JPDR T-Shirt

Hey Yall,
I thought I would update everybody with some recent projects I’ve been working on.  The image above is a two-colour silk screened t-shirt design for Canadian musician and song-writer, Jean-Paul De Roover.  Since I Illustrated his most recent album, Windows and Doors,  Jean-Paul asked me to illustrate a t-shirt that would be used for his upcoming Spring tour.  The focus of the design was to recreate the aesthetic feel of the album artwork.  After listening to the album and letting it resonate for a while, I determined that Jean-Paul’s music was very organic with a continuous amount of building energy as each track passes.  In a way I felt the music bio-mimics the life of a beehive — energetic yet structured.  And for some reason which I cannot understand, I am really digging geometric structures and figures these days.  Don’t ask me why.  Eventually I would like to make this sketch into a painting, but right now it will stay on the shelf.  My walls are becoming quite cluttered with drawings and preliminary plans for smaller personal projects.  I’m hoping to start some of them sooner or later, but for right now I have tackled some larger projects.  Projects in which you will see within the next couple weeks!


3 Replies to “JPDR T-Shirt”
  1. acp says:

    Oooh, very nice Greg!

  2. John Baker says:

    Hi, maybe i’m being a bit off topic here, but I was browsing your site and it looks stimulating. I’m building a blog and trying to make it look clean, but everytime I touch it I mess something up. Did you design the blog yourself? Could someone with little experience do it, and add updates without messing it up? Anyways, good information on here, very solid.

  3. admin says:

    This site was built with WordPress. I designed the web site myself and had a web designer develop the navigation and functionality.

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