Every year at the Minnesota Zoo, they have a program for kids. This program teaches the kids about the animals and they get to do all sorts of activities. Every year, they have a tee shirt for the kids. That year, I had the honor to design the tee shirt. The guidelines for the tee were that it had to be a monk seal sine the seals were going to be the new exhibit. It also had to be a vector image.
By using one of the images provided (3rd photo), I used it as a base for creating a vector seal. I used Adobe Illustrator for this task. By creating several layers, I used parts of the photo to create the shape and base of the vector image of the seal. Each layer had a different element. For example, one layer was just the seal's facial expressions, another his body color only and so on.
Along with the camp and tee shirts, the zoo also usually has a catalog that comes out talking about the event. I provided some photos taken from the Minnesota Zoo catalog of some of the kids wearing the tee.