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Re: Love Conquers All

Looks like Gossamer on steroids!

Re: The heart is deceitful above all things

You are an insightful person ThatRobert, and your design is too.
Some people don't like this derby topic but I do. I love the honest take you took on the nature of the human heart.

Re: Barracuda

Awesome Jasneko! This is a departure from previous designs, and I like it alot. Love the texture!

Re: under lock and key

I really do love this. I love the detail work you do. GMV

Re: Heartstrings

I think this is great, the design lends itself well to being on a shirt (which can be the hard part sometimes of creating it). GMV.

Re: Steam Heart

i dont see what the big deal is about this shirt.

its well drawn but meh, why would i wear it?

Molbert wrote:I love the image, but I love dark teeshirts. If it was on dark brown i think it'd be perfect!

Hi Molbert,

Thank you for your comment! I totally understand how you feel -- I'm one of those people who always has to wear dark clothes. In fact, when I first had this design idea, I was determined to put it on a cranberry or brown shirt. But, once I'd finished drawing it, I felt like the design *needed* to be on light blue. I think... it's because of the orange tones in the coffee. Blue really makes them pop! And because brown is so similar to the coffee colors, I think the image would've come across as being a bit dull. Maybe that's just me. I wanted something refreshing, airy and, dare I say, whimsical! So blue just struck me as being the best choice.

I look at it this way: Because the design is relatively small and towards the top of the shirt, I could wear it under a blazer or a button-up/zip-up sweater/sweatshirt/jacket in a darker color. That way I'm still mostly in darker clothing, but I still have a nice splash of light blue to offset the design. :D

Thanks again for the feedback!

Re: claddagh

Mr. Wednesday is correct. On the entry form, there are several shirt templates that you can use to show how this will be placed on the shirt and how large.

Re: Raining Hearts

I love this one. I really do hope it moves up. I voted

Re: Total Eclipse of the Heart

I think you just won. good thing I checked the derby today.I'm in.

tgentry wrote:Uh...that's part of the gag. Obviously they'd still be screwed: one has a giant hole in his chest cavity and the other a missing brain. Their just too stupid to know any better.

its ok tgentry...

it leaps into the vacuum that the woot community has changed so much, im scare that the general ignorance will keep you from submitting...

Is there something I'm missing here? I'm seeing people really getting the foamy teeth about people's designs being 1. "bad" and 2. "inaccurate"...

My designs haven't garnered tons of votes so I'm probably in no real position to talk, but I have to say I kinda don't get it. If something is cute or cool and looks OK on a shirt, I'm surprised anybody would nitpick on accuracy... hell, humans aren't yellow with 8 fingers but The Simpsons has been going gangbusters for ages.

To that point, I like the drumming shirt - I was going to do a similar design, but I hadn't thought of the EKG in the background; I thought it was a genius move. I cannot and will not comment on its originality because I haven't seen the "original" shirt you guys are talking about. Wait, I'll say one thing: it's hard to imagine more than the one way to do a wave like that; I'd probably have done the same look myself and, again, haven't seen the grim reaper shirt mentioned.

Anyways, the comments about bad design seem just counterproductive. For example, I think the tiger/lantern design is OK - maybe not ZOMGAWESOMESAUCE to me personally, but I don't see how people are spitting such venom at it either. Cutesy and cartoony are big draws, it seems, n'est ce pas?

Soooo yeah. I'm just surprised reading things like this. I see a lot of people in these derbies whose designs are awesome and I can only hope to be like (in artistic merit).

Cheers
Dave

Re: Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique

I see Pai Mei taught you his legendary secret. I will vote only if I can chest bump people with the shirt and achieve a similar effect! Then again, I think I'll vote just because it's AWESOME.

Very cool idea man.

Re: Total Eclipse of the Heart

Looks great Jaden!

Re: The King and Queen of Hearts

Ha ha JammmaDave just said "foamy teeth".

SnowQueenVT wrote:You are an insightful person ThatRobert, and your design is too.
Some people don't like this derby topic but I do. I love the honest take you took on the nature of the human heart.

Thanks snow. I'm sure you're giving me more credit than I deserve for this -- despite the serious title it's meant to be a fun shirt!

Re: Total Eclipse of the Heart

Holy cow! I went to sleep after the first 3 hrs went by and was impressed it had a handful of votes still at 6:30am, but this is crazy still seeing it in the Hotness! Thank you to everyone who has commented up to now! I appreciate all the love and respect for the children of the '80s :D

Re: Oh, Nobody Loves Old Man Heart...

I've been rooting for your designs ever since the Grinch song spin-off over the holidays, prior to which I'd never heard of you. :O

This one is no different. I quite enjoy it. It uses the theme without stripping away masculinity - a pitfall that even Drakxxx suffered from this week.

And as we all know... I'm nothing if not macho.
...gmv

Re: The heart is deceitful above all things

(re: That Roberts shirt Decietful Hearts...)

Art that makes a person think about the way they really feel about the people they love and have loved is complex and the fact that your design makes people do that is great, straightforward and to the point.(your artwork is.now I sound like Yoda.)

Whoa man, your busy as hell this week!

The character design here is awesome as all anything. When I first saw it, it reminded me of an enemy monster from the video game "Bullet Witch", even though the monster's head is it's huge brain. I know all of 10 people actually played that game, so chances are you've never seen it.



Very cool character, and kickass illustration as always sir.

nyren wrote:You can't condemn people for being negative toward others and then say something that negative without condemning yourself. People who are condescendingly self-righteous about condemning other people for being condescendingly self-righteous utterly sicken me.

That does present a paradox. you realize? Or at the very least sounds funny. The rest of your post was very intriguing as well, though I must say I'd side with the artists om this one. Despite it being difficult to claim love or hate for someone you've never met on the basis that it would be baseless, clearly it's possibly to humanize them, through ideas we already have about people, and the little we know about these people (their t-shirt submissions, etc.). So why hate? Which isn't to say it's wrong. If this contest means that much to you, and these shirts seem like a violation of Woot's sanctity and rules generally (a valid concern), by all means, hate. Personally, I think it's a pretty cute anthropomorphized tiger.

Re: Total Eclipse of the Heart

(re;Jadenkales surprise to find 83 votes after falling asleep for 3 hours)

We are happy that you are getting a happy surprise!

Re: My Heart-Shaped Box

sadly, the 'om' or 'ohm' has been denoted as text in the past. It may not be hit by the rejectionator (since it's so late in the week) but you should understand that late in the game, or not, 'No Text' means just that: no text.

Smoothesuede wrote:There definitely was. If you whacked a cuckoo a few times in a row, it would get pissed off and summon up some reinforcements to chase you down until you either hid inside a house or died of pecking wounds.

They did the same thing with pigs as well in Windwaker.

Yeah, it's been a few years. I remember the pigs in Windwaker, but for some reason omitted the chickens from Ocarina. I always left the chickens alone though, except in Fable.

Re: Total Eclipse

looks like my idea has been one-upped. thanks for your votes....
>.>

Re: Total Eclipse

Here is my vote. I like your design !

Re: halftone heartrise

ooooh, pretty!

Re: Bearing his Heart

This design deserves way more votes. I believe it has been tragically overlooked

Re: batlove

bats need some loven

Re: Oh, Nobody Loves Old Man Heart...

Great linework here (and as usual). Always something to study!

mrwednesday wrote:I thought this was finally going to be it for you. Keep on keeping on. You'll make it!

I agree. I thought this was it! I really would love to buy it (please submit someplace else!). Love your stuff.

Re: i heart shiny pixels...

I think it would be hella cool if it was just the same, but smaller, and on the sleeve.

pooky36 wrote:Hi Molbert,

Thank you for your comment! I totally understand how you feel -- I'm one of those people who always has to wear dark clothes. In fact, when I first had this design idea, I was determined to put it on a cranberry or brown shirt. But, once I'd finished drawing it, I felt like the design *needed* to be on light blue. I think... it's because of the orange tones in the coffee. Blue really makes them pop! And because brown is so similar to the coffee colors, I think the image would've come across as being a bit dull. Maybe that's just me. I wanted something refreshing, airy and, dare I say, whimsical! So blue just struck me as being the best choice.

I look at it this way: Because the design is relatively small and towards the top of the shirt, I could wear it under a blazer or a button-up/zip-up sweater/sweatshirt/jacket in a darker color. That way I'm still mostly in darker clothing, but I still have a nice splash of light blue to offset the design. :D

Thanks again for the feedback!

As you noticed Jasneko and I collaborated on an idea that we didn't get submitted until minutes after your... (it's okay though, great minds think alike, right?)

But we had the same issue. We were going to put it on the grass green. But realized a lot of people might not look good in in (i.e. me, a light skinned fairly light auburn hair chick.) And of course we knew that brown wasn't going to be the best, and the royal blue was too popular of a shirt. I LOVE the cranberry shirt, just didn't think it was going to "fit." So we went with the olive. But our coffee has a bit more red in it.

I still am trying to decide how the baby blue would look on me, I have never tried to wear it.

Re: batlove

Thats beautiful, I love city scenes!

HalfWheat wrote:Glad to see you again. I always like your characters!

Thanks! Hopefully I'll be able to participate in the derbies more regularly again now *fingers crossed* I'd be happy to provide everyone with more creepy/cute little monsters! haha

I'm really flattered by how much people seem to like these characters. I WAS hoping to break into the fog but all the great comments have really just made this derby for me regardless Thanks everyone!

Re: Blue Heart

I am still loving this design Sakleehop!

mandarkthomas wrote:If your penis looks like that you might want to get it checked out

Not that his penis looks like that. But that he doesn't want a shirt with a heart attacking any penis

IndependentVik wrote:Up until this point in your post, though I didn't agree with you, I could at least see where you were coming from. Then you go off flaming against one of the most even-handed people on this entire forum. I'm so glad you're clairvoyant enough to know whose work eHalcyon is only _pretending_ to dislike.

You're turning into a rabid parody of yourself and, lookout charlie, if anyone has the appearance of mindlessly trolling the ramy threads it's you.

If you're going to be a zealot, you could at least be a charming one who might actually persuade people to vote against the more derivative derby entries.

Insert loud applause here, especially for that last paragraph. More people would show support for these arguments if, you know, we weren't called 'stupid' en masse all the time.

SnowQueenVT wrote:I love the hearts and the colors and the idea of reading your future in your palm also it is so pretty. (when my nephew was 2 he was batman for halloween and I got him to say "I am Batman!" It was cute. Anyway, very very nice one Batman!

Snow Queen you are missing a far far more gruesome movie reference that is awesome to see here! Kill Bill rules.

SnowQueenVT wrote:(about the cherub shirt"shot through the heart)

Hi Lulu! Poor Bobo! Depicted as cherub! Love you hug obi for me.
Happy almost b-day Bobo. Pick a shirt from the reckoning so you can vote for me! It is too late to change the eyes, they stay red!!!Look down for my king and queen of hearts shirt 16 votes.)

Just bought and voted Bobo says "Good Luck with the demonic child"