As suggested I have made some minor changes to all the colors, what do people think? Is it good to go? If not what changes would improve upon it? And most important, which color works the best? My personal inclination would be to send them all in and let the voters decide, but it is not clear to me from the guidelines if I am allowed to submit the same design on different colors.

Edit: I already submitted this design once, but the link to the previous submission seems to be broken.

While I appreciate the thought, votes of "needs work" don't really help me without some more detailed guidelines. What specifically needs work? What has to be changed about it for you to say "yeah, I'd buy that!"

hey, did you get my previous comment about the bubbles?

indeed I did, it was quite helpful! Just what I am looking for. You will notice that now the bubbles go in different directions, and are of more random size. I really think it helps the overall design, and it was a detail that I would have missed on my own, thanks, keep the advice coming.

Gosh, I just wrote another whole thing but it's not showing up and I don't want to duplicate it again!! Let's see if it shows up otherwise I'll repeat myself LOL

Well, good grief. OK, so I realized afterwards that you had changed the bubbles, and my suggestion was to change them even more, maybe with the top right string, you could add even more bubbles so they go up near the shoulder, and maybe add a third string of bubbles on the left? It still looks a bit too symmetrical. But really cute!

As suggested I have randomized the bubbles, what do people think? Is it good to go? If not what changes would improve upon it? My personal inclination would be to send them all in and let the voters decide, but it is not clear to me from the guidelines if I am allowed to submit the same design on different colors.

I might change the lower left bubble set. It is curving the same direction as the bubble above it, and I think it would look better if the two strings of bubbles were going different directions.

Other than that, I like the cream one the best.

Definitely agree with the cream.
First off, let me say this is without a doubt the CUTEST design I've seen. Ever. For anything. I love the hand-made look. It's so minimal yet so...pretty!

Personally I think the bubbles are a little...distracting. They look very unnatural...maybe if they were down lower, equal to or a tad lower than the jellyfish, and moved to the sides more away from it, too, for more spacing? The jellyfish looks like it could be moved up a little too...a little more centered.

But other than that, I have nothing. It's just those bubbles. Haven't voted yet, but definitely will pick Submit when/if the bubbles are touched up.

@ r.giboney
Thanks, the reason it looks handmade is... it is! Its a heavily cleaned-up scan of a pencil drawing.

Perhaps you can check out the previous version of this and tell me what you think, the bubbles are much less pronounced in that one, almost exactly what you described in fact. I personally think they are less distracting that way...

Ya know... looking back at this design, I kinda like the bubbles on the earlier version

yeah, I'm inclined to agree with the last comment, the more I look at it the more I like the bubbles on the first version. What about the colors? Or should I just submit them all like this (or separately)?

I think that it's great!
Simple and nice.
I think maybe you should experiment with the bubbles. They look like they're in a straight line--you need to organize them differently.
Other than that, they're great!

Help me out with my critique?

After consideration, I have arrived at this design. I think that the bubbles are much better in this version, what does everyone else think?

Also, what about the colors? Should/can each be submitted as a separate design? Or should I submit them all together, or perhaps submit only one of them?

Any input would be welcome...

I really like the look of it, I think it works best on the cream colored shirt. the two sets of bubble on each side makes it look a little too symmetrical in my opinion, maybe also play around with putting it off center, lower, higher, or larger. Really cool though.

I love the black shirt, it's my fav for sure.
I agree with Sheaman though, the bubbles look to organized and symmetrical.. I would make it al ittle more random and have less bubbles trailing.
This is beautiful though, awesome job :)
And if you're not busy, a last minute score and comment for my first submission would be much appreciated! 0 days left lol!

After due consideration, I believe this is the version of the design that I will submit. If anyone has any other input I would welcome it, other wise I will bump this into the running as-is.

As far as color goes, I can't really decide on a favorite, so I am planning to submit all three together. I only hope that that doesn't violate submission rules...

if u do the black one with glow in the dark ink as well as the white... that would look sick... :D

check out my critiques on my profile if you have time

I agree with ruff..glow in the dark on the black tee!! Check out my critique

General consensus seems to be that black and cream are the best colors, so I intend to submit this design, any thoughts?

General consensus seems to be that black and cream are the best colors, so I intend to submit this design, any thoughts?

Colours good, image good, maybe more bubble variation

http://www.threadless.com/critique/50907/Penguins_Love_Ice

Looks okay, though the bubbles on the left (as you are looking at it) are going the same direction, and that looks a bid odd.

like it otherwise!

Awesome!!! I love the black one!!!

Oh yeah, please check out my design if you would like. I would surely appreciate it!!
Kawaii Ramen

After some time away, I have come back to the design with fresh eyes, and I found that the bubbles on the left were really bothering me. Now that I have fixed them, I feel the overall look is much better. Now I am throwing it out to public opinion, what do you folks think? What changes need to be made to give this the best possible chance?

i like it! submit it!!

If you can, please look at mine .

Any last minute input would be welcome, barring any serious suggestions for changes, I will submit this design this weekend for judging. I would like for it to have the best possible chance for success, so please, if you have any suggestions that would improve my chances I would be most grateful for the feedback.

Seriously, any advice, criticisms, votes of confidence, etc. would be much appreciated

I would like to see a larger view of the image to get a good feel for the details on this piece.

My Design

I really don't see any change in your first submission. But i dose look cool. Maybe instead of bubbles you could have some smaller jellyfish or have bubbles with smaller jelly fish. Hope this helps! Also i need some help on my design, please comment here

Higher quality image please, it seems too blurry. Don't submit it with this quality. Let us see some details alright? And you don't have to comment on my design :)

I know the image is a bit blurry, the problem is I can’t seem to reduce the image to the required size without that happening. I will try again to get a clearer image.

On a related note, can someone recommend a cheaper (i.e. free) alternative to adobe illustrator?