Two Fish. One line.

Here are Bigger Fish with Bigger Line.

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Beautiful

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Your design is swimming! (Ah ha ha)

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this is spectacular!

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Outstanding work, Boots!

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Really masterful. Hope it prints!

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Pretty impressive work using one line, but to do so effectively it pretty much trashes the no crossing over rule in multiple places. I don't know if woot will actually reject it, but it should be rejected.

mrwednesday wrote:Pretty impressive work using one line, but to do so effectively it pretty much trashes the no crossing over rule in multiple places. I don't know if woot will actually reject it, but it should be rejected.

Ummm I don't know what picture you are looking at... Great work Boots!

mrwednesday wrote:Pretty impressive work using one line, but to do so effectively it pretty much trashes the no crossing over rule in multiple places. I don't know if woot will actually reject it, but it should be rejected.

Thanks, Weds. I don't see the lines crossing over themselves, though. The lines just vary in thickness. You can see how it's all one line, like how you'd draw one continuous line with a flat tip pen.

...thanks, for the comments, everyone.

mrwednesday wrote:Pretty impressive work using one line, but to do so effectively it pretty much trashes the no crossing over rule in multiple places. I don't know if woot will actually reject it, but it should be rejected.

I looked at the link that was posted. I could not find what you are talking about. I see no crossing of lines.

Love this shirt!! GMV

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Nice work Boots.

BootsBoots wrote:Thanks, Weds. I don't see it as lines crossing over, though. The lines just vary in thickness. You can see how it's all one line like how you'd draw one continuous line with a calligraphy pen.

...thanks, for the comments, everyone.

By crossing over I meant trace back. I didn't mean to imply that there were lines that X'ed across one another. I also realize that there are other designs that skirt the no tracing back over a line, but this one is by far the most egregious. There's at least four or five of the sharp points that absolutely could not be created by except by tracing back over the line (and no varying the line width, yet having them still touch giving the impression of tracing back over is not different than tracing back over).

I realize that there is a threshold level that many of the designs are pushing to not have rounded points, but I think this clearly crosses it. Putting in calligraphic elements to create points is one thing but the lines should separate at around a 45 degree angle. There are many here well below a 20 degree angle and some at less than 5 degrees.

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I'll also add that if you look around the derby so far none of the other designs have sharp elements like this one. The points on Patrick's web come close and I think are pushing it and some of the mane elements in truffle's unicorn, but I think this one is so different precisely because it pushed well past a reasonable level independently reached by at least a dozen people so far and where I think the limit reasonably should be.

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this is just amazing!! im soo glad you are back and i hope this wins because it will be my first shirt purchase in months!!!

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An effective and dynamic entry Boots. You really made that one line work for you and kept it clearly in the derby rules.

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bien bonito!!!

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I couldn't create something this well with no restrictions, never mind it being just one line. Amazing.

clav08 wrote:I couldn't create something this well with no restrictions, never mind it being just one line. Amazing.

I tried it once but I ran out of line :o(

mrwednesday wrote:By crossing over I meant trace back. I didn't mean to imply that there were lines that X'ed across one another. I also realize that there are other designs that skirt the no tracing back over a line, but this one is by far the most egregious. There's at least four or five of the sharp points that absolutely could not be created by except by tracing back over the line (and no varying the line width, yet having them still touch giving the impression of tracing back over is not different than tracing back over).

I realize that there is a threshold level that many of the designs are pushing to not have rounded points, but I think this clearly crosses it. Putting in calligraphic elements to create points is one thing but the lines should separate at around a 45 degree angle. There are many here well below a 20 degree angle and some at less than 5 degrees.

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I'll also add that if you look around the derby so far none of the other designs have sharp elements like this one. The points on Patrick's web come close and I think are pushing it and some of the mane elements in truffle's unicorn, but I think this one is so different precisely because it pushed well past a reasonable level independently reached by at least a dozen people so far and where I think the limit reasonably should be.

It will be interesting to see what the rejectionator thinks is retracing. But this is by no means worse than the spiderweb, not really sure how you can make that argument. If they dq this one, they will have to get rid of the spider web, the unicorn, the dragon (tips of its wings) the seahorse (inside its snout) and octavious, just to name the leaderboard. I am not sure woot is ready to pull that trigger since most, like this, are done so well.

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I think this is my favorite entry of this derby. Voted~

mailmanmo wrote:I tried it once but I ran out of line :o(

-snicker-

Nicely done, Boots. GMV.

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Love the design! Question, though: Is it weird to wear a shirt that bears a resemblance to one's tattoo?

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Amazing design!

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intricate

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This is outstanding, VERY well done. It's really almost hypnotic.

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I'm not really into the whole fish yin-yang thing but this is beautiful Boots and I like it. I hope you win! Even though you couldn't wear it without major tailoring.. :-x

bluetuba wrote:I'm not really into the whole fish yin-yang thing but this is beautiful Boots and I like it. I hope you win! Even though you couldn't wear it without major tailoring.. :-x

This

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My favorite design of the derby.

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very nice

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Great work!

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This is definitely one of my favorites in this weeks derby! Love this design! I love drawing fish, especially the detailed ornate kind. Nice work!

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This has great energy, my favorite of the derby. +1

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I was at first captivated by this design. It wasn't until I headed over to the comments section that I learned it was a Boots shirt. My captivation turned to uncertainty. Has my shirtwoot! crush on Boots clouded my judgement? No, it's just darn fine work.

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Basically a pisces tattoo, like a several from deviant art, etc., etc., etc., etc/?

Fantastic design! You are just so talented! Hope this one wins! xoxo

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Just beautiful, my favorite of the group. I haven't purchased a tee in forever, because I decided I need V-necks, and Woot! doesn't sell a women's V-neck.

But if it did, I'd buy this one. I may buy it anyway and just wear it around my office.

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