Reptile Style Totem

Medium: Digital Photoshop, Image Size: 13″h x 32″w, T-shirt Image Size: 6″h x 15″w, 1999, Revised 2022.

This design was originally created as an apparel design for T-shirts. It was one of the designs in my preprinted T-shirt line called Funky Totems. Funky Totems can be defined as a colorful, graphic style with humorous characters. They are a modern-day twist on the ancient totems of indigenous peoples. Whereas our ancestors from long ago depicted the animals, plants, and spirit beings of their time, I have reinterpreted that simplistic style to show the many things that go on in our present-day culture, but I did so in a fun and or humorous way.

Reptiles and amphibians have appeared in ancient art for centuries, but these funky reptiles not only look cool, but they also act cool too! Hey! If you sported patterns as interesting as our reptilian friends, you’d probably act funky too.

Sketched in pencil. Scanned into the computer and floated. Painting, graphics, colors, effects, and text were done in Photoshop.