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Re: It was the Apes all Along! Darn them all to Heck!

Someone get a mop! We need to get rid of all the SUCK!

Re: Suburban Ninja

What if ninjas were rockin' the suburbs?
What if your next door neighbor was a ninja - would you think twice about stealing his newspaper in the morning?

...Just head this advice - dont ask him about his TPS reports.

okybibuy wrote:It's pretty simple. It potrays Che wearing a Yankees hat and the title references his supposed last words, now reflecting him being a Yankees fan.

I was under a different impression. I was going with the fact that a lot of Central Americans are MLB players... so "What if Che played baseball instead of rebelling" type thing... Im probably way off.

cobolisdead wrote:Funny! I don't get the ccc& Ps reference, but I like the m&Ms with the soviet logo on them. GMV!

Im not sure how old you are... but to get that reference, you have to a bit older... or just really good with political history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCCP_(disambiguation)

cobolisdead wrote:Funny! I don't get the ccc& Ps reference, but I like the m&Ms with the soviet logo on them. GMV!

Im not sure how old you are... but to get that reference, you have to a bit older... or just really good with political history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCCP_(disambiguation)

Re: I am a Giraffe!

l o l it reminds me of something out of FLCL

oh, sorry, my dork is showing...

Re: If The Drinking Age Was Lowered

Yeah take this with a grain of salt...

Re: Ahead of it's time...

it's ?!? :-(

katfin25 wrote:Thanks for the feedback! This is only the second time I've entered a derby, I thought it was a good concept and I'd give it a shot. I'll keep working on my graphics for the future :-) If you have any tips etc. I'd really appreciate it.

I have noticed that my image seems to get blurry when I upload it to woot even though my actual image isn't blurry, I don't know how to remedy that.

If you're using Photoshop save the image as a JPEG and make sure you're using no compression. I find this hilarious and I think you cleaned up your artwork a little this would be close to the top.

Re: Who is the Bearded Vigilante?!?

Holy Snap!!

This is totally amazing work dude!!! Hopefully this prints soon. One of my favourites of this derby, and maybe so far.

BootsBoots wrote:What? No! One of my designs staying in the fog would throw the cosmos completely out of whack! Who knows what would happen then!

The entire planet would spontaeneously implode AND explode and then reform in a few milliseconds, and then the people who survived would finally realise that YOUR SHIRTS ARE AWESOME!!

Oh and we would be invaded by furry aliens looking like bunnies and quickly overrun, quickly enslaved and used to farm carrots in order to feed the massive space bunny army.

But seriously one of these days people are gonna give you and your shirts the recognition they deserve. but hopefully BEFORE the aforementioned bunny invasion.

GMV!!

AlexIAm wrote:Completely understand the rejection, but soooo disappointed.

I'm hoping for an Alternate Fictional History Week

nambui wrote:Once I saw a turkey dodge bullets like in the matrix.

Great shirt!

THANKS!

Its a little known fact that Keanu Reeves' and other Matrix actors' stunt doubles were wild turkeys.

This excerpt was provided by Mrs. Silence Dogood:
MATRIX STUNTS:
The actors and the Wachowskis wanted to limit the use of stunt doubles in the picture; the directors wanted the audience to see that actual wild turkeys were performing the stunts.

BootsBoots wrote:A Discussion My 4-year-old and I had about this design:

The Kid: I love this one! I love bad guy cake!
Me: You do?
The Kid: Yes! But where did the two pieces come from? There aren't any holes in the big cake.
Me: Maybe they came from another cake.
The Kid: Oh. Did it have a lot of eyes?
Me: What?
The Kid: 'Cause the two pieces have eyes. The other cake must have a lot of eyes, but this big one only has two.
Me: I guess...
The Kid: How did they know where to cut the other one, so that the eyes would be in the right places?
Me: Maybe they just baked pieces of it?
The Kid: I don't think people do that.
Me: You're probably right.
The Kid: I hate this cake picture.

Sorry you didn't get his vote, but I hope that was mildly amusing. He's probably about as fickle as most woot voters, anyway.

He would get along with my kids. They have similar sentiments. I'll have my kids' people call his people and they can get together sometime.

Re: The Internet is here!

This is my first shirt design so im still learning so bear with me I know its a very primitive design with rough lines but i think that style looks pretty cool on a t-shirt. Please let me know what you think. Thanks

sfabro wrote:l o l it reminds me of something out of FLCL

oh, sorry, my dork is showing...

That's what I thought it was referencing... a giraffe would be an alternate thing growing out of his head :p

Re: Puckeremon - Gotta Catch 'Em All!

Psst... What if Mona Lisa's mysterious smile was a pucker? Who doesn't love a mysterious pucker?

AdderXYU wrote:You don't get "drawing" and "references" do you?

Compare the two. It is both obvious where ski got the reference photo and obvious he drew it himself.

geez, you confuse me. a lot. I can't see that this is hand drawn from a reference at all. It looks hand-traced from the allposters.com poster of Cobain to my eye, and when I overlay the two, including the id card, it still does.

When I look at the first google images picture that comes up for 'cello player', a painting by Thomas Eakins in 1896, then I see that the rest of it (every part of the cello, his hands, even the shadow on his right hand) also looks traced, and when I overlay those two, it still does.


so how is this any different from the design of the day that everyone was so incensed about, which woot just pulled? what did I miss here?

if this had the text i would vote for it in a second.

BootsBoots wrote:Heehee!

he he, that is funny.

yes yes yes yes yes. Ahuhuhuh. I am going to have to agree with ablatman and viper here.

And to clear up another thing. This shirt was a not a direct resub as some are so inclined to believe. I always make my designs fresh for a derby.

eastcobbler wrote:this was great!

A shame this was rejected.

PhilSandifer wrote:While I'd love an Oregon Trail t-shirt, if it's just going to be a screenshot, it should probably be issued by the copyright holders, no?

is this black rectangle outline going to be on the shirt?

this reminds me of the fight between the Mouse Guard and the crabs in the first edition collection.

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/Petersen%20Mouse%20Guard%20crab%20fighting.jpg

aaronhaven wrote:I really loved the UK design, but I'd still wear this one just cuz it satisfies the woot theme very well.

I think it kinda goes beyond the theme. It really feels more like political commentary than Alternate History. Actually, this shirt, with the theme, is saying that Obama is NOT communist, because it's ALTERNATE to reality, right?

It does have a more guessable meaning than the UK one. But the UK one looks better aesthetically.

As for the message, I don't like it. I'd never wear this shirt, but I understand why others would. (I'm non-partisan by the way)

Oh, and wasn't John McCain born in Panama?

Re: Vincent's Alternative

awesome.. the reference is just great..

i was like this looks like a reprint couldn't put my finger on it and then i was like ahuhu that is van gogh

sukidaiyo wrote:i picked the ones I thought would be most recognizable, no offense to any king of rock not pictured here XD

Put down any drawing instruments you have in your hand now, hide them, and maybe break out a typewriter. You might make more sense with it.

Re: Nevermind The Cello

wow Josephus... you seem to have some spare time I wasn't trying to hide my reference pictures. That was the Kurt poster, yes... and I purposely used the first cello picture too. I wanted it to look as real and recognizable as possible. Where you're wrong, is that I didn't simply auto-trace it like others have done with photos. I put both photos, side by side on my artboard in Illustrator. Then carefully drew it to match the photos (even where the highlights hit the hand). Hopefully I've proved with my other entrees that I can draw. This wasn't one of those entrees where people are going to think that I came up with how Kurt Cobain looks playing a cello with my imagination. But by redrawing it I was able to create the lines and shades exactly how I wanted them. If I had the stylized-people skills of edgar or tgentry I would have done a simpler version, but that's not my forte.

It's no Broccoli.

This shirt bugs me only because Pluto's mass had nothing to do with it being reclassified as a dwarf planet, and Pluto is, in fact, a Kuiper Belt object because...well, it is an object found in the Kuiper Belt. Does not GMV.

Re: Vincent's Alternative

i must be missing something, it almost the exact same as the origional only not as good and with a patch. why is this a good design?

noisdois wrote:
I agree with you, though, in that it's pretty much impossible to know that this is supposed to be Joan of Arc if the title is not with it, but I didn't know how to incorporate that into the drawing. When I was finished with the image, I looked at it and said, "I doubt anybody would want to wear that, but I'll put it up anyways."

I totally want to wear it. It looks amazing and I think everyone would want to know who the girl was, so it wouldn't take long for all my friends to know the meaning.

This is such a powerful image. It conjures up all kinds of emotions and images. I like how lonely she still looks, like she didn't solve any of her problems and probably doesn't feel better. I love Jeanne D'Arc.

So Awesome.

tgentry wrote:That's supposed to read "Who is that Bearded Vigilante?!?" Still makes sense, just a different kind of sense.

you seem to have a tough time naming your designs This is the second time recently that you have typoed in the title. Anyways, this design is clever, as usual.

skirochester wrote:wow Josephus... you seem to have some spare time I wasn't trying to hide my reference pictures. That was the Kurt poster, yes... and I purposely used the first cello picture too. I wanted it to look as real and recognizable as possible. Where you're wrong, is that I didn't simply auto-trace it like others have done with photos. I put both photos, side by side on my artboard in Illustrator. Then carefully drew it to match the photos (even where the highlights hit the hand). Hopefully I've proved with my other entrees that I can draw. This wasn't one of those entrees where people are going to think that I came up with how Kurt Cobain looks playing a cello with my imagination. But by redrawing it I was able to create the lines and shades exactly how I wanted them. If I had the stylized-people skills of edgar or tgentry I would have done a simpler version, but that's not my forte.

Actually I never said it was live traced. What I said was that I thought you "hand traced" it. It truly looks to me like the bitmap was pasted into illustrator, or photoshop, and then you hand drew the design on top of it in a different layer. The way that every part completely overlaps very nearly perfectly with no differences at all, other than the complete move of the man's right arm as a whole unit, and the slight identical tilt the head, microphone, id tag, and hair all have makes it difficult for me to picture you drawing it perfectly side by each. The cello itself perfectly matches, shadows, curves, every part is perfectly aligned, as does the bow, right down to the curve of the bow itself. I'm sure I couldn't draw it that perfectly, and frankly I don't know of anyone other than you who could. Regardless, I cannot see any difference in the way you redrew this and the way the french guy redrew the design parts that he used from the DA Staring Contest design and the Motley Crue album cover. They also do not look live traced, but instead hand traced.

I dunno. It seems to me that a good faith copy of an illustration ought to share the copyright status of that illustration. You say yourself that's what you did for both parts. Putting them together the way you did was brilliance, by the way, and maybe the design becomes OK through it being a commentary on Cello music and it's small to nonexistent role in grunge music as a genre. I'd agree that it might be fair use if that's the claim -but nobody made any claim like that until I just did.

Nightshooter wrote:i must be missing something, it almost the exact same as the origional only not as good and with a patch. why is this a good design?

Because its a Self portrait of Pirate Van Gough in his own style. It's an amazing entry in an extremely challenging style.

Josephus wrote:geez, you confuse me. a lot. I can't see that this is hand drawn from a reference at all. It looks hand-traced from the allposters.com poster of Cobain to my eye, and when I overlay the two, including the id card, it still does.

Do you really think these line up at all?

You'll notice on such overlays as Broccoli or today's pulled shirt, there is no morphing... everything stays in the same place. In the cello alone, your morph changes enough that it makes it look like someone is bowing it. Which is to say nothing of the differences in Kurt's face. Yes, it is clear where the references come from, but no, it is clearly the work of a skilled renderer, not a tracer. Are you just so skill-less that you can't understand how someone talented can come close to reality? I remember you bitching about a Dino head cho did back in 07. Considering half your entries are totally unpassable live traces, I think you're just jealous that anyone can do anything artistic.

Re: a legend in his own time

Great idea. Artwork looks right out of a children's book - perfect for this drawing.

Nightshooter wrote:i must be missing something, it almost the exact same as the origional only not as good and with a patch. why is this a good design?

Which original are you referring to? He did a lot of self portraits. I studied two particular ones for this. I tried to make it unique, but it was a challenge because it needed to be recognizable too. Of course his is better, L OL. It's okay. You don't have to like it. Can't please everybody.

Re: What if Blankie had never been rejected

New reason for rejection:

Too similar to a shirt previously "printed" by Woot.

Shirt color change is not enough of a difference to be considered a new design by Woot. ;-)