8 . 11 . 18
A story of working with others and learning on the job.
I was flattered when I received a text from the Cal Alpha Phi apparel chair asking me to design their game day shirts! 🙂
We talked a little and exchanged ideas. There was a team of girls throwing ideas around so I would send sketches and they would respond with likes and dislikes. This was actually the first time I did something like this where I keep send designs and we work together to change things to their liking. In past commissions, people have been hands off… but it was only a matter of time that I would work in this way!
So here are some sketches. They wanted a lightning bolt of some sort so I played around with that. Tbh I made a lot more designs and was literally searching all over social media for game day shirt inspo and I got a little discouraged (by the desire to please) untillllllll I had the idea to do a 90’s cassette tape type font!
I sent this graphic sketch and they really liked it! They wanted it to say game day and I decided I’d put the words ALPHA PHI in one line, and game day under 😀
So this was actually a STRUG for me because I didn’t feel satisfied with any of the fonts available on Photoshop so I had to basically go with guidelines and create my own. If you know a better way, please help. I have yet to take a class in Adobe programs.
What I did was
- put the letters each in their own layer
- make each layer at half the opacity
- grabbed two rulers to give me size guidelines
- then DISCOVERED that if you press shift when you slide pencil/paint tool horizontal or vertical, you make straight lines!
- YOU CAN MAKE PERFECT DIAGONAL LINES by making point A and then press shift and choose your desired point B.
- the difficult part about this is that you have to determine the angle BY EYE.
- it was a long laborious process that probably would be easier with Illustrator if I knew it.
- help
But personally, I think I did good 😛 
Thank you fill tool for making coloring easier. I just had to remember that each letter was in a different layer so the whole design didn’t turn blue/yellow.
SOooooO
I sent them this:
Can you make it a little thicker and dark blue with light yellow?
Yes!
just a quick aside: before I realized I could just resize my design, I was really dissatisfied with what I had done because I had been staring at it too long so I tried to restart and learn some tool on Illustrator. Silly silly silly. It took me like 25 minutes before I was like, what am I doing. hehe oops
When I finally came to my senses that my work WAS good, I said…
“THANK YOU CONTROL T!!!!!!”
This allowed me to use the box to reshape each letter. Remember to press shift if you want to keep it proportionally the same.
then of course, thank you paint brush, layers, and my new discovery of the magical shift that makes straight freakin lines!!!
la di laaaa la di laaaa
DONE!!!!
Can’t wait to see how the shirts look in person!!! It’s gonna be so exciting and rewarding to see so many girls wearing my design. AND I got paid to learn and practice 🙂 Life is good!
GO BEARS!!
luv n peace,
treeeelise
