Memorial Weekend camping trips = three days of horseshoes, campfires, bbq, fishing, hiking, beer pong and other naturey activities with my friends. Last year was our 10th annual trip so we made t-shirts and we’ve decided to make another one this year.

I need to top 2008′s 10th Anniversary Brew design, as well as keep the cost down and avoid any corporate “Memorial Weekend 2009″ copy on the shirt. I thought long and hard to find that balance of awesome yet obnoxious. It sums up the group dynamic of my friends very well. Inspiration finally struck and maybe beer was involved but I decided that I had to make a wolf print shirt.

We budgeted to have a second color for some moon or wolf eye embellishment, but in the end decided to use the money on separate screens for men and women shirts in order to maximize the size of the print. Making shirts is tricky when your friends aren’t all the same size. Jerks.

I just noticed my last 3 shirt designs have scribbly pine trees in the background. I need to learn how to draw more environmental elements.