Dave called me up the other day because he wanted to make a new t-shirt.   i was all for it, not knowing then that i was agreeing to work on a project that would require more revisions than anything ever created by anyone, ever.

we started with this, the old peace bomb design.  dave wanted to do a revised take on this with some extra characters added.  sounds easy enough.  i did some sketches:

dave liked these drawings but wanted to add a character from a newer type of bread, the sin dawg.  i did some sketches:

things were going well.  we monkeyed around a little more with dave’s pose:

we seemed to have a pretty good idea of where things were going so i started to pencil what i thought was the final version:

dave decides that it’s a little off…  we agree to move some characters around and then we go through some drafts of alternative poses for dave:

finally, we arrive at a new pencil draft:

dave decides that he’d really like to see what it looks like if he is riding the dog.  i am not thrilled about taking another step back, but i do some quick sketches anyway:

dave decides that this is the way to go so i do a new pencil draft, copying parts of the earlier draft on a light table.

im starting to worry that there might be something a little funny about this image and i send dave a quick sketch that suggests a new way for him to hold his guitar:

dave agrees with the change and the pencils are altered:

then dave decides that we should get rid of the bread guy who is falling in the air and change the seed guy on the back of the bomb to a piece of bread playing a stand-up bass.  i tell him a regular bass would be a lot easier to draw but he insists that a stand-up is funnier.  i do a quick brush sketch:

dave likes it so i put it all together and ink it:

dave asks me to move the peace symbol, which is easy to do in photoshop, and the bass player, which is harder and requires some redrawing.  i tell him it’s impossible and then he offers me more money:

and then it’s all done.  next we show it to some of the other fine folks at daves killer bread and they all immediately tell us that this is a disturbing image and its probably a terrible idea to put it on a t-shirt.

we decide that maybe we ought to put it down for a few days and in that time some helpful solutions are cooked up.  shobi makes a mock-up of how he thinks it can be fixed and i copy it using pieces of what’s done and some really quick doodles:

that seems to be where we want to put everything so i do another draft:

and it works so i ink it:

and then its done!  its really done!  its finally over!!!

and that is where t-shirts come from.

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