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Re: Flying Isn't for the Faint of Heart

No shirt template. It will be rejected without one.

jimiyo wrote:although it would be horribly unacceptable and gruesome for woot sensibilities... a little brain pieces and blood would really drive the zombie aspect of this cute chinchilla.

i really like it!

Thanks, that really means a lot. If I had another color, I probably would have stained his lips red and left a couple of drops on the ground, but with just one color, I didn't want it to look like he was eating ostrich poop or something. Any suggestions?

rdcollns wrote:The Celtic name for this is triqueta. (More stuff, some personal, some vaguely historical)

As the reigning knotwork scholar...kinda. The word is triquetra and is Latinate, not 'Celtic' (Celtic is a language group, not a language, and includes everything from Breton to modern Scotts Gaelige). It comes from the Latin tri (three) and quetrus (cornered). We associate it with Celts as a whole because of its huge popularity in the Hiberno-Saxon style of art, ie, the Book of Kells and similar illuminated manuscripts. It's also found in early Germanic tribal art and I've personally seen it used in Persian henna designs, though this may be a modern cultural import.

This is by far my favorite submission. Shame i wont get a chance to buy it it seems. Great work though.

netshark wrote:Yes! its back in the fog. This and la calavera are the only shirts towards the top that i'd buy.

aaaaaaand...it's back out again. The back and forth doesn't bode well for either this or the unicorn...I'm sad.

thatonejimguy wrote:clearly the artwork on this shirt is skillfully done.

but why, oh why, would all of these animals be assembled? Why would i want this on my shirt? What is the point? A deer? Really? A lion is cool, an octopus is cool, but a deer? AND a baby deer?

Creation? Aslan's council?

[quote postid="2012576" user="mihalis aya"]As the reigning knotwork scholar...quote]

I stand corrected, thanks for the extra info. I'm just starting to get into some of the simpler knotwork, and admittedly don't know a whole lot yet. I just started reading what I can find online.

jimiyo FTW

Re: Ninja Pirate

If next week's derby theme is "everything a pirate" you're done for.

Re: grow

Love the controversy!

GMV

Re: grow

I have to say that, if I hadn't seen the work "Grow!" as the title, I wouldn't have been immediately sure what the lines represented.

ansharp wrote:Great shirt. Can you post a detail of some of the lines?

i like it but think so much tape is out...but then again that always did happen

SailorButterfly wrote:l o l! So many people have said it looks like that...but it's supposed to be shoveling coal into the steam engine on the other ostrich's back. ;-)

Oh. c.r.u.d....sorry!!!

gack!

I get it now!!!


a-hem...sorry JamesCho84...I didn't realize!!

Cormey wrote:I like this one and I have seen that women before. I tryed to drag her back to the water once or twice, but she put up one hell of a fight!

You bet I did! I was all relaxing and enjoying the Hawaiian sun and then some fool tries to drag me into the water!

Nice idea you may want to market it as a rubber stamp as well. We big women are crafty!

Double GACK!

I am sorry Jimiyo, it's your spring shirt So sorry!!!

I'm leaving with my tail between my legs....

Re: Sleepy Boxcat

I find it compellingly bizarre.

Josephus wrote:shows a gradient. you should get the gradient out of your 240x240 pixel image and resubmit, 'cause they've decided to reject everything submitted like this.

thanks for the info, will do soon.

Re: Zombie Chinchilla

too funny! i have a chin!!!! : ) mine is missing half his tail. my 6 year-old niece broke 1/2 off when she tried to grab him and then stashed the the tail piece behind a vase!

narkus wrote:too funny! i have a chin!!!! : ) mine is missing half his tail. my 6 year-old niece broke 1/2 off when she tried to grab him and then stashed the the tail piece behind a vase!

Narkus- You're going to have to remind me of this when I do your pet portrait. These are the types of stories that make the portrait memorable. The stashed 1/2 tail...oh my!

klswoot wrote:Narkus- You're going to have to remind me of this when I do your pet portrait. These are the types of stories that make the portrait memorable. The stashed 1/2 tail...oh my!

ya, and here i was dusting and went, hum? what's this? and then, ahhhhhhhh! Syd! Syd! what happen! busted in half an hour : ) that child : ) poor Benson, but it's kind of funny looking back at her attempt to hide the crime!

LadyChic wrote:I was looking through the entries for Etch O Sketch Line Art thinking I would see some beautiful elaborate entries- but Pashaw - Nare a one.

As such, I tossed this together for giggles. I hopes you enjoys da heck out of it.

narkus wrote:too funny! i have a chin!!!! : ) mine is missing half his tail. my 6 year-old niece broke 1/2 off when she tried to grab him and then stashed the the tail piece behind a vase!

Oh my...he didn't drop his fur from the stress, did he?

My family had a squirrel once. I was trying to catch him one day, and I accidentally grabbed the tip of his tail. He ran off, the tip of his tail (just fur and skin) stayed in my fingers. He got up high and barked at me. I felt so bad. :-(

andrewlb wrote:I don't know if I would wear this shirt, or buy it, but damn its beautiful

Roger that! My last name is Birdsong and I'm all about bird related stuff. I just don't think I could pull this one off. Maybe I'll get it for my wife. She's not really a t-shirt wearer though. Maybe I'll get two and recover some chairs. We'll see, Ostriches are birds too! I could wear that.

Anyway, very cool design. I wish it were on money instead of a shirt.

KenSPT wrote:...
I stand by my statement, if he submitted this, the people bashing it would say, "Eh, it's not my favorite, but it's Cho".

So true. A derby or so ago, it was, "Eh, it's not my favorite, but it's Edgar." And then it turned out to be a false Edgar.

KenSPT wrote:In the fog :

Cho - Why Can't I Fly Friend?

Cho - Spring Rebirth

Also in 7th place :

Cho - Sashimi Hunters Woodcut

I'm not claiming those aren't awesome designs, they are and I've voted for 2 of the 3, but to claim that there isn't a bit of favoritism on this board towards certain designers is silly. At one point all 3 of his designs were in the fog.

I stand by my statement, if he submitted this, the people bashing it would say, "Eh, it's not my favorite, but it's Cho".

If there is favoritism toward someone like cho, or tgent as others have mentioned, or any of the designers who regularly end up in the top-10 or fog, it is because they have proven themselves time and again to come up with quality concepts with quality execution. It's not favoritism because it's based on designs. When Cho is on, like this derby, he gets praise for his detail, his skill, his ability to work in the timeframe allotted, his ability to work with many different themes... and one thing he ALWAYS gets praise for is his line work. There is no artist on woot who is more consistent with their linework, and as such Cho having two fog spots in a derby about linework is not only fair, but not shocking, even if this was his first derby. On the other hand, he has also had a number of ideas which, while interesting and well done, have been not as great, and they have languished for it. If Cho were to go the other way, and submit a lowest-common-denominator design, he'd very likely have so many people who normally praise his work saying "oh, cho... what the hell did you do?" There were already posts of the sort regarding the Penguin shirt, which was well done if topically bland.

If you're looking for a conspiracy, find a talentless designer who keeps making the top-10. Cho gets there on his skill. If you can't appreciate that he has enough skill to earn his fog spots fairly, your critiques are not informed enough to listen to.

GET BACK IN THE FOG!!! It's gonna be SO close between the top five. Ridiculously close.

Re: Death on a Pale White UNICORN!

I really like this design.

Re: Grumpy Boxdog

Grumpy boxdog is grumpy 'cuz he has 24 votes.

This is my favorite or the contest!! GMV!! I would buy this shirt. If it doesnt make it this week hopefully they will bring it back and give it another chance.

Re: Demon Queller

mmuhlenkamp wrote:Well, at least 27 people like my shirt and 3 like enough to comment. I thought this one would do better than it has though, I think it's one of my better submissions.

This is quite a bit better than the number of votes would indicate. I think the little detail image did you a disservice. It's not immediately evident what I'm looking at. My first impression was flowers or grass or something when I saw it on the main derby page. Sometimes I'll go through and make sure I look at each entry's comp image, but not always. I'd wager most people never do -- they look at the hotness and kinda skim the detial images, clicking on whatever catches their eye. If the detial doesn't tell the story, it's easy to get lost in the crowd. I had the same problem this week -- I knew what I was looking at when I cropped for the detail, but then, I'd seen the whole thing.

Found this now because of your post, and was curious enough to look it up. Pretty cool. Got my vote.

Keep up the good work!

jimiyo wrote:or if you try to say srsly, without the vowels, it ALMOST sounds like Chinese language... shi shi

i forget what that means though...

I think it means 'thank you.'

Cthulhu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashleyrah wrote:aaaaaaand...it's back out again. The back and forth doesn't bode well for either this or the unicorn...I'm sad.

This whole back and forth action is beginning to make me a little sea sick... I think the other three are bit uncatchable at this point... But then again there are a few hours of voting left... Who knows

Re: End of an Era

I like this shirt more and more every time I see it. I got excited when I saw it in the hotness. Congrats on the late surge and the great design. Crossing fingers that woot will pick this one up someday.

On that note, I wish it could be a little higher up, but I see the problem with "larger women". Oh women, and their breasts...!