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mjc613 wrote:I like the textures, but the colors are too drab for spring imo

Thanks. I think you're right. I brightened it up and trimmed it down.

I've got a good one this week...

A big demented bunny that has split the heads of his forest creature friends with an axe, planted seeds inside, and is watching them sprout up now that it's spring time.

I already have my line drawing done and in ink.

Will post it here as soon as I get a chance to scan it.

(still probably do it in pastel colors)

Thinking of redoing this with a bit more plussing...

grrlmarvel wrote:I can't decide between pretty birds and something snarky... hmmm.... decisions, decisions.

Snarky = GMV ^^

I have something terrible that I actually made for the luck derby. A few small adjustments and it'll be on theme, and something everyone can punch on ^^;. But, it is made for punching .

shirt.woot! is ssoooooo behind the times!

I mean...Spring was like...all the way back in March, for crying outloud!

You guys need to start watching the news, getting up to speed! This derby for sure, should've had something as its theme, like...!ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON!...or something like that. Then it would've been good to wear at any time of the year. You know...

Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Blizzards
Oil Spills of biblical proportions...

Guess you should never do Happy Hours and woot-offs combined...

indihar wrote:shirt.woot! is ssoooooo behind the times!

I mean...Spring was like...all the way back in March, for crying outloud!

You guys need to start watching the news, getting up to speed! This derby for sure, should've had something as its theme, like...!ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON!...or something like that. Then it would've been good to wear at any time of the year. You know...

Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Blizzards
Oil Spills of biblical proportions...

Guess you should never do Happy Hours and woot-offs combined...

I'll drink to that...

Spiritgreen wrote:
Dust Bunny is trying to persuade me to let him back this week, he wants to bring some of his friends along in the war against spring cleaning... but I think I have to go with a different idea.

You can bring back the dust bunny, but leave that gross dust mite behind!

SubBass49 wrote:I've got a good one this week...

A big demented bunny that has split the heads of his forest creature friends with an axe, planted seeds inside, and is watching them sprout up now that it's spring time.

I already have my line drawing done and in ink.

Will post it here as soon as I get a chance to scan it.

(still probably do it in pastel colors)

Sounds awesome. But maybe a little tricky to communicate all that (hacking/planting/watching) in a single graphic.

Maybe he's just bounding through the forest whacking off animal heads, and instead of blood flowers spring out?

bassanimation wrote:Snarky = GMV ^^

I have something terrible that I actually made for the luck derby. A few small adjustments and it'll be on theme, and something everyone can punch on ^^;. But, it is made for punching .

btw, congrats on the print today bass!!!

Is it my fault that woot don't want any more Star Wars submissions? D:

staffell wrote:Is it my fault that woot don't want any more Star Wars submissions? D:

Perhaps... but it's worth it, because your shirt is awesome. =)

in one part a deciduous tree folded in on itself and bundled up and sad in a winter setting. then the same tree with arms (branches) stretching out to its side and smiling at the sun and starting to bud.

for kicks add an evergreen looking happy in the winter then somewhat uncomfortably warm in the spring. that is probably not necessary.


i have no art talents and this is my first post. i wont be making a shirt. i have nothing aside from paint anyways. i dont think this is a great idea for a shirt, but if someone could pull off something similar i think it could be neat. am i allowed to post ideas that i will never attempt to create myself?

Can we submit more than one entry? Or is it one entry per person?

K, here's mine this week... so no copying :D

Purple Rain, Purple Rain...



any comments/suggestions would be a plus

Here's my concept.

Elicea wrote:Can we submit more than one entry? Or is it one entry per person?

you may submit as many as you wish.

Another idea I'm working on:



I need some way to convey he's chomping on a kitty head. Any ideas? It's pretty close anatomically, but it kind of looks like another puppy. And that's no good.

hi guys.
my entry this time is gonna be:

Nuclear Spring



is ees than a strech but plz let me know what do you think about my idea :D

jerroul wrote:you may submit as many as you wish.

thank you

Here's my rough. Growing up there were two things I loved more than anything else, the pond full of frogs in my back yard (which exploded with spawn every spring) and the muppets.


The Next Generation




Is... good?... <__<

Icky?

Disturbing?

Better on blue?

Spiritgreen wrote:Here's my rough. Growing up there were two things I loved more than anything else, the pond full of frogs in my back yard (which exploded with spawn every spring) and the muppets.


The Next Generation

Is... good?... <__<

Icky?

Disturbing?

Better on blue?

Too copyright infringingy?

theWanker wrote:Another idea I'm working on:

I need some way to convey he's chomping on a kitty head. Any ideas? It's pretty close anatomically, but it kind of looks like another puppy. And that's no good.

Make sure you have the anatomy as -close- as you can, and then if it needs to be easier to understand then consider breaking a few rules
like making the eye holes more almond shaped and feline or even adding whiskers.

The puppy's pose looks great. This might not get a lot of votes from cat lovers though. ;)

Spiritgreen wrote:Here's my rough. Growing up there were two things I loved more than anything else, the pond full of frogs in my back yard (which exploded with spawn every spring) and the muppets.


The Next Generation




Is... good?... <__<

Icky?

Disturbing?

Better on blue?

Green is more springy, I think.

Does anyone else feel like the picture is moving? I zoned out for a minute watching it.

theWanker wrote:Sounds awesome. But maybe a little tricky to communicate all that (hacking/planting/watching) in a single graphic.

Maybe he's just bounding through the forest whacking off animal heads, and instead of blood flowers spring out?

This sounds a lot like a shirt woot already did. I think geekfactor was the artist.

Spiritgreen wrote:
Is... good?... <__<

Icky?

Disturbing?

Better on blue?

Yes to all!

odysseyroc wrote:Too copyright infringingy?

I don't know. It's all about where you define parody, isn't it? If putting a pair of glasses on a Storm Trooper is fair game then Kermit and Miss Piggy literally ::shudder:: getting it together and spawning Tadpoles & Pigpoles might be fine? It's not something I could imagine the Muppet Show doing, so therefore it's in parody territory...

(help)

adsollm wrote:in one part a deciduous tree folded in on itself and bundled up and sad in a winter setting. then the same tree with arms (branches) stretching out to its side and smiling at the sun and starting to bud.

for kicks add an evergreen looking happy in the winter then somewhat uncomfortably warm in the spring. that is probably not necessary.


i have no art talents and this is my first post. i wont be making a shirt. i have nothing aside from paint anyways. i dont think this is a great idea for a shirt, but if someone could pull off something similar i think it could be neat. am i allowed to post ideas that i will never attempt to create myself?

You just did, so it must be OK. ;) And requests have been made before.

Spiritgreen wrote:Here's my rough. Growing up there were two things I loved more than anything else, the pond full of frogs in my back yard (which exploded with spawn every spring) and the muppets.


The Next Generation




Is... good?... <__<

Icky?

Disturbing?

Better on blue?

i get that it's supposed to be frog eggs.

but kermit ain't havin' tadpoles. it'd be the piggy carrying the eggs.

jm2c.

adsollm wrote:in one part a deciduous tree folded in on itself and bundled up and sad in a winter setting. then the same tree with arms (branches) stretching out to its side and smiling at the sun and starting to bud.

for kicks add an evergreen looking happy in the winter then somewhat uncomfortably warm in the spring. that is probably not necessary.


i have no art talents and this is my first post. i wont be making a shirt. i have nothing aside from paint anyways. i dont think this is a great idea for a shirt, but if someone could pull off something similar i think it could be neat. am i allowed to post ideas that i will never attempt to create myself?

post away bro. people will sometimes grab your idea and run with it, or you can even pm a particular designer and they may run with your idea. case in point, hoot and squeak in my sig from jas and avhi. keep creativity flowing, welcome to boards.

Spiritgreen wrote:Here's my rough. Growing up there were two things I loved more than anything else, the pond full of frogs in my back yard (which exploded with spawn every spring) and the muppets.


The Next Generation




Is... good?... <__<

Icky?

Disturbing?

Better on blue?

I like the concept. I think it's the colors that are bothering me. I know they should be black, but a black Kermit/Miss Piggy somehow looks either racist or maybe dead. Either way it's a little creepy and not in a "ha ha" way. Have you tried making them pink/green? If you did that, you might change the shirt color to blue, since frogs often deposit eggs in water anyway.

Have you thought about instead maybe doing a tadpole with a snout and blond hair?

Spiritgreen wrote:Make sure you have the anatomy as -close- as you can, and then if it needs to be easier to understand then consider breaking a few rules
like making the eye holes more almond shaped and feline or even adding whiskers.

The puppy's pose looks great. This might not get a lot of votes from cat lovers though. ;)

Hmm. You might have a point about the cat lovers. Perhaps I should just keep it vague.

Maybe the puppy killed off a weaker sibling during a cold winter.

Spiritgreen wrote:I don't know. It's all about where you define parody, isn't it? If putting a pair of glasses on a Storm Trooper is fair game then Kermit and Miss Piggy literally ::shudder:: getting it together and spawning Tadpoles & Pigpoles might be fine? It's not something I could imagine the Muppet Show doing, so therefore it's in parody territory...

(help)

In my time here, they have always rejected any muppets that looked just like the real characters.

theWanker wrote:Hmm. You might have a point about the cat lovers. Perhaps I should just keep it vague.

Maybe the puppy killed off a weaker sibling during a cold winter.

This is just too twisted for color tv.... but it just made me actually laugh out loud.

theWanker wrote:I like the concept. I think it's the colors that are bothering me. I know they should be black, but a black Kermit/Miss Piggy somehow looks either racist or maybe dead. Either way it's a little creepy and not in a "ha ha" way. Have you tried making them pink/green? If you did that, you might change the shirt color to blue, since frogs often deposit eggs in water anyway.

Have you thought about instead maybe doing a tadpole with a snout and blond hair?

Haha, well I wanted it to look like regular frog spawn from a distance. Thanks for your thoughts.

odysseyroc wrote:In my time here, they have always rejected any muppets that looked just like the real characters.

Aww, really? So if Cookie Monster's face had been visible then The Binge would've been rejected.

I'm such a noob. Well I'll either shelve this or find a way of stylizing it down, mixing up the character traits.

Thanks very much everyone for the input. ^__^

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I can sense I'll be saving $30 this week.

Spiritgreen wrote:Aww, really? So if Cookie Monster's face had been visible then The Binge would've been rejected.

I'm such a noob. Well I'll either shelve this or find a way of stylizing it down, mixing up the character traits.

Thanks very much everyone for the input. ^__^

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The Binge was originally rejected. It was called "the Fix" the first time: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=35177

odysseyroc wrote:Here's my concept.

I really like the transition from musical notes to raindrops, and the dancing flowers. Nice idea. :^)

Seemed to pop out better against a darker background:

I'll be Livestreaming for the next hour or so

http://www.livestream.com/odysseyroc

staffell wrote:Is it my fault that woot don't want any more Star Wars submissions? D:

Your shirt selling out probably didn't help. The issue is that Star Wars has crossed the threshold of "overdone". It's a safe-bet derby win, and it's a safe-bet reckoning stormer. So while woot reserves the right to print well-done star wars tees like yours (and we reserve the right to whinge about it anyway, because even well done ones are adding to the flood) it really is in their best interest to ban Star Wars regularly where voters are concerned, so they don't become StarWars.woot.com. Most of the designers here only create things for money, not to be creative or because they actually love their art, so things that will make sure money are frequently winning, even if those things are, in actuality, horribly horribly executed (see also: the twilight shirt in this last derby's final fog). Woot could reject these things, yes, but they simply don't care enough to police their derby well enough to eject clear violators of basic quality standards... if it's not dramatically off theme (see again: this weeks foggers, many of which are off theme) or vulgar they'll let anything people vote for print, no matter how juvenile and sloppy.

If we really want to place blame, I'd place it on Teefury. They've printed so much pablum in the Star Wars vein in the last year that I don't know how any star wars fan doesn't already have a wardrobe stuffed with fanshirts. And it makes even the best stuff (yours, again, is actually somewhat witty, as is Matt's which is also on the charts) seem incredibly tired because it's simply too much.