T-shirt Designs - Claim boarding

One of the biggest issues I found when coming up with ideas for t-shirts was once having the design, how to show it on a t shirt or hoody and not look like the design is hovering above or a separate article. The image below shows how you would send it for manufacture with the design separate just to show where it is to be placed, however this does not look great for marketing.

I then found an image of an actual tee in both male and female styles and placed the image on this, with slight distortion and fading it looks far more realistic.

This method was then also transferred onto hoodies, for this the drawstrings had to be placed over the top of the design  although being flatter it enabled less image manipulation to take place.

Colour variation is fairly simple, making a quick hue/saturation change via an adjustment layer.

This simple colour alteration means that seeing your design in other ways helps to produce other ideas such as offsetting one colour or a spray style, both shown below.

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3d logo design - illustrator - Claim boarding

The design for the Claim Boarding logo is fairly simple, the punched hand in the air would be the rider "claiming" a trick once they have landed it. They specialise in Boarding clothing and so that is the clothes on the silhouette.
What I have done here is taken the standard logo and transformed it into a 3d design, for this I used illustrator and it's 3d extrude and bevel function.

You have to be careful not to rotate the design too much when there is a lot of the detail close together as it becomes less defined the further you go.

Once created it is possible to then colour the edges, this will help the cut out section stand out. Here I have used a light grey which gives a chrome effect.

Adding a background such as the blue I have used works well as it allows the show to form on the colour and give the appearance of a wall.