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Re: Cowabungaphobia

Oh man!!! This seriously is great! I hope woot selects it for a double take. I want this bad

Re: Gnomophobia

Why does this just feel like pieced together clipart? Sure the idea is funny, but the gnomes and the gun don't seem to fit together like it was one idea.

midgerock wrote:Come on guys! If I can't make it into the fog lets see if we can break 300. For me this would be the highest voted design I have submitted. Here's trying for my personal high score!

I'd vote again if I could, but these pesky "rules" keep me from doing just so.

Gatzby wrote:In most cases, staff members have the exact same interface as everyone else and use features like tattle.

Please tell me you mess with others staff members and tattle on them for no reason. haha

blanked wrote:Perhaps you mean this one from the crypto 2 derby? That's what I was reminded of.
http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=45128

Not even that. I just knew from the thumbnail it was a ramyb shirt, which is slightly peculiar considering it is enough of a deviation from his usual style where I shouldn't have been able to assume that automatically.

Re: Pyrophobia

I love it!!!!!!! +1

thatrobert wrote:

• Congratulations on winning a Best Loser Award!
  
• This is not SPAM.
  
• Winning a BLA does NOT mean this shirt won't print -- I'm hoping it does.
  
• Your one and only gift is this crappy little badge in your shirt thread. Enjoy.
  
• Smoking cigarettes and watching "Kaptain Kangaroo" -- don't tell me, I've nothing to do.
  

thanks robert and geekfactor! and thannks to everyone who commented and voted! =)

Re: Gnomophobia

schw9411 wrote:Yeah, love the shirt, but definitely think it abuses the theme just like everything else where you can design whatever you want and then say it is X-aphobia

Well thank you for the compliment! I disagree as far as the abuse thing, but I respect your opinion. Personally, I think some would prefer an actual depiction of a phobia from the perspective of a person suffering from that phobia, as opposed to an image of a subject displaying irrational fear of something. However, I do think there is a place for both kinds in this contest Thanks again!

chiccup wrote:I am IN LOVE with this and must own it. Really...I will cry if I don't.

Haha, thank you so much! Don't cry though!

sTyLeS wrote:What kind of gun is that modeled after?

It was actually modeled after an airgun, not an actual gun

mitchellp wrote:This is funny... But I'm not sure Woot would be able to print this with what looks like the Travelocity gnome-bullet

Haha, I'm glad someone spotted that. That's exactly what I was modeling him after From my research it shouldn't be a copyright problem in the way I've used it, though. Thanks for your concern!

frik wrote:Why does this just feel like pieced together clipart? Sure the idea is funny, but the gnomes and the gun don't seem to fit together like it was one idea.

Ouch, okay that stings a bit considering I spent many hours over a couple days on this. It's supposed to be incongruous, that's the surreal look I was intending. However, clipart it surely is not. Each of the gnomes was drawn and vectored much larger and shrunk down for the design, perhaps that could be why you think it looks that way? I guarantee you it was a single idea from the start (actually there was a bit more to it initially. I had included a scope with a gnome manning a telescope inside, but I decided to take it out.)

To everyone else who has voted so far, I'm really quite thrilled with my rookie debut here and you all have made me feel very welcome. Thanks wooters.

Re: Gnomophobia

An airgun, now I see.
It's the Beeman 2006 P17 isn't it?
Although you used a mirror image of the gun, if it were really the left side there would be the safety. Or did you leave that out intentionally?

ChaoticMidget wrote:Not even that. I just knew from the thumbnail it was a ramyb shirt, which is slightly peculiar considering it is enough of a deviation from his usual style where I shouldn't have been able to assume that automatically.

So you recognize LRR, did he do fairy tales a-z at one point? Tho if that, or something similar, is why you recognize her it's unlikely to be grounds for rejection as it is substantially reworked. And if that is how the girl was done it would explain why she looks (to me) like a sticker placed in an unrelated scene.

thatrobert wrote:

• Congratulations on winning a Best Loser Award!
  
• This is not SPAM.
  
• Winning a BLA does NOT mean this shirt won't print -- I'm hoping it does.
  
• Your one and only gift is this crappy little badge in your shirt thread. Enjoy.
  
• Smoking cigarettes and watching "Kaptain Kangaroo" -- don't tell me, I've nothing to do.
  

Thanks Robert!

sTyLeS wrote:Nothing magic about resubmitting. After you fix the issue and place on the heather gray template (make sure your thumbnail is changed to reflect it as well, so they match), then you just submit it again the same way you submitted the first one. Some people put the word resub in their title so people know and they can vote for it again if they want.
Plus, if it's within the first 24 hours of submitting you can delete the first one by clicking the red 'X' near the upper right corner of your image.

Okay, thanks! Very kind of you for responding.

Re: Wootophobia

dang oh well Inkwiz it was worth a try

Johndis5 wrote:This shirt is mediocre at best. Kind of boring concept, but well executed. This thread, however, has my vote! The two biggest know-it-all blowhards this community has to offer, going at it, is great! Keep up the good work guys!

Say what? Um there are many on this forum that are much larger of blowhards than tjost. Now for concept, can I see you do better? I love when people critize other peoples work with out showing a good use of the theme themselves. Tjost defended his claims with factual evidence and work that he has done before. Adder, now, I know you love to troll, but come on man, atleast get better fuel for your fire, all you have done after the first post is recoil and try to attack woot and certain artists that have no correlation to this thread.

Go back to your blog now please, go, shoo, you are not needed here. :D

jodiehuie wrote:Too bad Woot doesn't appreciate the humor. I like it and would have bought one.

I agree. It was one of my favorite subs for the derby.

Re: Nyctophobia

AAAhhhhhhh I want this shirt so bad!! My daughter does behavioral research on bats....

MUST HAVE SHIRT!!!

AdderXYU wrote:The major difference there is that there is at least a confrontation of the fear. There is no confrontation here either. The riding hood character looks neither defiant nor fearful. Neither of them are directly "phobia" related (and that's the theme, not "fear." Fear needs to be present to justify the phobia, but the phobia needs to be present to be on theme), but you can make a far more lucid and intelligent argument for Stardamsel's based on the image itself. There is zero context clue in this design that the riding hood character is even aware of the lupine-representation-of-fear, let alone facing a fear or being fearful of it.

Combine this with the similar shirts listed, and the being undeniably similar in theme and execution to a Sekiyoku piece, also off theme and not rejected in its derby, and this should be gone yesterday.

So, I get from your post that in the version of Little Red Riding Hood you read, Red and the Wolf were bestest buddies that met up in the woods and then went to Red's grandma's house where she baked them a cake and everyone had a good time! You're arguing that "The shirt does not convey a fear/phobia" when you've been able to use your deductive reasoning to determine what the fear is. You're not asking "What fear/phobia is being represented?" I'd say that makes a good argument for following the theme.

And obviously, shirts with Red and Wolf have been done, so no one is ever allowed to make a shirt with Red and Wolf ever again. EVER. Oh god, there's multiple shirts in the derby representing a fear of spiders! They're all copying each other!

Hope this design wins. It's been a while since there was a design I was sure I would buy if it won.

Re: A Smile for You...

Thank you both for your comments. This is a design I plan on reworking at a later date. The way it is now it looks a little "plain". With more detail, (shadows, highlights, texturing) it could look much better. It will be a nice exercise to pratice linework and coloring...

Bulnes wrote:AAAhhhhhhh I want this shirt so bad!! My daughter does behavioral research on bats....

MUST HAVE SHIRT!!!

You shall have it! -turns on magical overly-complicated Woot machine, sets dial to WIN-

I really expect this to place, and I will be soooo happy.... YAY batty!

Re: Nothing scarier than children

amazing, and i love the colors!

Re: Nyctophobia

so clever and bright!

+1

paigeg wrote:Ah, just no time. I even had a second idea I wanted to toy with, but work is just insane this week. I get home so wound up and frazzled, I just want to veg out.

Record it. Either write it down somewhere or do a rough sketch. It may work for some theme in the future. I had a great idea for a Halloween T, but by the time Hallowoot came around I could not remember what it was.
(And I still have a list of things that start with every letter of the alphabet, even though I haven't used it in the last two alphabet derbies.)

kylemittskus wrote:Have you seen Monsters, Inc.?

uh yes I have, multiple times... Have you?

thatrobert wrote:Wow, how'd you know?

I recognized him even in the thumbnail... I love him. The girl looked familiar too.
nice job

love the design, hard to understand the meaning without the title.

Re: Cowabungaphobia

Hey I thought I'd already commented on this. Well it's never too late to say: me likey.

The worried pizza got my vote. And I like the gray too. :^)

reminds me of lichtenstein without it being a knock-off. well done!

Re: Along Came a Spider

I love this piece! Even though creeping things are not my favorite subject, the art on this is just bloody. Nicely done bassanimation and tjost!

I find it ironic that Adder can call someone cocky as if it is a bad thing when that's his whole game. I don't think tjost is being cocky, but rather defending his knowledge. Good for you for sticking to your guns. I think it's clear that a great piece of art does not necessarily make a great shirt. However, when you know the science behind how it will appear on the shirt, the odds of it printing the way it should are great. This is not my line of work, but if someone sarcastically and unnecessarily attacked what I do and I know I'm good at it and did it the right way, why would I shy away from saying so? That doesn't make me conceited or arrogant, but confident in my ability. So, well played, tjost. Keep up the great art and thanks for sharing professional information with the Woot community.

I didn't type "bloody", don't know why it was changed. How about lovely? zombtastic? You get the idea... :D

HujoeBigs wrote:Now for concept, can I see you do better? I love when people critize other peoples work with out showing a good use of the theme themselves.

The idea that one must be proficient in something in order to offer a critique is ghoulic at best.

ghoulic... nice filter.

I know it's ad hominem, but it could've been said this way instead,

"I don't like these artists, therefore, I feel they should not succeed."

The point then, would be much more clear, without having to be under the guise of looking out for the average woot consumer. (which is pointless, because said consumers voted for this design, so why would he be looking out for them anyway). Should we listen more to the person who has experience creating these designs or the person who has experience looking at these designs? You either like these designs or you don't. Do we really have to resort to online bullying?

We get it. You think you're right, and we disagree.

That being said, I think this shirt is terrifying! It is very well done, which is not a surprise coming from Bass and TJost...

I'll say, "I like this design... and I like these artists. I sure hope they succeed".

AcorNayho wrote:I know it's ad hominem, but it could've been said this way instead,

"I don't like these artists, therefore, I feel they should not succeed."

The point then, would be much more clear, without having to be under the guise of looking out for the average woot consumer. (which is pointless, because said consumers voted for this design, so why would he be looking out for them anyway). Should we listen more to the person who has experience creating these designs or the person who has experience looking at these designs? You either like these designs or you don't. Do we really have to resort to online bullying?

We get it. You think you're right, and we disagree.

That being said, I think this shirt is terrifying! It is very well done, which is not a surprise coming from Bass and TJost...

I'll say, "I like this design... and I like these artists. I sure hope they succeed".

I keep looking for "like" buttons on comments. They're never there.

AcorNayho wrote:I know it's ad hominem, but it could've been said this way instead,

"I don't like these artists, therefore, I feel they should not succeed."

The point then, would be much more clear, without having to be under the guise of looking out for the average woot consumer. (which is pointless, because said consumers voted for this design, so why would he be looking out for them anyway). Should we listen more to the person who has experience creating these designs or the person who has experience looking at these designs? You either like these designs or you don't. Do we really have to resort to online bullying?

We get it. You think you're right, and we disagree.

That being said, I think this shirt is terrifying! It is very well done, which is not a surprise coming from Bass and TJost...

I'll say, "I like this design... and I like these artists. I sure hope they succeed".

Thanks AcorNayho, and thanks everyone who has supported this or commented. Sorry the thread got hijacked, and I'm sorry if I sounded like a braggart. I like what I do and am good at it and that may have come across too strong, so sorry. Thanks again and thank you Bass for the collab

Re: Fear on a new Level

Can you name the characters in this dwg? They look familiar, but I just can't place them.

kschlege wrote:Ok, I'll backpedal and say that a blanket statement of tracing/using images is not art. There are some exceptions, like Andy Warhol and the Obama poster. Those are art.

But in general, I still stand by my original statement.

I just hope you realize how many famous, old, landscape paintings were, essentially, traced photographs through use of a camera obscura.

Re: calculuphobia, fear of calculus

wow. i think never made it this far up in a derby. i feel like winner already hehe

Siax wrote:dang oh well Inkwiz it was worth a try

lol yeah it was. I guess they fear it too much...

kevlar51 wrote:I'd vote again if I could, but these pesky "rules" keep me from doing just so.

Yeah! I wish I had just more voters who knew me and had the following these others cats have but when it comes down to it, its a matter of what people like. BTW, the way I like your spider in shoe design. way creepy!

rtofirefly wrote:Ouch, okay that stings a bit considering I spent many hours over a couple days on this. It's supposed to be incongruous, that's the surreal look I was intending. However, clipart it surely is not. Each of the gnomes was drawn and vectored much larger and shrunk down for the design, perhaps that could be why you think it looks that way? I guarantee you it was a single idea from the start (actually there was a bit more to it initially. I had included a scope with a gnome manning a telescope inside, but I decided to take it out.)

To everyone else who has voted so far, I'm really quite thrilled with my rookie debut here and you all have made me feel very welcome. Thanks wooters.

i believe this art work was done from scratch,
and hours was spent to create this bloody work..i believe so because i witnessed it on progress :D this one deserves to be printed :D

lexiflexi wrote:wow. i think never made it this far up in a derby. i feel like winner already hehe

Enjoy. And come back again next week (or actually tomorrow for the next derby announcement).