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Re: Make Love, Not Dinner.

There's clearly no better match than the Rooster and Snake. ... Yeah.

Re: Year of the Place Mat

The inevitable grease stains will only make it more authentic! Two chopsticks up!

AdderXYU wrote:they are meant to feel like clouds, and have a general form of the animals, not a concrete, blatant one. See how that works? It is not Abstract Art, but it is art which deals with an abstraction.

Wait, so are they clouds or are they waves? Both? I saw clouds the first time I looked, but I see the waves too. Everyone else has just been talking about waves.

Re: The Cow Says... RE-SUB

The cow says... I am compatible with the snake and rooster!



...I mean, MOOOOOOOOO.

(fixed and ready to kick butt, haha)

Re: The Cow Says... RE-SUB

FIXED! love and kisses for everyone who goes and re-votes (or votes, period). <3

KartuneHustla wrote:Should be getting more votes

The Zodiac Emperor

lol thanks for the comments!
my "style" isn't really favored by woot voters :P

Re: The Zodiac Mutant

OK - exactly what animal of the zodiac does the purple...uh...region represent? This shirt is... wow...staggeringly stupefying. Unbelievable work here for sure!

Re: The Zodiac Emperor

This is a great design. It's really disheartening that this quality of work gets very little support here.

Re: 100% Wool

Love this! And probably one of the few shirts in this derby I would actually wear (I am very picky). GMV!

BrettWalking wrote:Yes, it is a somewhat, um, abstracted, representation of the Wu Xing and the Zodiac Snake. The Tree is burning purple, but it turns into earth and then metal (alumina gemstone, if you will). And most obvious is the spring coming from the rock and flowing into a snake.

Trying to color the rock was difficult, and I probably could have done a better job at it.

Okey dokey then.

Oh, and here's a larger, cooler (there may be a pun in that) picture:



and I don't know the bbcode too well, so just rightclick > view image.

Re: All Aboard the Roost-Aircraft

This is awesome, from concept to illustration. Nice work!

eHalcyon wrote:Hmm, you may be right about that. Then again, it might be that they need to lay down two layers of white when printing on black - the initial one, and a second so it's bright. I have no clue - can woot staff or another professional printer (tjost?) weigh in?

When printing on black you need to lay down at least one base (white) for most colors to then be printed on top of it (even if no white is shown in the piece) Sometimes to aid in a nice fade out on black you can have the base halftone terminate before the color does and thus have color print directly onto the black or dark colored shirt to make the transition softer (to illustrate, take a colored highlighter to a white piece of paper then use the same maker on a colored piece of paper and compare the colors, plastisol inks are more opaque then markers but color shift will still occur) If you see white on a black shirt more then likely it used 2 white screens to achieve this.Any Woot shirt on a colored shirt that's 6 colors is actually printing 7 (or more) colors with base plates.

Colors print and blend much nicer on light colored shirts with no base but if you have a dark or really bright color that does a soft fade over a large area you're going to get buildup and screen interference (moire or blotchy patterns). Black is especially bad at doing this. Screen printing dots gain between 25-35% from there original size and any halftones below 7% will not come out uniformly or at all (hard terminations) 10% halftones are still pushing it but are safer. The way you fade from black ink to a white shirt is to have 1 or 2 greys mixed in as secondary and tertiary colors. So you have the black that fades to a medium grey that fades to a light grey that fades to white shirt. The buildup and terminations happen the same but having the extra colors tricks the eye into seeing soft transitions. If I was separating this image in photoshop with alpha channels I'd do it in 3 colors and it would look dang close to whats on screen. The problem lies in that woot makes artists that don't know how to control halftones make them themselves. Hope this helps

BTW I like the Dragon and sorry to clog your thread

Re: Year of the Tiger

I love the textures you added into this shirt!

Re: The Zodiac Emperor

This is awesome and I would definitely wear it! Sad how we both are getting low votes
+1

Re: 100% Wool

I love your characters. They're so simple, yet very expressive.

Re: Yin, Yang and 12 more animals.

Nicely done. You even have the rat riding the ox! My only complaint would be that the dragon is in more of a European depiction. Even though it's wingless, the body proportions aren't those of a Chinese dragon.

Re: This Puzzle Bites

Just for kicks - hope you don't mind, Mr. (or Ms?) Southpaw!



Also, if you have time, you might consider trying to make all 12 signs out of tangram pieces. Might be fun.

Best shirt ever. Terry Pratchett fans unite!

Glad you're liking it so far! Here are a couple of close-ups. Just click view image to see even more.

tjost wrote:If you see white on a black shirt more then likely it used 2 white screens to achieve this.

I knew most of the rest (though not even close to as much detail - you certainly know your numbers!) but this was the main thing I was looking for.

So yeah, Earth Seed (or whatever it was called) may have been white on black, but it would probably still have had a white base first. Therefore, this does have a better chance of printing well, as it needs no base layer. Of course, better chance is still no guarantee - especially not with Woot.

theinfinityloop wrote:Glad you're liking it so far! Here are a couple of close-ups. Just click view image to see even more.

yay! love it :D

thanks for fixing the sticks! GMV!

rachelwootswii wrote:yay! love it :D

thanks for fixing the sticks! GMV!

You're welcome. I couldn't have the design symbolize death. O.O

AdderXYU wrote:Hello, I am from Kings of Leon, and I would love to use this shirt for our band. I am particularly drawn in by the mock-up.

/shirtjokenoonegets

I think it's perfect for their song "Sex on Fire!" :D

There is no justice in the world if this does not win.

Re: 100% Wool

Walmazan - this is priceless! The expression on the one ram is absolutely hysterical, every time I look at it, I'm on the floor. Love this one, hope you stay in the fog.

Re: Year of the Place Mat

cool

Re: Year of the Place Mat

heh, the snake has a pea

Re: ...And they have a plan.

LOVE THIS! GMV for sure!

how many times have you tried to submit this shirt? :p i think this is the 3rd i've noticed.

Re: The Zodiac Mutant

This works on so many levels.

Re: Year of the Place Mat

Dope!! Definitely up there with my favorites thus far!

The Zodiac Emperor

eHalcyon wrote:I'm gonna take a shot here.

The Chinese Zodiac is not actually a 12-year cycle - it's 60 years. Along with the 12 animals, it also cycles through 5 elements: water, wood, fire, earth, metal. Come February 14, it will be the year of the metal tiger.

So what you're saying is this shirt is only relevant for one year out of my life?

sakleehop wrote:OK - exactly what animal of the zodiac does the purple...uh...region represent?

the rooster, obviously.

Re: Paper Cuts

Excellent!! Kind of reminds me of the 12 Monkeys Logo! I'm in!!

Re: Chinese Zodiac Gryphon

What do you get when you cross all of the animals in the Chinese Zodiac? This monster! --- and I don't just mean the monster 22 Meg print-ready file. Ugh!

6 colors on lemon: black, green, white, brown, red, orange

pink = red + white; gray = black + white; sorrel = brown + red; other weird colors = black + lemon or green + lemon or brown + lemon.

The head is part rat, part pig, with the ears of a dog, the horns of a ram, and Tongue and fangs of a snake.
The body has the back of a tiger and the belly of an ox.
The neck is a horse.
The tail is a monkey.
Front legs of a rooster.
Rear legs of a rabbit.
Wings of a dragon.

Re: 100% Wool

Walz in the fog, yeaaaaahh!!

I'm a sheep, so this one's for me!! I hope it sticks around, I'm definately in need of another Walz shirt!

KaylaJ wrote:heh, the snake has a pea

Glad you noticed!

KartuneHustla wrote:Dope!! Definitely up there with my favorites thus far!

Thank you, I like yours as well. I agree that it should have more votes.

Re: Chinese Zodiac Gryphon

Wouldn't it be a Chimera?

Clever either way

Re: Porcelain Zodiac

Great job dude! I don't have a blue Woot yet, and you know me and my love of cute animals :D.

My mom and dad use to collect the fancy blue and white china plates from Europe. This reminds me of those special items <3.

I also has a blue and white china kitty in my bathroom. <3