Shirt.Woot

Re: PerambulateMan

Something about this just makes me smile

IgnatiusRiley wrote:Maybe Woot would benefit from the editors selecting their favorite shirt from each week's derby and putting it up for sale on Thursday. I'm guessing they would make better selections than the site's voters have been making as of late, so we'd be more likely to get at least one decent print out of each contest. If the editor's choice turns out to be in the top three anyway they could just sell some old shirt on Thursday like they usually do.

I don't usually like the editor's choices anyway though... but if they did do that, they should pick the favorite on Monday, not Thursday, to avoid complications.

how can this shirt be so underrated? this is at least fog material.

I think a lot of people kinda missed the mark this week, but this I would wear....

Re: Audio Mythos

Thanks to you both, for un-boring this derby. I can even forgive the choice of asphalt for the tee.

Re: Walk, Man, Walk

Been away for a bit - glad to see this doing well. GMV!

Re: How it really worked

Wow, thanks so-much for all the nice comments!
I never thought this design would do so well...

Love it!

Re: You spin me right round

LOVE, Love, love. Love on NAVY. The brightness of the royal, on my monitor, is killing it for me. But - gotta love a guy named Lucky!

Awesome!

skaake wrote:Nice! I like your lines and color.

:D Thanks!

Just a question in general, why is this being rated so poorly?

Nice!

CrescentDebris wrote:I'm all for rules. And if we broke the rules, then it should be removed. But I don't think it did. If I thought so I wouldn't have bothered to work on it. I had this idea that the rule was to stop designs similar to the specified Mario and Star Wars restrictions... such as no "Back to the Future", no "Lord of the Rings", no "Zelda" or more Ackbar shirts with him tangles up in tape saying "It's an Eight Trap"

I thought Cthulhu was on par with (as someone mentioned) Dracula, Frankenstein, mummies, werewolves, zombies, dragons, pirates, ninjas, and various food items with adorable little "COLON D" faces :D

Now, if we're talking about a total wipe of every connection to any common ideas or elements that exist in the modern mainstream, such as the aforementioned smiley, then I apologize and I'll get started on that side placement vector cassette tape swirly design I was thinking about. But I really hope that won't be necessary.

I guess you haven't read too many of my posts (there haven't been that many) but I've always been an ardent supporter of you guys. I always appreciate that you bring something fresh and new to the table. I am as vitriolic in my hate of kawai animals as a certain adder is, and I've made my views very clear on the blatant pandering that goes on here as well.

BUT at the same time, I must insist on being impartial. You need to understand that the people who appreciate your art do so because you've desisted from indulging in the low-brow tactics like the ones highlighted above.

It appears you have realized that there aren't enough of us, so you need to go after the obvious majority of fawning Lamuellans who will buy anything that invokes a feeling of nostalgia or celebrates nerdiness. You know as well as I do that this design violates the pop culture rule in spirit, even if not in letter.

You guys deserve better, both for your creativity and effort. I'm wearing "Rock, paper, dragon" as I'm typing this. But if you do choose to go the glowy/cute/Dr. Who way, you might win more, but I'll consider it an(other) unfortunate sellout.

guitarhero88 wrote:love it!

thanks my first time posting on woot. glad you like it!

peoleusuck wrote:this really shouldn't reject this because they are contradicting there own rules

While I think it's way too harsh to reject this design, they are definitely not contradicting their own rules.

Re: Forest Melody

Awww, I really wish this design was going more votes. I like the way you've drawn the Walkman and the bear. It's so sweet.

deadshot042 wrote:I think the fact that there is a "Ramy rule" speaks for itself. Woot has started to ban random combinations of rabbits, penguins, turtle, etc... for some reason. I can't speak to their motives, but would guess this has something to do with the popularity of shirts that seem to be the same exact idea. This idea, being place a set of cute generic animals on a shirt, has been largely popularized and monopolized by RamyB. Thus there is now a "Ramy rule".

If shirt.woot had no interest in creativity or artistic merit, then they would have no reason to enforce rules or create themes. They do so in order to promote interesting, new designs. Picking on this design for being so similar to everything else RamyB has done is completely valid, as the site has a focus on printing creative designs, as well as popular ones.

This shirt may not violate the letter of the law for this week, but it certainly violates the spirit. The "Ramy rule" isn't in place because woot staffers hate bunnies, but love penguins. It's there to avoid the same design we've all seen one hundred times before. Unfortunately the "Ramy rule" did not go far enough and so we are left with this as a probable winner.

They didn't ban cupcakes, evil cephalopods, etc. If you don't like artists who repeat themselves [and it's not just RamyB], don't vote for their shirts. The shirt is CUTE, but I'm not into the theme this week.

Re: Sounds like hell

Sick hatching!

Re: Audio Mythos

Guys, keep up the great work, it's hard for me to imagine this site without you two. I for one love creepy, eerie designs. For good measure, from time to time you guys throw out a clever, witty, semi-cutesy shirt, no hard feelings though... lol
Seriously though, please just keep these fresh ideas rolling in, b/c I'll choke if I see another penguin/turtle/panda/combination of/or whatnot.

I love it! Especially the walrus, that's my favourite.

dreamwootseeker wrote:You guys deserve better, both for your creativity and effort. I'm wearing "Rock, paper, dragon" as I'm typing this. But if you do choose to go the glowy/cute/Dr. Who way, you might win more, but I'll consider it an(other) unfortunate sellout.

But Cthulu isn't pop culture. It is specifically a part of counter culture. And they haven't done anything of the sort of glow-y, cute, real pop culture stuff so no need to get all histrionic.

Re: born from a boombox

Revisiting a favorite to add another 'deserves recognition' vote and see what tunes were playing in here. Did you do any more drawings Meg? What you do for fun beats so much of what rates with voters.

Re: Musical Darwinism

Good concept, bad drawing. (sorry)
The art style is not something I'd want to wear. It's a nice idea, just work on making it a bit nicer to look at.

Re: Songs Of The Sea

Stunning work, expo.

Re: You spin me right round

cheers paigeg!

GredandForge wrote:Good concept, bad drawing. (sorry)
The art style is not something I'd want to wear. It's a nice idea, just work on making it a bit nicer to look at.

don't be sorry, just read the comments. It's my first submission to woot, and I'm not what you would call an expert on photoshop. I never expected this to make it this far, and I'm learning as I go. I know that it is not the greatest technical drawing. I'm still getting used to drawing on a tablet rather than paper. It's like doing a watercolor on paper, and then an oil on stretched canvas right after.

Re: The Odd Couple

Very Original.

Re: Flatline

Made me do some deep thinking..
Maybe Im just up to late.

sad, poignant, relative. Id want one

Re: Ancient Artifact

The only thing I would say is that I doubt future archeologists would wear watches :-p

Re: Star trails remix

This is amazing. I would love to have a print up on a wall. That being said, I would never buy it as a shirt, doesn't look like a "wear" design. Sorry.

Re: WAXIN' POETIC!

Poe! On a Record! You know what that means!

...

Wait, no one knows what that means, because the two items are totally unrelated!

skaake wrote:The tapes look really good. The highlights on the dog and person do look too much like lines. I don't know what drawing program you have, but a lasso tool could help. Outline the contours where you want them and then fill it in with a paint brush. Keep it up!

Thanks for the tip!

PixelPants wrote:Revisiting a favorite to add another 'deserves recognition' vote and see what tunes were playing in here. Did you do any more drawings Meg? What you do for fun beats so much of what rates with voters.

thanks! i ended up going to bed early cause i needed to hit the road for the weekend, then i got swamped with some freelance when i got home...always when i dont want any work and just relax is when i get hit over the head with it. >_< i think whatever the next derby is im just gonna pump out like 20 quick drawings for it, those are always fun to do.

Re: Cooler than You

Man... the moment woot lifts penguins from the banned list, I see this. I know, I know, Ramy is fully within his rights to use penguins this week... but it wouldn't suck so much if it didn't feel like he was dodging and rolling the rules each time.

I can handle cute. But consider branching out from typical puppies and bunnies. Why not cute monkies, frogs, or llamas?

Re: Tears and Light

Love the design, but as a female, the placement of the record concerns me slightly. Concentric circles in the chest area can be a little awkward. ;) Still, GMV.

Re: Amplitude

Looks neat, it reminds me of the green swirls they used to have on the Xbox 360 boxes. I guess that's not a bad thing. I like my Xbox. :D

Re: Music Roots

Love it. Way to go!

Re: Dead Man's Party

Heehee, his mouth looks like a Batman batarang. :D

Re: Boom! Box

cute! glad I clicked through.

Re: Let the music play

love your style; this is fun

Re: silicon implant

cute