HAWAIIAN SHIRT - INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MEDIA
INTRODUCTION:
For this project, we were asked to design a Hawaiian shirt with a unique pattern and theme. Hawaii reminds me of the ocean and I decided to create a Hawaiian shirt with sea creatures as the pattern and the final shirt design rendered with buttons and an Aloha label of an imaginary shirt company.
MATERIALS:
The software used to create and complete all aspects of the project was Adobe Illustrator CC 2021. The reference images used to create the patterns and shirt label were sourced from Google.
CREATIVE PROCESS:
Having ocean as the main theme, I firstly decided on the colors I wanted to incorporate on the shirt and patterns. I figured cool colors would fit the theme perfectly. Then, I started looking for sea creatures on the internet that I can make illustrations of that wouldn't be too typical, I came across 'Axolotl' which is a relatively tiny sea lizard and decided on sea horse for the second creature. I used both warm and cool tones, almost pastel like on the sea creatures so that it would bring in balance and work harmoniously as a pattern. I kept the pattern illustration minimal and cartoony as I wanted the creatures to look cute and playful!
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CONCLUSION:
This project was a lot of fun to work on! It also provided me insight on a few tricks and also knowledge on functions like the Tilde key and Opacity filters. Overall, I am satisfied with how the shirt turned out. Given a chance to work on this project again, I would experiment more with colors and patterns, maybe create patterns with Boba Cha or 'Among Us' characters which were other of my initial ideas.