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cpresti wrote:I can't believe this is only three colors! Very nice!

I think it's four. Unless that light blue color is being made up by navy somehow.

Re: Night and Day of the Dead

marvelous! i hope it gets printed!

Re: Elephant in the Clouds

nice!

pepeman wrote:hoo hoo ..Whoops! I had to re-sub, needed a change in Title and i did not like the red color in the background.

If you voted, please do vote again thanks!!

Awwww I really enjoyed the other one best - it had much more depth with the red. Re-resub? lol.

Re: Gone With The Sunset

pretty

I love Day of the Dead images, and this is no exception. Beautiful work.

Re: Inkblot Kitty

Inkblot test which seems to look like a kitten or does it? How many kitties can you find?

Re: Crow Jane

Very nice! I hope to see this one print. GMV!

I like it, but would love it as just the dragon. I think the dragon is amazing.

Re: Night and Day of the Dead

Fantastic idea! GMV

Re: year of the dragon

Beautiful design! Nice work as always Helgram.

This is both beautiful and adorable!

This is SO GOOD. :o

Re: Haunted Robot

I've never seen ghosts fight each other with laser eye beams before, but it seems so obvious now.

Re: Watercolor Cat

Love this! Adorable and well done.

Re: Inkblot Kitty

midgerock wrote:Inkblot test which seems to look like a kitten or does it? How many kitties can you find?

kitty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Re: Enter the New Year

The dragon is awesome! Please consider resubmitting this design with only the dragon.

Re: year of the dragon

Love it! A very happy design, and I adore all the fish integrated into it. (Leaping carp become dragons, right?) Voted!

nafsllib wrote:This is beautiful, but I've gotta second the comment on the lack of masculinity.

If you're comfortable in your own skin, you project your own masculinity. Its all in confidence. If you project enough of it, other less confident men will follow you. For God sakes, look at skinny jeans. Tell me those are even remotley masculine...

Btw, nice shirt. I'm not a big fan of peacocks, but the artistic representation in your design is amazing. If it prints I will certainly buy one and I'm sure both men and women will ask me where I got it.

Thanks for the giggle I read your blog and you have the true heart of a graphic artist. Keep it up and good luck!

Looks like a real watercolor painting! Cool!

Re: Coming alive (2.0)

Personally, I like this version a lot more than the first one. I am glad you decided to stick with it. The concept is stronger! Good job like always!

Re: Mariposa

it's 4 colors. my bad, i missed one on the color swatch.

Re: The Fox and Mount Fuji

I want this one!

Re: Crow Jane

This one is awesome and needs to be printed.

Re: Crow Jane

This is awesome! It wook look great on slate grey I think. Too bad. Hope it prints though, not all watercolor has to be "Happy".

Re: The Carousel

The name reminds me of Logan's Run. :D

pseudomega wrote:Nearly every design I'm seeing is kind of unfriendly to us masculine types. This being no exception.

It's nice, but I couldn't wear it.

I'm not trying to stir up trouble, but, look at a majority of the shirts on this site. Most of the shirts on the Reckoning are unabashedly cute. Are those designs similarly unfriendly to masculine types? If you can't wear this peacock, can you wear beady-eyed penguins and turtles and kitties? (which are typically a dominant feature of the Reckoning and/or derbies.) Just like this beautiful entry, most of them are witty and fun, while also being cutesy in some manner.

In their cases, and case of this peacock submission, and others on this derby, you have to ask yourself if the value of the art in question is more important than 'Will people think I look like a ladyman for wearing this?'.

Re: Portrait of Night-time

Thanks for the kind words, omar feliciano and missmissa07 -- much appreciated :-)

Re: Coming alive (2.0)

My only problem with this is the green cloud of "gas" coming from the rear end. I just can't unsee that. Otherwise it is beautiful.

beautiful! but doesn't it break the color rule?

blightchan wrote:beautiful! but doesn't it break the color rule?

opps! nevermind... its the t-shirt colors, not the colors that you can use on the t-shirt! lol

Re: Coming alive (2.0)

This shirt is my one desire.

Re: Inkblot Kitty

I am trippinballz right now looking at this.

Re: Glass of Watercolor

runnerfrog13 wrote:The strokes and imitation of certain watercoloring techniques (after all, not all of us paint the same way) seem pretty correct to me. The only thing that makes me think pastels is the texture, since watercolor tends to blend more smoothly due to water. But as that "texture" is likely due to the halftones, I don't have much idea what you could do about it.

I actually did a physical watercolor painting that had brush strokes much like this, so yeah, it _is_ watercolor-like brush strokes. I think you can get the pebbled effect using almost-dry-brush on charcoal type paper too, but the colors would be dark, unless you mixed with white watercolor paint, which some people think negates it being a 'true' watercolor.

As a dragon, this pleaseth me.

Re: Fade away

LOVE! this design. I almost wish the "fading away" part would be more so you can put more petals of color floating away. I love the pose of your woman. The body language and facial expression is fantastic. A wonderful design!

amen87 wrote:LOVE! this design. I almost wish the "fading away" part would be more so you can put more petals of color floating away. I love the pose of your woman. The body language and facial expression is fantastic. A wonderful design!

You know what? I change my mind. It's perfect the way it is XD

Re: Mariposa

I'd buy this shirt in a heartbeat! Such a whimsical design. Love it!