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WEAREYAWN aka Sandra and Annika is a girl, has been a member since December 11, 2009, has scored 9,632 submissions, giving an average score of 3.03, helping 248 designs get printed.

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Sep 16 '10 by WEAREYAWN
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COOL CAT work in progress. Some opinions pls?

Hey everybody,
we've been working on a few designs right now. One of them we started doing about 3 months ago, always worked a bit on it and changed stuff/directions. Maybe it's finally finished, but we've worked too long on it and can't decide anymore!

We wanted to make some design with a "cool cat"! First he was driving a moped, then we changed it into a cooler car. Then the illustration was going to get a background of some kind of backstreet, but we really didnt like how it looked on the shirt so we removed it and gave him a (little bitchy) girlfriend instead.
The guy cat is my old roommate cat Leni by the way :D

Do any of you have suggestions? Do you think we should add some more details? (like tattoos or ear rings or stuff like that) Or do you think it's finished? Some opinions would be appreciated :) Thanks!

Anyway, we always like looking at those WIP blogs so here is the development:

xiv on Sep 16 '10 at 1:51pm

id add maybe one or two tattoos. nothing too complex though.

the perspective on the cool cat is a bit odd. Its as if i am towering above him, even at a distance and looking down. while the car, im looking at it at approx. eye level.

have you tried this on a slate/grey shirt? might look better. the blue is sort-of washed out... i think it cheapens the overall feel of the graphic.

i prefer the trees in the background. the cityscape looks a bit cheesy.

WEAREYAWN on Sep 16 '10 at 1:54pm

hey thanks a lot for the input. i'll change the shoes of the guy, maybe then the persperctive will look better :) havent tried on a slate or gray but will give it a go, thanks :)
i also think the necklace could need a bit more work! will look into that in the next days!!

WEAREYAWN on Sep 16 '10 at 2:02pm

here it is on a grey shirt. dont really like the dark blue outlines on that. the tried it on some lighter blue, that would also save a color.

nickv47 on Sep 16 '10 at 2:07pm

he needs some sparkles on his cat bling. all cool cat bling is blingy.

that was prob one of the dumber sentences I've written in a while.

nickv47 on Sep 16 '10 at 2:08pm

maybe work the yellow in more across the design: highlights on the ride, top of the shirts, etc.

WEAREYAWN on Sep 16 '10 at 2:13pm

the necklace did have some bling but you couldnt really see it on the white shirt, so took it off again... maybe he needs a different shirt color!
will try out the highlights too! thanks :)

xiv on Sep 16 '10 at 2:19pm

part of my last comment didnt show up...
try it on a grey shirt, and change the blue outline to grey also.

WEAREYAWN on Sep 16 '10 at 2:35pm

hey xiv, thanks so much! made it all grey and like this a lot better now! will definitely try out the other suggestions next week and then probably need another 3 months to finish it ;)

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we're Annika and Sandra. We're childs of the 80s, we like illustrator, feltpens, pop, handmade type, 80s surf and skate design, friends (& the sitcom!), high school movies, Hedi Slimane's photography, vampires, wolves, geometric forms, SNEAKERS!!!!, and fastfood.

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