Sketches/ T-shirt Contest

Some stuff I've done in the past couple of days. I whipped up some quick t-shirt vectors for a contest held by the fashion blogger La Carmina. You can check out her blog here: http://www.lacarmina.com/ She's pretty awesome!

I also did some sketches while I was at school. I was invited to watch the art class. Had to get some sketching in myself. Couldn't let the kids have all the fun.

Craftsy Monthly Holidays

These were some cute craftsy monthly holidays celebrated/ recognized in America that I did for the English classroom at my JHS school in Japan. These are all A4 sized. Eventually I'm going to do a rainbow on the March page and some fireworks on the July page. Thought I would share these even though they aren't really relavent to this blog. This is what I do in my free time while I'm at work. Trying to make the classrooms a little more interesting for my students.

Fabric for Sale

My test swatches finally arrived in the mail this past Friday. I waited almost a month for overseas shipping from Spoonflower, but the result is worth it. I apologize that I took these photos with my cellphone camera, but the colors are true and quite vibrant. I really like the way the digital printing looks. I made some minor adjusts to 2 of the prints, but otherwise, these came out PERFECT.

This is a shot of swatches uncut:

This is my stack of 8"x8" swatches all nice and neat:

All 21 of my patterns are available for purchase over on Spoonflower here: link

I have girls, boys, floral and anime collections currently available for sale. I will be adding more adult collections in the future.

Alice In Wonderland Shirt Design

Another shirt to add to the collection! This one will be going up on Redbubble alongside my 99 Red Balloons shirt! This was vectored in Adobe Illustrator and sketched and mocked-up in Adobe Photoshop (model photo by Threadless). I've always been in love with Alice (see: buttons) and now that I've gotten into making shirts, it's only fitting I honor my Lolita idol once more.

PS- PLEASE go vote on my 99 Red Balloons shirt on Designbyhumans. Link is here: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/97575/

New Carter's Portfolio

Yes, it's that time again! I did another assessment test for Carter's (who I would LOVE to work for). These were all vectored in Adobe Illustrator (with the exception of the last floral, which I hand drew and colored in Photoshop). The idea here was to create a bunch of characters, clothing prints, and florals to be used in children's clothing. This is what I've been up to for the past 2 weeks. Hope you enjoy it.

This is some of my process work. Definitely not all of it. I think I filled about 20 pages in my small sketch book and these are about 15 of the pages compiled into one image.

New Textile Designs!

I'm really excited about these new designs. Let me just first preface this by saying that living in Japan has really inspired me to create new prints. I wanted to create prints that I could the kids I teach wanting on the things they use every day. Things like tote bags, pencil cases, draw string bags for bento (lunch boxes), and of course backpacks. What do kids in Japan like most? Anime! I decided to use classic, highly inspirational anime series that practically every person in Japan knows of to create prints. These are series that I also love and have found to be almost ahead of their time when they were made and aired. I created my own interpretation of characters from: Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム), Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら), Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン), Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999), and Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン).

First, I vectored the characters and objects in Adobe Illustrator. Then, I brought the images into InDesign and laid out the prints. Next I combined the prints onto the objects in Photoshop and arranged the objects next to images of the prints for my website. With that being said, I hope you enjoy these prints as much as I enjoyed making them.

Storybook Patterns

Per suggestion from a fan of my work, I decided to recreate some of my favorite childhood stories in my own cutesy way. The original suggestion was specifically Disney, but I am a HUGE fan of Grimm's fairy tales and Aesop's fables, etc. so I decided to take a more traditional story approach.

Since I was doing a portfolio for Carter's, I wanted to include something of my own to throw in there, that isn't really in their style, but more of my own. I figured it would be a nice patterning addition.

So the stories that are represented here are Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella.

Make sure you check my twitter account at: http://www.twitter.com/wastedwings
to see the Red Riding Hood pattern in effect.

These were done in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS4.

Boys Space Bodysuit

As part of my portfolio to Carter's, I wanted to do a series of clothing mock- ups, to show what my patterns would look like on clothing.

This was done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

Girls Floral Dress

As part of my portfolio to Carter's, I wanted to do a series of clothing mock- ups, to show what my patterns would look like on clothing.

This was done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

Boys Dinosaur Footed Pajamas

As part of my portfolio to Carter's, I wanted to do a series of clothing mock- ups, to show what my patterns would look like on clothing.

This was done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

Carters Girls Patterns

Here are some girls patterns for my Carter's portfolio.

These are all done in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Carters Boys Patterns

Here are some boys patterns for my Carter's portfolio. My dad really helped me with the ideas of boy themes. He loved space as a kid.

These are all done in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Carters pt 3

Here's some more work for Carter's. They're an awesome company based in Atlanta, GA and I think I'd have a blast working there. This is the beginning of my portfolio to them. I'll keep posting work as soon as I finish it. I'll have some patterns, mock-ups, and some surprises to throw up on this blog soon. I definitely feel this set of characters is stronger than the last.

These were done in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Purikura and Japan

Picture frames I decorated from when I was in Japan. I was feeling rather nostalgic and decided to upload them. The first one is from the summer of 2006 and the second one is from the summer of 2009. I really miss all of the friends I made while I was in Japan (especially the Nakagawa family that took care of me and my friend Allison for 3 weeks).

I know this is more of my art blog, but Japan is very dear to me and I wanted to share these with you all. I love the purikura around the edges. They are so cute and funny!

Carters Final

These are the finished, tweaked images that I sent out to Carter's this morning. Let me know what you think!

Carters pt 2

These are the last 2 parts of the Carter's assignment. Graphic layouts and prints. I tried my hand at making all different types of prints: 1 Way, Toss neutral, 4 Way, 2 Way. The minimum for each part was 3, so I created 4. :D

These were fun to make. A nice break from thesis. Adobe Illustrator & InDesign CS4

Carters!

Here's part 1 of 3 of the Carter's packet for submitting to their company. Just some really cute animals vectored in Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Toys and a Dress

These are the toys I made last year finally shot in the studio. I've had them sitting in my room and I finally made time to go shoot them! This weekend was all about photo shoots. I helped my friend Nicole shoot some toys and afterwards, my other friend Nicole came and modeled my dress for thesis. Does this dress look familiar? It is the dress the main character in my comic, "Atelier," wears. Link to the reference sheet I used to sew this dress can be found here: http://kfitzpat.blogspot.com/2009/11/thesis-turn-around.html A big thank you to my mother for helping me construct this dress. She spent hours gathering the fabric for the ruffles and I truly appreciate that.