Qwertee design #1

 Since QWERTEE designs mostly consists of fandom based creations, I thought: THIS IS MY CHANCE. LET'S MAKE FANART (?) I felt some ideas coming up for sketches and this was the first one. I've been loving Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor in Doctor Who and I felt the recurring gag of  the sonic not being able to sonic wood deserved a new drawing. So I decided to create a design based on it. For Peter Capaldi's face, I used some pictures for reference for his nose and face shape, and filled the rest in to own interpretation.
Then I took the picture and traced all the lines in Illustrator. I figured out Illustrator and I don't really get along well. The first mistake I made was trying to draw the lines like you would in photoshop, what then happens when you want to colour is: is that it's not going to work. That's why I had to retrace everything again for the coloured pieces. Note to self: make every shape from one line.
I wanted to try to add some gradient, but since gradients are not allowed, I had to look up how to create a gradient that is allowed when making designs for printing tees: halftones. It was a bit hard figuring it out, since all the tutorials I found were very dragging, or very unclear. But in the end it worked! I had to retry it a lot since I didn't really have the knowledge in what values to choose, but in the end I got something that I somewhat liked.

Below are the final designs: one with only the colours and another with the background colour (t-shirt colour) underneath.

To put up the design for voting, you have to create a mock-up, so the voters will have an idea what it will look like on a t-shirt.