We are big time reading advocates here at Team Isaacs. Not that we’re great readers. My wife is a pro. I’m so-so. And our kids have some challenges. But we believe in the power and joy that comes from from reading.
So, my daughter is participating in the Oregon Battle of the Books, or OBOB. The team members have to read like 14 books over a couple of months and then they compete to see which team remembers the most about the books.
This is the second year for my daughter. And like last year, my wife has volunteered me to design the team’s T-shirts (according to their creative brief). I am not a designer. But I have access to all the necessary tools, such as Figma, Illustrator, Canva and the like.
Below is a pic from last year’s shirt. The team was called “The Other, other, other team.” Don’t ask me what it means. They were fifth graders.
This year’s brief was the following: The Team Name is “Astro Piggyonaires“, which is a pig with dollar sign eyes and tail, and space/stars emanating from his mouth (“barfing space”). With a top-hat on, of course (!?).
Did I mention that I am not a designer?
So I started searching for some pig characters in Canva.
As I was wondering how I would add the dollar signs, etc., I remembered about Google’s NanoBanna image generator and gave it a shot.
Using my starter image, I added the following prompt: Create a cartoon image of a pig with dollar sign eyes and dollar sign tail, and space/stars emanating from his mouth (“barfing space”). In the barf, include the shapes of Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. The pig should be wearing a top-hat. Nothing should be cut off from the image (I want to put it on a t-shirt).
There were a few more prompts before I settled on the image below.
Not terrible. Not great. But pretty good for my skill set and sticking in my budget of only using a few hours over a couple of evenings.
From here, I used Canva’s T-shirt service and ordered the shirts. The are like $20 or so and will arrive in a couple of weeks.