Moon Phases
There are several designs that I have in various stages of production that don’t really have any sort of grand or secret meaning. I include them because I like the design and the subject matter is related and comes up often in paranormal topics. The moon is definitely one of them. Whether it’s ancient astronauts or secret military programs or alien bases mining helium 3, the moon comes up a lot in conversations about the unknown.
The final moon phase graphic.
So I wanted a moon shirt, but how to do it? I thought about the moon itself as a graphical element, and a big white circle wouldn’t do. In order for the moon to be recognizable as the moon, it need to have the craters, and dark splotches that we see from earth and in photos. Well as you can see here, there is way more texture information than could be included on a shirt, and I wouldn’t want to just print a photo of the moon anyway. The splotches and craters would have to be simplified and outlined in a computer program and I just didn’t feel like doing all that work for a really obvious moon graphic anyway. The other thing about the moon that you could use are its phases. I thought all the phases of the moon lined up like simple white slices would make a pleasing graphic I thought. So I just grabbed some moon phase graphics from NASA or somewhere and outlined the shapes. I saved the file as an EPS and that makes my first flex print design.
