September 2022
The sanctuary I volunteer with as an artist and board member (I would help out in person, but we’re in entirely different states/on different sides of the country!) is celebrating their 1 year anniversary as an official nonprofit. We decided to celebrate with a party, and releasing a new shirt fundraiser! This time, we used Jack as the subject (who is turning 1 year old around this time as well), and I was inspired by a silly batch of photos where he is wearing sunglasses someone put on him earlier this year.
Sketch transferred to 9×12 Bristol in blue pencil using my lightbox, then inked with brush and pen, finally color and text added last in Adobe Illustrator.
You can see a few of the very rough design layouts I scrawled out to help show the sanctuary what I was planning, as well as give me a better idea what I wanted to do. Sometimes these little scrawls are barely a couple inches and in regular pen. Whatever works to get started!
And I always like to see how things print, not to mention help support the sanctuary. I’ve had offers to buy a shirt for me from sanctuaries as a show of appreciation, but I want them to get as much as they can so I buy my own. Sometimes a few!
As you can see though, I have a LOT of sanctuary shirts… sometimes I’m at a loss what shirt I should wear. Ha!
The fundraiser can be found here.
Find out more about The Farm Micro Sanctuary here.
