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Savage Frazetta

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This is an official shirt design I did for Frazetta Girls ( frazettagirls.com/ ) adapting one of the sabretooth tigers from Frank Frazetta's Savage Pellucidar. It ended up being five colors I think? If it were on anything but black it would be six. And I'd have to do a fresh layer of black to blend the image out more. It's an interesting process since the goal is make a painting fit a shirt in an interesting and creative way that is also affordable to print. Frank Frazetta's work tends to lean heavily on the earth tones which can look very dated and dull on a shirt so I had to punch up the colors and, per my own sensibilities, added color to the shadows to make them more distinct. There's deceptively more work going on here too since a large part of the process is more like art restoration. After generating the bulk image I end up with something sort of lifeless, chunky, and photocopied which looks cheap and lazy, the opposite of what you want. So I have to take the time to go back in with a brush and clean it up, add back in details, fill in colors where the shirt may need them but the art never had them, stuff like that. I add some additional paint textures to it to add some energy and give it back some of that painterly element. This was my second attempt at this technique, the first being a quick trial piece I threw together overnight to show Frazetta Girls what I could do. I'll share that later as I rather like the results too. 

The tools and processes I used to create these have given me new ideas for shirt art that I look forward to implementing in the future. I also hope I get to come back and do this again some time as I'm very passionate about Frazetta's work and I have a lot of other ideas for adapting it in striking ways. 
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chelsearabbers's avatar
This is an awesome shirt!