Panther Country and Tiger Town

My friend and fellow artist, Leah Reitzel, suggested to me awhile back that we needed a Panther shirt for Sterlington. I thought that would be neat to do, so I did the usual and googled "Panther"-man, those are some mean looking cats!!! She had said the school colors were blue and black but that they sometimes added gray in there too. I thought it would be neat to print on the American Apparel tri-blend black tee.

 We've never printed on a black before. I next started drawing the cats face out in pencil

 and then went over it in pen.

This is the whole face-

Next I got out my colored pencils and started playing around with the colors.

 I thought making the panther blue would be cool! After getting the design figured out,

 I took it over to my buddy Jeff and had him scan it in and put the wording in with the computer. Voila---

Cant wait to see it on a shirt! We are printing them in youth ($24) and adult tees($28) and on the very stylish off the shoulder black sweatshirt. ($42)

  I also didn't want my Neville buddies to feel left out and wanted to create a really old vintage Tiger shirt that a person would want to wear every day. I decided to make this one real simple-no words, just a big mean growling tiger face. I ended up drawing the face twice. The first one wasn't bad but every time I looked at it, I felt like something was wrong...like it wasn't mean enough.

 

 

 Here is it in the middle stages and here I am whiting out a section I didn't like. .

I started back over and I'm so  glad I did!! You can see the different stages of the drawings.
Here I am redrawing it from scratch.

And here it is finished.

 This tiger was much better- his face has so much more emotion to it.
 After Jeff scanned it in, this is what we got.

We are printing it on black adult ($28) and youth tees ($24) too. And on the same black off the shoulder sweatshirt ($42). Also going to print the Vintage Tiger on 12 purple sweatshirts too for all you LSU fans out there. To Order, www.mrpstees.bigcartel.com

  Both these designs and the Eagle design are all printing at the same time. We've got some pretty models lined up from each school to photograph- cant wait!!!

Thanks for reading-
Lissy

Thank you to our loyal customers!-OUR BIG SALE

Whewwww- busy couple of days! We had our big Anniversary Sale this weekend at Miss Persnickety Joon. 

 If you have never been to this store before, check it out! Think Upscale consignment.  The place is very cool and I have found the best shoes there for Pearson.
 It's located on North 3rd in the garden district in Monroe. 

  Now, back to the sale... We wanted to celebrate being open for one year and offer a big discount on our Fall'12 and Spring '13 items.   We had everything organized by size- it ranged from baby onesies all the way up to XL adult.

 Everything in the boxes was at least half off. Thanks  to all of you that came, supported and stocked up!!

 It was busy! We saw lots of old friends, and met some new Ones. Plus- we loved seeing your kids!!  Little RL came Friday night wearing her crawfish shirt and matching bow.

 Loved seeing her, her brother Ruddick and her mama Julie.  Here is Julie and our friend Amy

- I graduated with them from WM. Here is The Perkins Family!

 If your family is anyway involved with cheer leading or gymnastics, then you probably know Tommy Perkins. We got to see  Jayme Garvin and her two precious boys!

 My sweet hubs got to hold the adorable Jon Michael Storm while his mama shopped.

 I know Brent is counting down the days until Jon Michael and Mr P get to going hunting with their daddy's.

  Anyway, we Can't wait to introduce all our new fall designs to everyone. Stay tuned. We will be rolling them out one after another. Also, We should have the Panther, Eagle and Vintage Tiger ready in the next week or so. We will post on Facebook when they are in.

Thanks
Lissy

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The Eagle has Landed...he's tough, proud and cool

A couple of weeks ago, we posted on FB asking if there was anyone out there wishing Wed design a shirt of their schools mascot. We had a great response and decided to create a few for some of our local schools. One of these is a shirt for The OCS eagles.
 I started off googling "Bald Eagles" and looking at all these different views of them, and decided that I liked the side head view the best.
Next I drew him out in pen and ink.

I wanted this bird to look tough and proud at the same time. I didn't go to OCS, but I have a few friends that did. I remember competing against them in track meets (way back when!) and they were TOUGH! Shout out to Julie Richardson, Julia Barnhill, etc. ;)  It seems like they are always "going to the dome!" in football  too and making North Louisiana proud. Way to go EAGLES!!
  Anyway- back to the shirt... So, meanwhile, my old trusty Mac that I've owned since 1998 died. This meant I couldn't scan in the drawing and play with colors on the computer. Ugggg. Back to good ole colored pencils!!

 I made some copies of my drawing and literally started coloring. Once I got the color arrangement figured out, I started sketching the whole layout of the shirt.

 

 I kept thinking about Top Gun and the military when I worked on this.

 

 

 Now it went over (thanks to my sister Holly for delivering) to graphic designer extraordinaire Jeff Smith who put it all into the computer an helped give it that faded vintage look that we love so much..Voila~ this is what we got!!

We have the presage going on now. ...Until Monday July 29th. You get a little discount for ordering early!!! Shirts will be ready in mid Aug (just in time for football season).
Thanks as always for reading!!!

Happy Anniversary SALE

   Happy 1 year birthday to us!!! 

Still can't believe how fast time has flown by since last summer when we decided to give this little business a try.

  To celebrate, we are having a HUGE SALE on our existing inventory. Check out our invitation....

.Since all of our designs are hand drawn first, we created an invite that was hand done too!! Cool!! We want to make this a once a year event that our customers can expect to happen every Aug. We are drastically marking down all of our Fall & winter 2012 designs, and our spring 2013.  50-75% Off!!! 

  So what can u expect??? Tees, tanks, dresses, onesies, etc in ALL sizes baby~ adult XXL. We will have boxes lined up with everything in one size in it. So for  example, if u know ur kid wears a 4t, u will find all 4's available in one box. 

  One of our retailers, Miss Persnickety Joon, (Located on 1008 North 3rd in Monroe)

  so graciously agreed to host this event for us. They will be having their own special sales going on too AND Friday nights 5-7pm sale will have a little wine and cheese for everyone to enjoy. Wow! 

   Hope to see y'all there~and thank you again for all your support this past year ;)


P.S. Can't wait to show you all our new designs for Fall. 

       

P.S.S.  For all you Neville Tiger, Sterlington Panther, Ruston Bearcat and OCS Eagle fans out there, we are working on a cool shirt for you for this football season. Stay tuned for the pre-sale!!! Our plan is to have them ready before the big Aug 31st Jamboree 

Louisiana King Cat

The Lion may be the "King of the Jungle", but not in Louisiana......the TIGER is!!!

So how do you come up with an original purple and gold tiger shirt that doesn't infringe on any copy right rules for LSU??? You tread carefully!
 

  You really have to get creative to come up with a cool tiger shirt that wont get you a huge fine and that people would want to wear. I started out just researching what all was out there. I googled LSU, Tigers, Geauxtigers, etc. As you can imagine, there are ALOT of freaking tiger shirts out there. One thing I did already have was the perfect purple colored shirt picked out.

Its an American Apparel tri-blend that everyone loves. Top Quality and super soft. Next I got to sketching. It was important to make sure that the whole design was 100% hand drawn.  My first attempt was a tiger face on.

It was okay...nothing special. So then I decided to turn his head and do more of a profile view. It was a better drawing than the last. I looked into making the 2 tiger faces mirroring each other with the words "fighting tigers" around it.

This was a neat design, but not very original. Ugggg. This was getting frustrating!!!

  So, I tried to go back to square one. I thought about our state and all the history with it. This got me thinking about crests. Wouldn't it be neat to have a tiger in some type of crest/shield??

 I loved the idea of a crest with a crown involved, and wanted our King Cat is def have a crown on.

 I also wanted some type of wording but with a historical approach. I looked up the Latin word for "Tiger" and for "Victory" and added this into the drawing. 

   I sent the initial layout to my friend Melanie who pointed out that he looked a little cross eyed!!

Ha! Oops- so the pupils got tweaked a little. One on left was wrong-one on right has the "fixed pupils". Now, we had a very original purple and gold King Cat Shirt.

 

You'd think purple and crowns and a cat would make for a female only shirt, but I gotta tell ya, this is the shirt that my very masculine husband  wears the most!!

Brent is shown wearing a Large.

 

And now Model MaKenzie in the tee.

 

She is shown wearing an Adult Medium.

 

This design is available online at www.mrpstees.bigcartel.com. Youth sizes( $24)  in 2t, 4t and 6t and Adult sizes ($28) S-XL.

 

I also plan to print this design on these very cool off the shoulder Purple sweatshirts from Alternative Apparel for Fall. LOVE these!!!

 

 

Thanks for reading!!! Let us know if you have any suggestions, comments or wish your school had a Mr P designed tee.

 

Rebel Photo Shoot

We are fortunate to have 2 of the greatest nieces ever..Katie and MaKenzie.

 Katie is at George Welch Elem and Kenzie is at West Monroe High School. Know I'm biased but these two are super athletic, beautiful and are so much fun to be around. When our new Rebel design came out, it was a no-brainer to ask Kenzie and her best buds if they wanted to come pose for us. They gladly agreed! And I was so excited that Katie came too!!
  We met up at WMHS one early evening. It was still a little warm outside, but the girls did great. We started out in the tanks and headed for one of the Rebel Stadium entrance signs.

 Click, click, click! And then we all walked on over to the football stadium. Loved photographing them against the red doors of the stadium

and just being goofy against the painted gray brick.

(Can you tell they are spelling out W-M-H-S??) 

 Solid backdrops always seem to work well. We then headed inside to the 50 yard line.

 I had them lay down and then they all held hands (so sweet!). The first pic I had nothing to stand on

 but then we spotted a random chair on the track and Katie ran an grabbed it for me. Awe- now the view was much better!!

 Cute, cute, cute.
And now Katie on the 50~

  Now time for a wardrobe change and the girls headed off to put on the short sleeve tees.

 Now we got em in front of the new gym (am I showing my age calling it the new gym!!??! Hahah)

Just 4 best friends hanging out in their comfy Mr P's tees!!

The last shot was the "jump" shot in front of the Rebel Pavilion.

Took me a few times, but we got it!! I felt a little nostalgic watching the four of them together. Awe- great memories of my days at West Monroe. Big thanks again to Adrianna, Anne, MaKenzie, AnnMarie and Katie for posing!!! Can't wait to do it again ;)

Rebel Tees & Tanks can be ordered online at www.mrpstees.bigcartel.com. Youth and adult sizes available now. Baby & Toddler sizes coming soon.