PowderPuff Tshirts

PowderPuff is a very special event for Junior and Senior girls at Olathe Northwest. It is an annual event that takes place during homecoming week, where the Juniors verse the Seniors in a flag football game. The game draws in a large crowd; the excitement is always high as people anticipate the bonfire, carnival games and food trucks that follow. This year I had the honor to design the Junior girls' team shirts. I went with the orchid colored shirt because it was unique. No other school shirt has been printed on such a lovely color like this one! I vectored a twist on the NFL logo to fit the Junior's graduating year- 2016- to take up the left chest design. Then on the back, I created a design inspired from a sorority event shirt on Pinterest. I enjoyed this project mostly because I was able to make it super girly with the font and color of the shirt! I faced some challenges with the two-color ink limit in order to keep cost down, but I got really good at using the Pathfinder window to subtract the front.

Raven Logo

This was a fun project I choose to do in my free time by helping out a teacher at ONW. Mrs. Potter is the interior design and fashion design teacher here at ONW. She addressed me about making a raven logo for her to use on a T-shirt in her boutique. I gladly accepted when she promised me a free shirt once it was printed! She really wanted the full raven body, which our school logo is the head only. Potter then sent me an old KU logo she really wanted it to look like, so in order to avoid copyright issues, I changed the direction of the bird, changed all colors, smoothed and changed the notches of the body path, and made different shoes. Then, in order to avoid copyright issues from the chuck tailors, I've added a NW in the logo circle for Olathe "NorthWest". The final project is shown below...

Gradient Mesh with Custom Graphics

I followed a tutorial to expand my skills with gradient mesh by creating the apple you see below. First, I traced an image of an apple with the pen tool. Then, by using the eyedropper tool and setting the gradient mesh, I was able to pull colors from the actual images to create a vectored apple that closely resembles a real one! I feel that this new skill set will expand my ability to stray from the cartoon like designs of solid colors (although sometimes solid colors are cool). Creating the gradient mesh was a lot easier than I was expecting, and I think I would be more willing to incorporate it into my future projects now that I know how quick it is.