Apparel Mockups for $4.99

There are 5 new mockup sets from Bradley Oesch's store that are available for $4.99 each. They look official and can be very useful for client approvals or for anyone's t-shirt line. You have the option of a crewneck t-shirt, raglan, tanktops, girly tees, and v-neck mockups. What's very useful about these compared to other templates is that there is a back side of the shirts. These are very affordable, that quite frankly are a steal.

Buy each here http://www.bradleyoesch.bigcartel.com/

New textures from CXCityBrand.com

Apparel company CXCityBrand.com released a new texture pack, which is awfully nice of them. You can use these for your apparel designs or add that little something extra to your other graphic designs.

You can download the 300 DPI textures here

Stunningly Fresh Shirt Design process for Branded Baron Apparel

Here is a quick process of the "Stunningly Fresh" design for Branded Baron that is available in a unisex longsleeve and men's t-shirt. I started with a sketch and once I liked what I had I scanned it. From there I brought it into Adobe Illustrator and started tracing it and using the pathfinder to merge or subtract images. I added would copy and place the image on top of one another and arrange it to my liking. The color is not an important factor until the design is complete. Once, the whole phrase is complete I started deciding whether or not the whole word should be filled in with color or have the background(shirt) peeking through. I decided it would be a cool look if there was a gradient. So, I had to bring the image into photoshop and play with the gradient tool and change it into a bitmap, before I brought it back into illustrator to finalize it. After that, I brought the phrase back into illustrator and live traced it, so it becomes a vector image. I arranged it and played with the colors. I thought Gray on a Navy blue shirt would be a nice color combo. Branded Baron ended up using that for the t-shirts and Gray and Black for the long sleeves. That's a quick little insight of the process of "Stunningly Fresh."
-Joe
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