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September 22nd, 2009
A STUDY OF TURTLES
By againstbound
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22484795@N08/

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TILTEED BEST OF 2009 - #7

After months and months of intense research, againstbound brings us his second Tilteed print - A Study of Turtles. Lucky for us, rather than printing his findings in some fancy-pants reptilian academic journal, he’s decided to release this research in t-shirt form. Printed on the appropriately named seafoam American Apparel t-shirts, this is a 4 color print.

TILTEED: againstbound

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.’

LEAVE A COMMENT

Posted by sweetP on Tuesday, August 18th

clever! adorable! i love it

Posted by dunz0 on Tuesday, August 18th

I absolutely love this design! I prefer it on the blue, though.

PRINT PRINT PRINT!

Posted by AdderXYU on Tuesday, August 18th

Them turtles are charmers.

Posted by DCAY on Thursday, August 20th

i like it, i deem it print worthy good job!

Posted by SkyBry on Saturday, September 19th

this shirt confirms that i’m a nerd. I think its cute, i like it!

Posted by JadenKale on Tuesday, September 22nd

Congrats, sir! I must admit, I must not have paid nearly enough attention, or I missed it while glossing over the entries, because I surely would have voted for it. Although I’m glad my vote was not needed in order to print this!