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dA Gear Store Closed

After 8 years of working hand-in-hand with the community we love, the deviantART T-Shirts & Gear Shop is officially closed. We want to thank everyone who has been a part of this artistic journey. DeviantART T-Shirts & Gear has been a labor of love for us and it truly would not have been possible without the passionate support of deviants from far and wide.

From the very first design to the very last, we have so many great memories. We will never forget receiving our very first Action Shots of deviants from around the globe proudly wearing their deviantART Gear. Some of you sent photos squeezing your new Emoticon Stress Ball while others declared it was time to Quit Work Be a Ninja, or Panda, Robot, or even Wizard. No one can forget when we turned the cameras on ourselves and gave you access Behind The Scenes or when we came together on Earth Day to raise money for charity. Some of our favorite memories were when you took over designing in our deviantART Gear Design Challenges. From deviantART Logo T-Shirts, to Cute Monsters and even 8-Bit Graphics, we were continually amazed at the great talent residing in the community.

It’s fitting that as we look towards the future, we do so with a mention of Design Challenges. As we transition to our next project, we do so with an eye towards giving you, the greatest artist community on the planet, the tools necessary to take your designs and have them visually represented on apparel for you and millions of others to enjoy right here on deviantART.

Until that time comes, we want to again thank you for your support, and remind you that your work and the art of others is still available in our Prints Shop. And, be sure to let us know your favorite deviantART Gear memories! What’s your most prized item from the shop? Celebrate the ending of an era with us, as we embark on a new artistic journey together.

-deviantART Gear





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It is now official. The deviantART T-Shirts & Gear Shop will celebrate its very last day on Tuesday, May 28, 2013. 

We can't thank you enough for the outpouring of support we've received over the past several weeks and even more so over the last eight years.  


We hope you'll take advantage of what limited memorabilia remains in the Shop over the next week. The Shop will stay open through the end of the day on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 unless we are completely sold out before then. 

In the meantime, we are honored to have shared this product with you, and we hope our products helped to inspire your artistic journey. We look forward to continuing our great relationship with you as we transition to an updated retail program. 



Also, remember that while our deviantART Gear store is closed, our Prints Shop is stronger than ever, full of breathtaking, high-quality items made by deviants just like you! Click here to bring some physical art into your life.

 
  
To shop the remaining Gear products and great deals, visit the deviantART T-Shirts & Gear Shop one last time before everything's gone. 




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We wanted to take some time to update you on deviantART T-Shirts & Gear as we quickly approach the official closing of the store. First, we want to thank you for the kind gestures and outpouring of support we have received since we announced the store close. It’s been very uplifting, and we are going to miss designing for such a great community.

To thank you for your support and to give you a small token of our appreciation, anyone who has previously purchased deviantART T-Shirts & Gear has received our brand new "I Heart deviantART Gear" Badge! Anyone who places a new deviantART T-Shirts & Gear order with the Shop will receive one as well. That's right -- all previous and future deviantART T-Shirts and Gear purchasers will receive this special badge! Be sure to keep an eye out for it appearing on your Profile Page.

It's a great time to buy! We are selling through products quickly, and, depending on how quickly it goes, we may be closing the store before the end of May. We still have $25 Camera Bags, and $25 Messenger Bags as well as Buy 2 Get 1 Tees and 25% Off Hoodies.  So pick up some great gear and a new badge to boot before it’s too late!

Click here to visit the T-Shirts & Gear Shop. And as always, browse from thousands of fantastic Prints made by deviants from around the world in our Prints Shop!

Here's the new Badge! 




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After eight awesome years of artistic adventure, deviantART’s T-Shirts & Gear Shop (formerly deviantWEAR) has decided to close its doors. It has been an amazing ride. Seeing hundreds of concepts through to full production, developing the brand with the community, listening to all of the feedback, and designing to suit our deviants’ dynamic tastes has been an honor.

We have genuinely enjoyed sharing our concepts, workflow, designs, and final products with you. We would like to thank all of you for your support, heartfelt commentary, and constant tide of love and deviousness. It was certainly a labor of love outfitting deviants from around the globe. We have decided, unfortunately, to move on. It's with a heavy heart that we bring you this news, but now is your chance to take a physical piece of deviantART home. We don’t plan on restocking, so grab your bit of deviously artistic history before it’s gone!

Thank you for your many years of fandom! We look forward to the next chapter and your continued support.

Remember our store will remain open until we have sold our last piece. Our customer service team will be available at anytime, long after our doors have closed.

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A Fashionable New Set
Working with New Styles & Materials




There are many times as an artist when you get to work on a set of illustrations that work equally well on their own and as part of a larger set. Although the individual pieces may be thematically different from each other, they follow a common visual look and feel. This is where the individual artistic style that you’ve practiced for hundreds of hours really gets to shine. Recently I was lucky enough to find myself in this situation, and I’m honored to announce the resulting set of illustrations printed on really cool HoodieBuddie™ outerwear.

The three different garments are very different in material, cut, and area for print, but the illustrations on each have visual harmony with the current collection. Wise Wings is printed on a lightweight Hoodie with many pockets across the front. For this piece, I decided to make a two-part illustration to be printed on the hood as well as the back hip. The second piece, called Circles and Lines, is a unique horizontal-striped crew reminiscent of a sailor sweater. For this piece, the illustration has a similar style of linework to the others, with really rich hues overtop neutral, grey bands. Varsity Crest, the third of the series, is a garment cut and dyed in the fashion of a letterman jacket. My goal was to maintain the line quality of the set while creating a unique graphic illustration to be printed on the double crest panels.

No matter what the medium or even the intention, I feel it really benefits an artist to complete multiple pieces in a series. Whether you incorporate a common thread through multiple commissions for different people or simply spend your time sketching out similar graphics, it can really make your body of work feel more cohesive and gets you to think outside the box, even within self-imposed design limits.


Circles and Lines



Much like riding a bike, making a great piece of art is about balance of many elements while, sometimes bravely, moving forward. This energetic mass of circles and lines on fashionable stripes can inspire the artist to follow an adventurous creative path on any number of two-wheeled transports. As an illustrator, I depend on the quality of my linework to carry through my pieces of art. The line quality that I’ve developed in my work greatly defines my style. It carries my work in a cohesive way and has hundreds of influences.



Bikes are such fun things to draw. Their geometric shapes are so perfectly designed and really interesting to abstract a bit, warping the balance so they really have character. I enjoy taking a perfectly round wheel and making it wonky and off-centered in just the right way. The frame, which is engineered to be super strong, gets drawn in a more organic way, giving it a much more animated quality.



Drawing in my sketchbook is so beneficial because it allows me to be playful with ideas that would look too overworked on the final canvas. With this piece, I pushed the idea of horsepower combined with bikes, and that sketch evolved into the wild herd of horses corralling the bikes to keep them under control.



Bikes show up in my work a lot, and after we chose this cool, striped HoodieBuddie™, I knew I wanted to print them on the garment. The yellow and red colors look really nice together in China Crayon, but the red would be too dark of value to work on the stripes, so I pulled out the pink “Mean Streak,” and with one mark on the paper, I knew that this would be the perfect hue for the job. The final linework would be drawn with one of my favorite pens ever: the double-tipped Zig Writer. It produces amazing lines on Bristol board with a flexible tip that stands up to really heavy strokes. I am a pen nerd!



After I filled a number of pages with these fun drawings, I transferred the project to the digital space, carefully scanning in each 11x14-inch drawing in two parts to be seamed together. At this point, I felt like I had a herd of bikes moseying about, so it took a lot of shuffling and some weeding out to determine which ones would make the final cut. Bike herding aside, I then needed to explore which font would work best for the project. Should I use a hand-written font, or stick to something more “professional”? I tried many different options to more clearly show similarities in form, and in the end I chose to use another designer’s beautiful font work.

I mocked up the final composition with just the right colors to make sure everything was in order and looked correct with all pieces put together. Both the yellow and pink pop from the neutral stripes. Which bike is your favorite?



The outcome of this piece is printed on the garment, and I’m very proud of the piece. I love seeing it worn, especially by someone on his beloved bicycle. Enjoy your artistic adventures!







Varsity Crest





My goal when starting this piece was to make a letterman-style graphic reminiscent of both a medieval royal crest and a contemporary varsity patch. “The Artistic Wizard College of deviantART” was my made-up inspiration. Crests are pretty interesting historically, and I researched many types throughout many cultures to find which style best suited us at deviantART. Some are long and tall, able to fit on flowing upright banners, and some are wide, fit perfectly for horizontal flags. Some are construed of simple shapes for the most efficient visual recognition, and others are so ornate that the symbolism is almost indecipherable.

Many elements were sketched in the process of finding the right composition of symbols. I knew I wanted the classic “dA” initials as well as a solid font for the top of the shield.



It’s good for my creative process to try out many line weights, like the ballpoint pen pieces above and also the thick Sharpie lines below. The different lines make me consider things within the design differently just because the spacing changes so much with different tools. The ballpoint is so energetic, providing me with the conceptual space to see which ways to push the elements, while the solid, smooth lines of the marker really define the weight of the piece. They all inform each other along the process, and the more information you can sketch out in advance, the more you understand how to make your materials do what you want, rather than letting chance decide. This is a perfect example of how to get over a common roadblock in the arts: if you’re not sure where to begin with something, simply try everything!



One really interesting way to conceive illustrations is by looking at your progressive sketches through inverted values – swapping the colors for their opposing color. This method makes the design look new and fresh to your eyes if you’ve been struggling with it for a while. In these sketches, I‘m really trying to figure out the various textures I’d like to use and seeing if the elements are all cohesive.



The complete graphic was an interesting amalgamation of many process sketches. Every part worked itself out, and I felt the final design was a good balance of space and tone.



I finalized the piece and sent the files off to the printer with the chosen Pantone colors and final graphic dimensions.



When we received the garment back, the print colors went great with the local color of the weave of the cloth, the sporty accentuating trim, and the headphone drawstrings.




Wise Wings



The best way to start an artistic adventure is to dive right in! This bold graphic symbolizes the fact that your creative eye is completely open, actively searching for inspiration. Listen to your favorite music AND your artistic intuition as you create masterpieces in this stylish Hoodie!


Many of these physical pieces were born from rough sketches found in the tightly packed pages of a notebook. Oftentimes, it’s the result of many ideas drawn over time that make a concept so rich. Finding what will inspire something that may inspire something completely different is the Artistic Adventure.




There was a good amount of variation to the sketches that would eventually develop into Wise Wings. I got the idea of drawing a character portrait with bushy hair and wings sprouting from his head. This might make a great illustration for another time, but it was not really an image I would want to wear. The ideas progressed further after deciding to draw a skull instead of a head. I was torn between making a big skull patch across the shoulders and making a large, energetic graphic for the front of a Hoodie, with the skull as the focal point. A third idea arose from those two ballpoint-pen drawings that focused more on the energy of bikes and skulls, like a motorcycle jacket. Next, a powerful element that really stood out was the winged skull on the hood with the 3rd eye.

Skulls have always been a subject matter of interest to artists, and there have been innumerable versions created throughout art history. Personally, skulls have intrigued me since I was a child, and I have one displayed in my studio for constant reference as I draw and stylize the form.



In pushing this idea forward, I knew I wanted it to be the piece that connected the fall and spring collections of deviantART T-Shirts & Gear. So it had to have elements of the previous line with the theme and direction of the new line in the making. “Artistic Adventure” is a key theme in the new line, so I thought this would be a perfect place to preview that playful theme. Flying skulls and flowing handwriting? Check!

I headed back to the sketchbook for more pages of development; this time hand lettering was the focus of the practice.



There was one drawing created in the development that didn't make the cut, but it was really entertaining and worth sharing. It shows just how far the creative mind goes when advancing toward a final piece of art - the deer and llama/sheep with art tools as legs. I can’t explain it, but it was fun to draw!



Sometimes you have to write something a bunch of times with a number of different media before the beautiful subtle elements really come to life. In this case, one of my favorite little features is the first “e” in “Adventure.” It is so pretty coming down from the “v.” It’s these little things that really make practice less about work and all about fun.



Finding the right font that would complement and accentuate the illustration happened a few pages into the process, and I combined the two developing ideas to ensure their cohesiveness. Since the garment is the final canvas, it’s important to measure the live area, making sure what you’re designing will fit the intended space.



The final pieces were cleaned up digitally and finalized as a strong graphic set for this Hoodie.



The graphics are a strong match with each other when printed on opposite sides of the garment. This will be a fun piece to help you start your own Artistic Adventure this spring.

Shop deviantART T-Shirts & Gear for this collection of fashionable headphone designs!






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