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jameses.x aka (x is a 21.92 year old boy, has been a member since December 9, 2008, has scored 11362 submissions, giving an average score of 2.19.

URL: http://jameses.oliveart.cz

May 05 '09 by jameses.x

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Thank you very much all you kind people of Threadless and to those who commented (and especially you 3-5 givers). This came out pretty quick, I guess about 40 minutes or so. Idea instantly popped out when I was thinking about uncommon animals and their weirdnesses. As you can see, very simple process, drawing, vectorizing drawing, coloring, lights and finally, the halftones.

Thank you once again! (Please, excuse my lame english)

buko on May 06 '09 at 10:34pm

Congrats! ;D

2 days later

pyko on May 09 '09 at 8:26am

nice design :) congrats!!

opifan64 on May 09 '09 at 8:27am

congrats! great design. nice to see the process.

opifan64 on May 09 '09 at 8:31am

On a technical note, I always wondered... when people vectorize their line work, do they colour it in Illustrator or Photoshop? Do you also vectorize the halftones? If you move the file to colour it in Photoshop do you keep the line work as vector?

sorry, that's a lot of questions. I'm not very adept at illustrator so i'm trying to compile tips.

jameses.x on May 09 '09 at 10:41am

thank you very much

opifan64: everything is vector, even the coloring and the halftones. when you're vectorizing an object you may do it with/without ignoring the white, if not, all the white space in (example) octopus is ready to be precisely colored. it's all in (AI) Object - Live trace - Tracing options.

8 days later

lifeis2112 on May 17 '09 at 11:17pm

This is an awsome shirt im so new to this, what program did you use to get the different option buttons?

150 days later

brusell on Oct 15 '09 at 10:46am

I purchased this and the 'ink' part behind the octopus washed off the first time it was washed, so now it's just three random octopussies. I no longer wear it as I get sick of trying to explain what it used to be. Otherwise, cute but extremely disappointing.

18 days later

aeyagirl on Nov 02 '09 at 10:50am

This is my favorite shirt in my wardrobe. The ink part faded on mine too, but I still love it and wear it all the time. I wish I had a spare for when this one wears out!