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I nearly stuffed up with this one, I had originally put in both lower and upper case letters...oops. It was easy enough to remove the lowercase ones though, and that left me more room to draw the monsters.

Re: Alphabestiary!

An Alphabet with every letter illuminated with a fantastic beast of legend! Original illustration and lettering. A is for Amphisbaena, B is for Basilisk etc. Gryphon speculates just how horsey Hippocampus is, and Unicorn meets a friend. The creatures are described in mediaval bestiaries, and ancient texts - Pliny's Natural History or the Physiologos. Can you guess the rest of the names? D for Dragon and C for Chimera are easy enough, but there are some less well known ones in there. Good luck!

GMV, I just worry that you're a little too late with this entry. You missed the weekend rush. Still, one of the coolest entries in this contest. Good luck!

sapphirerage wrote:GMV, I just worry that you're a little too late with this entry. You missed the weekend rush. Still, one of the coolest entries in this contest. Good luck!

Heh, it took me the weekend to draw! Ah well. Thank you! er...what does GMV stand for?

leecetheartist wrote:Heh, it took me the weekend to draw! Ah well. Thank you! er...what does GMV stand for?

GMV = got my vote. : )

leecetheartist wrote:Heh, it took me the weekend to draw! Ah well. Thank you! er...what does GMV stand for?

GMV is "got my vote"
Very cool idea, and fun illustrations, but a bit too crowded for me.
Looks like you had fun though!

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a beautiful bestiary! I'd love this as a print, too

sapphirerage wrote:GMV = got my vote. : )

Oh! Thank you very much!

sailstud25 wrote:GMV is "got my vote"
Very cool idea, and fun illustrations, but a bit too crowded for me.
Looks like you had fun though!

Thanks.

Yes...it is cramped, but I guess that's the nature of the bestiary. :-)

mia3mom wrote:a beautiful bestiary! I'd love this as a print, too

Thank you very much. It was hard work.

If it doesn't place (which would seem to be the case as I've missed the weekend rush it seems) I'm sure I'll find a place for it somewhere, my cafepress shop or somewhere...what's that, bestlosers or something looked interesting, something to think about as the 60 days tick away.

You should submit as a poster somewhere at least. This would be awesome in a kid's room...I'd totally buy it as a poster, but probably not as a shirt.

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Holy telido Radio Active-man! This shirt is awesome! Wow! It must have taken ages to draw all those beasts.

Arrgh, me fears that you got this in a wee bit too late..


Seriously, though, it is SO great! If you DO print it on your own, please contact me, as I would really like to have one!!

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I think you've got too many colours here.

The wyvern has got two different shades of red (head and body). The dragon has two shades of green. There is clearly also yellow, blue, white and black. 8 colours.

I'm afraid that you can only have 6 colours (plus the shirt colour). Black and white do count.

ambergreen wrote:You should submit as a poster somewhere at least. This would be awesome in a kid's room...I'd totally buy it as a poster, but probably not as a shirt.

I generally don't do my work as posters, but I might make an exception. I'd probably have to fool with it a bit to put the names of the beasties in as well.

Thank you for your kind comments!

Shigwarm wrote:Holy telido Radio Active-man! This shirt is awesome! Wow! It must have taken ages to draw all those beasts.

Thank you, you're all so kind. It took me about three days from scratch and finished it on my Monday afternoon, I'm in Western Australia, so the time zones are wildly skewed.

I guess it was worth working through my weekend, but you should have heard me complaining.

SydneyB wrote:Arrgh, me fears that you got this in a wee bit too late..


Seriously, though, it is SO great! If you DO print it on your own, please contact me, as I would really like to have one!!

Thank you very much!
At the very least I'll whack it in my Cafe Press shop if nothing else comes along.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=14323
my first attempt

I have other ideas, but no time. Too much homework and studying to do.
Its supposed to be like lightning and tornado stirring up the alphabet.

eHalcyon wrote:I think you've got too many colours here.

The wyvern has got two different shades of red (head and body). The dragon has two shades of green. There is clearly also yellow, blue, white and black. 8 colours.

I'm afraid that you can only have 6 colours (plus the shirt colour). Black and white do count.

Thanks, I have black, white, green, blue, red, yellow.

Six layers + shirt. The shades on the wyvern look different probably because of the scale pattern...no scales on the head make it look lighter.

Likewise with the dragon, no scales on the head. Only one green, only one blue.

Thanks for your concern though.

taikuodo wrote:http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=14323
my first attempt

I have other ideas, but no time. Too much homework and studying to do.
Its supposed to be like lightning and tornado stirring up the alphabet.

Looks really cool! If I was able to vote (woot doesn't send to Australia) I'd vote for you!

leecetheartist wrote:Thanks, I have black, white, green, blue, red, yellow.

Six layers + shirt. The shades on the wyvern look different probably because of the scale pattern...no scales on the head make it look lighter.

Likewise with the dragon, no scales on the head. Only one green, only one blue.

Thanks for your concern though.

Would it be possible to post a larger picture so we can see all the details? ^_^

Pretty please?

superspryte wrote:Would it be possible to post a larger picture so we can see all the details? ^_^

Pretty please?

Ah...I don't see why not. Is there an etiquette to follow as to where I should put it? Would my livejournal be okay?

leecetheartist wrote:Ah...I don't see why not. Is there an etiquette to follow as to where I should put it? Would my livejournal be okay?

You can upload it wherever you like. When you go to post there's a link to a formatting guide on the left of the text box. You can use that to create the tags to post it. Keep in mind that you should put it somewhere you'll leave it (I use photobucket) because these posts stick around after the derby's over.

superspryte wrote:You can upload it wherever you like. When you go to post there's a link to a formatting guide on the left of the text box. You can use that to create the tags to post it. Keep in mind that you should put it somewhere you'll leave it (I use photobucket) because these posts stick around after the derby's over.

Thank you, I'll do that sometime after the next few hours then, I'm about to wander off for a bit.

leecetheartist wrote:Thank you very much!
At the very least I'll whack it in my Cafe Press shop if nothing else comes along.

Agreed. I want one. And you know, if it goes to Cafe Press, you can make it into posters and other things. Plus, despite the fact that if this shirt gets printed, I'll probably order at least 2, if it goes to Cafe Press, one could get it on white which I think would make the colors REALLY pop!

Slowly but surely, this shirt it movin' up the chart!!

leecetheartist wrote:Thanks, I have black, white, green, blue, red, yellow.

Six layers + shirt. The shades on the wyvern look different probably because of the scale pattern...no scales on the head make it look lighter.

Likewise with the dragon, no scales on the head. Only one green, only one blue.

Thanks for your concern though.

Ah! Alright then. Do you think you could post a list of all the creatures? I'd considered trying this but decided not to. My poor animal-drawing skills aside, I couldn't think of a mythological creature for all the letters, and I don't own a bestiary. =P

sapphirerage wrote:Agreed. I want one. And you know, if it goes to Cafe Press, you can make it into posters and other things. Plus, despite the fact that if this shirt gets printed, I'll probably order at least 2, if it goes to Cafe Press, one could get it on white which I think would make the colors REALLY pop!

Slowly but surely, this shirt it movin' up the chart!!

Thank you. I chose the heather because it was nice to have the white unicorn and Pegasus stand out a bit. Perhaps I could put the names in on the back too.

eHalcyon wrote:Ah! Alright then. Do you think you could post a list of all the creatures? I'd considered trying this but decided not to. My poor animal-drawing skills aside, I couldn't think of a mythological creature for all the letters, and I don't own a bestiary. =P

I don't own a bestiary either, I just did a *lot* of research. :-)

superspryte wrote:You can upload it wherever you like. When you go to post there's a link to a formatting guide on the left of the text box. You can use that to create the tags to post it. Keep in mind that you should put it somewhere you'll leave it (I use photobucket) because these posts stick around after the derby's over.

Alrighty then:

Ok, I don't know what is going on here, when I first posted a reply to the bigger pic, Woot put it in the main discussion thread about this derby so I went back to edit it and say it didn't belong there. Then, it put it where it was supposed to originally be!!

What I wanted to say was that after seeing the bigger pic, I love it even more! Thanks for posting that.

sapphirerage wrote:Ok, I don't know what is going on here, when I first posted a reply to the bigger pic, Woot put it in the main discussion thread about this derby so I went back to edit it and say it didn't belong there. Then, it put it where it was supposed to originally be!!

What I wanted to say was that after seeing the bigger pic, I love it even more! Thanks for posting that.

My pleasure, and thank you once more. I was a bit disappointed with the way it looked on the shirt, so I'm much happier people can see it better now. And definitely that it's only got the six colours. :-)

sapphirerage wrote:Ok, I don't know what is going on here, when I first posted a reply to the bigger pic, Woot put it in the main discussion thread about this derby so I went back to edit it and say it didn't belong there. Then, it put it where it was supposed to originally be!!

What I wanted to say was that after seeing the bigger pic, I love it even more! Thanks for posting that.

All comments on the shirts appear in the main "comments" thread for that derby as well as on the thread for the appropriate shirt. =)

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Totally cool shirt. I send many to my grandson in Germany via Priority mail and they have a special rate box that could fit 4 or more shirts in it. If he gets this shirt, his friends will be sooooo jealous.

naterobnana wrote:Totally cool shirt. I send many to my grandson in Germany via Priority mail and they have a special rate box that could fit 4 or more shirts in it. If he gets this shirt, his friends will be sooooo jealous.

Thank you very much, a lot of work has gone into it.

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A huge thank you to everyone who voted for me! Thanks folks!