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Re: Young Love Mix

very charming illustration... and looks great on a shirt!

Re: Sport Walker

brilliantly rendered. love it

Re: Back in the Day

Oh the memories! The shirt design looks great.

Re: Cooler than You

The one thing that particularly stands out is the "snow thing" they are on and the lines coming from it...I'd be curious to know whether they're supposed to be on an iceberg or whether they're simply on a patch of snow...

jxchen wrote:This is a very obvious play on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu. The illustration is nice, but it is not within the rules of the derby this week.

"No Mario, Star Wars, or any other pop culture reference."

Yeah, this is definitely a pop culture reference. And Draxx himself has had a win with Cthulhu earlier.

Re: Oh Gnome, not again!

With the advent of digital media we can only assume that these little guys are now independent contractors for the sock stealing industry.

Re: Young Love Mix

The kids is clipart. Why don't you try resubbing with your own illustration there?

Re: Sound Bite

love it the prederby thread. Would have liked it on grass green but still dig it!!

FlyingMouse365 wrote:A Walkman version, thanks for the input

Much better! I love the yellow too! Great artwork. +1

Re: The Audiophile

Cool, funny, and very unique. I'd want one!

Re: Boogie Nights

I like the snowy owl, boogyin' down.

Re: You spin me right round

love it, gmv

motorwerks wrote:With the advent of digital media we can only assume that these little guys are now independent contractors for the sock stealing industry.

I thought it was underpants stealing. At least, I hear that's where the profit is at.

Re: The Phonograph Bird

Clean, colorful, and cute (and on Heather Grey!!) This is a nicely executed idea. I love the little album cover against the trunk. And I love the movement implied by his feet and the record.

Have you trademarked the Robot yet? :D
Your best designs include him and I'd love to see one print!

Re: TapeWorm

Very cute, I love it!

Re: Back in the Day

Ahaha, I used to love doing this. Not sure why.

kylemittskus wrote:This is 1000x better than the predictable penguin shirt currently in the fog.

Agreed. The tragic thing to me, is that outside of Walmazan, Lucky probably has the best mix of things that the "we want art" crowd and the "we want something cute" crowd both claim to want. The art is well done in a personal style with great color treatment, and they manage to always be cute, funny and sometimes with an original pop culture reference.yet, he's not winning every other week.

Spiritgreen wrote:Hey! Love the melting vinyl and plastic, this one hot design. ^__^

It's on fire!!! LOL, burning up the dance floor! Really burning it... I did have the records shattering apart at first and then I came to my senses and made them melting

Re: Tape

I like the shaky lines and the use of minimal color (and the color of the shirt as space). I'm not really into the literal joke, but I just wanted to comment on the style. Excellent.

Re: The Comeback

I love the angry eyes!

Re: Cooler than You

I don't mind this design at all. It's the slapdash designs that irks me; however, one thing I noticed is that the blue halftone could come up a bit. The arch of the headphones gets lost in the dark color T. The shirt placement is not even noticeable, but even the larger image struggles a tad. If the blue halftone was brought up a bit, then the arc of the headphones would be more defined.

Sorry if someone made this critique, but I hope you understand why I don't read through this entire thread :P

Re: You spin me right round

And here, boys and girls, is a lovely example of how to use a penguin in your design. Engaging movement? Check. Good use of color? Check. An endearing use of shaky (but well executed lines)? Check.

One more vote? Check.

Re: Music Never Dies

Wow, that is cool! The way you did the fire around the music media reminds me of comics in the early nineties.

kbloomq1 wrote:I like the snowy owl, boogyin' down.

Thank you, kbloomq1!

Re: The Audiophile

Awesome! Who knew it was possible for a robot to look so content?

Re: born from a boombox

Really, really nice you guys. This collab captures the spirit of both you so well. :^)

Re: The Audiophile

turned out great! good luck!

Re: Mine is the last voice you will ever hear

you have a great eye for design, this is crazy cool.

Re: Cassargyle v2

I like this darker one better, but voted for both. Good luck.

Re: Music Never Dies

Are you burning Stravinsky's "Firebird?" Because that would be sad.

If this prints, I'll "aunt-gift" this to my sister. That is, because I know she likes phoenices, I get the shirt for her.

Re: Unknown Flying Record

I like, made me laugh. Perspective is a little weird though, you're looking down on the spaceship but across the landscape.

ThunderThighs wrote:R E M I N D E R

Posts in this and any thread are expected to be civil without any name calling, trolling, or other prohibited behavior. That doesn't mean you can't critique -- it means you do so in a mature manner.

The thread is now clean. You are now warned. Any further posts along these lines might very well earn you a time out.

That is one big hammer! Did you get that at Home Depot? ;)

My only critique would be to ask why didn't you research the extinct penguins for 15 minutes and use the Great Auk?
It would have fit beautiful to incorporate an extinct penguin with extinct music mediums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk

I am really surprised more artists aren't zeroing in on this, e.g. Dodo listening to a Victrola?

hinopup wrote:I like the design but there is just something bothering me about it... After thinking about it for a bit I am think it is the fact the the penguin is skating with the rotation of the record not against. Not a big deal though... you still get my vote.

It must be a lazy penguin, but he doesn't have to worry till the next song anyway.

kevlar51 wrote:Clean, simple, and works very well on a shirt -- +1 sir

That's what I thought too but surprised its not doing as well.

sTyLeS wrote:And do you have permission to use said illustration that isn't yours?

The definition of clip art is salable rights to reproduce. I'm fairly sure that most Dover is usable for production tees and it's pretty darn cheap, but I'm no expert.

Re: Cooler than You

I was kind of hoping ramy would at least pick a songbird for his design this week. It'd work well with the 'cute' art style he usually goes with and be something new. Plus it'd be more relevant to the theme imho.

odysseyroc wrote:Would you say it's Top Qualified?

I said TOP NOTCH dag nabbit! :P

But I do love Lateef and lyrics Born (even though lyrics born seems to be more R&B/ dance now). Latyrx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!

Re: The Vinyl Four

I'd love some feedback on this design so I can work on improving it. Thanks! :D

Re: you spin me right round

I absolutely love the colors on this and that you put it on asphalt rather than black. Admittedly I have too many asphalt shirts but I definitely think it was the best color choice for this design.

So far, this is the only entry I think I'd actually buy. +1