Magnet

Again, like moon phases, a big magnet isn’t exactly paranormal, its more a subject that comes up a lot in ufology and paranormal topics and I just wanted a shirt with a big magnet on it.

So Illustrator has a filter called “Extrude & Bevel” and thats what I used to create the basic 3d shape of the magnet.  I started with a simple magnet shape in Illustrator, created by modifying a couple of circles…

The basic magnet shape.

The plus and minus sign are made from scratch too, just three lines with a rounded stroke on them, then outline stroke and use pathfinder to merge together.  So thats the flat image, colored appropriately and then when the extrude and bevel filter is applied we get this image…

The outline version of the pseudo 3d image.

After thats all finished, I just saved it as a png with an alpha channel and its all ready to go.

The finished design.