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Tremortime wrote:I think these are different enough not to raise alarm. Plus ramyb has added the optimism concept, and I say "added" lightly as not to imply that the artist ever saw this other image, because I don't know.

Agreed

KerryKool wrote:its a great design and everything, but in some cultures that sign means a$$hole. Just a heads up for the shirt.woot travelers.

Which I find double-hilarious!

I love shirts that have multiple interpretations, this would be GREAT!

I vote for this. great shirt, enin.

Re: Silver Lining

I like, loop. Would wear, you've been given my vote.

Re: Cheer Up! She Found You.

knew it was yours just by the thumbnail. You have such a distinctive style, Boots. I'm loving this. I don't own any lemon shirts, but I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

Re: Grim Optimism

so cute yet dark at the same time.

Squirrel and Grim Reaper.....you get extra bonus points for originality, ramyb !

Re: Easy Optimism

I really like the colors of this, but just too stick-figurey for me. No hate for stick figures, just not for me

Jamuko wrote:It wasn't really the blueness that bugged me. I'm all for unconventional colors =) it was just that the combination of those colors seemed clashing to me.

But I like this one too. Got my vote :D

Yeah, I think you are right. I skipped out of color theory in school to take more sculpture classes

Tremortime wrote:I think these are different enough not to raise alarm. Plus ramyb has added the optimism concept, and I say "added" lightly as not to imply that the artist ever saw this other image, because I don't know.

Actually, the original concept I had was a squirrel offering an acorn to a monster, and after some thought about what the monster should be and a few sketches, the grim reaper idea came. I actually had seen this picture before, but only thought of it after I started working on the picture Hope that clears things up a bit

Jestik wrote:so cute yet dark at the same time.

Squirrel and Grim Reaper.....you get extra bonus points for originality, ramyb !

Thanks so much, and thanks everyone else too for all the comments and support :D

prateeko wrote:Ugh, I like a bunch of designs right now. I fear I may be wooting 3 times next week.

Out of all of them though, I think I may like this the best. Optimism is what that little guy is full of. I look forward to wearing this one!

And also, damn you! You've got 3 really good designs this week (along with a few others) and it's a damn shame only 3 shirts will go through. If you'd stuck to only one good one there'd be no problem ;)

You say you may be wooting three times this week. Don't say that too soon. I did for the last couple of derbies and then a bunch of designs that I didn't really want to make it ended up sneaking in at the very end. We are still WAY early in this derby.

As for the shirt, I love this. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT.

I have some reservations, though. Quell away if you can:

1) The size of the acorn as previously addressed.
2) The visibility of the black on asphalt (shirt photo to show, please?)
3) The size of the squirrel overall. I know you can't do much without throwing perspective out of whack, but he looks really small and I want him to be bigger. Probably just me, though.

Number 2 is about the only thing that would keep me from buying this if it prints, though.

Re: Easy Optimism

Clever and clean design. It is surprising to see so many supposed artists jealous of your work.

Re: Optimistic I'll Make You Cry

GMV, this thing is magically delicious.

To be brutally honest, I'm a mediocre father at best. That's why my three-year-old can pistol-snipe jackals in Halo better than she can count to 30. In spite of me, she has so much energy, life, and love and she always knows that things will work out for the best.

This shirt is for her.

Also, she's constantly pouring water onto stuff. We actually had to take away her plastic tea set to save the finish on our coffee table. The watering can seemed like a good metaphor for pouring out optimism. The act of watering is one of hope that something will grow.

Please give me any comment or critiques you may have.

Re: Banjo of Consternation

Sweet shirt, I'd be in for three!! Hope this gets printed, slick idea.

This is beautiful. It looks like it was fun to draw too, with all those swirls and color differences... it turned out very nicely. GMV

Re: Banjo of Consternation

Good idea - carp execution - oh wait, maybe that was the idea

It reminds me of a shirt I would find a sea world or a global warming convention hhaa. On the plus side it's very well drawn and props for the cute factor! GMV

Re: The Optimistic Nerd

Is that his Science Teacher?

reminds me of Weird Science, for some odd reason....

AdderXYU wrote:Perhaps we're just OPTIMISTIC that you'll go to Thinkgeek, or Splitreason, or Bustedtees, or Snorg, or any number of sites like that. Sure, the first shirt was video game controllers, but throughout 2007, woot showed that they wanted their shirt site to be diverse and, yes, often artistic. They took more chances, they printed some of their absolute best shirts. They tried to create that artistic haven in some way with the derbies, which could be the best design contest out there if the voters cared as much as some of the designers do. It fosters quick thinking, it allows amateurs to become better, and because of the voters it's only really used now for trying to maximize profit-to-effort margins. It's so nice to imagine what it could be. Art is always different, always evolving, always pushing. You can have 100 different shirt sites with some artistic flair, and each one will be a little different. If you're just catering to the LCD, you become stagnant and have nothing to set you apart... one more Mario joke, one more fake vintage tee, one more horrible pun... do you think woot disallows text because "average wooters" want to think deeper about their shirts?

You can argue that woot isn't the right audience, and seriously, wooters buy bags of carp, so I agree. But the first 6 months of shirt.woot tells a different story... a story of a site that WANTED to be more than just a carp depository. Perhaps it was over-OPTIMISTIC of them to think their fanbase could ever appreciate something more.

I agree with not wanting woot to be yet another nerd-shirt site because those are a dime a dozen. But, you can't say woot was never meant for cutesy-type shirts. It's been at least a year since "Say No To Scurvy" has been up and it's still going strong. I'm pretty sure that shirt was in the first 6 months.

The funny thing is: why aren't you "serious artists" going onto other graphic design sites where your work might be more appreciated? I'd love BootsBoots' latest work and other great illustrations (not art, because they have good craft they are illustrations but not necessarily art) on a topcover of one of my snowboards - just not on a shirt.

Re: Easy Optimism

Just another thing: It's funny that sekiyoku has 2 shirts in the fog. I hope that the stick figure one doesn't beat the cat/dog one. I'd totally buy the cat/dog but the stick figure.....ehhh.

schof wrote:This is absolutely incredible! I would love this for my fiance. Also I would love to make this my background, any chance you would be willing to upload a 1024 version :D :D :D

Thanks! I tried to make it in wallpaper form. I put it here fore you: http://jamiemelanimarshall.com/wootwallpaper.html Let me know if it works. I'm very flattered.

And thanks for the great comments, everyone. I thought this one turned out pretty good. I'm really glad you like it.

Jestik wrote:knew it was yours just by the thumbnail. You have such a distinctive style, Boots. I'm loving this. I don't own any lemon shirts, but I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

I know. I don't have any lemon shirts either. I'm trying to start a trend. Just keep telling everyone that lemon is the new asphalt. Pretty soon they'll believe it, right? (thanks, Jestik).

Re: The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow

I love the concept and, as always, you're artwork is so impressive. You're probably the most consistently amazing artist here. Everything you do is good from an artistic perspective. I hate you a little.

BootsBoots wrote:I love the concept and, as always, you're* artwork is so impressive. You're probably the most consistently amazing artist here. Everything you do is good from an artistic perspective. I hate you a little.

*your

I HATE when people do that. Now I hate myself a little too.

ambergreen wrote:I don't know, seem to be plenty of anime cats and animals in this round.

I like the dog/cat one and mickey mouse had huge eyes with cutesy exaggerated features long before ^___^ animu.

Re: fountain of hope

I like the illustration a lot and I love the colors, but they don't really do it for me on asphalt. Not sure why.

Re: A Wonderful Day

I love this! GMV

Re: share gift optimism

This is great, Blammoed!

Re: Cheer Up! She Found You.

BOOTSBOOTS you are my hero!!! this is amazing!!! I have never wanted a derby shirt to win as much as i do this one!!! great imagination! please please win! this has it all, great art, imagination, random, and it's cute/sweet!!!

KerryKool wrote:its a great design and everything, but in some cultures that sign means a$$hole. Just a heads up for the shirt.woot travelers.

I like it BETTER then.

I really love this design. I would actually buy it. I would. Not that I'm going to get the chance. Sigh.

jewelwing wrote:Thanks, it took way more time than I usually spend on a design but whatever. Now that yours is up I don't even care. It's so beyond anything we normally see here I've forgotten everything else. I must have it!

Thanks. I think it's another failure though (I mean, print-wise. Certainly not artistic-wise, I hope.)

peppersagooddog wrote:what the hell is wrong with you?
do you not think we can see who posted?


edit: for those of you that read the shirt thread rather than these comments together in the forum thread... i would presume he posted this design about 10 times in a row before he decided he liked it, and commented on himself differently every time. other wise i guess he is putting his own shirt pic in everyone elses thread as he comments.... either way the forum is full of posts for this shirt all of a sudden

Although his comments in the other designers entries are replies to his own entry, I do believe he was intending that to be his signature. He is not conceited as his posts portray him to be. He is new to the site and this is only his third submission since joining. I'll show him how to get his design to show in his sig instead of as a reply and have him edit his posts to help clear up any misunderstandings. Unfortunately, that won't happen until Monday.

And it was only 5 times that he posted where it looks as if he is praising his own work before you called him on it.

Re: When the world's got you down...

WHOA! Amazing shirt
http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=25571

D1C0M wrote:Thank you. I thought it was one of my best so far as well, including the skull :D. All day and only 4 votes, speaks differently though. I know there's currently 6 votes so far, but one is mine and the other is a very supportive sister-in-law, l o l. I take it you don't care for skulls and by the looks of things, most of woot doesn't either. Oh well, I'm actually reading a book on Illustrator as I type this, so my next submission should be thebomb.com! :D

Well... I don't hate ALL skulls, just cheesy skulls. The kind of skulls you see on shirts at Wallmart that are supposed to be what the cool and edgy kids are wearing (I think). But yours isn't cheesy, so I like. Let's see this amazing next submission now.

Disclosure wrote:WHOA! Amazing shirt
http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=25571

"what the cool and edgy kids are wearing"

cool and edgy kids dont shop at walmart, u must be real old

bradyson wrote:CLASSIC!!!

p.s. Oeberon, I'm sending you my therapy bill. hahaha

If your therapist offers group discounts, I'll split it with you!

Re: Cheer Up! She Found You.

This is so great! Your art is so amazing. I know its probably easy to impress a hack like me, but obviously you have the respect of the true critics here and rightfully so.

The concept is great too. There is nothing better than two people meeting each other that are just right for each other and truly care about each other. Its somewhat rare, but it happens. :c)

Another great one!
Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!

Jestik wrote:Is that his Science Teacher?

reminds me of Weird Science, for some odd reason....

Reminds me of Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle

bradyson wrote:This is so great! Your art is so amazing...
...Another great one!
Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!

DeathBot1406 wrote:BOOTSBOOTS you are my hero!!! this is amazing!!! I have never wanted a derby shirt to win as much as i do this one!!! great imagination! please please win! this has it all, great art, imagination, random, and it's cute/sweet!!!

Yay, you guys! So, even though it's probably not going to print, I still feel really good. Thanks.

Re: One day, i'll be a real boy...

Nice robot. He's very interesting (especially the "legs") and I love the messy (in a good way) shading. I like, Patch, I like.

wizzdingo wrote:The detail in this is wonderful, but I would have liked to have seen it bigger on the shirt.

It kind of just gets lost in the cream otherwise.

Thanks!

It's a matter of the wings. Make them smaller, and they look out of proportion, and it pretty much fills up the horizontal canvas delineated by Woot as is. hmmm, maybe what I need to do is add environment. Thanks for the thoughts!