Football season is over 'Party till you pass out, drink till your dead'

I got straight to business with this design, I figured that I would do a zombie piece as I really fancied it and thought what would go well with the quote. which is where I came up with an alcohol fuelled up zombie. I constructed a load of images together to give an idea of what it would look like composition wise and to give me an idea of where to start. Im going to draw this out tomorrow and see where it goes.

Party till you pass out - barrel of beer and a funnel.

Drink till your dead - zombie.

Colour and placement

I laid my design out on some mock up vests to experiment with colour and see how they look in combination with different coloured shirts.

I found that the bright colours took away from the image and made the whole idea a mess.

The darker colours look quite interesting and compliment the image rather well, especially the purple one.

White and black seemed to be the best, I found that black really looked good with the design.

This is the scale and layout I want to try on a vest, I really like the idea of having the image wrap around the ribs of the top.

I want this type on the back of the top in a small point size this is the theme for the t shirt

Type for T

Alrite, so I wanted a typeface which fitted in with my design, I thought about downloading one but it was just to much hassle and I would never find what I wanted. It was at this point I then decided to draw up a typeface which went quite well for once.

I started out by roughly drawing the letters out in thin 0.15 strokes and then I built on them with a bit more character and used different strokes to get this bold effect.

It was then time for colour, I started off by putting in the dark tones at the edge of the lettering, I chose purple and yellow because it fitted in with octopus pantone and I used purple first as it creates a visual hook.

I then added a lighter shade of the colours which created a more bold appearance.

To finish off I coloured in the rest of the white spacing in with a lighter tone of the colours used and took away the original black lining to see how it looked without it.

Confidently I added in the black as it made the type just look better, I then added a dark grey backing to make 'drop dead' bolder.

Out of curiosity I tried an interesting colour technique which I found really cool, but I realised I was getting side tracked and it was not an appropriate way to be using my time and made the decision to leave it and move on.

With the type done I figured it was an appropriate time to play around with image and type layout. I found that the type was to big and took away from the image.

I really like this layout although I feel as though I can make the image interact with the type more.

I don't like this one as much, the type is to far away and I think it should be placed on the right hand side, but I do like how it appears as though the octopus is holding the type up.

Which is when I came to this idea of placing the type at a angle and placed the type away from overlaying the imagery which looked really good, the next step is to mock up some T-shirts and play around with layout.