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Re: Tar Pit Painting

a favorite Jurassic pastime!

Re: You Thought Wrong

Meat + thought bubbles = superior design. Glad you didn't sit this one out.

Re: Bear Necessities

Well....this was extremely well done, but yeah...merhh PedoBear on a shirt = no no. Other than that, dayum, I love the wall texture! I looked everywhere for a good one to use and I couldn't round one up.

kdeuce wrote:5 colors on brown.

I figured this would get rejected quickly, but I still voted! Would have been great to get.

Spiritgreen wrote:Oooh, spooky and cool. Wonderful dimensionality to the design too, geekfactor!

Absolutely. Love the depth on this one, and the shirt placement is perfect.

Re: A Memory of Strange Visitors

yep...

Re: Tar Pit Painting

cute and funny, i like it +1 from me!

Re: Tar Pit Painting

Awe-some illo', Patrick! Very clever. ^__^

Re: A Memory of Strange Visitors

Oops! My bad, had never seen that one. Even posted in the forum last night and didn't get any reaction. Try again next week!

Re: The Birth of Venus of Willendorf

yay! the godess figure was the first thing i thought of when i heard about this theme, glad to see someone do something with it and so well! definite +1 from me, i hope this does well.

Re: Tar Pit Painting

How is this in the style of prehistoric art?

jasneko wrote:This is really great! I was blown away when I saw a special on elephants painting - really amazing. Well done!

thank u jasneko I love the sabretooth!

Re: Prehistoric Duo

From the Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book:

"Second, commercial products rarely respect how a comic strip works. A wordy, multiple-panel strip with extended conversation and developed personalities does not condense to a coffee mug illustration without great violation to the strip's spirit. The subtleties of a multi-dimensional strip are sacrificed for the one-dimensional needs of the product. The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life. I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminshed. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to. "

"My strip is about private realities, the magic of imagination, and the specialness of certain friendships. Who would believe in the innocence of a little kid and his tiger if they cashed in on their popularity to sell overpriced knickknacks that nobody needs? Who would trust the honesty of the strip's observations when the characters are hired out as advertising hucksters? If I were to undermine my own characters like this, I would have taken the rare privilege of being paid to express my own ideas and given it up to be an ordinary salesman and a hired illustrator. I would have sold out my own creation. I have no use for that kind of cartooning. "

"And making the whole issue even more absurd, when I didn't license, bootleg 'Calvin and Hobbes' merchandise sprung up to feed the demand. Mall stores openly sold T-shirts with drawings illegally lifted from my books, and obscene or drug-related shirts were rife on college campuses. Only thieves and vandals have made money on 'Calvin and Hobbes' merchandise."

Once again, no respect.

Also, where's the parody here? Tigers and humans both existed together, so therefore this is parody? It's nothing but one more shoehorning of someone else's ideas into a theme. It's not parody and wouldn't hold up if anyone cared to bring it to court.

Very cool. Killer texture

Re: Stoned

2nd attempt. Wish I was an artist.

Re: Paleolithic Pipsqueak

remixed + improved; great!

Re: Tar Pit Painting

My favorite is the guy with the circling stars above his head.

This is a great shirt man! +1

Re: precursor

Hahahaha! I had a similar idea to this but I didn't know how to make it work. Adorable. <3

Re: The Birth of Venus of Willendorf

nice!

Re: Tatonka in the medium of mud

Nice sketchiness.

Re: The Relic

Rejectionator might not like shirt placement though.

bassanimation wrote:Hahahaha! I had a similar idea to this but I didn't know how to make it work. Adorable. <3

Thanks Bass. You're a bit rodent biased though.

Re: the real artist

like the colors + the thought of painting mammoths.

Re: Sport chronicle

Haha thanks!

Re: A product of nature

Is great art a product of man? or is it a product of nature? Below is a detail image of this little guy's macaroni picture, comments appreciated!

Re: Finger Painting

Cave Painting
All you need is a surface, some blood, and your fingers!

There was some talk about this in the pre-thread. If this entry TRULY upset, offends, or discomforts you greatly, then please leave a comment and let me know. If too many are uneasy by this, I will delete it within my 24 hour time frame. And please don't lie about it, taking advantage of my consideration for others feelings.

Re: Sabertooth Can Haz Cheezburger?

I like the way the shirt color/design colors make it seem like you're peering into a cave interior. You've obviously channelled a prehistoric fast food mascot.

Re: Prehistoric Duo

Love C&H, and the idea & your texturing is all really good.

It's a strongly defended property though, just as tgentry says. I'm sure I can remember a strip with a sabre-toothed Hobbes in it too... one of the mesozoic era strips... so that might further complicate things.

Spanner. Works. Gah, sorry. :-)

tgentry wrote:As a big C&H fan I always wanted some kind of C&H t-shirt, movie, cartoon, stuff animals, etc. But I highly respect Bill Watterson's integrity when it comes to his work, so much so that I wouldn't support any kind of unofficial knock-off. Parody is fine and if this had something to say about the original work I think I'd be ok with it, but it just seems like it's relying on the popularity of the source without saying much about it or adding enough of an original element to justify it. Also they are pretty protective of the brand and those characters look a little too much like the original IMO. I'd be surprised if this made it past rejections, but stranger things have happened.

I also believe I have seen a C&H strip in which Calvin was portrayed as a caveman and Hobbes as a Saber-toothed tiger. I'll do some digging, but I'm sure if I don't, someone will find it.

Re: Tar Pit Painting

Looks like they're slinging poo.

Re: The Birth of Venus of Willendorf

It brings back memories of my art history class, cant believe I still remember the Woman of Willendorf

Re: Tar Pit Painting

ZOMG so many dinos, I love dinos!

Johndis5 wrote:I also believe I have seen a C&H strip in which Calvin was portrayed as a caveman and Hobbes as a Saber-toothed tiger. I'll do some digging, but I'm sure if I don't, someone will find it.

If this is true then I'll gladly take it down. This isn't something I remember seeing and I thought it was a fun take on the theme and I did a pretty extensive search before working on the design to see if it existed elsewhere and didn't find anything similar, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it did.

Re: Sport chronicle

Nice but not a parody.

Re: Ceiling Smilodon

Woot should have just titled this the "Prehistoric LOLcat Derby".

Re: Ancient Meme

This is pretty nice design, I love that smiley for some odd reason, lol.

Re: Finger Painting

Blood? Im 50/50

Re: Prehistoric Duo

Here's some support for what others are mentioning about Hobbes as a saber-tooth tiger:

http://lesinge.org/ch/index.php?search=1&str=saber-tooth

I remember there being a more obvious example, but can't find it so maybe I imagined it.