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Re: Dragonfly Begins

Love the design and the colors, but to be honest it's a little Christian-looking. From a distance, it could be a logo for an edgy young church group somewhere...

But hey, I'm no expert. All I did was use a dung beetle.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=18022

Re: His Last Moments

I was thinking about trying something like this, but you did it justice better than i would have.

GMV

Re: Khepera

Best scarab shirt by far.

GMV

Re: Dragonfly

Dragonfly pure and simple.

GMV

Re: Centipede Sandwich

Well drawn. Bold and interesting design. I don't quite get the theme of centipede and sandwich together, and Google doesn't point me to a definite reference.

Re: Acherontia lachesis

Hey artulo, I was wondering if you would mind sharing how you put together something like this. My best guess is a custom brush, as I can't fathom either drawing every individual skull or copying/pasting repeatedly. Am I right?

Re: Orthoptera

Kinda buggy... but I like it. :-D

Re: Butterfly

I love the design, but I wouldn't wear it on a shirt. Sorry.

Re: Against the Sky (black)

In addition to the fantastic design and choice of colors, my favorite component is the off center placement.

Re: Nature's Beauty

This is Beautiful! I love the t color - good choice!

Eastaer wrote:Reminds me of Super Mario Galaxy. I like it.
What is important about 42, however?

GMV

eHalcyon wrote:Thanks! I counted the combs out of curiosity. I think it came out to 41 in this vertical version. I added one more for fun. 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.

I haven't actually read the book series, but I still know about 42.

Re: Orthoptera

Nice job knowing the scientific name of a Praying Mantis. Neat perspective

tattooedbear wrote:Kinda buggy... but I like it. :-D

Thank you, appreciate the kind words.

Re: Busted

He'll probably get "busted" by the Woot Police for possession of, um, vitamins. I still like the design which made me chuckle when I first saw it in the pre-derby comments.

Re: Built to Last (resub)

I can't quite gather what all is going on in this design, but I love it.

This is my favorite. Did you make the Canadian one that was similar, with the mounties in a similar formation?

eHalcyon wrote:Hey artulo, I was wondering if you would mind sharing how you put together something like this. My best guess is a custom brush, as I can't fathom either drawing every individual skull or copying/pasting repeatedly. Am I right?

I like to do things the hard way I guess - maybe I don't know any better but making a custom brush out of the skull would be just as hard as the way I did it.

I drew a rough outline of the moth shape and then started with one drawn skull (eyes and nose cut out with clipping mask) in a solid color. Then it was a long time of paste/move/resize/stretch/skew/rotate until I filled out a wing...reflected that to the other side, filled the middle like the wing, and made the center skull and antennae. I changed color in some of the skulls for a pattern look and ran a brush on the underside of the antennae in two lighter shades.

All in all it went through four or five versions before this one, and I can't thank the folks that gave me good advice enough - it turned out pretty well!

For those concerned about the size of the image, this was all done in Illustrator, so resizing slightly smaller to more suit a print is not a significantly difficult change.

Thanks everyone for your votes and comments!

Re: Nature's Beauty

Very pretty, but are these not gradients?

Re: La Cucarachas

so is it meant to be offensive or what?

I thought it was a cute play on the song, which was a good idea in my opinion.

If it's meant to call a group a meanie name then I don't like it.

Mr. Creator which is it?

artulo wrote:I like to do things the hard way I guess - maybe I don't know any better but making a custom brush out of the skull would be just as hard as the way I did it.

I drew a rough outline of the moth shape and then started with one drawn skull (eyes and nose cut out with clipping mask) in a solid color. Then it was a long time of paste/move/resize/stretch/skew/rotate until I filled out a wing...reflected that to the other side, filled the middle like the wing, and made the center skull and antennae. I changed color in some of the skulls for a pattern look and ran a brush on the underside of the antennae in two lighter shades.

All in all it went through four or five versions before this one, and I can't thank the folks that gave me good advice enough - it turned out pretty well!

For those concerned about the size of the image, this was all done in Illustrator, so resizing slightly smaller to more suit a print is not a significant change.

Thanks everyone for your votes and comments!

It doesn't look like a direct reflection though. The skull positions and colours aren't mirror images... unless you reflected the smaller ones and added different, larger skulls? Either way, great job.

Re: Mehndi Butterflies

This is a chic shirt :/

Re: Ant Farm

FYI, No text was used.. those are tunnels.

chris23 wrote:FYI, No text was used.. those are tunnels.

Good luck with that.

Kil1ertofu wrote:Not that the bee isn't cute...But where's the maggot with the chicken leg???

I was looking for the maggot also.

Re: Dung ho!

I like the concept. The dung beetle is a little hard to figure out for someone who isn't familiar with dung beetle hand stand.

Re: Dung ho!

Unfortunately, they tend to reject dung designs.

Re: Mehndi Butterflies

grr cant get it to quote right...
To the person who said its a chick shirt... Chicks dig woot, also.

eHalcyon wrote:It doesn't look like a direct reflection though. The skull positions and colours aren't mirror images... unless you reflected the smaller ones and added different, larger skulls? Either way, great job.

Thanks, I did have to tweak a bit and add, remove, rotate, etc to get it to look right. Also the colors are not mirror images I did those afterward. Originally it was one color.

jones21403 wrote:Unfortunately, they tend to reject dung designs.

Dung beetle dung orbs are fairly benign looking since it doesn't have the sausage or soft-serve ice cream shapes, so maybe it will be allowed.

(EDIT: whoa, the word "b*lls" got automatically changed to "orbs". Didn't know "b*lls" was verboten.)

Re: Gerris remigis

Whimsical design! GMV!

Re: Don't let it bite

Don't let it bite

BSmooth357 wrote:Disagreed! If anything, I would like to see the image even smaller. Great design!

I agree...the design maintains its intelligence by keeping it small and subtle. Just got to move Woot voters off the billboard shirts their used to.

Re: There's something on your face

I think this is a creepy shirt.

Re: POLO SPIDER

BTW if it doesn't get in here PLEASE consider Threadless or Cafe Press or wherever...like the others I'd grad it in a second.

Re: There's something on your face

I agree. It's creepy. Nice job though, that must have taken a lot of effort.

This has been done before. "Queen Bee" during the mom derby

snarkygal wrote:Granted it was different

You said it.

(I also entered Centaur Polo in the Cryptozoology derby way back when. If I remember correctly, despite Panda Polo having been printed even then, it came awfully close to placing. I think it was the 4th place pick in the fog. How many zombie related shirts has woot printed? And how many continue to be entered? Are we really discussing this? Is my toast burning?)

ANYWAY, THANKS FOR THE VOTES, Y'ALL!!!!

eHalcyon wrote:They do, actually. Have you looked at the official template at all? It's downloadable on the submissions page and comes with a bounding box. There IS some flexibility with the boundaries, of course, but most artists generally stay within the approximate area of the box.

I've seen that bounding box but I've seen SO many designs that stray significantly outside of it, so I'd love to know where the lines REALLY are. Can you do designs on the back? On the sides? High on the chest? On the sleeves?

I'd stay within the box if I believed that that was the absolute limit, but clearly it is not.

I love the lady killers!!!

Re: Lady Killer Bugs 2 (Resubmission)

Re: Lady Killer Bugs 2 (Resubmission)

Resubbed just for you, sweety.