Any ideas

[jason-23]

client wants this on a shirt big can you make the house bigger??..Any ideas?

[sweetts]

Make it larger and cock it a bit so its at like a 36 degree angle ?


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[jason-23]

I was hoping to get some sort of insight on how to go about redrawing this or doing something with this...

[tpitman]

If the original is as soft as the file posted (or if this IS the original), other than perhaps a very small bit of the unsharp filter in Photoshop, I'd tell them that there wasn't much to be done with it. What color shirt, how many shirts? If it's only a few, and on whites, I'd send them to Big Frog in Winter Park and let them do a DTG.
You can print out the file on your color inkjet at the size it'll print at and ask him if that's acceptable, but in the end, just because somebody wants something doesn't mean it's doable, or that the end result will be acceptable, to him or to yourself. Don't forget that a pi$$-poor reproduction will reflect on you as the printer. No one will likely be told that the original was crappy to begin with.
And what the hell is he talking about regarding making the "house" bigger? The van? My old friend and I painted his vee-dub bus up back around 1971 and referred to it as the "Mobile Motel", so that's the only think I can think of for reference.

[Frog]

I just fooled around a bit in Photoshop and Draw and made it a little bigger.

[tpitman]

Damn, man, I didn't even SEE that house way the hell back there.

[screenxpress]

Blurry on the original and just as blurry when bigger, lol.

[Chadwick]

Is the jpeg you posted, the same file you have for print?
That resolution and such?

What's up with the lower-right corner of the design? ( lol )

[Frog]

What's up with the lower-right corner of the design? ( lol )

Perhaps we're looking out of a window, and that's a little bit of the curtain.

[jason-23]

Ok, here is the deal. A friend of mines father has a place in bimini with a bunch of other "old dudes" as he calls them. They go down there to party and hook up basically. One of them painted this on a wall and now they want it on a shirt. I was told that it doesnt have to be this picture but a lot of the same elements like the bus, hogfish,guitar,house, road, plate and shell along with the water stuff. All the stuff the do down there minus the women I see.

[Frog]

Jason, I bet that a higher resolution photograph of the actual painting, along with the enlarging of the house could be a very viable design, and retain the charm of the original.
Small run as DTG or real sepping for some sort of screened process printing as a large run.

[jason-23]

50 or so shirts on tans and oranges. I have $300 cleared for art...

[tpitman]

If they're really giving you leeway to just incorporate the elements, you could probably come up with a similar layout using photos snagged off of Google images. On light colored shirts, you could do it as process color with a white under base that will mask most of the shirt color using a program like QuikSeps, or pay Dan to generate the films out of the $300 allowance for art.
I'd make damn sure that they understand that using similar elements won't be an exact duplicate, so they don't give you the runaround or have you making changes for months as they "art direct" the job.
With some freedom to redo it, you can also make it more interesting without that square shape from the photo.
On the other hand, what are the chances that they have a higher-resolution version of the photo they provided?