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marzipanapple wrote:I like the shaky lines and the use of minimal color (and the color of the shirt as space). I'm not really into the literal joke, but I just wanted to comment on the style. Excellent.

Thanks! I'm really enjoying drawing straight into photoshop. Is faster and I love this doodle style

Re: Classic Grunge

An old Victrola Gramophone with some grunge thrown in here and there

Jestik wrote:the colors on this are incredibly good.

voted for, and hope to buy this one.

Thanks. I got this done, then spent about 2 hours tweaking just the colors, till I found a balance that I thought worked well.

I almost couldn't tell this was Ramy's from the thumbnail because of the detail on the headphones, but the penguins was a definite tip off. All in all, I'd still say it is one of his better efforts in recent memory.

Re: Audio Mythos

Love the art. Again you two collaborate on a great design. But,I feel I have to mention that the subject matter is starting to be overdone, not as much as cutesy penguins...

You have my vote, but a really small one.

I love how you chose to keep the design looking like a series of sketches. It turned out very well, and gmv.

Re: Star trails remix

Nice looking design. GMV.

Re: Audio Mythos

Oh man, I think I know what's on that tape! Call of the Cthulu by Metallica! Rock on man this is great

Re: The Comeback

Boots, great work this week. This may be your strongest design in weeks. GMV.

Re: Star trails remix

It's hard to believe this shirt is within the color limits. I'd like it more if it had less colors in it though.

Re: Walk, Man, Walk

WIN. I said it in the pre-derby and I said it again.

Nice final product. GMV.

kevlar51 wrote:Thanks chump--what movie are we talking about exactly?

I thought it was the movie "robots"... I may be wrong, but the claim was robots is pop-culture. Maybe they just meant robots in general. Now i am confused.

Re: two turntables and a gramophone

Nice work man. I am digging the raw feel to this.

This doesn't feel like your normal work. If it wasn't for the pre-derby, I would have never known till I saw your name.

Re: You spin me right round

Lucky? Sketchy? ... who knew! This is great.

Re: Amplitude

This is your best design to date! Placement, colors, simplicity... this is so wearable.

odysseyroc wrote:Agreed. The tragic thing to me, is that outside of Walmazan, Lucky probably has the best mix of things that the "we want art" crowd and the "we want something cute" crowd both claim to want. The art is well done in a personal style with great color treatment, and they manage to always be cute, funny and sometimes with an original pop culture reference.yet, he's not winning every other week.

agreed

Re: You spin me right round

vote vote vote

Re: Music Never Dies

Beautiful!

Re: Dead Man's Party

I love everything about this design. The background, the attention to detail, the shininess. A+ work as usual!

Re: UNWOUND

anybody who owned a cassette player feels the frustration on that poor little tapes face!!

Re: Amplitude

The green on navy is perfect!

Re: How it really worked

Here is one of those shirts that you'll never get bored of. It has so much going on that you'll always find something new and smile.

That's right, this shirt explains scientifically how cassette tapes worked. I know, I too feel bad for the unemployed miniature elves. But hey, most of them now work in the MP3 industry...

Hope you enjoy it :D

6 vivid pantone colors on a lemon tee

Re: Music Never Dies

cool design diana! i really like the fire as well. good luck!

Re: Music Roots

Pretty cool, I think people expect better from an artist that has succeeded, but at least you didn't draw a PENGUIN!

Re: Catchy Tune

Didn't think this shirt would do this badly. I guess it's not really Woot style

Oh well, my other shirt "How it really worked" seems to be doing well and I thought that one would be the unpopular one

DJTweekNYC wrote:Very cool, I would buy this.

Spiritgreen wrote:Great design, it has so much character. Good luck with this one, SkekTek. :^)

Thank you folks a lot! It's one of my favorite designs in that it developed organically and came out 100x better than the original sketch.

Re: The New Champion!

Dangit... had I thought for an extra minute I could've named this "Kneel before Pod!"

Re: Jumping Tape (Resub)

Resub with no text, hope you enjoy it.

Re: Rock Star Status

little Billy is a 1 man band!

Re: Be Kind, Rewind

Cute!

lilaviel wrote:I'm sorry you guys have such problems with Ramy. I love his shirts. Yeah, he reuses a lot of his designs/themes. But it's a brand. People like brands. There's not ONE person who commented on this thread who isn't loyal to one brand or another, whether intentional or not. So you're just as bad as the people you slam for voting for and buying Ramy's shirts. Just a thought.

Some brands garner popularity because of their willingness to bring something new to the table. Some garner popularity by their refusal to. I don't think anyone would care if Ramy started an actual brand. It is his frequency of ignoring themes (this design doesn't have a single outdated audio format, only a receptacle for them, which is pretty clearly not what woot wanted if you read the original thread).

The fact is, a brand is not so simple as you think. There are brands that stand for something, and exist because they care about what they are representing, not solely for making quick bucks. There are brands that rely on a pointless name and meaningless hype to shill identical, boring product. One is good and one is bad. One's fans will change the world, and one's will run it into the ground because they refuse to ever re-evaluate anything.

Re: The Phonograph Bird

Very good

Re: Cassargyle

I would like this better if there were more rows of cassettes.

Yeah, when the banhammer went down on turtles, I noticed that penguins hadn't been on the list either, so I kind of saw something like this coming. I just don't know how many shirts someone can design of penguins standing around doing something. It's just not very original.

AdderXYU wrote:I don't think anyone would care if Ramy started an actual brand. It is his frequency of ignoring themes.

I think this is a very important point to make. Many of us dislike Ramy's designs, but honestly I couldn't care less if he decided to produce them himself on his own website. One would think with the number of derbies he's won he'd have the capital to start it up, and considering his number of fans I doubt he'd have problem sustaining it. The issue isn't his designs alone, it's that they're (to us) subpar entries in a derby that we'd hope would produce original, thoughtful, and interesting t-shirts, not just more bunnies/turtles/penguins.

Re: Boogie Nights

Can you post a closeup of the player piano roll?

Reminds me of the yellow robot with a mustache sitting on a guy's shoulders...in a good way. Hope this prints.

Re: I have this song stuck in my head

Clever idea...I wish the record looked more like a 45.

Re: two turntables and a gramophone

nice one, odysseyrock! I like the jazzy atmosphere

Re: born from a boombox

had some lull time at work, got to doodlin'

Re: Music Roots

This is just one chump's opinion, but if the ink work (the marker brushed stuff) was darker and it was on a lighter shirt, I think this design would be far more successful. At the moment, I really like the design, but the colors and values make it seem duller than it really is... if that makes sense.