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cruelnv wrote:If anyone else looked at the the shirt referenced earlier, I now know what the book was that I couldn't identify; Twilight. I have to say, I'm kind of glad I couldn't tell...

HA! Hahahaha. You made me laugh a lot. You are full of win. :-)

Clearly the strawberry is "The Red, Ripe Strawberry." I love that book =)

Re: Mary Quite Contrary

Love the watercolor look!

Re: What is the use of a book without pictures

Great concept, great execution. The only one I didn't get was "Lord of the Flies" -- I thought it was a queen bee.

I want.

Re: The Original Blockbuster

Fantastic concept. I would totally buy this shirt!

JRBommarito wrote:Shania Twain is a girl....

HA! I wish we could vote up comments on shirt.woot like we do on deals.woot; there are a lot of great comments in this thread!

Re: Reading Rocket Ship

awesome!

Re: The Original Blockbuster

I WANT THIS SHIRT SO BAD!!! Ahhh!

Re: Bi-curious George

simply great! too bad about the rejection

Re: Illiterate rainbow

How the hell did this fall out of the fog?

Re: They Really Do Come To Life...

hmmm, trippy

Re: Support Your Local Library- Resub

Very nice!

Hariette wrote:Amreli --
Great shirt! I want one. (please win, please win, please win)

Thanks! Though since I'm over 100 votes away from the fog, pretty unlikely. Will have to resubmit elsewhere eventually, already have some changes to make...

Re: Jealousy

Thanks bobdaduck, jmmbell, ccazabon, limonmix and everyone!

Re: reading between the lines

Very cute!

laughtrack wrote:How the hell did this fall out of the fog?

EXACTLY! WHAT THE SHINDIG!? I DEMAND THIS SHIRT BE MADE!

ittybittyx wrote:Compiling our guesses thus far:
(and adding some more of my own)

Lemmie know what I'm missing, or where I'm wrong!

The bots do amazing things to literary references. Melville's white whale got renamed!

Re: Funny Things are Everywhere

This is great. I'll get two.

scekk wrote:EXACTLY! WHAT THE SHINDIG!? I DEMAND THIS SHIRT BE MADE!

I double dog demand this shirt be made!

pharmacide wrote:I'd say to always make sure you have fun with your designs and don't try to cater to the crowd. I think most creative people would agree that when you aren't trying so hard to make some great masterpiece and are just trying to satisfy your own artistic desires is when you will have the most success. Your art will reflect this and you will have more satisfaction. Don't worry about technical skills. Those will come with time. Probably the most important thing is to learn how to create different effects with halftones. They aren't necessary but can give your shirt a different feel. So keep at it because I can see you have the skill and the desire.

Thank you so much for the wonderful tips. I will definetley try using halftones for this next derby.

I did learned a lot from this first derby so I will try my best on this next derby and submit it much sooner than this time.

samuelrsheridan wrote:I normally think posts that start with "Well I'm so educated I disagree with you" sound pretentious and Jatravartid. But as a playwright, with a MFA in playwrighting... you're wrong. You're overly generalizing, and you're being diminutive about a form of literature because it also functions in a performance art role?! That's just ridiculous.

I have an MFA in playwriting too! yay!

(And as someone who loves to both read a play and see it onstage, I agree with you.)

Re: THE ALLEGORY

I like how you imply that anyone who disagrees with you is badly read/ doesn't understand literature. I understand it just fine, thanks.

I still think this is tasteless though, which is something WOOT wants to avoid being associated with (which is why they don't allow toilet humour.) There are other ways to "debate literature"

laughtrack wrote:How the hell did this fall out of the fog?

I have a pretty good guess that it was due to a member of the reptile community.

Re: Reading Rocket Ship

It was an awesome theme full of a lot of great entries! I appreciate all the comments and the great response this design has received.

Thanks to all who voted!

aroomadoomie wrote:do you do this by hand or on the computer?

I did a couple of rough sketches in my sketchbook, then scanned this into PS. I then redrew on my wacom tablet.

kaedex99 wrote:I absolutely adore your work. Seriously. I would collect your shirts like ramyb fanatics collect his crap. -:D But, really. Your style is awesome. I wish your designs printed more often. -:]

i agree.

Re: Horror, Action, and Romance...Books

Page Master anyone? lol

Re: I Eernd Thees Scills

When oh when will literacy cease being a dump stat !!??!!?

Seriously though - I like the design

Two thumbs up !

Re: Literary fail

*shrinks down* can someone tell me who it is a drawing of? lol

Re: too much reading will damage your vision

This is really interesting. I feel like I'd prefer it if there were just a few colors mixed in. I'm sorry I didn't see it in time to vote for it. An alternative to cute doesn't come around enough.

Re: Epic Battle

i really really hope this get printed! best of luck will buy!!!

ambear88 wrote:*shrinks down* can someone tell me who it is a drawing of? lol

Duh, it's General Robert E. Lee.

Re: Funny Things are Everywhere

Oh my gosh, the memories this brings back. I'd buy one for sure!

Setzer13 wrote:Duh, it's General Robert E. Lee.

Wow, Sam Elliot is really getting up there in years.

katfin25 wrote:Aww you make me feel old! It was a public access tv show in the 80's and they reviewed the plot of a children's book each show in some creative fashion. And the host was Geordi from Star Trek, which I always enjoyed pointing out when my brothers had Star Trek on. I still do it when I come across Enterprise reruns!

I don't think you should feel too old. I wasn't even born until '87, and this show was totally my childhood.

And I think it says something about my upbringing that, rather than point out that Geordi was the guy from Reading Rainbow, I always watched Reading Rainbow and thought it was weird to see Geordi without his visor.
Thanks to my dad for that.

Re: Amount of Books

Thank you :D

Re: Funny Things are Everywhere

MUST HAVE

HansonMcCrotch wrote:Yeah... I'm not sure Wifred Brimley would approve of you using him to sell shirts.

DI-AH-BE-TUS!

thanopstru wrote:ooh, I just noticed the UFOs in orange/red...but I can't think what that would be.

Only thing I can think of is "It Came from Beyond the Sun" because it looks like they're coming from out of that big, yellow sun.

I'm probably wrong, though