For this project, my original idea was to create a shirt with a cheesy pun. I didn’t know exactly what pun it would be yet, and spent a while brainstorming what I could put on a shirt and went from there. I decided I wanted to put something more than words on my shirt, so I brainstormed my interests and landed on a general list. My list included: Video games, cats, the fantasy genre, D&D and more. After thinking about it for a while, I decided I’d want to focus on two things: Cats and video games. Initially I tried thinking of a pun about video games, but I didn’t want my shirt to be geared towards a specific game but rather video games in general. This left me with the option of making a pun to do with cats, which isn’t difficult at all. I then knew I wanted to incorporate the pun “Pawsitive” in my shirt but I wasn't sure how to do it. Contemplating my choices I decided on cats in a potion bottle charm and the writing +1 pawsitive energy on the bottom.
I learned a multitude of things from this project, namely how to use clipping masks. I’m still not completely comfortable using them but I have a vague understanding of how to use them to shade pieces in illustrator that I make in the future. I learned how to shrink objects around the center and not only one corner, which helped me create a potion bottle outline perfectly fitted to the inside glass plane of the bottle. The hardest part of the entire project would be coloring. Due to some objects in my art being brush strokes, I couldn’t convert them to live paint as it’d ruin the shape of the brush strokes. I ended up having to rearrange a multitude of lines and groups to color the lineart so that nothing would overlap something it wasn’t supposed to. The coloring turned out consistent and I am happy with the result, however I want to find if there is a more efficient way of coloring in the future.
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