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skirochester wrote:I did submit the file from Illustrator ... and I do tend to separate the colors, although not entirely sure if they need them on different layers in Illustrator. I can see how psd files would need to have the colors on different layers, but it's much easier to trap/overprint/select colors in Illustrator. I've never been on the printing-end of the process so not 100% sure how it works.

Toe, who has worked as a professional screenprinter and has been printed here a few times, has said before that you don't have to separate the colours in Illustrator. There's a way to do that automatically. Something about colour plates?

So if you submitted in AI format, no worries.

Re: The Thrifty Commuter

This is brilliant. I love his expression, and your economic use of color is, as always, inspiring.

Gaddfly wrote:and looking at recent derbies, quitting designing may be a good option for YOU.

Gee I 'spose it is time for me to quit, who'd have thought some random teenager waiting for his testicles to drop would finally make me see the light.

Thanks for clearing that up. Until you have something constructive to say, I will now consider all your posts to be the virtual equivalent to feces squishing from your empty head.

I will give you no more attention.

mjc613 wrote:Waiter, please take the trolls off this table! We didn't order them.

I concur! this will be reflected on my tip!

I like this better, but I don't like the blue in the outline. Maybe a more yellow-green color.

marzipanapple wrote:A lot of helpful stuff...

Yeah, I wanted to do more, but I just wasn't feeling the idea. I was going to do it just the tin cans and then my girlfriend said... You gotta do the dot thing... and I was like alright. So I threw it on there. If I had cared more I would have tried doing the ridges and perhaps soup labels and cleaning it up... but honestly, I'm a hack with shadows. I'm still trying to get a clue with that stuff.

Keelmy wrote:Its a great piece of artwork but maybe not so much on a shirt or at least how big it is on the shirt. Have to agree with mjc613 (what are you, a driod?) out of context, I'd have no clue santa was being thrifty.

Especially since just GETTING camels would be a waste of his financial resources, since the customs fees alone would be huge. Reindeer are faster, smaller and local. There's no concept of thrift here

This would work as a better concept if the assumption was that santa moved down to the desert, and you had him in a turban flying over pyramids, but then we get into off theme AND vaguely racist.

This looks like it's going to be printed, congrats. : D

I bet everyone will buy it for their PI, to remind them how sad it is that they are burying mice in ice and snapping their necks. >__>

Gaddfly wrote:and looking at recent derbies, quitting designing may be a good option for YOU.

Looking at recent derbies, quitting designing is a good option for most of Woot. Dekon is not among those people.

Simple... tasty!

Re: Willing to endure scientific research.

OHHHH WANT!

Having a psych background and now working on stats and data in medical research this is too perfect.

sekiyoku wrote:This looks like it's going to be printed, congrats. : D

I bet everyone will buy it for their PI, to remind them how sad it is that they are burying mice in ice and snapping their necks. >__>

Not to sound too obtuse, but what's a PI? I thought it was a private investigator?

BootsBoots wrote:Great composition, Brady. And a creative idea.

ramyb wrote:Very cute idea, for some reason these look like they could make a fun nightlight for kids to me :D

Thanks Boots and ramyb!

tigerlillies wrote:Not to sound too obtuse, but what's a PI? I thought it was a private investigator?

principal investigator. the guy or lady with the grant.

Keelmy wrote:Cute pig. Reminds me of the pigs from that "Pork" flash music video floating around on the web. I'm not too fond of the spots on the pig itself but what I really dig is how it fits the theme in and out of context.

I felt he needed a little more than just solid pink on the body. I'm never a fan of a solid wall of ink, and I'll try like hell to get the ink to be broken up, even if just a little. Plus, I was trying to be a little thrifty by only using 4 colors. ;) I'm glad you enjoyed him, especially for being strong both in and out of the realm of the theme.

tigerlillies wrote:Sure, why not? I love this mouse!

Alright here goes nothin!

FAMILE

Heye, my names Mickey, Mickey the mouse. Now i no wut ur thinking, "oh hes that won mouse in Steamboat Willie!" well ur RONG!!!! im actually Mickey Mouse's brother. u see, when my dad had to name all of us he was a bit TOO drunk to think of anything so he named all seven of us boys Mickey after the drink Mickey Finn and all for of the gurls Minnie, which was the name of the stripper that he gave ALL of our money two. Yes yes, what ur about to say is, "well if there r so many of u than why dont Wii know abowt you?" well the trooth is this, my dad went a bit craz! But lets save that story for anothur teyeme!

Well now your wodnering "why dont i know a thing about yu!" right? Wen the populer Mickey wus growing up he wus perfect at everytheeng; he wus a modul, acter, and a bowtdriver! My mom and dad treeted him like royaltee weyele i had to sit in the corner and watch. The only thing that cheered me up wus Minnie, yea i know, going out with ur sister is weard. But hey, were mice, deal with it. Minnie and i had a few kids but than i found out she wus cheating on me with that rich bassturd of a brother, Mickey Mouse! She soon left me and i wus left for dead with my too kids, Nemo and Ratatouille. But than i met the most beeutifull mouse in the world, Miss Bianca! We loved each other dearly but our carears were in a slump.

She was sent on a mishun to save somebody who wus beeng cept hawstage by the yakuza in Tokyo, Japan. But by the teyeme she got there the yakuza had thrown the boy off of the Tokyo Opera City towur. Bianca was fired soon aftur. i myself have NEVER had a job until resuntly, ive been volunteering for some sientists! They dont pay me anything yet but they suply meye family with food and shelter. shur my body has been morfed a lot and i suck at speling but hay, i shur do luv meye famile!

O and befour i go, i need to tell u something! the sientists capturd a geye named Edgar! i gess they were going two make it so hee couldnt draw gud no more. him and i talk a lot. won daee wen the sientists tuk me out i bit them and opened Edgar's cage so hii culd eskap. he told mii that he maks shirts and sed sins i helped him that he wuld use mii for a desin! This way he maks monee and i can get $10 for evry shert thats bot! so pleez help mii and meye famile hav a better leyef!

AdderXYU wrote:I'm also baffled as to how I could say "llo you're dumb" and get a week's probe and deleted posts, but the spambots get a couple days and NO DELETED POSTS???????

Who moderates here, and how can we fire them?

the mods are related to the managers. also they never got past third grade. so this site as a whole, is poorly run.but Hey! they are trying!
hahahaahaaa

Paradox55 wrote:Why is this not fogged? It's the best of the bunch- either color. Count me in for a purchase if my fellow wooters remain blind and you must get this printed elsewhere.

Hahaha. Well, thanks. As the blindness seems to be continuing, I'll try it up on Threadless eventually. Thanks for the great comment.

And everyone else too!

sekiyoku wrote:I like this better, but I don't like the blue in the outline. Maybe a more yellow-green color.

Hey seki I think your comp might be screwed up because it's green on mine. Oh and I like the idea but Camels cost a lot more than reindeer.

Re: This little piggie stayed home...

You know, I thought I commented on this before, but I guess I didn't (although it did get my vote). It's very cute and I don't know how it's possible, but I think it looks great on white. It's the good color choices you made for the piggies, I think.

And by the way, be sure to alert me if (when?) Peach and Bowser becomes available in your store for failed designs. I really want one. Badly.

Re: Use every carrot

yeah so your guy also conveniently scraped the word woot off the leather i guess...
im so glad i got the new version

Twistedmonkey22 wrote:hehe once again very neat idea, just wish it was a cooler graphic since its on a t-shirt. call me picky if you want but its still 10 bucks =/

Not picky... I appreciate any feedback. I have no design or illustration background, I am just playing around with the program. One day, I will get a good idea and figure out how to present it right. Any feedback will only help me with future designs.

eHalcyon wrote:Toe, who has worked as a professional screenprinter and has been printed here a few times, has said before that you don't have to separate the colours in Illustrator. There's a way to do that automatically. Something about colour plates?

So if you submitted in AI format, no worries.

Great, I was trying to read up on it and couldn't find a definite answer. This now puts my mind at ease, thanks.

Kidgoldstein wrote:This is what vacuums about resubbing with different color shirts. It seems to split the votes down the middle. I love the choice of getting to choose. I like this one a lot and my co-worker likes the blue shirt better.

However, I do hope Woot makes this a Editor's pick and offers both color shirts when printing it since they are the same ink colors and both doing so well in the derby.

That would be nice, huh? One can dream... (thanks!)

Re: Can you hear me now

I like the street in the background and the style that the cans are drawn in is really good. It's got that nice "the artist actually hand drew this and it looks good" thing going on.

AdderXYU wrote:Looking at recent derbies, quitting designing is a good option for most of Woot. Dekon is not among those people.

Only recent?

AdderXYU wrote:Especially since just GETTING camels would be a waste of his financial resources, since the customs fees alone would be huge. Reindeer are faster, smaller and local. There's no concept of thrift here

This would work as a better concept if the assumption was that santa moved down to the desert, and you had him in a turban flying over pyramids, but then we get into off theme AND vaguely racist.

Santa doesn't pay customs. He's a master at evading that sort of thing.

I think the concept here is that camels would be cheaper to keep because they wouldn't need as much water. And maybe less food too, but I'm not a zoologist so I'm not sure about that point.

Also, some parts of the Arctic are deserts, since they receive very little precipitation.

AdderXYU wrote:Especially since just GETTING camels would be a waste of his financial resources, since the customs fees alone would be huge. Reindeer are faster, smaller and local. There's no concept of thrift here

This would work as a better concept if the assumption was that santa moved down to the desert, and you had him in a turban flying over pyramids, but then we get into off theme AND vaguely racist.

Yeah good points.

Seems like you might have inadvertently given David the green light to resub this during the Xmas derby. "Xmas in Cyro".

Re: One Message Fits All

I quite like this one.

lkackman wrote:Oh... i wish i had a cool box. This reminds me of the calvin and hobbs strips when the transmografier. Awesome!

Can't be the Transmogrifier; that was an upside-down box. The Duplicator was on its side, but I don't remember what the right side up box was (or even if there was something). *sigh* I loved Calvin & Hobbes.

eHalcyon wrote:Only recent?

I try not to think too far back, or I would go mad, Cthulhu-victim style

bro3of4 wrote:Can't be the Transmogrifier; that was an upside-down box. The Duplicator was on its side, but I don't remember what the right side up box was (or even if there was something). *sigh* I loved Calvin & Hobbes.

Time machine?

eHalcyon wrote:Santa doesn't pay customs. He's a master at evading that sort of thing.

I think the concept here is that camels would be cheaper to keep because they wouldn't need as much water. And maybe less food too, but I'm not a zoologist so I'm not sure about that point.

Also, some parts of the Arctic are deserts, since they receive very little precipitation.

There are camels here in the US, and I bet there are in Canada too. I've certainly seen one up close, as it chased my dad and my uncle out of its pasture. As I recall, it slimed my dad pretty big time.

I'm not sure why y'all would believe that an aminal like a camel would be only available in its region of origin.

Rman3349 wrote:This deserves to be much higher up. A great design

Thanks! After my two entries last week failed so hard I'm just glad to break 100 this time around.

BootsBoots wrote:
And by the way, be sure to alert me if (when?) Peach and Bowser becomes available in your store for failed designs. I really want one. Badly.

llo! Thanks for the compliments! I plan to submit peach and bowser to one of the other websites, maybe threadless or unetee? Don't know yet. :D

beams812 wrote:Kinda looks more like a lizard than a turtle...maybe make the face looking straight on instead of looking down...less angry, more forelorn??? Turtles have a more rounded face than pointy nose. Just suggestions.

Good to know... if I'm gonna get serious about his curious turtle web-comic I need to be more consistent with my design. Thanks for everybody's help!

Josephus wrote:I'm not sure why y'all would believe that an aminal like a camel would be only available in its region of origin.

The only camels that are here are the camels that people buy for their farm or zoo. They dont necessarally sell them. That would be like saying you can buy polar bears and penguins in africa, or a marine iguana in peru!

Kilagria wrote:Hey seki I think your comp might be screwed up because it's green on mine. Oh and I like the idea but Camels cost a lot more than reindeer.

Whaaaa?!
Blasphemy!
I don't believe it!

Well, actually it's an investment since they eventually pay for themselves. They don't eat or drink as much. Also, the fact that it's a joke might be relevant to the argument. I don't know, maybe not.

Re: Employment Exposure AND Attire!

I need a job! Guess this shirt might help, *giggles*.

eHalcyon wrote:Time machine?

According to wikipedia: Yes.