath the last one and then removed sections to get the right parts showing through, then added some more block colour in. For ecample the jacket is now solid rather than crosshatched most noticably. And the hair is now blocked with white details as well. I think this looks a whole lot better than the last version, and also makes more sense.

November 25th 2010: Officer Down T-Shirt Commision

Got a commision for a T-shirt design for a punk band from Bristol called Officer Down. Who I have been familiar with for a while. Check them out. http://www.reverbnation.com/officerdown or www.myspace.com/officerdownuk . Good straight up punk rock. They wanted something reflecting the name, including a cop, in a two colour on black. Heres what I came up with.

Drawing Number One: Officer Down with badge held out. Made sure it was an English style badge and uniform.

Drawing Number Two: City Scape & Helmet for additional imagery to be added to the main section.

Final Design: Reversed out the imagery, added the band logo and some good, old-fashioned, blood splatter. Fini. Overall I'm pretty happy with that. On the screen it looks a little weird because of the detail being condensed, but when it's blown up to the actual size it would be printed out it looks good. I like the addition of the blood to the 'W' on the logo, helps to bring the whole piece together.