6dollarshirts.com held a contest for new, 1-color t-shirt designs. 'Japan' is one of two of my winning entries selected to be available for printing on their online store.

I created this design using vector and brushgraphics, using reference images to create the kanji. I then overlayed multiple grunge maps. I converted it to a high resolution bitmap tif, for superb quality, at a reasonable file size of 3 MB.

The entire project took about 3 hours.