WZA X is another local skateboarding company / team. They messaged me on Instagram asking for a small print run of six T shirts for personal use within the team. They explained that they'd looked me up after seeing another of my T designs down the skate park - words getting out! Jack (who seems to be the guy running the show) has asked me to design a black and white shirt design with only a couple of conditions. The large back design must incorporate crocodiles as well as the capital letter X and the front must simply be the letter X as a small pocket print (as with my other shirts).
Another T design was very exciting, especially coming from a customer who'd spotted my work in public. Unfortunately very early on from when I'd started drawing WZA X decided not to continue with the project. I found this very strange as he'd just spent a lot of time explaining the brief, this was just as I'd sent an invoice for the up front deposit, my pricing must have scared them off - very disappointing considering I quoted £60 for the whole job.
Regardless of the cancellation I decided to complete the brief and print the T shirts as my own, just as I did with the pink panther shirts. Drawing crocodiles is something I do a lot of so I had some fun with symmetrical pattern in Photoshop. I worked without roughs as I had no client to please and developed a design I'm really happy with, as with the pink panthers I aimed for bold shape based animals.
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