Pelican Picnic 2010

5 hours of artwork

My customer sent me a scanned image of the contest winner for this years company picnic t-shirt. At first, I wasn’t sure what i was going to do to convert this drawing into a printable image. I started by redrawing the outline to clean up the lines. Then I decided to simplify the colors. (I try to keep the colors to 6 including white and black to keep the costs down) Because the design is going on a navy shirt, I chose to drop the black and let the shirt color be the outline. That left me with Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, White and Bright Blue. I decided to stay late last night and come in early this morning to finish up the art since we need to go to press my Tuesday next week. After about 5 hours of recreating the art, the customer approved it