Dedicated to my love for rock n roll. Truly timeless music.

The question here is, which side to use at front, and which to use as back? Any suggestions? Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.

I would lose the text.

On the back or the front? Thanks.

Both. Or just front.

Alright, without text, front or back. What do you guys think?

bump! :P

That's pretty tight!! good job!!

rate mine??

A Glimpse From Below

Thanks man. Anything else people?? Comments???

I like the colour scheme :)



Please comment on my Poor Teddy?

I wouldn't wear it because I'm not a "rock" person. It's a good design though.

I understand completely. Thanks though :)

So what do you guys reckon? Should I go with this idea? In its current state?

hey VVolf, i saw all your designs, but i think you have to focus only on one at the moment. Each design takes time and a load of work that has to be done. I think that you need to work on vector lines to make it much more clean and it will be easier to swap colors and see what's better and what's not. The lady in red needs to be adjusted, legs are too short and i see a lot of pixels... The weed thing...ehm, to me you should give up with that one. :) Just focus on one, this one has potential. The rose of instruments is nice, maybe the beams are a bit "heavy" :)

@ Clearcut, thanks for your comment. I do know I've been kinda stretching myself a little. In my defense, I had all these ideas and I did'nt want to forget them so I started them. I agree with you completely that the stuff needs a lot of work. But this way, I have each idea started at least.



You recommended vector art. Umm, do you know of a free program that allows to work with that well?



As for lady in red, I will work on it more, but umm, isnt there like a smoothing filter that makes the pixels less obvious? I'll look into that.



Haha, as for the weed thing, it's meant as a joke. It's also a little political I guess. I'm very surprised at the reaction I got from people for it. People either hated it or really liked it. Mostly hated but those are the only two sides I saw. No middle ground. I don't know, I still want to pursue it because well, I think, we as a society should be able to express ourselves and joke about things. I mean come on, we can joke about jesus and God but not about weed? Really? Anyway, from what I've heard the design isnt so good so I'll get back to it after I'm done with the others.



Thanks for saying this one has potential. At the moment though, I have no ideas of how to make it better. The only thing I can think of is coloring the instruments different than their respective beams. Haha, as for the heaviness of the beams and their squiggly like nature, I thought they would go well with Rock. Woah, long post. Better end this now. So yeah, thanks clearcut, appreciate the advice quite a lot.

not a big fan of people who click one of the options on the right without leaving a comment.

I like the idea a lot. I would focus on refining the rock lines that are radiating from the rock and roll epicenter. I think they should be jagged looking but not quite so messy. Love the variation of guitars and symbols.



I would appreciate your vote

Hey, so I made a whole bunch of changes in this version. I took the leap to flash & vector graphics. Hope the shirt looks better and clearer now.



Colored the guitars individually.

Made the lines less squiggly and more electric looking (hopefully)

Flipped the colors on the back of the shirt. Think about it and you'll understand why in a second.



What do you guys think? Took me a while to clean everything up after I converted it to vector format. Eagerly waiting for your comments. Oh, the whole thing is an swf in case you guys didnt notice.

Come on......

Alright, v3, my friends told me was too busy. I went ahead and rid the shirt of back design. It only has front now. Im having trouble deciding the colors though. Please, click on the forward button and look at all the colors. Please tell me which one is the best and also if there has been any improvement from v1 to now. C&C is always welcome and eagerly awaited.

i would go with the first few colour schemes, the design looks more reddish to me =p And keep the center elements black :) And i 2nd what clearcut mentioned about the vectoring. the guitars look too handdrawn and shaky. Im not too sure which free vector programs are good, some people use Inkscape so perhaps you could try it.



some votes pls :)

Bumppp :P

guys what do you think about the back design though? Should I keep it or leave it blank?



@ atzh, I voted :) I likeey

oh, check the back design in v3 and previous ones.

Hmmm. I don't like the concept or the illustration style here. So maybe I should just shut up.



Fishy?

the concect is good... but i guess the placement has got some -ve points to it...

leave a score on mine



http://www.threadless.com/submission/207275/Swing_Away

Hi, nice concept but i think some parts of the illustration is mixing in with the color of the shirt! if you got time please check out my design, thanks

hmm, i donno mate. any suggestions? I think it's pretty good the way it is though. Check v4, those who don't prefer the brown, see if anything catches your eye. I changed the color then and people said it was more of a red shirt hence this is why it is this way. And what part of the illustraion is exactly mixing with the shirt? Thanks.

Alright, so uploaded the design on the black shirt. Done it before in v4 though. But what the heck, did it again.

hey man, just wondering, i'm not sure, not a musician. But hey, they are all intended to be guitars right? the symbol in the middle isn't the one that is most used at bass cleff?



and why in the rays you mixed? quarter notes, double eights and treble cleff(the one that should be in the middle) ? it doesn't make any sense to me.

i think it goes better on the brown than on the black to be honest :)

also, why are some guitars silhoutted and others coloured?

laio, you are very right about the notes. It just looked asthetically better to me to do it this way. If you see the earlier versions with the back design, you can see that on that, everything is correct musically. The rays of light really arent in any note form, so I figured it didnt matter to be correct.



Atzh, haha welll, i keep bouncing back n forth on suggestions of brown n black. so far its an even 50 50. As for the guitars being unsilhouetted i couldnt figure out a color to give them. But yeah, I guess I could work on that.



Good observations, both of you. Thanks. I'll see if I can make it better.

Made the instruments more clearer as some of you said that the silhouettes needed to be changed. Also, on the submission thing, some people suggested putting in more instruments instead of just guitars. Check those out too. I think, hopefully, I put them in chronological order. I dont really know if the submission thing is going well but if it isnt, this is what I've come up with.

Kewl!

thanks. come on guys. I didnt get a good enough rating. I need to resub this. Comments??

try no centre position. and maybe without notes ...

i think you can try with different -shirt colors, the brown seems to darker the whole design, try with a lighter color?

thx, ill try both of your suggestions but what about the other instruments?? is guitars better or the other instruments one??

I have to agree with changing the shirt color, i'm not sure about the treble clef. Is there something else that could be put in the middle? maybe the some kind of artistic renditions of a few guitar legends? Same goes for the music notes, if you're going to have them, make them a little more stylized to match the electricity.

Ahh, I donno how to fit guitar legends in that small space though. I can think of jimi hendrix, Stevie ray vaughn, van halen and steve vai. I dont know how to get them in there though. Umm, Ill see what I can do. Thanks for the comments guys. Appreciate them :)

Whatabout putting a Marshall stack in the centre so all the electrical power is coming from it. Just a thought. Great idea keep working on it.

ooh, i like that idea :) thanks. I dont know if I'll actually be able to put the logo on it though. But an amp doesnt sound half bad :D

Maybe a stack like you said :)

I looked at all your designs and think that you need to a m ore detail and time to your pieces. They all have the same kinda feeling... as if it is the start of a good concept. They do need more attention to detail and composition. Maybe look at other successful threadless designers work to see what works and what not. I am also still learning the ropes. You love red, orange and yellow. Warm colours.

Thanks for the comment. You are probably right but I cant figure out what more detail to add here though? Unless I drastically change everything. I do have one idea after permanent suggested a marshall stack. I'll see what I can do with that. And yeah, I do like those aggressive colors :)