Calling all graphic artists...
 

How would I go about creating a t-shirt design like the following:

http://www.tshirtsunlimited.com/imag...o/thumb027.jpg

Surely they aren't drawn freehand?!

BTW, if you can point me to a program, I can play with it and figure it out.

I am guessing they drew it, scanned it, and coloured, and modified it in a prog like Illustrator or something.

This is a t-shirt design yes? It most likely started out as hand drawn, then traced and cleaned up in a program like illustrator. To print it on a T-shirt all the colors had to be seperated (because screenprinting prints one color at a time). For the web graphic it was most likely colored (like Keptic said).

There's no way. The boat HAD to be taken from a photo...

No people DO have the skills to do things like this on a computer. You should see a friend of mine. He does the most fantastic work for t-shirt designs etc. If you want i could put him in touch with you...

But they definately used a vector art program. Try Adobe Illustrator and Flash MX (i prefer flash MX cuz its easier to use :))

Regards

- miSt

Thanks Mist, I will keep that in mind. :) It's amazing that that's drawn.

I would suggest using Illustrator, and working with it to establish using it regularly, instead of taking the easy way (flash mx) out. Illustrator is a powerful tool, learn it right, you can do loads of stuff, and I mean LOADS!

It depends on who you are - i find flash easier and find it is more useful than illustrator but thats just me :)

- miSt

But...Illustrator is made for this kind of work, and has many features which if you take time to understand and learn, will let you take ULTIMATE control of :)

Flash is made for it too - they're both vector art programs but flash has the brilliant addition of animation features :D

- miSt

For Tshirts, everyone will take an Illustrator file (AI, EPS).. no one wants a Flash animation! :D

was probably done via photoshop or illustrator, i would suggest getting onto some pro graphics gusy if you want something like this, and its gonna cost too :p

www.realityartstudios.org is who I work for