I wanted to make Michael Ball a t-shirt, because he heard that I was making The Overtones one and saw my own Michael t-shirts - he loved the designs.
I designed and made this unique Super Ball t-shirt for Michael - it took a lot of patience and countless hours to complete the t-shirt.
I instructed my personal assistants how to create it step by step. I always use Photoshop and Illustrator on my Mac computer to create my initial designs. Once they are printed out on card - they are cut to make stencils and used to create the outlines on a plain t-shirt. Then the transferred design gets coloured in with fabric pens, to help to visualise the different sections and apply a base of various background colours.
To make the colours permanent, the design had to be ironed over. Then each individual rhinestone needed to be glued on using fabric glue, the t-shirt was left to dry thoroughly before the fabric paint and glitter could be applied. Each individual coloured fabric paint and glitter was then applied separately. The time-consuming aspect was waiting for the paint and glitter to dry before the excess glitter could be shaken off - before another coloured paint/glitter could be applied. The finished t-shirt looks professional and effective, I'm thrilled with the final result and the fact Michael has influenced me to design this for him.
Here is Michael's reaction (in pictures) when I gave him the t-shirt:
The next thing I knew Michael threw his jacket off and put the t-shirt on – “I don’t know about Captain America but SUPER BALL will do just fine! Don’t worry I’m not going to show you any flesh” then Michael whispered “hope it’s extra large...” I just nodded, to my relief the t-shirt fitted and it looked really good on Michael. To my amusement, Michael started posing and trying to act macho, as my superhero.
