Anesthetize wrote...
Gonna be honest with your shirt designs.
The text is horrible. Try reading up on some typography theory and take some consideration to your design. Don't just choose that text type because "oh it looks nice to me".
For example your "kawaii desu" shirt font:
- Lose the satin/bold outlines, it makes it look unprofessional and gimicky.
- Dont use curly fonts like that. You many think you're doing yourself a favour by picking a "different" font but you're not. Stick to common looking ones; they're commonly used because they are what look and work best.
Think design:
That curly font is hard to read, the purpose of a shirt design is for people to see it and think hey that's cool. Kinda hard if they can't actually read it without staring at for 2 minutes.
If you're using the phrase "kawaii desu" stop and think for a moment. What pops into your head when you think of kawaii? Try to emulate that in what text type and colour/design you choose. To me black is definitely not a kawaii colour, nor does the font or the red/outline seem very kawaii to me either. What that does is it's telling my brain one thing but my eyes are seeing completely different thing. Creates confusion and makes the design look bad.
Just some advice if you want to improve your design. Btw go to dafont.com and pick out some fonts, the default ones a horrible and outside of myrid pro/tomoha/minron pro they're pretty bad.
Thank you for the critique!
I wanted to use the website's colour scheme, but the kawaii theme I used definitely doesn't go with it. I'll definitely keep that tip in mind.
The comment about the text definitely caught my attention as it helped me realize how I didn't really think much of it while I was making the design. It's kind of embarrassing for me to forget such an important thing, being an advertising student and all.
I haven't gotten around to downloading fonts from the sites you recommended, but if possible, can I ask your opinion on the new color scheme I used?