“Mermaid and Her Lover”.

The drawing of an astronaut reading a book was my first commission from Skip N’ Whistle – a company offering eco-friendly screen printed t-shirts in New Orleans, USA. The company is known for its great selection of fun and clever t-shirt designs.

One of the reasons why I was contacted by a representative of this company was that guys from Skip N’ Whistle were not quite happy with hard edge vector clipart that so many people used to translate their design ideas into drawings. And I cannot but agree that freehand drawings have so much more soul and life than those made with Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator or any other computer-based graphic editor. There is nothing better than a hand-made work totally created by human mind and hands. Hopefully, customers of Skip N’ Whistle will appreciate future hand-made designs of their t-shirts. I believe there will be plenty of popular Skip N’ Whistle designs re-made into freehand drawings by me and/or other artists because it seems that managers of the company are ready to go for it.

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Another reason I was hired to create the drawing for a t-shirt from Skip N’ Whistle was my distinctive drawing style of hatching and cross-hatching making my artworks look somewhat vintage. Skip N’ Whistle’s t-shirts and accessories feature a lot of vintage-inspired designs and guys from the company believed that it would be cool to make custom designs while keeping that so popular vintage vibe.

Unfortunately, I do not know the exact meaning of this drawing of a reading spaceman but the design looks fun which means that Skip N’ Whistle is likely to find a lot of buyers for t-shirts featuring an astronaut with a book.