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BrIanPir wrote:This reminds me of my first woot shirt.
That's a good thing. The first one is drinking and this one is eating. I bought one and I'll buy this one too! The art is bigger here and easier to see. The colors are cool too. Voting +1

I will take that as a compliment because that shirt is sweet. The colors are similar, but a little brighter. Maybe that designer and I are soul mates!

At any rate, thanks for the vote! Keep 'em coming ya'll.

Anthony3419 wrote:I like this design, just bad placement. You should use the shirt templates.

Thanks. I guess I'm not real big on centered designs.

Re: Don't Fall Asleep

somebody better tell Pandora her box is open again...

Anthony3419 wrote:As always.....Very Cool!
Good Job Alvin

Also, Just out of curiousity, I wanted to know if you decrease the transparancy on you designs. If so can Woot print lower opacities?
Thanks

peppersagooddog wrote:somebody better tell Pandora her box is open again...

Ha yeah I thought about naming it that, but decided not to at the last minute.

Re: Me and My Shadow

clinton I really like this. I hate how the red/cranberry shirts always artifact to badly. but I can still tell how cool the design will look on the shirt. want one! gmv.

Re: Don't Fall Asleep

Great design. Great colors.

Re: Carry me to dreamland

how badly do I want this? let me count the ways.... VOTE PEOPLE!

Re: Rubic's Dream 2

Okay people, I have two designs slightly different. Stars or no stars? Which color is better?

Re: Cat Cats Dream Too

No kitty for you

Re: till the sharks got wings...

I really hope this one makes the final cut, because I want to buy it.

Re: Dreams in the palm of your hand

Hand drawn. Scanned. Traced using a tablet. Edited. Etc.
Hope you like it

derekfilley wrote:oh man, this is great!

I don't like the angle of the mouth in the middle but this is great nonetheless.

Anthony3419 wrote:Also, Just out of curiousity, I wanted to know if you decrease the transparancy on you designs. If so can Woot print lower opacities?
Thanks

Unfortunately, woot cannot print transparency. The effect you see here comes from a combination of layering like-colors (some in this design are only one Pantone value different, but on black, it becomes very noticeable), and very fine line-work. Here are a couple closeups of the little boy to the right of the fairy, and the unicorn on the lower left:




And here is a 100% zoom of the little girl on the unicorn:

My first ever vote here. I think this design is great as it seems evident that it's a "dream" without being weird or confusing.

Re: Carry me to dreamland

this is freaking awesome. which shirt color is it?

Re: What Dreams Are Made Of

Thanks Alvin.
I would like to know where you get some of these images as well. Not like you would tell us anyways

Love it! It goes along with so many inside jokes in my circle of friends.

Will definitely buy two if it wins!!

Re: Minds Eye

So close. I think everything about it is really cool except that freakish animal. I just can't vote for it.

Re: I HAVE A DREAM

I have a dream where we have a Derby and there were no Ninja entries

Re: Midnight Wolf

looks to girly for me, sorry

Re: What Dreams Are Made Of

Congrats for getting into the fog!

And yes share with us where you get your images. xD

No one is forcing you though.. well at least i'm not.

Andy47240 wrote:I had the same problem with my images looking hazy and murky. When you export your image, make sure that it has zero compression on it. This would include smoothing and dithering.
-Andy
I dream of fishing too.

thanks for the info. i tried changing things top get the "fuzz" out, and couldn't fix it. I'm gonna try that now and resub!

nomo01 wrote:My first ever vote here. I think this design is great as it seems evident that it's a "dream" without being weird or confusing.

thanks for the vote. everyone who's ever been around dogs knows that they dream, i just wanted to express that without invoking the obvious things, chasing cars, cats, and so on.

BrIanPir wrote:Now this is cool! Vote +1

Thanks!

Cause this one was decently popular I made a slightly better version (just a bit more detailed.) So everyone who voted for this one, please find The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (resub) and vote for that too :-)

Actually, to make it easier for y'all, here's the link: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=9293

Re: Long Distance Dreams

This is really great ^_^ I'm not a huge fan of bottom image placement, but this manages to still look pretty wonderful. Five hours in and I already have one I really want to win...

Re: Peaceful Dreams

I'm really happy with how this turned out, hopefully I'll have a decent finish this time around.

Re: Things That Go Bump In The Night! (better detail)

pretty cool looking... reminds me of the two things in Ice Ace 2

Re: Carry me to dreamland

First thing I said to hotcha: "This is Edgar's derby." I saw the sentiment echoed here, and it was, of course, true.

Beautiful piece Edgar, GMV!

EyeTeeGuy wrote:Had to really stare into my monitor.

ya, im thinking about changing the web proofs so you can see it better. but in reality it would be pure black ink on a pure black shirt.

Re: What Dreams Are Made Of

beautiful design

Re: Ocean R.E.M.

Very niiiiice! GMV.

Re: Fishing Dreamjh

Much more clear. Now just remember to do that every time you submit something

Re: Speed Dreaming

very cute design

What color is the shirt?

tgentry: Congrats on fog, as soon as you posted up the design in the forums last night I knew it'd be a winner!

Anthony: Really like the shading work on your dreamers! Cool BG too

Failoan: It's funny you put the gradient disclaimer on your comp, as it really looks like there are gradients! How'd you do that? (also huge congratulations on first place last week!)

Images

First and foremost, I'd like to put it out there that yes, every piece of source art I incorporate is clear to print . I actually obtain the art from several sources, but typically the ones I need are not exactly the highest quality. Much manipulation and filtration are necessary to bump them up to print-ready resolutions, as you can see in the 100% zoom of the little girl. Usually each individual source artpiece is modified, from anything as simple as cutting sections out, combining source art into a single unified piece (e.g. girl+unicorn), or complete re-shaping a piece (Liquify, etc). This part is very time consuming, as I'll find sources that I like a lot, but don't exactly work as I'd like them to. Then I'll need to find ways to "fix" them to then incorporate into my design (this includes sources that may have too much or too little line shading; Removing lines is easy, adding is tough ).

As excited as I am to be fogged, I'm sad that I knocked Edgar out!! But then again, the derby did, like, just open, so there's no telling what'll happen by Friday. Good luck everyone!

(p.s., consider iDanSimpson officially retired from my comps! lo l)

Re: Peaceful Dreams

Sweet!