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I'm not sure i'd want to indicate to folks that I'm a Grinch!?!?

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Cute idea, but it's 2D with no dimensional or illusory effect whatsoever. Off topic, imho.

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Another illustrated allusion. You can't just take some phrase or reference and illustrate it and call it an illusion...c'mon people!

sbee619 wrote:Another illustrated allusion. You can't just take some phrase or reference and illustrate it and call it an illusion...c'mon people!

I respectfully disagree. I thought it used a clever reference and shows what's beneath the surface. It's cute and on topic.

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Yeah I love this, but not sure it fits the theme? I hope it's a daily or that if it gets rejected that it's resubmitted!

autsey wrote:I respectfully disagree. I thought it used a clever reference and shows what's beneath the surface. It's cute and on topic.

Do you know what Trompe-l'oeil is? I'll just paste the Wikipedia definition here for you, which will hopefully illustrate why this entry, and so many others, are off-topic and should be rejected. I've bolded the pertinent information:

Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil,[1] (French for deceive the eye, pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

Perhaps now you see why any 2D drawings are quite obviously off-topic.

wolfgaidin wrote:Do you know what Trompe-l'oeil is? I'll just paste the Wikipedia definition here for you, which will hopefully illustrate why this entry, and so many others, are off-topic and should be rejected. I've bolded the pertinent information:

Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil,[1] (French for deceive the eye, pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

Perhaps now you see why any 2D drawings are quite obviously off-topic.

I do know what it is, but I appreciate that you're trying to be educational.I think Derbies allow a lot of room for interpretation and creative expression- I enjoyed the challenge brought by this week's theme and the neat ideas people come up with! I am glad that we could have a civilized discussion about it. Back to this awesome shirt, I hope that this shirt gets resubmitted or printed as a daily!

autsey wrote:I think Derbies allow a lot of room for interpretation and creative expression- I enjoyed the challenge brought by this week's theme and the neat ideas people come up with!

I personally didn't find this particular shirt to be an interpretation or creative expression on the theme. It's FLAT, it's not even shaded. yes it has an 'x-ray' but even that is FLAT and not shaded. I think these 3 are better examples of interpretation or creative expression on the theme:


None of them are themselves Trompe-l'œil, but are Trompe-l'œil concepts, or commentary on Trompe-l'œil.

This is cute (though I'd never wear it) and could be revised to fit the theme, but currently it's just OFF TOPIC.