This is my plan for the "Democracy" competition. It seems fitting that I go through the whole process of making it in critique, what with that being the more democratic and all.

But ultimately I still get to do whatever I want with it, sort of like, you know, how representative democracy works.

Anyway, feedback on the sketch'd be great as well as any recommendations on where to go next.

definitely play up the missiles. they are an invaluable tool of democracy.

but this is seriously great. can't wait to see where it goes.

very nice.

nice...maybe a little more color?

just wanna see some reactions. I'll probably finish/color it as a vector illustration, but here's just a little test as a belt print. I think its sorta cool.

I Love this! I think it is great without color.

i thought it was great before... but i hadn't even considered a belt print. it looks amazing. careful with that, though. it will limit the amount of colors.

i think it looks fine without color too!

looks great as is.

Keep it simple...no color

This is more in the right direction- still pretty early though.

I took the original sloppy drawing, converted it to halftones, livetraced that, and then started putting colors in under the trace. It has a pretty nice gritty texture in the details.

Much much better than v1 and v2. Crazy design. LOVE IT !!!!


please score and comment:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/171272/The_Puzzle

okay. This is probably final unless anyone has any objections. Will hopefully be submitting it soon.

I love this, it is fantastically done.

At first though, I thought it was the donkey looking at the ears, until I saw the trunk. Now I see that it seems to only be the Elephant (rep) amongst all the elements.

I'm not going to say it shows bias, as it's a weak argument, but I half expected to find them both in the chaos.

Very Very cool shirt. Best of luck!

haha, its actually a donkey AND an elephant.

its also holding missiles and throwing down seeds.

Oh, a hybrid animal, I'm glad I'm not nuts for seeing donkey ears. Well done.

Sure. I sat down to draw and my first thought was, "stay away from all cliche american political symbols". Then I did the opposite... I'm happy with it and I think its okay that I used the symbols because its in a bit of a subversive way.

Do you think its clear enough that its supposed to be both? I mean, it has 2 sets of ears and stuff, but maybe I could do more to clarify that.

I think I was ridiculous in thinking that those ears might be elephants, I'd say the hybrid works.

I did the same thing with my democracy WIP, a little americanized, but your party system version is vague enough.

wow , your comment made me cry. How does that make you feel?

you need to learn to give good criticism...not bash someone.

sorry about that. I really didn't intend to bash you, I was just letting you know that you should take a different approach. That kind of shirt is probably fine other places, its just way too niche for Threadless.

Good luck in the future.