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greypanther13 wrote:I'm surprised by all the personal attacks in the comments. It kind of feels like kindergarten.

Yes, this drawing DOES look like it belongs in kindergarten. Hey-o. That joke wrote itself.

But honestly I haven't seen many personal attacks in this thread. "This shirt sucks" and "Ramyb sucks" are two different things. I've seen a lot of "this shirt sucks." Ramy actually does have good designs in derbies. The ones that don't involve poorly drawn cartoon animals tend to end up looking quite nice.

The reason you see so many scathing attacks every week from people is that these shirts are in fact (slightly) harmful to us. "If you don't like it then don't vote it and don't buy it" doesn't complete the story. The fact that 1 in 7 woot shirts (clearly I'm inflating this number, I know this style doesn't place every week) is a poorly drawn bead eyed animal pushes out other designs we'd like to buy time and time again. Fairly or unfairly, in some people's minds woot has become a "cute shirt" site, and foremost among the contributors to that style is Ramy. Of course people are going to lash out about that.

Frankly I'd rather see a site that is open to both criticism and praise of the works submitted, rather than some sort of pseudo-censoring "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" system.

Re: pick one

bummer it was rejected, a cute design. probably would have done better with dif. colors on each corner?

slowjam wrote:But honestly I haven't seen many personal attacks in this thread.
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Frankly I'd rather see a site that is open to both criticism and praise of the works submitted, rather than some sort of pseudo-censoring "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" system.

Personal attacks are regularly deleted, so unless you visit often, you won't see them. He'll, I've even had non-personal-attack comments deleted, so ??? (Note that I'm not sure if the OP is referring to current state or some transient state of thread flux).

To be fair though, criticism of the work, if well or even poorly reasoned, is retained, so your second point stands.

Re: Four Seasonings

I'm sad that this won't make it

Re: Trading Horses 4 Horse Power (4 Wheel'n)

This is cute.

TedW wrote:Elementary, my dear W00Tson!

hahahaha

Re: Lucky Switch

This is dark...

Re: The Sorting Hat's Choice

Get the reference, but does the hat looks like excrement upon first glance.

Re: celestial guides

This is amazing...

skippykj wrote:Left4Dead anyone?

I definitely agree. I saw the same thing.

blinddog3d wrote:"4 Ninjas of Color" is politically incorrect, It's "4 African-American Ninjas," or "Fo' o' M'ninjaz" in the street vernacular.

Nice design.
BlindDog3D

Hahaha. I actually resent being called African American. I much rather be called American or by my name.

Re: RGB (with black) Click Pen of Awesome

I liked this...

Re: 4 Narwhals of the Apocalypse

cute

lustwane wrote:gah, i liked it right up until i saw it. now i have do your boobs hang low stuck in my head.

Oh darn it... how could you do this to me?

Re: Four personified seasons

This shirt is beautiful, but I could never wear it.

j5 wrote:Agree with the others, looks like white kitty ate her rival. Also, you don't need the eyebrows on the black cats.

I was kind of hoping that was the meaning...

Re: Fantastic Musketeers [Resub]

This is now officially my most voted-on design.

Thank you to all who voted, I appreciate it. Next time, I will strive to find the perfect mix of design, execution, and more sique halftone colors. I'm going for 100 votes, so I'm gonna bring it (I hope it's a good one).

Cheers, see you next time!
BlindDog3D

Narfcake wrote:Yay, GMV!

Evan and Owen are a month old today, and if this post lingers long enough on the internet for them to see, feel free to blame me for starting the whole DoOomkittens nickname thing. ^_^

Well I think it's cute

Re: Four Seasons of Robots

I love this shirt!

Dude, I love this design. I'm voting for it, even though it's in direct competition with mine for 22nd

I love your site too. It has a very clean, chic feel to it.

noisdois wrote:Dude, I love this design. I'm voting for it, even though it's in direct competition with mine for 22nd

I love your site too. It has a very clean, chic feel to it.

Thats so good to hear. This has been quite an experience. I started designing shirts a few of months ago as a personal project and this month and a half at Woot has been amazing. I've learn a lot and I hope to keep submitting and sharing them with everyone.

I am not a Power Rangers fan (I' m already on my 30's, but shhh, hahaha), but I really liked the style and the fact that they look like PowerPuff girls (I love those girls) For next year's 5th anniversary, how about adding Mojo Jojo? Good luck!

BTW, You already have my vote!

Re: Four Classmates

I cannot possibly vote for this enough, especially given that I can only vote once! I LOVE this!!!

omarfeliciano wrote:Thats so good to hear. This has been quite an experience. I started designing shirts a few of months ago as a personal project and this month and a half at Woot has been amazing. I've learn a lot and I hope to keep submitting and sharing them with everyone.

I am not a Power Rangers fan (I' m already on my 30's, but shhh, hahaha), but I really liked the style and the fact that they look like PowerPuff girls (I love those girls) For next year's 5th anniversary, how about adding Mojo Jojo? Good luck!

BTW, You already have my vote!

It's great to have you here. I'm glad you're enjoying the t-shirt realm. I designed for Woot a few years back and got a couple of prints, but since then I've never really come close. I dropped off for a couple of years because I felt like doing other things, but it's great to be back and designing again. It's a tough competition, but there's a lot to learn, and everybody truly does have a chance at winning, despite what people think (heck, despite what I have thought in the past).

Re: Error 404; T-Shirt design not found

Besides, you do know that similar shirts exist, right?

http://www.hanes.com/Hanes/Products/Men-Hanes/Men_ShopByCategory-Hanes/Men_Tshirts-Hanes/Men_Tshirts_ShortSleeve-Hanes/9881.aspx

thelargepaddle wrote:This is sweet! I would love to show up to Vocal Jazz and show everybody this one. They would all love it.

basschick22 wrote:As a bassist (orchestral and bass guitar), I gotta say I like it!

Thanks. I hope it appeals to sports fans as well.

MathUhhhSaurus wrote:oh yeah! Bass clarinet ftw! :D another good bass: bari-sax

Bari-sax (or, you know, bass sax to really keep with the theme-within-theme) would have been a good choice. I could have used that instead of the bass drum. *shrug*

meatpopsicle333 wrote:Actually his 4 is nothing like the real one

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/8558/The%20Fantastic%20Four.jpg

Actually, it's somewhat like the real one http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/8558/The%20Fantastic%20Four.jpg (although the copyrighted image is probably blue, not black)
The Fantastic Four didn't start as a movie, after all.

Thank-you chennai8, thatrobert, Adelas! your comments are greatly appreciated. It is an honour to be a best loser.

jnorah wrote:OK then, this is what I am use to seeing from you. I love this!!!

Man you really do go all out with those Halftones. Any way the concept and idea are very well executed and I like it on the baby blue.

Thanks, J-dawqg!
We need to do a collaboration, but your gonna have to dedicate a Thursday all-nighter, or at least start the lines at noon. I'll spraypaint it by Noon Friday. You line, I dot. If it prints, we split it 40/30/30 because of my split personality(50/50).

BlindDog3D

ochopika wrote:Yes, you can have it for the weekend because I am going camping. Ill just keep the reptilian part for survival.

How did you know Reptile is my favorite kharacter in Mortal Kombat? I digress...

I might not be able to borrow the brain-hopper-in-er this weekend...but if I can get it, when and where do I pick up your brain? I work saturday, so I might not be able to grab it till later in the day...

Also, you may want to hold on to a warm-blooded-creature part of your brain for survival purposes...just sayin...y'know, unless you're cold-blooded too which would be even more totally awesome than this shirt design (as discussed earlier). =O haha

Re: DPAD-4-LIFE

You must have insulted too many "new-school" gamers with the whole analogue/arcade stick bashing in your post about your design...too bad, because I need this shirt in my life so bad! C'mon people, VOTE MOAR! =D

Which reminds me by the way, I never got around to responding to this...

ochopika wrote:Laggy does woot ever yell at you for getting people off topic?

No, they have not...yet, anyway =D haha

Thinaeariel wrote:If this doesn't get in the fog, and you print it elsewhere...you should let me know. It's great.

2nd'd

Re: Four Seasonings

Overused theme but as for creative use, this wins.

Re: Four Seasonings

This is definitely the best take on the four seasons of the derby.

ApeLad wrote:Thanks! I appreciate that!

so this shirt is rad. it better get made.

so is there really a ban on tardis related things? i mean how does ript get away with far more blatant copyright issues?

kuhan wrote:FINALLY, this shirt is BACK! I cannot wait to wear this all over my body forever and always.

Agreed - when was this submitted originally? Didn't it die for having the wrong color background/template (I think heather, which had that weird, not solid color background)? That was such a long time ago..got my vote for sure!

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=44698

Almost a year ago in road trip, it turns out

stevelopez wrote:so this shirt is rad. it better get made.

so is there really a ban on tardis related things? i mean how does ript get away with far more blatant copyright issues?

I've never heard of any ban till this comment thread.

laughtrack wrote:Impressive... You managed to put bunnies, squirrels, and zombies on the same shirt...

Too bad the no zombies rule didn't last longer after the zombies derby, eh?

Re: Four Classmates

this is wondrous

Re: Four Seasonings

The four seasons as table seasonings was definitely a more clever way than most to get the idea out there