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HAH...

dear god...

Okay, please, at the very least, do not decide to hate another design because a design you liked got thrown out. Yes, it's sort of obvious that sour grapes are driving the arguments to throw it out. It takes away any weight from your already lightweight arguments.

This is a really great design, and the positive points here are what matters. People like the design, they will buy the shirt, and it fits the rules as much as any of the designs.

Good job, guys.

sei wrote:i'm having trouble with my signature... is this right?

Geisha Snake Tattoo
[img=http://con-toons.com/geisa.jpg[/img]

so you have the sig thing almost right -- the tags are a little wrong though. It's supposed to look like this (minus the asterisks)

[url=xxx.com*][img*]linklinklink[/img*][/url*]

Not sure about the yellow (looks a little to neon like? for me) but the illustration is nice! :]

Re: For Honor and Glory

Growing up I had a whole series of books, Frog and Toad. Your design brings me right back to those childhood days, only in a more grown-up defending my honor and fighting back the demon hordes sort of way.

Re: Rising Sun Samurai

Really like this shirt. GMV

ramyb wrote:So what you're saying is that I've been trying new things, but have been getting nothing but complaints about how I never do anything new? It's truly amazing the way things work. And for the record, which of those five things is this entry?

Just ignore haters Ramyb, they will never be happy with anything you do or say. You could come up with a completely different style and they'll find something to compare it to. It's a losing battle trying to reason with some people, especially here. Just do what you do, keep making money, keep selling shirts, and keep driving people crazy for doing so. You are obviously doing something right since people keep voting.

jmmbell1987 wrote:I understand. It just seems to me that a lot of people have kneejerk reactions to certain colors (white, cream, and asphalt usually) no matter the design. Sometimes, the shirt color is perfect for the design. In this case, I think cream is perfect, allowing the design to let the shirt color become a sort of color base (the face/armor and tales of the fish are largely comprised of the creme), and allowing for more interesting colors.

While I agree with you, people are not just here to buy a deign, they are here to buy a t-shirt with a design on it. If a person does not like a color, it won't matter how good the design is, the shirt color is important to them. They are not going to buy it to frame it, they want to wear it. It's understandable why people have knee-jerk reactions to certain colors. That's part of the design process.

If you can succeed at getting a non-popular shirt color to print and sell then the designer did their job, not just good, but very good and more power to them.

Re: Japan Fan

this is very nice...

Soooooooooooooooooooooo, I received and wore my Totally Awesome Deer shirt today (http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=9610). After looking at this I couldn't help but thinking "Do we REALLY need another deer on a cliff with cherry blossoms shirt??"

mikenytola wrote:While I agree with you, people are not just here to buy a deign, they are here to buy a t-shirt with a design on it. If a person does not like a color, it won't matter how good the design is, the shirt color is important to them. They are not going to buy it to frame it, they want to wear it. It's understandable why people have knee-jerk reactions to certain colors. That's part of the design process.

If you can succeed at getting a non-popular shirt color to print and sell then the designer did their job, not just good, but very good and more power to them.

I was focusing on this case in particular. In this design, the shirt color is very much part of the design, and another shirt color would screw up the whole design. In other words, it's hard to question the shirt color of choice, even if one particularly dislikes cream.

Re: dragon Kite over Mt. fuji

Great face on the kite!

Re: A Piece Of Cake.

I love this(and voted), but it doesn't really make me think of Japan. Now, if you'd drawn Maru as the cat, yes. I <3 Maru.

http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/

Re: Dragon Maiden

I would totally get this shirt if it didn't have the dragon word on it... *dreams of it in a cherry red color with pink dragon*

Re: Japan Fan

such an amazing shirt =) nice job! *wishes it doesn't have the text though... it doesn't need it ):

re: sushi to go

eh, the hand looks pudgy and globs up the design, would have been better without the hand

Thanks, I suppose I could've made the fish more curved instead of angular. However there is an error on my part that I didn't realize, the width was a little too short, making it seem more angular.

Re: Forget Chopsticks...

First I hate when someone posts something and says "well my X from Y said Z about this" but I am now going to be one of those people.

My neighbot, who I tried and tried to get her to make an account here and make this comment, came over and I was showing her some of the designs I had voted on. She was confused by some of the wording in a lot of designs but wasn't offended and even found a lot of them to be very amusing. On this particular Spork shirt she laughed. She thought this was great and very Japanese. She actually started to explain to me what a spork was since she didn't think I had ever seen one and she hadn't seen one in a very long time. (I reminded her they have them at KFC)

I don't know why I even bothered to say this. I just thought some of you might be interested. I made my opinion on the topicality of this shirt long ago.

Re: Such Big Anime Eyes!

The Kanji (as I understand it, and I don't understand it) stands for "Big" and (the small one) for "Small".

I always thought the huge huge eyes that anime characters have was funny.

Clearly I haven't done this before, but it is pretty fun.

Re: SILENT DREAMS

i would definitely buy that!

owlishness wrote:I would upvote this except for the "dragon" kanji. Being Chinese, I don't find it cool in the slightest. The illustration itself is quite nice, but would you wear it if it said DRAGON in giant letters where it now says 龍? Before using foreign characters as stylistic elements, try replacing them with English in your head and consider if it looks ridiculous or not.

Great design otherwise though.

Like when you get a tatoo of the character for something would it look cool if it just said PEACE.

amesj wrote:Growing up I had a whole series of books, Frog and Toad. Your design brings me right back to those childhood days, only in a more grown-up defending my honor and fighting back the demon hordes sort of way.

Ah, I used to read Frog and Toad as a kid too! I relooked at the books some years ago, and realized toad seems rather depressed.

superspryte wrote:No problem. I figure I should help out where I can. While woot isn't rejecting for unintentional errors and will accept corrections in PR files it's nice to know about these things now. And since nobody at woot can read it I figured it's best if I do it.

I appreciate it mate

I put the correct version at my blog/portfolio.


PS: I'm flattered by the votes and comments, specially seeing as I loved the designs of some of the people who commented here (boots, I still giggle with your fat bird tee xD).

Mucho love!

jmmbell1987 wrote:I was focusing on this case in particular. In this design, the shirt color is very much part of the design, and another shirt color would screw up the whole design. In other words, it's hard to question the shirt color of choice, even if one particularly dislikes cream.

Gotcha. I don't really care for cream myself, but I might actually get this shirt because of the design and I agree, the shirt color for this design is a good fit.

Re: Hi Yah!

reminds me of samurai jack

stargirl6878 wrote:this is very nice...

Thank you stargirl6878...

SSX wrote:such an amazing shirt =) nice job! *wishes it doesn't have the text though... it doesn't need it ):

You're right, it doesn't need the text... but hopefully it's small enough though that you won't find it too detracting!
Thanks SSX=)

kender42 wrote: On this particular Spork shirt she laughed.

That makes my day . Thanks for commenting.

lindab53 wrote:I love this(and voted), but it doesn't really make me think of Japan. Now, if you'd drawn Maru as the cat, yes. I <3 Maru.

http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/

That's one cute cat for sure. Next opportunity I get, I'll use Maru but for now, this fluff-ball, needs all the votes it can get, so thanks for compromising in that regard..;p

Re: Rising Sun Samurai

Come on guys, let's get this shirt to the fog!

Re: She Never Sleeps

right now, as i check this u have 666 votes...ewww creepy...lol

Re: Little hands

I really hope that font on the mini shirt is in japanese so this doesn't get thrown out. This shirt is pretty epic.

If not, resubmit asap! it's pretty late in the derby, you need all the time you can get.

superspryte wrote:Nonsense. I don't know of any slang that can be used in that context that is or starts with those characters. I think he forgot to change that to real language too...

Yeah, it's just gibberish.

montanamatt wrote:Text says: My Name is Japan

I speak/read japanese. The characters are in a very strange cofiguration.

Re: Issun-Boshi

Haha, the little guy is so cute. He looks extremely happy/determined.

I love the colors you chose and everything seems to balance really well. I have to say I'm a little confused as to the purpose of the fish? But if I had to guess, I'd say he's just on a neat adventure.

lindab53 wrote:I love this(and voted), but it doesn't really make me think of Japan. Now, if you'd drawn Maru as the cat, yes. I <3 Maru.

http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/

I <3 Maru too! Such a funny, cute cat.

I really like the fish in this picasserole, very pretty.

reav wrote:I totally bought the first one and would have bought this one

I totally ordered a random shirt, got bushido, and gave it away without wearing it once. Didn't even make the kid buy it.

Re: japanese kite over Fuji (resub red)

red resub because of the highlights in the kite.