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Andy47240 wrote:I love the design. But, I do not understand the title.

My interpretation would be that he's pandering to the voters by not only including a tree but also birds, both of which are very popular with the woot voters. I'd further hypoothesize that the lightning is a signal of hotness, and the asphalt color is a nod to the fog he hopes to enter.

Of course, I may have been staring at puckers for too long today, causing me to overanalyze the design. ;^)

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=19511]

It might be the quote marks or lots of periods that are messing up your pic - you may want to fix that (take them out of the title) and resubmit it.

oh wow. i love this... make it to the fog!

srglancey wrote:I've just been notified that light blue is the new asphalt (but not in a good way--in a tired way). Still, I think this design is super clever and I would LOVE to have it on a t-shirt. In fact, I like it so much I'm going to nominate it for a BLA!

Light blue is a great color. Besides, people complain about all shirt colors because there are so few to choose from. Just pick what you like best for the design that makes you happy.

This is my first submission, so I didn't know what to do to make a decent image so you all could see the detail.

Here's a link to a detailed image:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1677/chickenwootcopycr0.jpg

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

You are the best

dekonstruct wrote:Awesome, I've cornered the megalomaniac demographic. Thank you muchly.

I would definitely consider printing it elsewhere if it doesn't make the honorable mentions.

Sooooooo happy to hear this!

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

Great title and as predicted I'll have to vote for this shirt.

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

Brilliant. Lmao :D

Except on this, he's not smiling and the reservoir tip is broken.

Re: Bidet Investment Stimulus...

No offense, but how many empty rolls of toilet paper designs need to I am an un-original person to come close to making the cut for people to stop submitting them? Nothing wrong with the artwork - and this is perhaps one of the better versions - it's just the concept. Obviously there are a few people who want a toilet paper roll on their chest though... so good luck.

Re: Sorry?

The shirts I pick never win, but I'm hopeful this one at least beats out the bird silhouette.

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

You are a rock star. Rock. Star.

PJGillette wrote:pretty much. freebird 2.0

nevermore, quoth the raven, free bird... when will this idea be banned? 'member when cho's flying penguin shirt got rejected on a whim... kinda feeling that again. also, how many fricken bird shirts do people want to wear?!?

Re: Prepared

I like it... but the shirt color. :/

Re: SWOOP!

I think this is my favorite so far.

GMV! Great design!

tabrazinski wrote:nevermore, quoth the raven, free bird... when will this idea be banned? 'member when cho's flying penguin shirt got rejected on a whim... kinda feeling that again. also, how many fricken bird shirts do people want to wear?!?

APPARENTLY ALL OF THEM!!!!

I am not against birds on shirts... from woot alone I own Perched Among Blossoms and Nobody's Child... but both of those have distinctive design, true artistry... yknow the drill... something that makes me feel that I'm wearing a well thought out shirt. Which is why I love when woot bans things. I don't need bird silhouettes in the derby when woot can select the ones they truly want for dailies (and wooters can complain that dailies have different rules). There's nothing distinctive about these particular bird shirts except that Freebird has a shrunken head and the current one has a potential to be lost on the shirt (not to mention both are executed poorly).

The simple fact is that woot is getting less and less involved in the derby, and the sorts of things that find their way into the fog tell me they need to get more and more involved. When a design that isn't even sort of related to the theme and is almost exactly the sort of thing that is residing as the third bestselling shirt of the moment manages to fog anyway, it tells me that woot voters are not voting with brains.

This was a Farside cartoon.

Re: Never a Good Idea

Thanks for the high praise, e'erbody!

Rglee, fat unicorn was so good I had to get one and make a female friend wear it.

Discobiscuits, good insight on the firebreath. It's the invisible fire that's so dangerous.

fablefire wrote:I realize you're probably limited in Gimp, but I would appreciate more commercial-looking linework (like you'd see in an actual forecast) instead of the jaggies.

The red text isn't working for me either. It's clashing a bit with the baby blue.

Thanks fable; it's good to hear professional critique. I don't have much natural artistic skill, so my own bar for visual pizazz might seem low, but my main objective is to get the idea across in a way that I'd gladly wear. The monster is supposed to look amateurishly jaggy, but the lack of overall smoothness is because of my untrained eye and the unfortunate hours spent on my other entry. And I'm told my color sense is nonexistent. I'd love to improve my skills, so please keep the advice coming. In the meantime, I'm afraid my entries might make real artists cringe for a while yet.

Re: Who Pushed the Button?

Andy47240 wrote:Light blue is a great color. Besides, people complain about all shirt colors because there are so few to choose from. Just pick what you like best for the design that makes you happy.

Oh! I hope I didn't come off like I was knocking the light blue. I'm not. One of my designs is on light blue this week. I forget that you can't see my eyes rolling (as they were when I wrote the first sentence--"I've just been notified that light blue is the new asphalt..."). Like I said, I love this design and I think it's under-appreciated and over-looked.

Re: Amazon S3 Emergency!

Amazon S3 Down!

http://www.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=amazon+s3&btnG=Search+Blogs

Re: Is someone watching the baby?

It's definitely an emergency if you see this... thankfully it's more an urban myth than a common occurrence.

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

Good for you, man, good for you.

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

Woot can print halftones now?

Re: Something to Cry About

I love it! I'm so glad you finally designed something on a shirt :D Best of luck!

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

Brilliant execution... and educational!

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

My first-ever (and probably last) vote for a bird silhouette!

Re: Me-Too Birds Flee a Pander Tree

Very nice design here. Surprisingly, lightning isn't used more often on tees.

SkekTek wrote:It's definitely an emergency if you see this... thankfully it's more an urban myth than a common occurrence.

Eeeek!

dekonstruct wrote:Fable does it again! I lurve it ferociously.

and yes, webcomics are tough business. Some times the only reward you have for doing them is some random 4chan flunky writing "I am an un-original person" in the comments. You gotta want to do it for yourself or you'll go crazy.

Thanks. :3

...and true... though I think we could probably come up with something a better that would get more than a "I am an un-original person" on 4chan. Internet PR isn't that tough. ;)

@ Mcr - Thanks! It'll need luck with the way woot's servers have been acting up. >.<

@ eHalc - Thanks. Want to go in on a comic together?

...or anyone for that matter? =D

haxrox wrote:Thanks for the high praise, e'erbody!

Rglee, fat unicorn was so good I had to get one and make a female friend wear it.

Discobiscuits, good insight on the firebreath. It's the invisible fire that's so dangerous.



Thanks fable; it's good to hear professional critique. I don't have much natural artistic skill, so my own bar for visual pizazz might seem low, but my main objective is to get the idea across in a way that I'd gladly wear. The monster is supposed to look amateurishly jaggy, but the lack of overall smoothness is because of my untrained eye and the unfortunate hours spent on my other entry. And I'm told my color sense is nonexistent. I'd love to improve my skills, so please keep the advice coming. In the meantime, I'm afraid my entries might make real artists cringe for a while yet.

Hah! Isn't that the way of things... you spend all your time on an entry that tanks. >.<

Something else you might want to consider is purchasing a copy of photoshop with your winnings. It's been a really long time since I used gimp, or other free graphics software, but photoshop was a breeze compared to the freebies.

Maybe we can get some more butterfly shirts to go with bird ones. Maybe birds eating butterflies?

Re: Fire Escape

Re: Panda Emergency!

The actual title for this is "Righteous Panda Eats Disobedient Wife." It's from the Ming Dynasty . . . maybe

ChokingOutTheRadio wrote:Maybe we can get some more butterfly shirts to go with bird ones. Maybe birds eating butterflies?

...or someone could add a cute turtle watching the birds eating butterflies.

Re: The Purple Menace (lowered)

A bit gory, but I'd wear it. I love unusually coloured fanged things.

Re: Curious Little Turtle

The olive shirt I already have from shirt.woot is more like the color of the dark green on the grenade... I hope there aren't issues with the contrast of the shirt vs the design if this is printed.

Re: uh oh

It looks like a pissed off Andy Warhol . . . not cool, man . . . have you ever seen Warhol pissed off? Soup cans everywhere . . .

fablefire wrote:@ eHalc - Thanks. Want to go in on a comic together?

...or anyone for that matter? =D

I'd be happy to give it a shot. My comic ideas are all either ridiculous groan-inducing puns or xkcd-like engineering jokes. XP

echo91 wrote:Great suggestion... is lucky cat copyright?

Not that I know of.