SICHON-T-Shirt-DESIGN-er | Some T-shirts I've been working on for my MMA school
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 06:51PM ;)
Hayastan-IMB MMA "Samurai"
I was recently asked by my Sensi Paul Booe and owner of Hayastan-IMB Mixed Martial Arts to try to do a few t-shirt designs for the school. I was more than happy to oblige. I've never designed T-shirts before so I was anxious to try it out. Obviously because of cost and silk-screening limitations, I could only work with 2 to 3 colors max, most cases just 2-color would have to suffice. I came up with a few different options. All of these designs in this post are still in concept phase, we're all still working out the details and figuring out which ones will get printed. I'm hoping for the "Samurai". The helmet is a piece of vector clip art I came upon that I thought would make a great shirt. MMA T-shirts as you know are generally very gaudy and over the top. Mostly donned by douche-bags, but if you're wearing one, and you're actually standing on a mat, sweatin' it out with other guys trying to hurt you, you can't be called a douche-bag for fear of a knee to the face. It's that fat guy ordering a cheeseburger at Wendy's in a yellow TapOut shirt. He's a douche-bag. So when I was designing these shirts, I thought generally if I'd wear this out, and yeah, some of these are pretty over the top, but in general, sure, I'd wear'em, fuck yeah.;)
Hayastan-IMB MMA "The Modern Warrior"Here's the first one I did... actually it was Paul's original concept of somehow illustrating a modern mixed martial artist honoring a tradition of disciplines thousand of years old. I would have liked to have illustrated maybe a silhouette of a cage fighter standing tall casting a large shadow behind him of his ancient counterpart, a samurai in full armour and uniform. Instead I layered and traced some images and photos to get this graphic effect and came up with the words "The Ancient Spirit of the Modern Warrior". Pretty heady stuff I know, but hey, it's Mixed Martial Arts, it's either this or skulls.
After playing around some more, I then moved onto designing some shirts for a grappling tournament coming to Charlotte, NC in March 2011 called the Hayastan Grappling Challenge. This event draws people from all over the country looking to put their submission grappling skills on display. The goal was to get some simple T-Shirt designs together that would be appealing to a wide audience. Nothing too hardcore.;)
HGC "The Throw"This shirt design is based on a photo I saw of a guy getting thrown. I posterized the image in photoshop and then I loosely blocked out some simple paths in Illustrator to get a very abstract effect. But the general feeling was that the image was a little too abstract, and it was difficult to discern what exactly these guys were doing to each other, so I scrapped this one.;)
HGC "The Shield";)
HGC "Heel-Hooked"After my first initial attempt at an HGC shirt, I decided to try a couple of simple shirts, more logo and messaging than imagery. "The Shield" is something they've done in the past, but it incorporated more artwork, I stripped it down to just a shield and simplified it some. The "Heel-Hooked" shirt is actually a play on the basis of this tournament itself. Typically a lot of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments do not allow for heel and foot submissions, but HGC does, so it's kind of a playful admission.;)
HGC "The Armlock"Here's one more stab at abstract grappling people. Again, trying to get as much detail using 2 colors is not easy, but I think I can tell the guy on the left is about to get his arm in an uncomfortable position. I like the image, I'll probably try using it a few different ways until I find something I like with it. Anyway, I'll post an update with me wearing one of these shirts sometime in the near future!
Reader Comments (5)
Great Designs! I think pausl got to love one of them.
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