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What's with all the hate? I love it, and would buy it in an instant!

Re: Were-Pumpkin

This is my favorite entry of the derby.

faultylogic83 wrote:I did like the first one better, but out support for actual talent this gets my vote. I'll buy it eitherways, because I need a Draxx shirt for Halloween.

I can't understand why the rejectionator has it in for Draxx (I'm still upset about his rejection on the harvest). I've been upset enough to think about leaving woot, but I in good conscience can't run off while there is still talent here fighting the good fight.

Seriously though this is bullsh!t

I said it on the other design. I do think woot should explain why it was rejected. The fact that this one was and some others were not (kitty/pumpking), it will give Draxx more time over others to climb the ranks. Hopefully the rejectionator will be back on others that deserve it more. If anything it's good they rejected sooner than later so the resub has a better chance at getting back to the top. Might be more strategy than to annoy people.

darcypo wrote:yo dawg, we heard you like shirts so we put a cat on your cat so you can wear your shirt while you wear your shirt.

and yeah that's better, but still...

bah, that pic didn't work

mrwednesday wrote:...And ramy and seki aren't even the worst thing s about woot. The worst part of woot is the idiots who are so concerned that everyone play nice and only say nice things and want everyone to just hop along like everything here is absolutely grade A quality.

You forgot about the idiots who think it's their job to monitor designs for quality, and keep drumming up support for the Drakxxx fan club...

It's quite clear to everyone what your motives are and where you votes lie..

mrwednesday wrote:People like me are at least here working for improvement and for the greater good of everyone involved. You're just here to stroke your ego and pretend like you're somehow better than everyone else. Grow up.

Thank you for all of your hard work Mr Wednesday... Gold star for you. I hope you feel validated.

nyren wrote:"katt williams in a pumpkin"

GMV +1

lindab53 wrote:Thanks, Josephus, for making me laugh so much I am practically in tears! GMV big time!

:^D

Re: Creeping Darkness

so is every character of yours centered with head pointed down but with eyes up towards the viewer, acting all menacing and scary but really just reminding me a bit of hot topic? read enough jhonen vasquez comics?

your technique is not at fault here (you're very talented in that respect), it's just your ideas are like a high-schooler's poetry; overly strained and ultimately empty. try something different.

or maybe i'm too old for woot.

nyren wrote:So, I have this theory. The reason the shirt hasn't been rejected yet is that Woot is waiting until after submissions close to reject it so that the inconsiderate and selfish artist doesn't have time to submit "panther in a pumpkin" "bobcat in a pumpkin" "leopard in a pumpkin" "meercat in a pumpkin" or "katt williams in a pumpkin" this derby. The point is to save everyone's time in the long run.

This is what I keep telling myself, at least.

It's my theory that a fast rejection benefits the artist, because the artist has a chance to rework and resubmit. So the quick rejection of Drakxxx's work allowed him to rework the design during the weekend and get it back up as quickly as possible. Because the design was salvageable.

In the case of the feline gourd, since the whole design is flawed, Woot probably feels that there's no "reworking" that could be done to make it acceptable, so there's no urgency in rejecting it. Plus, there's the idea that they only reject fogged items after a meeting. They may have had a weekend meeting specifically to talk about Drakxx's piece, but they didn't discuss the cat, so they left that up. They did go through an whack a few other nonfogged and noncontender entries, but they also left quite a few up that could have been axed. Seems like they just popped in to tidy up a few things, and then ran away for the rest of the weekend.

Anyway, I'm guessing the cat will be rejected, eventually. It if doesn't, then all the flamethrowing is justified. But being mad that it wasn't rejected early doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Because, as you said, it could easily come back again.

I guess we'll see...

Re: Saddest Ghost Ever

I want this one so bad.

bluetuba wrote:I love the idea, and the were-pumpkin but like others it just took me some time to get it, and really thought I was looking out a window for a while. I saw your re-sub attempt to make it less blocky but think it just missed the point.

In your defense I just don't know how you would make it more clear, and the comic strip paneling thing might be the only way without making it smaller and thus losing some of the cool detail.

Yeah, it is a bit difficult to read, but hey, it's a $10 shirt. Woo hoo! And it soooo wonderfully bridges the cute idea/creepy look gap. Once I understood it I laughed very hard. I make with the laughing out loud. Getting my vote, and I hope hope hope it knocks out that balderah-a** kitten in the pumpkin. *crossing fingers, crossing fingers*

darcypo wrote:Yeah, it is a bit difficult to read, but hey, it's a $10 shirt. Woo hoo! And it soooo wonderfully bridges the cute idea/creepy look gap. Once I understood it I laughed very hard. I make with the laughing out loud. Getting my vote, and I hope hope hope it knocks out that balderah-a** kitten in the pumpkin. *crossing fingers, crossing fingers*

oh, so we can't say We-Todd-Ed?

that's what woot replaced with "balderah"

[quote postid="3513546" user="linkszelda"]
... so that's why these shirts do so well? because Adder hates them? ...[ /quote]

Yup, pretty much. Having followed this site for 50+ derbies, whenever Adder gets on his "This shirt is the end of society as we know it" soapbox, that shirt gains a ton of votes through the (mostly) silent majority.

Part of this is that he has almost single handedly scared off some of the best artists to ever be in these derbies, via his usually ignorant rants. Every so often he has a good viewpoint, but his hate-filled method of giving his viewpoints negates any points he might earn with the majority (re: Glen Beck or Michael Moore). (Observations based on votes/shirt pre and post Adder rant)

His negative opinion ends up being a really good barometer of predicting a t-shirt design that will most likley get printed.

Re: Watch for cheetahs this halloween!

This needs to be fogged.

Re: I Like Candy (Resub)

Voted! Nice job Drakxxx.

Re: Watch for cheetahs this halloween!

Ahahahahahahaha

sittle wrote:It is what it is...

Seki draws well, you can see the talent in the drawing...

srsly? you said you're in the graphic design field....so you should know the rules to creating images, then, right? how many of the rules for design did seki follow?

1. proper lighting - candlelight does not create little circles on a pumpkin (is it a glass pumpkin?), shadows on the side by the candle or bright light on the opposite side, or what looks like a small, miniscule shadow of a pumpkin in the background that doesn't include the cat (shouldnt it be larger?)
2. anatomy - what cat's back legs go half way to the head when it's supposed to be hanging down? what cat's arms are so flat that they can just fold over an edge like that (think Woody from Toy Story)? not to mention the eyes have absolutely no depth to them (granted, they are better than her typical eyes, but still).
3. background - it doesn't make sense. when you create a background, it has to fit the image. in this design, it's circles and wavy lines. they have nothing to do with pumpkins or cats or halloween. a pumpkin patch is more rigid than the flowing lines you'd see in an image regarding Cinderella or Barbie or other such princesses. unless you make an excuse for it saying it matches the cute princess of a mischievous cat.


granted, comics and anime and manga are allowed to distort one thing if they can pull it off with all the other rules, but seki can't. when she makes something like this, it's not acceptable like those listed. she has no sense of light (see any of her images that include a source of light, like, oh, her entry for the last derby), no sense of anatomy (which could possibly be excused if she could make an image that fit the misshapen animal), and almost all of her backgrounds have circles and flowy lines even when they shouldn't.

don't come in here and say you're an artist and graphic designer and then praise this design. it's an insult that someone in my same major/profession, who should have similar training and education and design fundamentals, is complimenting a design that would be laughed at by professors and professionals. if you really are studying/have studied graphic design, please, explain to me exactly how you can say she has talent?

Re: Zombie Vampire Robots from Space

GMV for the shear combination of it.

PixelPotato wrote:This needs to be fogged.

I'm not sayin' that.

sittle wrote:I

I'm not even a huge Seki or Ramy fan, but I would certainly think about casting a vote for them just to watch the Angry Adder Alliance wring their hands in anger like some old grandmothers...

Not to harp on the point I posted earlier, but this is exactly what is happening. Every time Adder whines about an entry, it gains a *ton* of (often silent) votes, just to annoy or fight against Adder and his cohorts constant badgering of successful artists on this site.

sirensmask wrote:Let me begin by saying: I voted for this.

Now, I've read the comments. I've read the downright hatred people seem to have towards this artist and their resubmission. However, the community does not sway my want for which design to wear.

Plan and simple, I would wear this shirt. No its not original, but its something I could honestly see myself wearing.

People can whine again and again, get something rejected, and enjoy their freedom of expression. But in my eyes, it all comes down to whether or not I would wear the shirt I vote for. Something may be original and masterfully drawn but a slight color may not meet my fancy or the style may not be in my taste, thus I wont vote for it.

But this cat? I voted, happily. Its cute. I like tigers. Thanks for the time spent on it.

Amen. I also voted for this - without knowing about previous rejected designs. I don't really care about forum drama. I liked the design, I'd buy this shirt if it gets made, I didn't find it particularly unoriginal even if not stunningly original either; the vote isn't for 'but is it ART?', it's for 'would I spend my money on this shirt'.

All the negativity doesn't make me want to change my vote. Make a design I want to wear more and I'll vote for that too. Whining and insulting the people who vote for a given design tends not to make people want to give you their money instead, y'know?

inspired by the awesome intestine scene at the end of the original dawn of the dead.

Re: No One's Friend

this shirt makes me sad hahaha

Josephus wrote:I'm not sayin' that.

Don't worry, we'll fog it ;) ...errr, I was gonna say, "Our Movie Genre" (yes, i typed it fully, not some woot filterator) and "I AM LOVING IT, <3 <3 <3 "

Re: No One's Friend

lol, its like a conehead crying

also i think the shadow looking marks are neat looking and help the design not get too caught into the shirt color...if that makes sense

Re: Rise of the Candy Corn

i love the teeth & saliva in their mouths lol

mrwednesday wrote:Also we now have random animals trick or treating in the middle of nowhere? Not to mention it's just cute animals for the sake of cute animals but where the hell did they get the candy way out there?

You never walk past the abandoned lot with the creepy house?

krouth wrote:So... instead of an unoriginal black kitten in a pumpkin - you changed the color? Still not original:

here

and here...

Fail.

Here are some more examples of why this is unoriginal and should be rejected:

Here's one.

and another,

and another...

Hey look, another one

There are TONS of kitten in a pumpkin shirts out there and they are not all black cats...

Re: I Like Candy (Resub)

You have skills Drakxxx! GMV!

Re: DJ Drac

Gotta pick one shirt color.

I just don't get the strange fascination some people have with cats in pumpkins. Yes cats are cute I own three but really do we really need another cat in a pumpkin shirt? They must be the crazy people who walk around decked out in their DIsneyland sweaters and Winnie the Pooh backpacks. Time to grow up. *Sigh* very sad.

SirSquinty wrote:What's with all the hate? I love it, and would buy it in an instant!

Again, I love the contrast. This is better than watching micro-panics unfold on twitter.

Re: DJ Drac

Love the bats.

tjbeyerl wrote:Gotta pick one shirt color.

I go with purple then

tjbeyerl wrote:Gotta pick one shirt color.

and Woot doesn't have purple.

Re: but srsly it's mai pumpkin

Its like you put this guy in a pumpkin:

Re: DJ Drac

Fresh design! They'll reject it, though, b/c woot doesn't offer purple and you can only pick one shirt color in your shirt comp.

daleedwinmurray wrote:I go with purple then

The grey you have there is called asphalt, I believe. You have to take the purple out of your design and resub it with asphalt.

Awesome, If any candy corn shirt belonged in the fog it is this

awesome deisgn.
... i see torso but no legs on the horseman though.

gmv anyways