I think that since there is now a slogan specific website there are lots more slogans and people score them a lot harder. Awesome. Worst sentence ever

In your opinion are there designs that should never be submitted? I notice a lot of designs in the critique section that get a lot of don't submits and was wondering if that was just hateful people that are to lazy to actually critique or if these designs are that bad. Some of these designs I think are quite good but need a little fixing, which I try to express in the comments. I have noticed on my critiques as well as others.

What is the big idea? Is it that hard to say, I don't really like the idea, or, maybe don't have jesus fucking a cow people don't like that? I find it frustrating to not receive any comments just ratings. I am sure others feel the same way. I realize that a lot of my early designs, like everyones, where pretty crappy in their presentation. They where ideas I was trying to express and my skills didn't equal successful presentation.

I just wish there was a way to get people to make comments, I would even take the "This is the worst idea/design ever" over the 5-10 don't submits without a single comment. I would of course prefer to have something constructive that would help me fix things in the design.

I have started forcing myself to draw everyday. This is above and beyond the normal doodling I do everyday. I have two designs that I am currently working on and I am looking for critiques.

The three designs are quite different but I think they are fun.

Number 1 is the one that makes me laugh the most, I like version 2 better then the current version with the shadows but that is just me. The idea was that it is funny to give away your babies to be eaten by others.

Number 2 is fun and funny. Those ducks came to me during a meeting and that is an exact replication of what was on my paper, just prettier. I really like how all of the ducks are trying to figure out what you are looking at. I may add question marks around the duck's heads so they look more confused.

Let me know what you think and please comment so I know what needs to be done.

Here is the next attempt at awesomeness. This is also the first one I have drawn only using my computer, no sketch just free hand in illustrator.

As you may have noticed from other designs I have put up in the critique section, I love bunnies. I was trying to figure out what would make a bunny love you more then anything else. Giving it your carrot children of course.

Let me know what you think.

Enjoy!!

Dear threadless peoples

I finally got a design into the running. Please check it out and vote ASAP. The general Idea, in case you haven't been following the design is just that it is a duck and he is lame. The light bulb moment was when I was discussing how afraid I was for Bush's lame duck period and the idea of a hobbled duck came about.

I am just so excited. Vote early and vote often... that doesn't really work so don't try to vote often.

Here or if you just want the link to copy paste

http://www.threadless.com/submission/182919/Lame_Duck

Thanks in advance,

Dylan

I have submitted a new design for the critiquing. I was sitting around with some friends last night, playing DnD, discussinf how excited we are for Bush's lame duck period.

I got thinkinf abour warner bros cartoons and how they always had the sign the said "crazy" or the like and I thought that it would be fun to do with a duck.

I admit that this was a fairly quick sketch and some things, like the feet, need some work. I am trying to keep it simple with the drawing. I want it to be obvious that it is a duck, which I think it is. I am planning on doing a better job on the letters, those where the last bit before class.

I am on my phone right now so I cannoot link to the design, but you are fairly close to it if you are reading this blog.

Let me know what you think of the idea and the design.

Thanks.

I have been a hidden visitor to the critique section quite a bit and I have noticed a lot of critique mine links at the end of people's comments. I recently submitted my newest design and while I value other people's comments about my work it bothers me that in order to get comments you have to be a comment whore.

Most of these comments are a short sentence:

I like the design, crit mine

What is the point. For a little while I tried it and felt dirty. Pulling people away from someone's design without providing valuable feedback to that artist just feels wrong. So I decided that I would instead try to leave comments of value, with no link, and see how my critiques fared. It didn't work. I was thinking that by putting a comment that might assist the artist in perfecting their work they might follow through and check for any critiques in my profile. They could then click on those and see if they had anything to say.

Apparently in order to get critiques, or at least to get people to look at a design I must spam up others critiques and join the cycle of dumbness.

Of course this isn't just a threadless problem, I have noticed a similar problem on the etsy forums. I had more sales when I would waste an entire day posting a comment and my link to a thread. Never actually saying anything that mattered, just doing the internet equivalent of blurting out the first thing on my mind and including a link. Now that I don't feel like "advertising" that way my sales have dropped.

I just don't understand the need for this type of "advertising". I would rather have my work draw people in, which I think is scarier for the artist, then be the artistic equivelent of an impulse buy. Of course I am going to end this post with links to both places.

Check my Critique

Check out my shop

Ha Ha tricked you

Interestingly or not I have discovered a pattern in my art making and designwork. I am really really bad at finishing a design. I will come up with an idea and work on it for a couple hours and put it up for critique.

I then patrol the critiques, commenting on other peoples designs and working on mine. I post a bunch of versions quickly and then I am done. It is ridiculous.

Someday I will finish a design and submit it. Wish me luck.

Now that I have your attention

I made another design... for critique... someday I will actually submit one for scoring. But the forum is cold today, everyone most have started the weekend early. Usually I get a few comments pretty quickly after submitting a design but not today. Last I checked I was the last commenter on every design in the critique forum.

Here is my critique.
http://www.threadless.com/critique/29058/Head_Heart

Let me know what you think. If I go by the previous ones I have submitted for critique it needs more work. Let me know.

Does anyone else, when you have something in the critic section, just hang around waiting for comments? Wondering from Critic to Critic wondering why they get comments and you don't? I do. Well I guess I do get comments, but it always seems to take forever.

Though when I first submitted some designs people commented right away about how they should never be submitted and what not. With these new ones the feedback has been so much better and less mean but there has been less of it. Does that mean that the designs are getting better?

Anyone....