Project 1 - T-shirt design

I had no idea what to do to start with, so I looked through photos on my hard drive to see if inspiration would strike. It did with the photo of the dancers en point I believe it is called. I felt that some of my friends would enjoy this design and it appeals to the little girl in me who still likes pink and purple and would love to learning to ballet dance. I felt that the feet should be the main focus of the piece, but not so much that it should be in the center of the composition.
I wanted the piece to appeal to little girls, and so I added the crown, which I modified off of a clip art piece I found online. I felt that this, in a way, symbolically made a statement about the little princesses in most little girls. I also felt it tied in with the dancing feet in the fact that dancers get to wear many different and sometimes unusual costumes.
I also felt that this design would work better as two sides, with the feet on the right side of the front of the t-shirt, and the crown on the back, but since we could only design one side, this is what I went with.

Week 4 Doodle

I was trying to go for a retro feel from the '50s. I ran into some design problems with the middle star, as I feel it's a little heavy for the piece, but it gets the doodle done and maybe I can tweak it later. I made all the stars myself, with the polygon tool and layering at least two on top of each other and then cutting the insides of one away to make it look more connected without showing the strokes through the other star. I used a lot of the dotted stroke in this piece to get that disconnected line look. It helped make the back lines look like that random paint pattern you see around a lot in old '50s diners. I love that teal color, and other than white and black, is the only color I used.

Week 3 Doodle

Just a very simple one this time, I've been sick lately and crunched for time in this class and the InDesign class so I'm trying to play catch-up tonight. I used the polygon tool, as you can see, as well as the path outline option, and the stroke adjustments. I didn't create any new swatches, but used what I had already preset, which may have come with the program and what I might have added from the exercises with Deke. I did use the rotate tool on two of the circles, making that wave pattern going down vs. to the left, but it's not as noticeable which was the whole intent. I didn't want this wave pattern to be the main focus of the piece. I also used that inside stroke option to get that very faint line between the two strokes. I also while using the polygon tools held down the shift and options keys to make sure they were centered and to make perfect shapes. I just wanted something simple and shapes are about as simple as you can go.

Week 2 Doodle

I got a little too into my doodle and was having fun, but this is the final turn out. I used the spiral, arch, line, brush, and star tools. To make the star and lines the way they are I used the ~ key command, which I think turns out pretty cool. I only used three color pallets, green, blue, and yellow. I also used the gradient tool for the background which is just a giant square filled with the gradient.