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I had a dream similar to this when I was a kid except it was sting rays and gigantic crabs in the hallway. Weird.
Great shirt - good luck!

Columbus' Nightmare

masterxuln wrote:I'm not really liking the color scheme on this one.

Anyways, as far as I know this is a rare fog for you so good luck!

I actually started the design with brown tones on a cranberry shirt. It just wasn't working. Rock, paper, scissors seemed like a primary concept and so I picked a basic look and colors intentionally. Thanks for the feedback and the continued support.

Re: Teddy Scare

i'll have nightmare once i get this shirt

Re: Behold a pale horse...

I must say I really love the background on this design. It's well drawn in my personal opinion. I'm not much of a fan of the characters themselves though, especially the horse. And to be honest, the connection to the theme isn't very clear to me either.

Having said that, I would probably buy this shirt if it was just the background with maybe a man/woman sitting on the swings and the theme was like Memories or something.

I love how people try to manipulate that this is off theme. A nightmare to one person is individual. What I might dream about has nothing to do with the next person. What if a person has a phobia of spiders, they give them nightmares, so if somebody made a shirt with a bunch of spiders doing something creepy would that means it's off theme... ya know, because it's a spider and John Do over here isn't afraid of spiders and quite likes them and finds them cool?

How about clowns? Some kids love them and find them funny, others are scared of them. Because the one kid who likes them didn't have a nightmare about it, it would be off theme to have a creepy looking clown?

Think a little bit and use your imagination instead of looking to pick something apart because it's not your opinion. I personally wouldn't have a nightmare about this, doesn't mean the next person couldn't.

MaryESP wrote:COOL!



....so that probably means you know my friend Rose.

Sure do, tell her "Hi" for me!

Re: The Nightmare King

Absolutely excellent.
I will buy this if it prints.
First shirt I've voted on in a long while now.

Love it. Clever and well done yet again. I always look forward to your entries. GMV

I like how it looks and the idea. Something about the dream bubble just doesn't feel right thought.

mikenytola wrote:I love how people try to manipulate that this is off theme. A nightmare to one person is individual. What I might dream about has nothing to do with the next person. What if a person has a phobia of spiders, they give them nightmares, so if somebody made a shirt with a bunch of spiders doing something creepy would that means it's off theme... ya know, because it's a spider and John Do over here isn't afraid of spiders and quite likes them and finds them cool?

How about clowns? Some kids love them and find them funny, others are scared of them. Because the one kid who likes them didn't have a nightmare about it, it would be off theme to have a creepy looking clown?

Think a little bit and use your imagination instead of looking to pick something apart because it's not your opinion. I personally wouldn't have a nightmare about this, doesn't mean the next person couldn't.

No offense, sir, but you might want to read the thread first to see that there are, to me at least, a lot of valid points being made against the shirt and see that your argument has already been stated previously. Now, to be fair, there is an unfortunate inherent problem with this derby in that, as you said, one man's whatever is another man's greatest fear, and so what constitutes a nightmare is a bit subjective.

For one, there's nothing inherently wrong with disputing opinion, so long as it has some sort of basis, personal(such as saying one shirt might look better on this color as opposed to another) or through evidence, behind said argument, so disagreed with you on that. And as far as whether this is on theme or not, check out my argument above in response to the previous person who gave your argument, as well as the other people who dispute this being on theme. I'm not necessarily saying it isn't on theme, though I'd side more with it not that it is; if nothing else, it's a bit of a stretch.

Re: AAARRGHHH!!

Before you think of it - No it's not the scream mask..I drew this when I was in high school while on the phone with a girl who was ranting on about zion or judgement day or something similar...I had a nightmare that night

Re: AAARRGHHH!!

And I don't know why but the dimensions have changed and now it looks kinda weird..i'm gonna try and upload it agian

Re: Behold a pale horse...

Also, as I mentioned earlier, this shirt isn't bad itself; it's just lacking a few things that would, for me at least, make it more "on-theme". As it stands, it just looks like, well, how it is: a Grim Reaper sitting on a horse with fires and a playground. One of the problems, to me at least, is that the image doesn't tell any sort of "story", so to speak. It's just there, no explanation whatsoever for why the Reaper is there. He just is. As such, it just makes this shirt seem like, as mentioned numerous times at this point, like a Naughty and Nice entry, which this would certainly fit. If there was some other person(s) in the picture, that were being haunted/whatever by the Reaper, at least, to me at least, it would make a bit more "sense" for this derby; though, even so, I'm doubtful that I would buy it, admittedly. Again, sorry for being so long-winded with my "points". Part of me is really just frustrated with ramyb, who certainly has talent and potential, but, some of these shirts week after week,month after month meh...It's starting to really get to me. Anyways, enough on that...

Re: Nightmares Taking Hold

Saved.

mikenytola wrote:I like how it looks and the idea. Something about the dream bubble just doesn't feel right thought.

aww :-(

Re: A Balloon's Worst.... Nightmare

clowns terrify me. His chin looks like nutz, hair like broccoli - yes, I will buy this to scare the doodie out of myself. great colorz, right on theme.

Re: Late Night Pizza

This is sooo hilarious! Got my vote for sure!

I wanted to illustrate the peaceful state of REM sleep being overtaken by negative thoughts and feelings.

I hope you like it.

Sidenote: When I was looking at some references for tentacles I came across this beauty. I think I may have nightmares about that.

Re: Exposed Plumbing

I'd really enjoy seeing some fresh ideas.

much prefer this one.

Re: The Diabolical Monster Dream

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Re: Exposed Plumbing

I really like this. I agree that the number of Mario references is a little worrisome, but I like the shirt.

My only complaint is that Bowser's nostrils are very distracting. I thought they were his eyes for the longest time.

Re: The Sleep of Reason Produces Flying Turtles

Fantastic illustration- would you mind posting a closeup so I could see the halftone work, especially on the table? The texture you achieved is awesome :D

Re: Bat's Mouth

A message of love? A message of hope? Nobody?

Re: This is my Scary Face

Before you think it - No! This is not the mask from scream. I drew it one night back when I was in High School..i was in quite a nightmare-ish situation at the time.

Re: The Guardian

Really love the design and the idea; believe it or now; i had a little teddy bear (or two) like this myself, my worst nightmare; loosing the bear!

Re: Slappy devouring his pug V2

I would get one of this!

Re: I.....I think you need to see this

<3

capedcrusader514 wrote:Reminds me of finding nemo.

What finding nemo did you see?

Re: The Wooden Boy's Nightmare

Congratulations ! A very nice job. Pro!
Draw like this is a gift.

Re: dreamcatcher

Wow, this took me a long time. I've been having artist's block for woot, but I thought of this idea and decided to do it.

I love how dream catchers look, and I wanted to illustrate one performing its job - keeping nightmares out and letting good dreams in. I tried to make the nightmare section look scary while the good dreams section hopefully looks more soothing.

Hope you enjoy

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Re: Who's the Dummy Now !?

I am not fan of yellow but this is very nice!

Good work.

Re: The Sleep of Reason Produces Flying Turtles

The video game fact didn't even bothered me on this.
It is a very good and young interpretation of Goyas work.
It is a young and actual work. A quality one.

Re: The Artist's Nightmare

Great concept!


falling down to nowhere

LOBSTER CHEFS

Ingredients:

In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
"Crustacean Liberation Army" from the Muppets
Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Japanese prints
recipe books
Nightmares!!!

Combine ingredients. Boil in head. Draw all night as to avoid going to sleep and taking a chance on seeing this in your dreams. Submit to Woot, keep feelers crossed.

ENJOY!

KNEUSHA

Re: Once Upon A Restless Night

Love the aquatic outline

Re: dreamcatcher

Sorry to say, seki, but this looks like a bad wolf shirt without the wolves.

Re: Nightmares Taking Hold

Ooo, very nice. :D

Re: Toilet Nightmares - the evil bowl of chili

Love it! At first it seemed as if the tp was the victim also, but it's appears that it is giving sympathy and concern for the toilet- like it's a good friend that just received bad news...