T-Shirt Illustration

The past two weeks my class has been working on coming up with our own illustrations.  We had the option of creating a t-shirt design or a poster.  I chose to create an illustration for a t-shirt and so I started sketching.

I decided to pick one of my sketches that involved a kite.  I ended up making an illustration with a penguin that was flying away on a kite.  Who has a better reason to be happy about flying than a penguin after all?  I got feedback from some design friends and made some adjustments.  At first, I thought having no eyes on the penguin would make it seem less childish and more hipster.

After more consideration (and feedback) I decided that it was a little too weird not to have eyes on it so I added eyes in a style that I thought would tie into the picture.  This is my final for my t-shirt design!