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tgentry wrote:I wouldn't think of just gross personality defects (i.e. bad hygiene). There are a lot of personality flaws that people would, and do, proudly display on their shirts. I think the smart designer will look for those.

"There are all kinds of horrible, crippling personality defects you can find in the wild. So this week, illustrate your most repulsive, your most repugnant, or maybe your most endearing personality defects. "

Overall, it just seems a bit too mean-spirited to me. The whole idea seems to be to make fun of someone, but in a way that everyone else will laugh at them.

pass.

TobiasAmaranth wrote:Anyone willing to try to illustrate "Aspergers", preferably in animal form somehow?

Ahhh, I hope not. I think Woot's looking more for 'quirks', not autism.

Narfcake wrote:Is t-shirt hoa ... er, collecting, a personality disorder?

Just pondering ...

Naw, personality disorders are an Axis II diagnosis and I'd put you squarely on Axis I (312.30).

chennai8 for best post of the week!

You have one of those socially awkward moments, when you realize... you just don't fit in...

nathanwpyle wrote:J5 I hear you! may/may not go with it
second sketch...

"Pedantic" and/or "sloppy speller"

This is awesome!

Josephus wrote:"There are all kinds of horrible, crippling personality defects you can find in the wild. So this week, illustrate your most repulsive, your most repugnant, or maybe your most endearing personality defects. "

Overall, it just seems a bit too mean-spirited to me. The whole idea seems to be to make fun of someone, but in a way that everyone else will laugh at them.

pass.

I dunno, from nathan's wips, he seems to be on the right track with the theme, and not at all mean-spirited.

nathanwpyle wrote:J5 I hear you! may/may not go with it
second sketch...

"Pedantic" and/or "sloppy speller"

Totally made me giggle.

paigeg wrote:I dunno, from nathan's wips, he seems to be on the right track with the theme, and not at all mean-spirited.

I second that. I totally see where Josephus is coming from, and I'll bet we see a lot of entries like that, but I'll be voting for stuff like nathan's. I'm far more likely to vote for, and buy, a shirt that illustrates, in a funny way like nathan's, a trait I know I have myself rather than one that makes fun of other people.

bluejester wrote:A person head tilted upwards, eyes closed, spouting off dozens of gigantic stone blocks that form the word "Blah," surrounded by several people who have been flatened by the "blah, blahs." Maybe have the person gesturing wildly?

Just had this idea, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

My first thought was the background a full speech bubble and skeleys/cobwebed listeners. But I think it has been done.

CrystaIEyes wrote:Hahaha that's great! But way beyond my skill level/available free time.

You should do it though!

Wait, what?

Inspired by Jimmy Kimmel's Unnecessary Censorship and could work for those with potty mouths and those who like censoring them.

DirkDDarring wrote:It's been a while since I have submitted anything and this contests sounds interesting but I am at a loss. Does anyone have a list of personality defects? I looked it up on Google and got mental disorders, guess they don't consider body odder a defect. Any help would be appreciated, maybe this will be the thing I need to kick start my creativity. Thanks in advance.

Try socially awkward instead of defect in your search.

nathanwpyle wrote:J5 I hear you! may/may not go with it
second sketch...

"Pedantic" and/or "sloppy speller"

BRILLIANT! As a professional editor, this would be my new favorite shirt.

My soul is already crying over the non-AA print.

paigeg wrote:I dunno, from nathan's wips, he seems to be on the right track with the theme, and not at all mean-spirited.

Totally agree. NATHAN please, make that sloppy speller design!!! It's a fantastic idea!!!

krandaller wrote:BRILLIANT! As a professional editor, this would be my new favorite shirt.

My soul is already crying over the non-AA print.

Haha, glad you like! As a professional writer/producer, it was an idea that hit close to home for me as well..

..though I'm more often tangling with grammar than spelling.

Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

BootsBoots wrote:

Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

A great word and hilarious design

BootsBoots wrote:

Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

I didn't get it, I had to google it =(

But that's just me!

nathanwpyle wrote:J5 I hear you! may/may not go with it
second sketch...

"Pedantic" and/or "sloppy speller"

i like

BootsBoots wrote:

Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

I got it, but I'm finishing a dissertation in psychology, so that's probably to be expected.

I like it!

BootsBoots wrote:

Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

I think it's well known, but it reads without the the title anyway.

BootsBoots wrote:
Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

I am one who had to look it up. I will say that coming from a language that reads left to right the layout is a bit confusing. As you have happy and then the sad, so it doesn't read as that happy coming from the sad. Having the girls look at each other may help the readability too.

Edit- that is coming from trying to figure out the word from your drawing, it didn't click for me, though I don't know that what I suggested would have changed that.

"easily overwhelmed"
Haha, just a silly idea, probably on the outer edge of the theme..
Obviously i'd have to do some halftones here if I submitted

As artists are starting to think about their designs for Derby #251, I wanted to drop off a link to the dynamic list of manufacturer/color combinations as well as post a static but current list here. There's some research behind this, but of course, no guarantees so we accept no liability for your design choices. We do accept spare screaming monkeys in need of a loving home. )

Asphalt - all Anvil
Baby Blue - AA for women and kids, Anvil or AA for men
Black - all Anvil
Brown - AA for kids, Anvil for men and women
Cranberry - all AA
Creme - AA for kids, Anvil for men and women
Grass Green - all Anvil
Kelly Green - all Anvil
Lemon - AA for men and kids, Anvil for women
Navy - all Anvil
Olive - all AA
Red - AA for kids, Anvil for men and women
Royal - AA for men and women, Anvil for kids
Silver - AA for women, Anvil for men and kids
Slate - all Anvil
White - AA for men and kids, Anvil for women

[Note: previous designs have appeared on Anvil brown in kids' sizes and on Anvil baby blue in women's sizes, but kids' brown and women's baby blue shirts have subsequently printed on AA; men's baby blue shirts have been released this week on both Anvil (Monday) and AA (Wednesday), with an older shirt still listed as printing on AA]

neuropsychosocial wrote:As artists are starting to think about their designs for Derby #251, I wanted to drop off a link to the dynamic list of manufacturer/color combinations as well as post a static but current list here. There's some research behind this, but of course, no guarantees so we accept no liability for your design choices. We do accept spare screaming monkeys in need of a loving home. )

Asphalt - all Anvil
Baby Blue - AA for women and kids, Anvil or AA for men
Black - all Anvil
Brown - AA for kids, Anvil for men and women
Cranberry - all AA
Creme - AA for kids, Anvil for men and women
Grass Green - all Anvil
Kelly Green - all Anvil
Lemon - AA for men and kids, Anvil for women
Navy - all Anvil
Olive - all AA
Red - AA for kids, Anvil for men and women
Royal - AA for men and women, Anvil for kids
Silver - AA for women, Anvil for men and kids
Slate - all Anvil
White - AA for men and kids, Anvil for women

[Note: previous designs have appeared on Anvil brown in kids' sizes and on Anvil baby blue in women's sizes, but kids' brown and women's baby blue shirts have subsequently printed on AA; men's baby blue shirts have been released this week on both Anvil (Monday) and AA (Wednesday), with an older shirt still listed as printing on AA]

Just a quick question because I'm not fully understanding of this concept, but what is AA and Anvil?

BootsBoots wrote:

Is this gettable?

"Schadenfreude" is my favorite word, but I'm not sure how many people know it.

Best word ever! Got it right away.

Well, I'm going then with something smelly, "Bad Breath" (sorry, but had the idea before all the debate). I looked for this idea but found nothing similar...It's a really rough sketch but I think it will look good. But this doesn't mean...that...I...have bad breath...I swear... haha Hope you like it, and any thought will be appreciated. I wanna add some details like posters of "join the vampire slayers" or things like that

Here's the finished design.


EDIT:
here's the final final...

Is this funny?
Alternate text: "I just need some space."

unsenuchiha wrote:Just a quick question because I'm not fully understanding of this concept, but what is AA and Anvil?

shirt.woot is in the process of switching the "blank" shirts (called "blanks") on which they print the designs. Previously, they used American-made "AA" (American Apparel) and now they will use Honduran/Nicaraguan/Bangladeshi-made Anvil blanks. However, they still have some AA shirts left, so shirts are printing on a mix of AA and Anvil shirts right now, sometime with men's shirts made by one manufacturer and women's by the other, for the same design. I posted the color/manufacturer combination list in case a designer was interested in using that information to choose a shirt color for his/her Derby design.

wirdou wrote:Well, I'm going then with something smelly, "Bad Breath" (sorry, but had the idea before all the debate). I looked for this idea but found nothing similar...It's a really rough sketch but I think it will look good. But this doesn't mean...that...I...have bad breath...I swear... haha Hope you like it, and any thought will be appreciated. I wanna add some details like posters of "join the vampire slayers" or things like that

Hahaha love it. Poor guy fighting a losing battle there

Thanks for the advice, everybody. Better reversed (with some clean up coming)?



Edit: I still kind of read it the same way - Schadenfreude Master, Pleased Woman, Sad Woman. I think I go by height (top to bottom) when I look at t-shirts. Maybe that's just me, though.

goldenthorn wrote:I guess it's because I already saw the left to right/up to down, and also because we're naturalized to read left to right/up to down in this culture, but reversed just seems very jarring. I don't feel that it flows right in reverse.

I think I agree with you after staring at it posted here for a minute. Thanks.

BootsBoots wrote:I think I agree with you after staring at it posted here for a minute. Thanks.

I agree with your agreement

"I concur"

nathanwpyle wrote:I agree with your agreement

"I concur"

Seconded. or third-ed. ed.
whatever, original 's better :-)

mailmanmo wrote:Seconded. or third-ed. ed.
whatever, original 's better :-)

We are all agreed! Now let us celebrate!

(thank you, everyone).

How about Narcissism?

lyonscc wrote:How about Narcissism?

Really clever, but why is it hurtling through space?