Some of our customers like to wear scary stuff on their tee-shirts, and we get some pretty amazing artwork sent in to print. But the message gets kind of lost when the artwork’s all blurry and pixelated, and our Art department often gets called in to re-draw an illustration, and put the SCARY part back in !

This is a sample of the artwork received from one customer recently:

It goes without saying that this kind of artwork presents a real challenge in preparing a new drawing for displaying on one of our great tee-shirts, and usually necessitates a couple of Panadol afterwards too!  Here is the result of our re-draw, and then a sample of what it looked like on a shirt:

Once you’ve had artwork re-created, it remains on our files for future use…in case you want us to dig it out at Halloween, to scare everybody all over again Maybe you’re an aspiring artist, and want to advertise your skills on a shirt, along with your contact details, and maybe a website  URL….our top quality polos and tees are perfect. You’ll also notice that the print sizing maximum for our style of printing is 28cm wide by 36cm high

This design which we printed for NAIDOC is another example of a great logo incorporated into a t-shirt.  First, the hands in the design had the three colours of the Aboriginal flag incorporated into it, then that looked so effective, they thought the text would also look great with bands of colour. A wonderful feature of Photoshop and Illustrator is that anything can become part of your text.  In this case, three blocks of colour were made, and the text typed over the top. Then with the click of a button, the text “cookie-cuttered” the colour blocks on the inside, and excluded everything on the outside. Here’s the finished logo:

Here’s the effect on a t-shirt print:

And lastly, this is an example of placement of a picture inside text…a high resolution photograph of a fuschia placed inside a large leter “F”. The possibilities are endless!

Our job here at Customyourshirt is to transform your artwork from a pixel-based photograph or drawing into a high quality graphic printed onto your choice of t-shirt, polo shirt, singlet, hoodie etc. We have many different types of  quality shirts available in our online store, with a wide range of colours and sizes.

If the original artwork you send in is nice and clear, your shirt print is going to look fantastic.  If it’s pixelated or fuzzy, often we can re-create your picture or logo and give it new life. This week a customer wanted a full print size drawing of a Transformer on his t-shirt, in white, on a black shirt, with the black background of the picture deleted. Underneath we have a close-up snapshot of a piece of the artwork, showing the fuzziness and unclear lines of the drawing:

As you can see, a blurred picture is an artist’s nightmare! But with great persistence, and a thick pair of glasses, the final drawing was made in Adobe Illustrator, and saved as a vector file, enabling the artwork to be printed at any size on just about anything. Unfortunately, for a T-shirt print, we are restricted to 28cm wide, by 36cm high. Here we have a copy of the finished drawing, and then a picture of what our “Transformed” t-shirt looked like:

Here’s the sample t-shirt: