I'm just selling myself all over. I submitted a bunch of designs in quick succession not expecting them all to get approved so quickly, so now I have like 4 designs all currently in the running. I'm pretty much running AGAINST myself.

Well, the voting for my first submission has ended and I gotta say I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I knew I wouldn't win with this one, but I wanted to sort of ease into it and see how things were before really devoting myself to something and then coping with the resulting heartbreak of it being torn to shreds by the critical masses. All wordy explanations aside, I feel like now, I can officially call myself one of you and am officially welcoming myself to the team. Don't worry, I won't make too much noise and I usually clean up after myself.

He's a lucky man to have three designs all printed so recently. Especially Dark Side and Calling Home printed the same day! Talk about hitting pay dirt. I, along with most I think, agree that this is very well deserved.

Okay, well after spending a couple days on Threadless, browsing submissions and reading comments, I have decided to compile a list of design choices that will equal instant suicide for any shirt, for all you would be designers. I'm serious, stay away from this shit. These people are tough.

1. Robots. I don't know if people are just afraid of losing their jobs to robots or what, but they fucking hate these things.
2. Drips. Nobody likes a mess, now.
3. Splatter. A splatter, being even messier than a drip, is definitely not a good idea. Even if it looks cool, you're going to get panned for this.
4. Khaki. Don't put shirts on khaki. I know, it might look fine, but that doesn't matter. There are just too damned many khaki shirts out there! Also don't go with orange, but that's just because it hurts my eyes.
5. Hearts. Nobody has any love for love anymore, so don't try it.
6. Butterflies. Fuck these things and their 3 month life span!
7. Text is generally frowned upon, but that's probably because text generally doesn't look that good.
8. Placing a graphic so it will lie either on or below a girl's breasts. Every girl will hate this, so don't even risk it by putting the graphic as far away from breasts as possible. Maybe don't even put it on a t-shirt, hide it away somewhere safe from breasts.
9. Meat, cows, anything like that will be extremely offensive to the overly sensitive vegetarians.
10. Cigarettes, cigars, smoke of any sort will be extremely offensive to the overly sensitive nonsmokers.
11. Designs in general will be extremely offensive to the overly sensitive nondesigners.

I think that pretty much covers it, but there might be more. Be careful out there.

I saw on BMEZine.com somebody who liked this design so much they got it tattooed on their forearm, and it looked pretty badass. Congratulations!