ISLAND OF MISFIT ANIMALS!

Oh snap, Laurie Shipley made it to the tee party.

I have :P

I can't wait for the new cd.

altairdesigns said: Well hell yeah, glad you made it laurie

this absolutely kills!!!!

Derek! Thanks, how have you been?!

A fellow designer (aka a designer that rules) told me to check out this site a month or so ago, so here I am making my fashionably late arrival or something. :P

ps I love the barfin kid on your website!

jimmyheartcore said: Oh snap, Laurie Shipley made it to the tee party.

I luv tee parties!

chrisrushing said: why haven't i even heard of you.

No clue :P

ryanmiller said: lovely.. love your work. lets be friends.

I like friends. + Thanks :)

Jon Kruse said:

I can't wait for the new cd.

Fer real, awesome dudes!

CMYK|BRAD said: I have :P

nah uhh

DCAY said: ^ agreed!!

+ this Tee is rad!

=] Thank you

Really really cool. Great job.

good stuff Laurie

i've thought you were awesome since you did the "age of reptiles" album art, most radical illustrations ever

Seriously!? a member for 12hrs and already a tee of the day!!!????

mannnnnnnnnn.......i need a new career! lol

anyway, even thought there not my colors....great design!

good good. tee of the day...nice!

hey Laurie, rad shirt!
I just finished up a bunch of Protest's new merch as well.

weeerd.

chrisrushing said: did you hand/mouse trace all this in illustrator? the black/brown outline part that is.

Naw, I didn't trace it manually. I scanned in my ink drawing then used the auto trace function in ILLUS CS3. Pretty amazing lil feature...!

jfinley said: good stuff Laurie

Thanks Jeff. Been a while since I've talked to you, you're stuff is looking rad :)

Cutthroat said: hey Laurie, rad shirt! I just finished up a bunch of Protest's new merch as well.

weeerd.

Awesome, I see some PTH stuff on your profile. Good stuff!

I had an idea for a tee, a zombie 1980's My Little Pony on a yellow shirt with zebra stripes in the background. Damn you! You basically have that idea in 2 different shirts. Ahhh Haha

chrisrushing said: ok nice... yeah your lines are crazy clean for autotrace to do it that well. I try to manually trace as much as possible. Do you use india ink? ... I'm trying to get cleaner and just can't for some reason... but i'm only working in my moleskine... maybe i need to bring it to a bigger canvas.

It takes me forever to draw the thing out, there is no way I could spend the time manually tracing it. Haha I did the original drawing pretty big to begin with and I usually can tweak the auto trace enough to achieve what I need.

I usually use an assortment of ink pens, micron and even gel point bic pens, etc. I use india ink occasionally + definitely for large spaces. I like to use what I have lying around, ha.

ooh oooh

im glad you guys are having this discussion, i have the same issue chris, what kind of paper do you guys use, im just using strathmore bristol and it seems to bleed a lot, which makes the lines scan ugly.

hmmm, maybe i should just relax

LaurieShipley said:

chrisrushing said: yup i use microns, bics, etc... i think i just need to go bigger. thanks for the replys.

And your stuff definitely looks way cleaner than mine, so you seem to have it down!

a lot of mine is hand vectored, not auto traced... not all though.

LaurieShipley said: I assume you tried using several kinds of pens on the bristol? I don't use anything specific, I usually use cheap drawing paper.

Though, if I want to keep a nice drawing then I might use bristol or illustration board, but I'd be spending too much if I did that with every tee shirt design. OMG Am I cheap?! ;)

chrisrushing said: yup i use microns, bics, etc... i think i just need to go bigger. thanks for the replys.

And your stuff definitely looks way cleaner than mine, so you seem to have it down!

Not cheap at all. Hell, I have 2 pads of Bristol that I've had for over a year that I haven't used. It's too expensive to make a mistake on.

LaurieShipley said:

chrisrushing said: did you hand/mouse trace all this in illustrator? the black/brown outline part that is.

Naw, I didn't trace it manually. I scanned in my ink drawing then used the auto trace function in ILLUS CS3. Pretty amazing lil feature...!

jfinley said: good stuff Laurie

Thanks Jeff. Been a while since I've talked to you, you're stuff is looking rad :)

Cutthroat said: hey Laurie, rad shirt! I just finished up a bunch of Protest's new merch as well.

weeerd.

Awesome, I see some PTH stuff on your profile. Good stuff!

I had an idea for a tee, a zombie 1980's My Little Pony on a yellow shirt with zebra stripes in the background. Damn you! You basically have that idea in 2 different shirts. Ahhh Haha

hahaha that's hilarious!
do it up anyways, i'd be interested to see it

Very purdy!

Dude,

This is friggin' sick :D

this is pretty ridiculous. the vocals in this band drive me up the wall though, but i dig this!