SLIK. Apparel is a clothing brand I created in 2018 because I enjoyed designing graphics for t-shirts and wanted to physically manifest my digital art. The clothing style is generally of a modern/skater fashion that's targeted towards teenagers and young adults. It was a great experience learning how to create a product from scratch and then produce it for others to use! This Poison Cherub is a graphic I made to be used as a poster or t-shirt design.
Originally I was going to use a dark red to mimic hellish colors, but I found that this yellow/green reminded me of poison and it fit well with the style as well as made it a unique characteristic of the design. My first step was to find an illustration of a cherub that I wanted to work with. Once I found one, I image traced it and converted the color to white so I could have it on a black background. Next, I created some shapes on top of the cherub’s head to make the devil horns and made them glow green to make them pop out of the black. After this, I made a circle around the cherub and I added a line to the outside of this circle to follow the angle/line that the bow and arrow made and changed the stroke of both to make it vary in thickness. Then I made the SLIK. logo (which is just SLIK. using Onyx font) and created outlines out of the text so that I could cut out rectangles from the letters to make a gradient look. Finally, I added a white border, my signature, and some text in the corners.