I was commissioned by my long-running collaborators The Mouse Outfit to produce an illustration to be used across their merchandise. A series of hoodies and tee were produced from this design. TMO asked for a vector line illustration which could be printed easily onto both dark and light fabrics, as well as a highly detailed pencil illustration to be sold as prints.
My process here was very similar to that of my Nike commission: gathering a library of reference images and building the detail in multiple passes.
Final pencil work:
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Final linework, produced from the freehand sketch and vectorised by hand with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.
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The final print on fabric
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The drawing process
The Mouse Outfit (2021)
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