Shirt.Woot

Re: DINO REAPER!

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kdubbs29 wrote:Just because its an exclamation point doesn't mean its a Woot reference. I know that no one knows that it wasn't my intent to resemble woot, but it still stinks to get rejected. At least i wasn't in the running.

Even if it's not a woot reference, I could see a judgment being made that the text is not incidental, since it's the only element on the shirt.

leaps into the vacuum either way, this design showed a great use of only 6 colors!

Re: I Like Candy

Jesus tapdancing Christ, I am so pissed right now I could spit. This is the HALLOWEEN derby, Drakkk's time to shine, and his top voted shirt was rejected for the reason of " ' "???

I really wasn't sure that woot was as screwed up as a lot of people have been claiming, but this definitely confirms it for me.

Re: but srsly it's mai pumpkin

Absolutely love the shirt. Hope you win. Good luck!

I don't see what the big deal is. I actually preferred the black cat. I could care less if it was like other existing shirts. This one was drawn MUCH cuter than any other ones I've seen. It's not if it's an EXACT copy, or the EXACT placement or the SAME other objects in this design as others that are similar to it.

euphoricxtragedy wrote:I could care less if it was like other existing shirts.

You could care less? Or couldn't? If you could care less, then why don't you? Otherwise, don't you then care somewhat by default?

icymallard wrote:im still glad ur around buddy.

need moar kdubbs in woot derbies

Thanks Icy. I think you might be my biggest fan!

Re: Requiem of The Soul Stealer

I can't vote for this more than once, people. C'mon, more votes. MORE.

xazothia wrote:Even if it's not a woot reference, I could see a judgment being made that the text is not incidental, since it's the only element on the shirt.

leaps into the vacuum either way, this design showed a great use of only 6 colors!

Yeah, the thought about the "!" being text hit me after I had designed this. I figured there would be a chance I'd get rejected for that. I never even thought about the woot reference angle. Oh well. There's always next week!

Re: All Hallows' Eve

I love this so so much. ;_; I'd vote for it all night if I could, but you've still got my one vote to give!

raevynpheather wrote:AdderXYU and Mrwednesday, you two are what is called hypocrites. You complain about Ramby and Seki entering similar shirts every week, but your posts are pretty much identical every week. So, in response to your SSDW, I say same post different week, SPDW. You two are as much of copy cats as they are, but at least they have artistic talent, which is what really makes you jealous.

Oh, and BTW, almost every artist has a style that they reproduce. Would you attack Van Gogh if he was alive and entered shirts, because all of his painting look similar? I can guess the artist of 8 out of the top ten every week, just from the thumbnails, because EVERYONE has a style that they reproduce over and over.

Get a life and stop spouting your useless drivel week after week that is only meant to cause problems and stir up hate. You two (if you are two different people and not one person with two accounts) have too much hate and evil in your heart and need to learn love and acceptance.

Identical work gets identical posts.

I'm not sure what makes that hard to understand. I'd say we'd be more hypocritical if we suddenly loved the same stuff next week.

Re: Bear?!

I still love these bears. I don't know why, I just do.

Re: Boo!

i'm a huge fan of your work and this definitely doesn't disappoint! i hope you make it into the fog, dale!

kender42 wrote:So from what you are saying if you want a good burger you should just go to McDonalds b/c all burgers are the same. Lets face it they have buns and meat therefore you don't need to go anywhere else.

People can vote for whatever design they want to buy. Just b/c you found shirts that are sort of like something doesn't mean it is the one that somebody wants.

I think what is actually being said is "If you want a scaffolding burger, don't finance Joe's Horrible Greasebombs. Just go to McDonalds."

dekonstruct wrote:Hah, perhaps if I had made a shirt with a sad-o-meter it would get printed... It sounds too familiar though... can't put my finger on it.

Oh, so you mean every single shirt at Spencers?

Because woot would never print such a blitheringly overdone idea, right?

Re: RAWR! WE'RE MONSTERS!

Terrific stuff as always Kasey. This really should be at the top. The characters are terrific, and the blocky coloring is a perfect fit for the style.

Re: The Pumpkin Witch

Amazing again Kasey. Your easily amongst my favorite artists here. The character is great and looks amazing. You have my support as usual.

Re: flu-like symptoms

I can't imagine any women voted for this one, at least not moms. Nothing offends me, but this, I am not sure. I am definitely repulsed.

Re: The Monster Bash resub!

Awesome concept Robbie! Your robots never cease to amaze me.

Re: All Hallows' Eve

Terrific work Chris. The lighting looks great, and the concept is fun and very wearable.

Jestik wrote:shouldn't the placement be more up on the chest? The alien never rested in the host's abdomen.

(otherwise, I love it)

Didn't you see Species?

Misskari wrote:I really appreciate you breaking it down for me... I always love a crit, especially when I'm trying out new things! <3

Thanks for your generous feedback, guys.

Really great characters. I love the composition as well. 40 votes for this excellently illustrated piece is criminal. Keep up the great work however.

Re: Lil' ghosts

love it! it's the only shirt I'd wear from these. I like navy too. good luck. I'll definitely buy one

Ginnna wrote:Jesus tapdancing Christ, I am so pissed right now I could spit. This is the HALLOWEEN derby, Drakkk's time to shine, and his top voted shirt was rejected for the reason of " ' "???

I really wasn't sure that woot was as screwed up as a lot of people have been claiming, but this definitely confirms it for me.

you should remember he got screwed over during the steampunk derby too. and guess who printed twice during that derby? ramyb

they should change the address to screwdrakxxx.woot.com

Re: Boo!

Nice to see your work here my friend!, and nice sub! GMV!

Re: I Like Candy

Wow, once again Drakxxx gets shafted here at woot... Hopefully us voters can give you enough of a push to get you back into the fog(similar to the steampunk derby, but with a better outcome)

Re: Were-Pumpkin

I hope this prints and the tiger gets rejected, like it needs to.

Re: I Like Candy

Ok, let's make this very clear from the start: Of Drakxxx's three entries (I don't count that cartoony one because it feels too rushed and sloppy to associate), this is the one I feel deserved a print least. Part of printability is wearability, and I just can't see how this is more wearable than his other work. I think Requiem of a Soul Stealer is easily his best this week... how ironic that woot also declined that one too.

That said, it ALSO deserves a reason for rejection. That is BASIC RESPECT. If woot could find the time to reject it, they could find the time to log in and post in the thread when they realized they didn't have a full reason. If they were going to make a rare weekend rejection, they should have been prepared to make the reason well-known. It would help Drakxxx fix the piece easier, and also help his fans quell any anger if it was some sort of copyright issue.

The big question is also "why sunday?" To me, there are only two reasons: either they considered it a huge submission sin, or they wanted to give Drakxxx more time to fix it and have a fighting chance. If it's the latter, it's even more reason they should have taken the time to make sure the full submission reason was written out.

...but if it's the former? Why the hell wasn't MAI PUMPKIN rejected too? It's not like they didn't see it in the fog while rejecting Drakxxx's. What could possibly be wrong with Drakxxx's that is worse than resubbing a rejected piece with a different color scheme as if that makes it different? It makes woot look as though they WANT that to print. It's pathetic and disgusting that they'd target one and not spend a little extra time to knock off what they all know is an illegitimate pile of scaffolding.

It feels like Sokowa's "Far Side" rejection. An un-shown comic garnered her a rejection, while SIMILAR SHIRTS EXISTING didn't stop Tuesday's gonna be rough from printing. Just the same, Drakxxx gets rejected for (probably... who knows if they don't tell us) looking vaguely like a horror film, while a shirt that was already rejected sits pretty in the fog untouched, and another with at least as much similarity to Candy Corn Cannibalism as Drakxxx's piece has to Trick or Treat is skyrocketing toward the fog itself. Basically, if we are to believe that one rejection is warranted for non-shirt similarity, then pieces with EQUAL similarity to ACTUAL SHIRTS should be rejected also. If Drakxxx is gone, so should both of those, for the SAME EXACT REASONS. I hope we've all tattled?

It's more of the same, woot. You do not know how to run your site. You play favorites, and your favorites are the ones who need the least defense. This is one more example of you showing zero respect for the designers who truly came into their own because of your site, in favor of the designers who manipulate your site to make thousands of dollars. Either admit that you don't respect art, only money, or start treating your designers in a way that reflects you knowing or caring about art and design. Because the way you're going about it now makes you look like a pile of s'

Re: but srsly it's mai pumpkin

Wow. How utterly insulting!

I said in the first thread for this design that I had nothing against Sekiyoku, and in fact, found some of her designs appealing. I'm honestly sorry I said those things. Because of this stunt, I have lost all respect for her, will never vote for one of her designs again (and I have in the past when she posted something that actually looked alright), and will likely join the ranks of people who say nasty things about her on each of her designs.

Congratulations, Sekiyoku! You've succeeded in pissing me off :D

Re: I Like Candy

This is painful to watch.

Drakxxx, I always love to see your stuff. You haven't put out something I've really loved in a few derbies and a lot of your designs fall within a narrow range, stylistically, but I have great respect for you as an artist. Even more now seeing how you are handling this derby.

Re: Halloween BooBees

At first glance I thought the fat one was wearing a thong. Eek!

[quote postid="3511106" user="MrRocks"]Last attempt!

There is a typo in the "28 Days Later" square. It says "I don't feel to good", but should really say "I don't feel too good" - two O's needed in "too".

Re: Boo!

Good luck Dale. Got my vote!

Re: The Great Pumpkin Witch V.2

I liked the one with the bats more, but I'll give you another vote.

HalfWheat wrote:What color shirt is this on?

This is indeed asphalt, as someone mentioned

Draug wrote:Ah, what the hell...gmv

However, I hope the design fills more of the tshirt. The wings would look beautiful if given room to spread. I received Music Pirate in my random 3 shirt package today and I was disappointed in the size of the design, Ramyb. (not sure if that's your fault or woot's, however, so shame on whomever)
Good luck!

Wow, thanks a lot I believe in terms of filling up the shirt, it depends mostly on what size you're getting. Generally with smaller men's sizes, the design is really large, and as the shirt gets larger, the design appears smaller (they use the same screen size for all men's shirts, so the same size of design is just printed on a much larger shirt so it takes up less space). With a design like this, I'd expect the wings to extend from shoulder to shoulder on a men's small, and then fill about 3/4 of the front horizontally for larger sizes, etc. It's always hard to tell though, ultimately woot makes the decisions about how large a print will be (although I'd ask them to print as wide as possible for a design like this)

crazacool wrote:Sick awesome, Ramy. As usual.

Thanks a lot

jmmbell1987 wrote:Anyway, good on the halftones. I still don't care for the design, but that's definitely a good decision.

I had originally included the halftone because the grim reaper's color was blending in with the shirt too much I felt, but I found a better solution to the problem and got rid of them.

matchstick3 wrote:i am glad and approve of the move away from the ramyb style, its nice to know you can actually do other forms of art
you can show a glimpse of hope when you want to, i approve of the move towards actual forms of art that shows potential
think outside of the box

Thanks- I've been trying to get people to realize this for a while now, but most just wait until I post another cute animal so they can say I always do the same thing and ignore whatever is in between :P

Jestik wrote:thanks for taking down the previous version and cleaning it up a lot. Good decision in removing the excessive halftones - this looks much better. Also, thanks for taking away that crosshatching that obscured the blade of the scythe.

All-told, this is much, much better.

I hadn't noticed it until you mentioned the issue with the scythe, and then got a bit obsessive cleaning everything else up in the design as well and I think it definitely came out much better as a result Thanks for pointing it out.

Josephus wrote:and you're right. It looks better to me like this. I might even end up vo-

we'll see. ;^)

Goodness, this was unexpected- thanks, even if you don't vote, the consideration means a lot to me coming from you

beso0282 wrote:I love the design, but the angle is oddly placed on the shirt. The negative space messes with my eyes. Still, you've got my vote.

I wanted to go for something different in terms of placement and wasn't sure if it would be well received- thanks though

kender42 wrote:I would like to see the shadows on the left extended down a little to make the shadows look like a full skull. The way it looks now it looks like there are 2 eyes and maybe a nose for a skull. I don't know if it was intended or not but I think making it a fuller image would fill more of the shirt and deal with the 'negative space' that others were complaining about.

I considered extending the skull downwards, but decided I liked the ambiguity more, and also liked the way the diagonal structure fit on the shirt. I'm not saying it was the best decision, but after debating, it's what I ultimately thought I liked the most (although it was a tough call)

SydsKid wrote:Agreed. Nice job, ramyb.

Thanks

thaigersnake wrote:This time I didn't know it was a ramyb shirt by looking at the thumbnail. Impressive. I like it. The placement is weird and I'll give it some thought before I vote.

Good job.

It's good to hear things like this, and I'm glad to hear that you like the design.

Anyway, thanks everyone for the support, glad to hear that some people like how the design turned out

Re: I Like Candy

What the hey? And this is why I no longer even look at the derbies - except very rarely.

Best of luck Drakxxx. You rule this theme and just in general.

AdderXYU wrote:Ok, let's make this very clear from the start: Of Drakxxx's three entries (I don't count that cartoony one because it feels too rushed and sloppy to associate), this is the one I feel deserved a print least. Part of printability is wearability, and I just can't see how this is more wearable than his other work. I think Requiem of a Soul Stealer is easily his best this week... how ironic that woot also declined that one too.

That said, it ALSO deserves a reason for rejection. That is BASIC RESPECT. If woot could find the time to reject it, they could find the time to log in and post in the thread when they realized they didn't have a full reason. If they were going to make a rare weekend rejection, they should have been prepared to make the reason well-known. It would help Drakxxx fix the piece easier, and also help his fans quell any anger if it was some sort of copyright issue.

The big question is also "why sunday?" To me, there are only two reasons: either they considered it a huge submission sin, or they wanted to give Drakxxx more time to fix it and have a fighting chance. If it's the latter, it's even more reason they should have taken the time to make sure the full submission reason was written out.

...but if it's the former? Why the hell wasn't MAI PUMPKIN rejected too? It's not like they didn't see it in the fog while rejecting Drakxxx's. What could possibly be wrong with Drakxxx's that is worse than resubbing a rejected piece with a different color scheme as if that makes it different? It makes woot look as though they WANT that to print. It's pathetic and disgusting that they'd target one and not spend a little extra time to knock off what they all know is an illegitimate pile of scaffolding.

It feels like Sokowa's "Far Side" rejection. An un-shown comic garnered her a rejection, while SIMILAR SHIRTS EXISTING didn't stop Tuesday's gonna be rough from printing. Just the same, Drakxxx gets rejected for (probably... who knows if they don't tell us) looking vaguely like a horror film, while a shirt that was already rejected sits pretty in the fog untouched, and another with at least as much similarity to Candy Corn Cannibalism as Drakxxx's piece has to Trick or Treat is skyrocketing toward the fog itself. Basically, if we are to believe that one rejection is warranted for non-shirt similarity, then pieces with EQUAL similarity to ACTUAL SHIRTS should be rejected also. If Drakxxx is gone, so should both of those, for the SAME EXACT REASONS. I hope we've all tattled?

It's more of the same, woot. You do not know how to run your site. You play favorites, and your favorites are the ones who need the least defense. This is one more example of you showing zero respect for the designers who truly came into their own because of your site, in favor of the designers who manipulate your site to make thousands of dollars. Either admit that you don't respect art, only money, or start treating your designers in a way that reflects you knowing or caring about art and design. Because the way you're going about it now makes you look like a pile of s'

your links are broken

AdderXYU wrote:Ok, let's make this very clear from the start: Of Drakxxx's three entries (I don't count that cartoony one because it feels too rushed and sloppy to associate), this is the one I feel deserved a print least. Part of printability is wearability, and I just can't see how this is more wearable than his other work. I think Requiem of a Soul Stealer is easily his best this week... how ironic that woot also declined that one too.

That said, it ALSO deserves a reason for rejection. That is BASIC RESPECT. If woot could find the time to reject it, they could find the time to log in and post in the thread when they realized they didn't have a full reason. If they were going to make a rare weekend rejection, they should have been prepared to make the reason well-known. It would help Drakxxx fix the piece easier, and also help his fans quell any anger if it was some sort of copyright issue.

The big question is also "why sunday?" To me, there are only two reasons: either they considered it a huge submission sin, or they wanted to give Drakxxx more time to fix it and have a fighting chance. If it's the latter, it's even more reason they should have taken the time to make sure the full submission reason was written out.

...but if it's the former? Why the hell wasn't MAI PUMPKIN rejected too? It's not like they didn't see it in the fog while rejecting Drakxxx's. What could possibly be wrong with Drakxxx's that is worse than resubbing a rejected piece with a different color scheme as if that makes it different? It makes woot look as though they WANT that to print. It's pathetic and disgusting that they'd target one and not spend a little extra time to knock off what they all know is an illegitimate pile of scaffolding.

It feels like Sokowa's "Far Side" rejection. An un-shown comic garnered her a rejection, while SIMILAR SHIRTS EXISTING didn't stop Tuesday's gonna be rough from printing. Just the same, Drakxxx gets rejected for (probably... who knows if they don't tell us) looking vaguely like a horror film, while a shirt that was already rejected sits pretty in the fog untouched, and another with at least as much similarity to Candy Corn Cannibalism as Drakxxx's piece has to Trick or Treat is skyrocketing toward the fog itself. Basically, if we are to believe that one rejection is warranted for non-shirt similarity, then pieces with EQUAL similarity to ACTUAL SHIRTS should be rejected also. If Drakxxx is gone, so should both of those, for the SAME EXACT REASONS. I hope we've all tattled?

It's more of the same, woot. You do not know how to run your site. You play favorites, and your favorites are the ones who need the least defense. This is one more example of you showing zero respect for the designers who truly came into their own because of your site, in favor of the designers who manipulate your site to make thousands of dollars. Either admit that you don't respect art, only money, or start treating your designers in a way that reflects you knowing or caring about art and design. Because the way you're going about it now makes you look like a pile of s'

That last line was brilliant. It is completely insane that this was rejected today, with NO explanation and that the ridiculous "f-u woot" kitty resub is still there. I think you deserve an apology, Drakxx.
Though I'm glad you are classy and I'm sure your resub will not just be a different colored creeptastic kid.

gumberculees wrote:your links are broken

just rechecked. they are all in tip-top shape