We were given the opportunity to talk to the artist about his study/design and this is what he said about it:

I usually don’t start working on a design until I have at least a general idea of the concept (sometimes even composition, colors, details, etc), then I make a few sketches to get the general composition down and then I start truly working on it.

This was one of the few exceptions, after finishing inking another design,  I randomly doodled 2 turtles with a viking helm and a top hat for shells, I kinda liked them and decided to ink, scan and color them as well. After that I had the idea of this world filled with turtles with headgear as shells and how they would be classified, so I drew a bunch of them, kept the ones I liked the most, gave them a grid, sort of textbook arrangement and gave them all scientific names (if you know a little Latin you’ll see they’re not random at all, but made to fit each specific turtle) and so a design from a 5 minute random doodle was born.

I ended liking it much more than the one I was actually working on and it still remains one of my favorites (that I have done, that is). Hope you like it as well.

This is againstbound’s second t-shirt to be printed here at Tilteed. His other was ‘Fear of Flying.’