So, I rarely share much of what goes on at my day job (needless to say, T-shirt refashioning doesn’t pay all the bills!), but when I get to work on a project that’s whimsical, clever, and vaguely T-shirt related, I can’t resist. Cue Doodle: A Chalkboard Calendar. It’s chalkboard-meets-calendar doodling fun with a new scene to embellish each month. In January, it’s a scene of a deserted city with the prompt: Make this city come alive. In April, an outline of a bulging bicep with the creative order: Give this guy a tattoo. And so on. You can only imagine that I was a wee bit biased when I was selected to be on the jury that decided which calendar spread would be featured in this little video! Meet the August calendar pinup, what else but Design your favorite T-shirt.
Fun, no? So, in celebration of the calendar’s first year (2011), Workman has offered me one calendar to give away to one of you lucky reader/doodlers. All you have to do is leave a note in the comments sharing the classic T-shirt you would doodle on this calendar page — Ernie and Bert’s stripes? the Rolling Stones’ lips and tongue? your favorite baseball team jersey?
Leave your doodling brainstorm in the comments section on the blog or on the Facebook page by the end of the day Sunday (October 31st–it’ll be a Trick or Treat prize!), and we’ll select a winner at random and make the announcement on Monday.
Disclosure: Generation T received a review copy of the calendar from Workman Publishing.[ Posted on October 28th, 2010 ]
Megan!!! Awesome prompt….okay, here’s what I would write/draw, assuming it’s a black, relatively fitted T-shirt:
In my true Ani Difranco-loving style, I’d start by writing “Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there”; across the front of the T-shirt in white, and then, in the bottom corner, I’d have a basic chalk outline of a girl with a paintbrush or similar art tool, drawing the beginnnings of….well, anything, really–random doodles, city scene, outer space scene, fantasy scene with dragons and unicorns, it really doesn’t matter.
Anyway, I’d have part of that (the words, the girl, and the beginnings of the scenery or whatever she’s drawing) done in white. Now, the cool part is, that’s only the part of the shirt that’s visible in the light. The remainder of the scene on the shirt would be done in glow-in-the-dark paint that’s invisible in the light, and the white writing would also be painted OVER with this kind of paint. So, in the dark, you could see this amazing scenery all over the shirt (front and back), and the girl painting it, and the Ani quote. Oh yeah, for the uninitiated, that quote is from “Out of Habit.”
I’d draw this one! http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/100/l_d48e6aa5cc4a4ea18043c4ab546ee4d4.jpg
Ooooh, this is quite marvelously fun! I have been itching to create a shirt with my business logo on it. The logo is a goofy image of a man on sheep holding an umbrella. I love the graphic because it actually comes from a photograph of my father, taken at my sister’s wedding over 8 years ago. It really has nothing in essence to do with my business, but when I decided to create ReLoved Designs last year, I wanted a fun and original logo, and you can’t really get more original than that. So that is totally what I’d put on a shirt, it’s completely random as a graphic, but loads of fun!
This calendar is going to be to much fun.
I would design a series of t-shirts depicting quotes like… “YOu can’t always get what you want but if you try sometime you just might find you get what you need”. Grafitied on in spray paint and a swirl or two. Somehow going from front to back.
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Right now I have been obsessed with this quote from Alice In Wonderland:
“I have imagined as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. -Queen
I would love to have that on a shirt with some crazy down the rabbit-hole graphics!
I love the classic rock band Journey, so I would have scarab on the front cover of their greatest hits album, just that by itself.
Classic t-shirt right now would be Charlie Brown’s zigzag tee, in honor of the Great Pumpkin season. I love that simple design is so recognizable to everyone for so many generations.
I would totally have a quote from The Book Thief (my all-time favorite book) written on the front in handwriting-esque font with a book and the pages flying out on the bottom corner.
I’d write something motivational like “Hard work shall always pay off.” (Okay you get the point!)
I think it’s awesome it’s for August that’s the month I’m born 🙂
@ Kayles: I’m an August baby, too!
I would probably doodle tshirts for my kids. Some related to the bands I like but more little kid friendly.
Jess
I would put a recycle sign that resembles a heart.
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