AUSTIN KLEON » t-shirt http://www.austinkleon.com Austin Kleon is a writer and artist living in Austin, Texas. He's the author of Newspaper Blackout and Steal Like An Artist.. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 PROCESS: T-SHIRT DESIGN FOR BOOKSLUT http://www.austinkleon.com/2007/12/13/process-t-shirt-design-for-bookslut/ http://www.austinkleon.com/2007/12/13/process-t-shirt-design-for-bookslut/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:36:45 +0000 Austin Kleon http://www.austinkleon.com/2007/12/13/process-t-shirt-design-for-bookslut/ kleon_bookslut_thumbnail.jpg

A few months ago, Jessa Crispin asked me if I wanted to submit a t-shirt design for the literary website Bookslut. So I said, “Cool, let’s do it.” Last week I finally got around to finishing.

I really didn’t want to go for the obvious slutty-girl-reading-a-book theme, so after about a dozen abandoned ideas, I sketched this one:

Decided Jefferson would be my muse (the pixellated color cartoon is from the wonderful 1993 computer game, DAY OF THE TENTACLE):

Tighter sketch:

Carved:

Thought ol’ Tom needed a companion:

Sketched her:

Carved:

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No idea whether the design will actually get used, but there you go.

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