NCAA uniforms

[Kevin W.]

If this topic's in the wrong place, please feel free to move it.

I help to draw NCAA football uniforms for Wikipedia (and also as a hobby). The ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Big East and SEC have been done by other artists. I've done work on the Pac-10, MWC and WAC. Here's my most recent work, starting with the Pac-10 (asterisks indicate works in progress):

Arizona:

Arizona State*:

Cal*:

Oregon:

Oregon State:

Stanford:

UCLA:

USC*:

Washington*:

Washington State:

[LEWJ]

I don't think WSU uses the silver cougar helmet anymore.

I think they use this:

http://gregdavis.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Apple-Cup-2009-WSU-UW-11-28-09-Football/G0000UykytMJPEe0/I0000d6rkLXeu4qg

But good job either way, looks nice.

[Kevin W.]

No, they wore the silver Cougar helmet last year. They wore it more times than the Cougars helmet, actually.

[Kevin W.]

I've also done some recently-retired uniforms.

Arizona 2005-2009:

Oregon 2006-2008:

[Kevin W.]

Here's some ACC stuff, featuring the prototype of my Pro Combat template.

[JJSCOTT]

Dunno how hard it would be to do but I would love to see the backsides too... at least for the jerseys.

[Kevin W.]

I've made some slight changes to the Pro Combat details, and I've begun working on a helmet front view. Here's all of the new stuff on Arizona.

[Kevin W.]

Another redesign of the helmet:

[CAB]

Not necessarily a huge deal, but have you ever thought of using a different template? Some things about this one (shoulders, no side view) bug me a little. Nonetheless, these are accurate and you do a good job!

[Kevin W.]

I never said I was done updating the template. I will be doing a side view of the pants eventually.

Unfortunately, the other issues with the template itself can't really be resolved easily since I'm vector-illiterate and all I've got at my disposal for creating the images is MSPaint and GIMP.

[BigDmo]

Beardown...is that you?

[Kevin W.]

The one and only.

[Kevin W.]

Out of context, the phrase "I have redesigned the pants!" would sound really weird. Here, it's perfectly normal.

Pro Combat pants, complete with (WIP) new pads and a completely redone belt. I will also be adding a side view of the pants to fully illustrate the stripe at a later date (once I figure out how to properly draw that triangle gradient).

[Kevin W.]

I decided to start work on the side view. Here's what I've got so far.

[Kevin W.]

Now, I've decided to re-do the jersey as well. I might as well just revamp the whole damn thing while I'm at it. Does this look too big for the pants?

[CJworks]

Right now, they're a bit too baggy, it makes the jersey look puny. Maybe a good shrink should do it.

Good choice to switch templates, by the way.

[Kevin W.]

My main concern about switching templates is that the ultimate purpose is for these to go on Wikipedia, and a lot of uniforms were already uploaded using the old template. I'll need to talk to the main uniforms guy and see what he thinks.

Also, I think I'm just going to enlarge the jersey instead of making the pants smaller.

[Kevin W.]

Ok, it's nowhere near perfect and never will be since all I've got is Paint, but I think I've got the pattern right for Va Tech's Pro Combat numbers. I will probably try to make it smaller and see where I can go from there, but this is a good starting point.

[Kevin W.]

Instead of making the new jersey fit, I've just decided to incorporate some of its features into the old template.

[Kevin W.]

Here's what the image now looks like with the pants side view incorporated.