Playing with the pun Homies. I decided to redraw this idea from what I was working on and hopeing to get some feedback. I also have experimented with how I'm going to render this design, as you can see below. I was thinking about incorperating silver foil to add a little bling around the car grill and flower bed fencing.

the perspective (is that what it's called?) is amazing man.

hoping*

I think a little bling at the front door, like a mat or a short walkway, might make it look like a heavy pendant, and get the idea across a bit more. I also like the idea of a krunk'd up car in the garage.

You can see the style I'm going for here.

Cool. Can't wait to see what it looks like when you're done.

It looks promising already! I agree that adding silver foil would give the look a great "homie" feel to the design! Can't wait to see it finished!

Nice! I don't really understand why the shadows of the front door and garage connect like that

looks pretty sweet! and the 'shadows' in front f the door and the garage aren't connecting... those are walkways. anyways, cool design man, can you help me out on mine?

http://www.threadless.com/critique/34182/Into_the_Mind_of_a_1st_Grader

Thanks! And those dark spots that appear to be shadows are the walkways :)

Finally finished vectoring over the image. Now I'm going to go in and add some more details such as a eagle mustache over the garage and some garden bling. After that, I plan on shading the colors to have more of a gradient feel to mimick the Homie style. See the previous version to link to the style I'm going for.



Any suggestion would be much appreciated!

I think the stuff you had going on around the houses in the fist sketch added a lot to it, but I like the idea that you are running with.



http://www.threadless.com/critique/34211/Record_Glasses

What do you mean by stuff? The smoke?

Added some more details.

looks like it's coming along nicely!

hmmm, the smoke feels a little out of place style-wise.

Finished vectoring all the detials, now I'm going to take it to photoshop and add gradiants to the the flat colored shapes.



Please comment! :)

details*

I think it be cool to have a bit of texture on the houses and halftones.



or like a bit of color, love the third one tho where the door looks like a 6-oclock shadow beard

but I guess gotta wait til you add the gradients

I think the facial features need to be a bit more exaggerated. It's hard to get the joke when they are subtle. I love the style.



Please crit mine:

http://www.threadless.com/critique/34373/Pay_the_Rent

cool! I think the houses look pretty good but am missing out on some other homey details like mailboxes, toys everywhere, grass, trees, bushes, street lights? Or like a curb with a drain, little houses in the background? Or a fence around those three houses and a hint at more houses like just the roofs or tree tops. It just seems a little too smooth. Cool idea and it's coming along nicely!

are you planning on coloring it?

the flat oval of gray all the houses are sitting on kind of looks overly large and blobby. . . have you tried fading it out with maybe a scratchy texture or something?

Awesome, thanks a lot for the comments!



EricDiaz, I will definitely add some more of those homey details great call!



nwgriffi, I actually want it to be the houses expressions to be subtle :)



Alexmdc, by gradients I also meant texture too.

olie!, I'm definitely going to add some texture to this baby! Stay tuned for the future updates, I still need to add some more details to the environment first. Thanks for commenting!

Sketched in some more details that were suggested, thanks again! Please check the previous versions to see where this is kind of going. All suggestions welcomed!

I like the details you are adding. I drain gutter at the curb would be another suggestion?? Coming along rather well.

Are you trying to make the house look like characters? If so you might want to look at some old-school animated films from the 30's for reference. That style would look sweet on a T-shirt.

Looking good.



You could pull the car out of the garage a little more to make it look more tongueish.







...and then to the left

Finally finished vectoring the image! Now for texturing and shading. Any comments? :)

I like the added details. Progressing nicely!

Awesome "wide-perspective" a little life would make this even better.. a dog hunting a cat.. or something.... Or birds flying in a circle above the "homies" :)



Please crit mine:hehe funny but don't think they can print it due to copyright infringement...



Please check mine:

HERE

Thanks for you suggestion, this piece could definitely use some lively animals!

Oh, man. I love the fish-eye perspective. I sort of have nothing constructive to offer; I just love seeing a design from the sketch stage all the way through. I'm definitely keeping my eye on this one; just make sure you don't stick this design on the "belly" of the shirt!!! Everyone'd look like they had a beer belly or were preggers. :D

Making good progress.



You could also add a tree somewhere in the back ground.





...and then to the left

I LOVE THIS.... getting pretty darn near ready to print... i love seeing others work start from a drawing . you learn something by watching that progress of another persons work. good stuff.



CRIT MINE PLEASE!

Sketched in some trees, birds, telephone poles and a squirells. I definitely think it needed that life, thanks very much for the suggestions! Now back to vectoring all these new details, and then maybe I will finally be able to move onto texturing and shading by tonight! :)



Please check out the previous versions.

I also think a dog chasing a cat across the lawn would be a good touch!

I was had drawn a dog running after a cat in the front yards, but then decided against it. I thought that it seemed too random...anyone else have an opinion about this?

Added the dog chasing the cat. It does work well for the foreground, but I also think it might be too much. Any opinions?

I know you've been at this for some time now so you'll probably hate me for bringing it up now, but. . . why are you drawing the houses from a fish-eye lens perspective? I'm not saying it's bad, just curious if you had reasoning behind it or if you have played with other perspectives.

I chose to use this perspective so that it would make primary character the houses, a gangster bowed chest look and a fish-eyed composition. You can see the style I'm trying to mimic HERE. I still have yet to shade and texture mine though, but I'll be getting there soon!

this is looking way awesome!! i love the trees and powerlines, but i don't know about the dog and cat... maybe some squirrels frolicking in the yard instead?

Added some more details and also showing an alternative dog chase cat scene in the back yard. All suggestion welcome!



Please see the previous versions.

The final rendering will be textured and rendered like this STYLE.

Keep the cat and dog, it is those details that you see first, and after a second you can see the gangster faces, it gives it more depth.

wau! I really like where this is going!

this is really sick! can't wait to see it rendered and all that,

good luck man!

thanks dude!

I love the perspective on this and can see this turning out rather awesome

Finally finished vectoring this bad boy, now onto shading and texturing! Comments are much appreciated! :)

Also please check out the previous versions.

awesome stuff so far! i like the way you've tracked your progression. I think the houses on the ends could do with having more detail, like tiles on the rooves etc

good work what colours/tee colour are you going to have?

where are you planning on putting this on a shirt? have you tried using any colours in the design? every progression has improved it so far...i like it



if you could crit mine that would be great...thanks:

http://www.threadless.com/critique/34549/You_Scratch_My_Back_I_ll_Scratch_His

Thought I would show this on a shirt just to get an idea, too large, too small?



I haven't tried using colors yet, but well see!



I forgot to add a trash can and bush, so I still have to that before I add texture.



Comments are much appreciated and thanks again to everyone who has participated so far!

Any larger and it will start to wrap around the wearer; I think width-wise it's perfect. It might be a tad high, but the placement is good. Just slide it down a notch, like make the "ends" of the sidewalk level with the armpits of the shirt. Does that make sense?



I'd love to see it with some color!!!

I like the image in Black and White. It looks like an old movie or cartoon from the 40's. I would punch the contrast of the cats running so they stand out some from the rest of the drawing.

Finally finished vectoring all the details! Now onto texturing and shading.



Please check out the previous versions.

the fish eye effect is great, not sure i get the overall concept tho

It's looking awesome! Love watching this progress!

Nice, kinda wished it was a wrap around, but i like it. Hit me back: LORE

I really like this!

I really like this!

Here is a taste of what the final texture will look like.



Please check out the previous versions.

cool looking drawing man, and its great work, sadly i think the over all concept is lacking. not the idea, but the fact is in no way would i think the houses here, as cool as they look, were "homies" because they dont strike you as being "people" once you know you can see it, its just hard to draw that conclusion

I'm hoping that I will convey that concept through perspective, composition and a color scheme similar to the Homies style...and also homes are homeys.



Maybe I need to title it Homie Homes? haha

i like Homie Homes!... and the style (shading/texturing) is definitely adding a lot to your illustration, nice work!



i'm glad you did something like this, since i was little i've always looked at homes as faces, cars too... the windows or headlights look like eyes and there's always something for a mouth in the middle

Once this is done, it'll be sweet!

Not bad, Hey check out some of my submissions

Sorry about the glich on versions 15 and 16.



Progress on the shading and texturing.

Wow; this is awesome!!!

awesomeee work but it need some of the atmpopher and backgrounds in v10

crit me

http://www.threadless.com/critique/34641/king_cock

Is this going to have colour once you've finished the texturing and shading? i still feel it needs a bit of colour

Once I get everything shaded, I will definitely experiment with some color.

this is really coming together. I'd like to see it with some color added as well.

nice...can't wait to this with color...keep it up :)

Final shaded version. Now I'm going to experiment with a little bit of color, but I'm pretty sure I'll keep it grayscale. Comments are much appreciated! :)

looks great shaded, very 3D

I think I like it more cartoony actually, like v12. Also, I don't think it needs to be as big on the tee as you have shown in previous versions. Stars would look really nice, because it has a very night-time feel to it. Love the dog and cat.

Good luck, great idea!

thanks@

Any thoughts on mine?

Does anyone else have an opinion to which version they like the best?

The latest version is the best one! How adding a moon?



lil help (share the love)

I love this!

And i like the newest version best.

I really think it needs color and ya latest version is the best. Also you need something at the center of it where all the perspective meets. Some thing neat or random. How bought a figure of a person?

Does anyone know if I should change the title, I dont want to run into any copyright issues.

grayscale is great!! submit it!!



crit mine please?



http://www.threadless.com/critique/34748/The_Happy_Olive#v3

This design is now finished and submitted, thanks to everyone who participated!

can't wait to vote on this one. :D

i can't wait to vote either.



this has really come a long way, hasn't it? i'm loving the monochromatic scheme and the shading and so cool.



crit mine?



http://threadless.com/critique/415113/King_of_Hearts

you work to hard man

check this masterpiece out

http://www.threadless.com/critique/34751/dilemma

It's now up for voting, please check it out here! Thanks :)

This turned out awesome!

Thanks!