The graphic was created entirely in PhotoShop, using a combination of custom shapes, the rectangular marquee tool, and drawing with the pen tool.
The boomerang was actually a custom shape I created for a different design; drawn using the pen tool. The asterisks are custom shapes I downloaded a while back. The pumpkin was drawn for this piece using PhotoShop's pen tool. Each element; the pumpkin outline, stem outline, eyes, nose and mouth; were all drawn on separate layers to allow for flexibility when arranging the face of the jack-o-lantern, and to allow for coloring each element independently. This proved to be very helpful, because at first I wasn't sure what to do with the eyes. Then my wife took one look and suggested coloring them yellow, which would give the effect of the eyes being back-lit by a candle inside the jack-o-lantern. Duh - sometimes I just don't see those things; one of the reasons that drawing and graphic design don't come easy to me.
The coloring was all done in PhotoShop as well. I really like how purple has become part of the Halloween color palette, in addition to traditional black and orange, I chose a rather pale violet color for the purple boomerang, as well as the outlines around the rectangles.
To see the design on a shirt, click here. I also placed it onto a card, as I thought it would make a nice Halloween card.
