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llo.. the ladies come runnin

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I love how dramatic this shirt is!! ha ha it's great

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This is hilarious, but I'm not sure about the placement.

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What's that in his right hand? A credit card??

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i wonder if this would fall under the "no star wars" rule. but i suppose it has been parodied so many times it hardly even feels like star wars anymore.

lalouque wrote:What's that in his right hand? A credit card??

It's his driver's license... He just got it

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Very cool. What did you use for shading?

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llo I like this one.

GMV

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I love this Chris, it totally captures my feelings as a teen eons ago. Love the look, nice clean lines

Andy47240 wrote:Very cool. What did you use for shading?

Halftones, I move back and forth between illustrator and photoshop to get them the way I want.

mia3mom wrote:I love this Chris, it totally captures my feelings as a teen eons ago. Love the look, nice clean lines

doh! forgot my laptop is still "crayz"

Yes, this moment stands out in my mind as the moment in my life where I started doing things for myself.

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Cool design. Gad to see us both bounce back after last week (I liked both of our designs last week, too, but by the end of the week we didn't have 100 votes between the two of us!)

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I like the shirt, it's your best design yet. I don't like seeing you respond to questions from multiple accounts though. If you're logging in with multiple voting-enabled accounts you're probably also giving yourself extra votes, and that ain't cool.

rglee129 wrote:Cool design. Gad to see us both bounce back after last week (I liked both of our designs last week, too, but by the end of the week we didn't have 100 votes between the two of us!)

yes, I was sad about that too, but each week is a different week.

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I feel like I'm in the middle of a Meatloaf song.

SamHain wrote:I like the shirt, it's your best design yet. I don't like seeing you respond to questions from multiple accounts though. If you're logging in with multiple voting-enabled accounts you're probably also giving yourself extra votes, and that ain't cool.

this from a guy with no vote?
get over it

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I remember when i got my DL, seems like yesterday, llo

AcRocket wrote:I remember when i got my DL, seems like yesterday, llo

No kidding! Keys and DL gives you freedom from your parents. But, then you are a slave to your car and gas payments.

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Is that Wolverine? heh

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i'd like it more if it wasn't so sexist.

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this is awesome

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now thats badass dude, bravo

AdderXYU wrote:I feel like I'm in the middle of a Meatloaf song.

...and if there are no surprise bills to pay, we're gonna go get you a go phone today!

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llo, best derby entry by far.

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As a Star Wars fan, and also a fan of teenagers who rock the Hugh Jackman Wolverine hairstyle, I like this. My only complaint is the placement; if it was dead center of the shirt I'd buy one without hesitation, but I'm not a big fan of shirts with their placement as low as this one is, thus I'd hesitate before buying ... but knowing me, I'd still buy.

ChrisRisse wrote:...and if there are no surprise bills to pay, we're gonna go get you a go phone today!

Then I love you til the end of the derby, I swear. I love you til the end of the derby

TEG522 wrote:i'd like it more if it wasn't so sexist.

huh. Either you were never a teen boy, or ... well or. I was never a teen boy myself, but I could pretty much tell what my boyfriend thought of himself when he drove up after just getting his driver's license, and this pretty much says it all.

i just got my license a month ago, and this is exactly how I felt. Best woot shirt ive seen so far!!!

Briany wrote:This is hilarious, but I'm not sure about the placement.

Perfect design for the theme. Captures universal rite of passage brilliantly. Amazing drawing skill, as always. Excellent placement choice.

I couldnt agree more, This is one of the best entries that i have seen so far for this derby. I felt like i gained so much freedom when i got my drivers license, No more asking mom or dad if they could take me somewhere or pick me up. I also felt like the girls would look at me different and maybe i'd get lucky and one would start talking to me.

I'd wear this shirt, Good job and good luck! I hope it wins!

lalouque wrote:What's that in his right hand? A credit card??

ITS A DRIVERS LICENSE!!!!!! come on people

TurboGraphx16 wrote:As a Star Wars fan, and also a fan of teenagers who rock the Hugh Jackman Wolverine hairstyle, I like this. My only complaint is the placement; if it was dead center of the shirt I'd buy one without hesitation, but I'm not a big fan of shirts with their placement as low as this one is, thus I'd hesitate before buying ... but knowing me, I'd still buy.

I completely agree. Still gets my vote and I'll probably buy it if it makes it, but the design is a little bit low.

Nice design. I think we all have felt like this at some point in our lives (meaning we've all had women hanging off of us. Not the DL thing).

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Ah, the lure of the open road. Driver's licence and keys. Excellent design - a moment in your life you never forget. Ever.

just trying to change it up a bit. I usually put my designs in the center of the chest. I wanted to be different this time.

I'm attaching a large view to see the detail...

this is the best design ever. i so want to buy it.

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That guy's left arm has been hitting the gym a bit too much. :D

calove720 wrote:That guy's left arm has been hitting the gym a bit too much. :D

That's only part of his arm...

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Thanks for the positive feedback and the votes guys and gals. This design kinda hit a brick wall. Maybe tomorrow will fare better.

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Dude, this shirt is hilarious. It really vacuums that everybody chose those other ones as the frontrunners, because I'm not even remotely interested in the ones in the fog right now.

But really, excellent design, hilarious shirt, would love to see this one printed. Only criticism is that I wish it was a really crappy station wagon in the background to make it even funnier, but that's not really a flaw of this shirt at all.

thomasella wrote:Dude, this shirt is hilarious. It really vacuums that everybody chose those other ones as the frontrunners, because I'm not even remotely interested in the ones in the fog right now.

But really, excellent design, hilarious shirt, would love to see this one printed. Only criticism is that I wish it was a really crappy station wagon in the background to make it even funnier, but that's not really a flaw of this shirt at all.

I didn't want to have any particular make of car behind the characters, but I did have subcompact and station wagon as influences.

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Could somebody link the Star Wars image that this parodies? I'm curious to see it as I had no idea that the gestures were evoking Star Wars until it was commented on. I went looking for it but gave up after about five minutes due to the ocean of images and me not knowing more specifically what I'm looking for.
Chris, your shirt designs are incredible. Really awesome work. They always deserve more votes than they get, but that seems to be the nature and bane of woot.shirt.

tjflashman77 wrote:Could somebody link the Star Wars image that this parodies? I'm curious to see it as I had no idea that the gestures were evoking Star Wars until it was commented on. I went looking for it but gave up after about five minutes due to the ocean of images and me not knowing more specifically what I'm looking for.
Chris, your shirt designs are incredible. Really awesome work. They always deserve more votes than they get, but that seems to be the nature and bane of woot.shirt.

Thanks for the kind words.

As for the Star Wars reference I do see where people are getting that from, but its not what I based this design off of. I think people relate this to Star Wars purely because that is what they are familiar with.



Making the design I had Army of Darkness, Conan the Barbarian, Vacation, and Indiana Jones in my head.

ChrisRisse wrote:Thanks for the kind words.

As for the Star Wars reference I do see where people are getting that from, but its not what I based this design off of. I think people relate this to Star Wars purely because that is what they are familiar with.


Making the design I had Army of Darkness, Conan the Barbarian, Vacation, and Indiana Jones in my head.

Awesome. Some of the greatest movies of all time... and by that I mean especially Army of Darkness. I, for one, think these derbies would go alot smoother if instead of tablet pens we could use our boom-sticks.
Thanks for sharing and I hope you keep at it. Take care.

tjflashman77 wrote:Could somebody link the Star Wars image that this parodies?

I believe they're referring to posters such as this:

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...and this:

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I definitely see the resemblance, although it is also a well-used theme in movie posters. Was there a movie that used that style before Star Wars (1979)? Conan was '82, Vacation was '83, AoD was '92, and Raiders was '81. I suspect that the pose originated from Star Wars.

Anyway, I really love the design, ChrisRisse, and am surprised to see it so low in the rankings. Deserves far better.

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thatrobert wrote:

I knew there was a reason why I stayed up late tonight! Thanks for the BLA!