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Wow, this is awesome! I'd buy this in a heartbeat.

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I really like this well done! The clouds have a great feel to them and the expression of the child is excellent

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Nicely done. I like it. GMV.

johnnykosher wrote:I really like this well done! The clouds have a great feel to them and the expression of the child is excellent

Thanks. The kid and box actually went really fast for me, the thing that took the longest was actually the clouds because I couldn't get them just the way I wanted. I still have some reservations about them but at certain point you have to just put the tablet down

DirkDDarring wrote:Well that would be cool until nature called. I mean bird poop is bad enough on a car. Rhinos would crack wind shields and dent roofs. A Gieco nightmare. lol

"Birdie birdie in the sky
Dropped something wet into my eye
Now I'm glad that cows don't fly"

Thanks! This is my first Derby Entry. I tried to use what i know to make a shirt i liked. So I kept it simple and used some glow effects. I also like the idea of using the entire length of one side of the shirt, so I decided to use that area.

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smooth

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I think when I was shorter, my box was a always boat but I love this...no wonder it fogged so fast.

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LOL!!! I love it! Hate those commercials, but love this spin!

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They should sell aviator goggles packaged in way oversized boxes, just for kids. +1

lonelypond wrote:I think when I was shorter, my box was a always boat but I love this...no wonder it fogged so fast.

or alternately, it hasn't fogged yet + I desperately need caffeine. Good luck.

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I love this! It gives me that warm fuzzy feeling of being carefree and lost in my imagination...

Papaya79 wrote:LOL!!! I love it! Hate those commercials, but love this spin!

haha that is funny!

Re: Fly By Night

I would love to see a couple more balloons on the shirt. nice job.

Re: Progression of flight

I would have to say I'd lose the penguin. It has (IMHO) nothing to do with the background images and doesn't really add purpose to the design itself. Also, I think the airplanes would look great with a sort of distressed looks to them. Just my $.02!

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hajile wrote:Wow, this derby is really great! There are a BUNCH of shirts I would actually wear, this one being a prime example.

It's a shame none of them are going to win. :/
I don't like ANY of the ones in the fog. EH.

Thanks hajile! Glad to be a prime example of a shirt you'd actually wear!

brice1981 wrote:Haha... love the expressions and all. GMV.

heh, glad you like them, they were fun to draw. Thanks brice!

Jaiyla wrote:Even if this doesn't print on woot (which i sincerely hope it does!) I hope you get it printed somewhere else!! I really would love to buy this one

Thanks so much Jaiyla! Hmm any suggestions on where else to print it?

Manvyi wrote:Well, thank goodness, people are only worried that the wings look like a knife, the dog looks gruesome, and it's panting. For a while I was worried that someone might ask exactly how the dogs had managed to fix those wings onto themselves (rivets? bolts? superglue?) - and how they're powering their flight...

But it could have been worse - it could have been penguins and kittens.

Thanks for comments everyone! After I'd finished this, I thought that if only I'd had time to think, I'd have made them all dalmatians instead. Or border collies.

I think it's just the angle of the dog you chose for your thumbnail and the fact that the bottom wing extends past the bottom of the image. :/

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watching the films! why is neither this or the second version in the fog!?!?!
stupid cutesy lovers

tjost wrote:Cardboard boxes are the greatest kids toy ever...

Agreed! Very cute idea, and nicely incorporated on the shirt.

Re: Flying Fish V.3 (Watercolor on white)

WHOA! This looks really amazing! Love the colors on white, and that fish looks spectacular! Awesome job!

Re: 99 Luftballons

Great graphic!
Would love to see the clouds more defined though. . .

Re: It'll never work; 19th Century Flight 101

lmao. i do agree it is terrible. who would even want to wear that as a shirt? i can't even understand it. all i see is a chalkboard in a classroom with a plane on it and some weird drawings. and its a blocky picture. and it has a crappy overall feel. if this is your first entry than sure, second, maybe but if this is like your 5th i suggest trying to make something you would wear

Re: Sky Fishing

Beautiful! I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

kbloomq1 wrote:Are you kidding?? As far as I can tell, you're doing extremely well in the Derbies in general. Yeah, okay, you haven't printed yet, but you just came in a very close 4th in the last Derby, and you've had multiple Honorable Mentions now. And you haven't even been here that long. Lots of artists here would LOVE to be in your shoes. And you're whining about "not doing well"? Wow.

Your designs usually impress me, but I gotta say that your attitude rarely does.

Sorry you (and many others) feel the need to judge me personally based on a couple months of "ShirtWoot derbying". Ahh the internets... I'm sorry for my 'tude, which I appologized for up there in my original post. It was just a momentary vent..which is ohheeemgee unforgivable here, I forgots! I'll make it better, here:

HAPPY TREE FRIENDS! YAY! BALLOONS!

If you wish to continue to state your thoughts about me, please pm, and let this artist's thread get back to his design :D.

Also, I'm -extraordinarily- thankful for the support I get here...just you know. ^_~

Re: Flying Pucker

don't you think that you would like his designs more if he made one's that we could actually buy....I just think why enter something that you know isn't going to win?

Re: Flying Fish V.3 (Watercolor on white)

koopadaisy wrote:This is my favorite version. GMV.

Nice, thanks koopadaisy.

Manvyi wrote:Nicely watery.

Heh, thanks Manyi, I was going for watery;)

imsochady wrote:WHOA! This looks really amazing! Love the colors on white, and that fish looks spectacular! Awesome job!

Yay, thank you imsochady!

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I LOVE THIS. I NEED THIS.

EclecticMuse wrote:I would have to say I'd lose the penguin. It has (IMHO) nothing to do with the background images and doesn't really add purpose to the design itself. Also, I think the airplanes would look great with a sort of distressed looks to them. Just my $.02!

Hey txs for the opinion, any feed back I get is appreciated. I agree with the distressing and will see what I can do with that in the future. Sorry I don't understand (IMHO) though, please explain so I can work on that aspect as well.

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Wonder what the Red Bull Folks would have to say if Woot printed this, just asking.

Josephus wrote:It matters for fairness sake. Nobody likes my designs this week, that's fine (though they are pretty good IMO). I'll move to the next thing. But the thing is, video game references are banned. There's a good reason for that- such cultural references have a huge advantage in a contest like this. They are familiar, people spend a lot of time nowadays playing video games, happy time, so anything with a Link™ to such a thing is likely to have a built-in voter base. If they weren't banned, there would be a lot more entries using a variety of video games, and it might be a fair playing field. Since virtually everyone didn't submit entries that are related to such games, those who did, wittingly or not, have a huge advantage. This is where the unfairness comes in.

i think it's hilarious that people have to whine about other people's designs because they can't design something good enough so that people actually want to buy it...

the reason pop-cultural references do so well in a derby is because people like the pop cultural reference and want to buy it; it has nothing to do with fairness, if you can't design something better, then too bad for you, people are going to go with what they like and that's why, in the end, it ends up being sold by woot, because woot knows it will sell well because people already like it

and i don't think this is really a video game reference, similar, but just because it has elements of a similar game doesn't make it a reference, cars->racing game, football->sports game, etc etc.

i like this shirt and i like the resub too, and i'm voting for it and will buy it when it wins

DirkDDarring wrote:Wonder what the Red Bull Folks would have to say if Woot printed this, just asking.

They would commend it, they say don't over use their product, and this is what happens when you do. This isn't saying you take one you die. Its says you drink a entire case, you will be blissful for the next 5 seconds till your body is overloaded with caffeine.

Flawless89 wrote:So I kept it simple and used some glow effects.

glow? is that a gradient? i thought they weren't allowed. unless that is a very fine halftone.

DirkDDarring wrote:Hey txs for the opinion, any feed back I get is appreciated. I agree with the distressing and will see what I can do with that in the future. Sorry I don't understand (IMHO) though, please explain so I can work on that aspect as well.

No problem! IMHO stands for In My Humble Opinion.

xazothia wrote:Did you know that octopi have six arms and two legs?

... keener [chortle]....

Re: The wrong type of wings

Great concept!

Re: Sky Fishing

I love this shirt, let's fog it up!

Re: The Joy of Flight... almost

i just love this real hard

Re: Flying fish

FYI, in addition to Version 2, I also now have up a watercolory version on white, to anyone interested:

Flying Fish V.3 (Watercolor on white)

sittle wrote:... keener [chortle]....

I'm sorry, was there a point to this? I had to look up "keener" in urbandictionary. Yes, I do enjoy being a font of useless knowledge, I think that much was fairly self-evident. If you think that's worth chortling about, then more power to you I guess. :P

Re: The wrong type of wings

starting to see an overindulgence theme to your work. ;-) But this makes me chuckle, too.