This is more of the story. I thought the next steps were to clean up the lettering, but Brother Ray had a different idea.
In reaction to the 1st design he said, “WOW! I would put the believe & receive or doubt & do without under it.”
Then we started going back and forth. I sent:
He said, “No way, is my opinion. Difficult to read at a glance. For me the clearer the better.”
Then I sent this version:
He said: “More like that.”
Then I starting thinking of how those small letters would be against different colors, so I added a white outline.
Ray said, “This is not ez at all glance.”
Then I tried:
He didn’t like that either.
So, I thought what I need to control how that text presents is a shape behind it. After some more back and forth, we came up to this design:
Now the background (shirt) color is more flexible.
Ray said, “Now we R cooking with gas.”
I also send him a mock up on red. Red might be the exception, doesn’t do well with red shirt or pink. Ray agreed.
While Ray was happy, I didn’t like the overall shape, or the balance. I’m not a graphic designer. Everything is coming from high school art class, which was before the 2000. Let’s just say that. It was a long time ago. Since, I’ve read some articles on design and art, but still drawing a lot from high school for these shirts. Anyway, the flow or balance, whatever it is called, didn’t sit well with me. So, this isn’t the end of the story or the shirt.
I’m off to a birthday party, so the rest of the story will have to wait until very late today or tomorrow.