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Re: dreamcatcher

so wearable and awesome in the same time!

Re: Web Development

It kind of lulzy I guess.

Re: The Sleep of Reason Produces Flying Turtles

skills!

gmv!

LOBSTER CHEFS

Ingredients:

In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
"Crustacean Liberation Army" from the Muppets
Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Japanese prints
Recipe Books
Nightmares!!!

Combine ingredients. Boil in head. Draw all night as to avoid going to sleep and taking a chance on seeing this in your dreams. Submit to Woot, keep feelers crossed.



ENJOY!

KNEUSHA

Re: LOBSTER CHEFS resub

Folks, the rookie has just learned something new: Look at your design with fresh eyes before submitting. Found a bunch of sloppy mistakes in the morning, so had to fix and resubmit. Please give me your vote again! Thank you all!

kneusha

Re: FREDDY COUGAR

I had this exact idea, hahaha! Nice execution.

Re: Honeysiiiickle

This looks great on the shirt, Jewelwing. You have the best eye for color.

I'm sad that this has dropped out of the fog.

Re: The Nightmare King

thanks everybody for commenting and voting so far!!! you guys are awesome!

Re: dreamcatcher

Not really my type of design, but very cool all the same. A lot of people really love the mythos of the dreamcatcher. Very nice lighting and detail work

Re: dreamcatcher

Love the colors and the idea. There's a subtle nightmare... use your imagination. I'd wear it. +1

Re: Slappy devouring his pug V2

Clowns are nightmarish. Clowns eating dogs = true horror.

Re: Nightmare Spawn

This looks great Very creepy!

sunnysfunny wrote:Love the colors and the idea. There's a subtle nightmare... use your imagination. I'd wear it. +1

Subtle nightmare? Is that even possible? So, in my dream I was walking down a path. A man with a chainsaw and a mask waved at me, turned and walked away. Maybe I will see him in another dream?

This design is not nightmarish.

Re: Nightmares Taking Hold

Nicely done!

Hello! Thank you so much for all the positive comments, I'm glad for those of you who like it. <3

In terms of being on theme, a dreamcatcher is by definition on theme because it relates to nightmares. In case you weren't aware, a dreamcatcher's purpose is to catch nightmares. (sort of a misnomer? :P) The concept behind this design is similar to say, http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=38746 where the goal is not to illustrate a specific nightmare, but an item or mythology that is related to nightmares. In my design, the dark purple mass on the right side is intended to be the nightmare.

Re: The Nightmare King

Nicely done! This would make a great band tee. I thought of doing something similar except with a wendigo.

Re: Behold a pale horse...

A chibi reaper will never be scary.

Re: Close Your Eyes

Great collab!
I'm digging this one. You guys compliment each others styles nicely. The colors and details really make this.

Re: Behold a pale horse...

Browsing through other peoples' opinions, I don't think adding an additional character is a wise choice. That would compromise the balance of the design and throw off its worth. What we have here, is the plain, bitter truth that it's a cool design that doesn't necessarily fit into the theme and has design-defying horse hair. Also, I think it'd be a stronger silhouette if you had tilted Death's head so it wasn't parallel to the line of the swings. Or make him just a smidgen bigger so it lessens the tension drawing to that area.

Though I'm liking the horizontal boundaries of the design, I think it's worthwhile to experiment placing the scythe at an angle. Having that foreground element break the horizontal line of the bottom can result in leading the eye straight back to the design. It could work, it could not.

I wish this could be printed separately from the derby and with some correction to the horse hair. I enjoy this design a lot. My gripes are that it's most likely going to get printed without the edits and then I won't ever get another opportunity to have a shirt design like this because this semi-perfect design already existed.

Guess I just have to sit out of this one. Le sigh.

Re: The Sleep of Reason Produces Flying Turtles

This is really fantastic. Mostly because I immediately knew the two references right off the bat with the thumbnail. Good use of borrowing preexisting ideas to make it new. I like the warp of design to make it easier to stomach for a video game reference. And it's great to know people are still hip with learning about our past successors of art.

Good shape to the design. Great use of the piranha plant curling out and containing the imagery. The only way I could see this becoming solid is fixing the perspective of the chair and the tangent from Donkey Kong's fist and the flying turtle (which admittedly looks a little funny to me for some reason). With the original Goya, there is a resolve to the swirl of nightmarish imagery to the right of the woman's feet (the cat creature). I wonder if you could figure out a way to remedy that? A question mark block? A broken Yoshi egg? Or perhaps they were all spawning from a pipe?

These don't necessarily prevent the design from being successful so much as justify my personal beliefs as to what I want to invest money in.

Great job, good work. Hope you don't take my words to be critical so much as useful.

Re: Close Your Eyes

this looks KILLER!!

great job, both of you.

Re: A Rough Night in the Nut House

Poor Mr. Peanut!

Worked on this one all last and a bit this morning. Hope you enjoy!

this is just glorious

Haha. Goofy.

Walmazan, I'm becoming a huge fan of yours. Ever since your octopus shirt a few derbies back, I've been consistently voting for your shirts. I look forward to seeing your awesome submissions every week!

Love it! want it, it goes with my cthulhu sleeve tattoo.. My your nightmares bring you fame

duckcake wrote:What finding nemo did you see?

Yeah my post was probably the most confusing ever. I meant to say Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

Re: A Balloon's Worst.... Nightmare

Purple and Green...I'm all over it

ChaosDoctor07 wrote:Perhaps, but there isn't really any indication that this is necessarily taking place in the "human world" in a nightmare...The problem with it is, there is just the Reaper. No humans to distinguish whether this is taking place on Earth or some otherworldly plane. This depiction could very well be just of the Reaper's world or whatever.

Are you serious? Your argument is that nightmares must take place in the human world so there must be a human in the image for it to be considered a nightmare. Do you not realize how ridiculous that sounds?

Here's a simple clue for you and all the other gumballs who are obviously just jealous of RAMYB's success. The title of the design is Behold A Pale Horse. So what does that mean, you ask? It means that it's a depiction from the bible, more specifically, the human bible.

So now that we know it actually does take place on earth, let's move on to a real argument. The book of revelation, from which the title comes, is a prophecy or vision of what is to come. I don't know about you but if I had a vision of the end of the world similar to what is written in the book of revelation, I would most definitely consider it a nightmare. And if I were told that it would actually come true, I would consider it even more nightmarish!

Many of you are saying that if there were a child in the picture it would be much more nightmarish but I don't agree at all. One thing about art that most of you either don't know, or are just deciding to forget, is that art isn't always just about what you see, it's about what you don't see. So in this design we have a playground with no children and what is in their place? Fire and Death! In other words, the kids are dead and gone. I don't know how many of you are parents but I would guess not very many because that is a parents worst nightmare.

I'm sorry for being rude but it seems that a lot of you are just trying to pull stupid excuses out of thin air because you're jealous of RAMYB's success. Just grow up and except the fact that people honestly like RAMYB's designs. This site may be about art but don't forget that it's also about business as well. If you think differently, you're just lying to yourself, otherwise you wouldn't be wasting you're time designing shirts.

Re: Behold a pale horse...

it so cute i just want to hug it.

Re: Raining Cats and Dogs (resub)

Your graphical design is very strong. Good illustrative qualities and story-telling humor. This is so far the only shirt I've voted on because the content, presentation, and shirt color are all on par with what I consider good design sense. That doesn't mean anything aside from the fact that I like it. I wish I could give you a tip of the hat.

For some reason, it humors me that the green cats and dogs resemble lizards from a distance. I'm fine with this misinterpretation as it brings me more humor. I enjoy your design sense and look forward to expecting other shirts from you in the future.

Good luck!

Also, good call on mixing up the falling animal poses. I love the cat falling rear end-first. I can hear it yowling "nooooes".

Re: dreamcatcher

Brilliant color scheme. Interesting flow of design. I can kind of get a sense of a "corner" by the layout. Good idea with the string of the dreamcatcher coming up to the neck. I wonder what it would have been like if you lowered the design and added more negative space between the shoulders and the beginning of the swirls, having the string be the only thing in that area, ending strategically.

Fun design, good work.

CityVelo wrote:This is really fantastic. Mostly because I immediately knew the two references right off the bat with the thumbnail. Good use of borrowing preexisting ideas to make it new. I like the warp of design to make it easier to stomach for a video game reference. And it's great to know people are still hip with learning about our past successors of art.

Good shape to the design. Great use of the piranha plant curling out and containing the imagery. The only way I could see this becoming solid is fixing the perspective of the chair and the tangent from Donkey Kong's fist and the flying turtle (which admittedly looks a little funny to me for some reason). With the original Goya, there is a resolve to the swirl of nightmarish imagery to the right of the woman's feet (the cat creature). I wonder if you could figure out a way to remedy that? A question mark block? A broken Yoshi egg? Or perhaps they were all spawning from a pipe?

These don't necessarily prevent the design from being successful so much as justify my personal beliefs as to what I want to invest money in.

Great job, good work. Hope you don't take my words to be critical so much as useful.

Whoa- Great critique! I've been trying to pay more attention to the gestalt lately and give the overall design a shape. I think if this shirt design more closely replicated the layout in Goya's print, though, it would become more of a bottom heavy print (my design last week was guilty of that) than an all-over print. Also, I hear what you (and HujoeBigs earlier) are saying about the stool. The slightest vertical compression in the print-ready is enough to fix that. But that's what you get in design contests that more or less require a 24-48 hour turnaround time to have a viable chance to compete.

PS I'm triple-checking the print-ready now and will post a life-size chunk of it when I'm done.

NessaRose wrote:it so cute i just want to hug it.

There you go. Obviously connected to the theme: Nightmare.

Oh... wait a minute...

patrickspens wrote:Funny you should mention that, because I actually worked on that film as a character designer and animator!

Oh that is fair. I am sure Pixar is loving you taking their idea and using it for your monetary gain.

Re: Close Your Eyes

Awesome collaboration.. I hope to be wearing this shirt soon. Good luck to both of you.

Thanks everyone for your comments and support

Izzyshiddizzle wrote:Are you serious? Your argument is that nightmares must take place in the human world so there must be a human in the image for it to be considered a nightmare. Do you not realize how ridiculous that sounds?

Here's a simple clue for you and all the other gumballs who are obviously just jealous of RAMYB's success. The title of the design is Behold A Pale Horse. So what does that mean, you ask? It means that it's a depiction from the bible, more specifically, the human bible.

So now that we know it actually does take place on earth, let's move on to a real argument. The book of revelation, from which the title comes, is a prophecy or vision of what is to come. I don't know about you but if I had a vision of the end of the world similar to what is written in the book of revelation, I would most definitely consider it a nightmare. And if I were told that it would actually come true, I would consider it even more nightmarish!

Many of you are saying that if there were a child in the picture it would be much more nightmarish but I don't agree at all. One thing about art that most of you either don't know, or are just deciding to forget, is that art isn't always just about what you see, it's about what you don't see. So in this design we have a playground with no children and what is in their place? Fire and Death! In other words, the kids are dead and gone. I don't know how many of you are parents but I would guess not very many because that is a parents worst nightmare.

I'm sorry for being rude but it seems that a lot of you are just trying to pull stupid excuses out of thin air because you're jealous of RAMYB's success. Just grow up and except the fact that people honestly like RAMYB's designs. This site may be about art but don't forget that it's also about business as well. If you think differently, you're just lying to yourself, otherwise you wouldn't be wasting you're time designing shirts.

1) My point was not that nightmares must take place in the "human world" or whatever. My sole point was that there's nothing in the picture to indicate that this is actually a nightmare and not just an image of Death's "childhood" or whatever. I apologize if the point I'm trying to make is poorly worded/vague.

2) Please try and calm down. Thanks.

3) Again, I'm not saying this isn't necessarily on theme, but I think it's a bit of a stretch and more fitting for, again "Naughty or Nice" or an "End of the world' or something derby. As mrwednesday brought up, either on this thread or in the main derby thread, one should be able to, ideally, look at a shirt design and reasonably be able to guess the theme in a few guesses. I'm not so sure that someone would guess "Nightmare" when seeing this...But, then again, that's just me.

4) I can only speak for myself on this, though I would venture a guess that I speak for most of the people debating in this thread, is that I'm not in any way jealous of ramyb and am not trying to take away from his past success or anything, let alone pulling complaints out of thin air; as a whole, I think both sides have made valid points. I'm not trying to take any shots at him by arguing or whatnot about this piece; I certainly don't have any personal vendetta or whatnot against him. I'm just commenting on what I see from this design in relation to the derby itself. And as far as the art AND business part, I completely agree and I am certainly not forgetting it. I'm not usually a huge fan of ramyb's shirts, though he does have some designs I find cool(like his entry last week for the "Egypt" Derby.). Regardless, his shirts sell, so there's obviously a demand for his shirts.

Re: dreamcatcher

I really like your choice of colors. Awesome design!

BootsBoots wrote:Yes! You're back!

I voted earlier, but you get the welcome back comment now when I'm more awake.

Bootsie!

:clings:

Your my shirt.woot bff. :-)