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jillustration aka jillian nickell is a girl, has been a member since December 16, 2006, has scored 29348 submissions, giving an average score of 1.03.

URL: http://www.jilliannickell.com
AIM: jillustration

Nov 02 '09 by jillustration

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Threadless Loves Travel 2 - my idea! needs votes!

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Winkin, Blinkin and Nod - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

On Emptees!

On seafoam probably, not colored yet. Obviously still in the middle of drawing this bad boy. What says travel more than high seas adventure in a tub? Thinking of calling this "Winkin, Blinkin and Nod" but I'm not really sure.

kinda halfway done colors, still in progress...

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alexmdc on Nov 02 '09 at 9:00pm

WOW

Frogking on Nov 02 '09 at 9:01pm

That is some sweet sweet illustration.
Looking good already!

B 7 on Nov 02 '09 at 9:02pm

SO good!

jess4002 on Nov 02 '09 at 9:06pm

YES!

quister on Nov 02 '09 at 9:07pm

Hahaha! Very cool! Love the bathtub, unexpected and fun!

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 9:10pm

I love crustaceans and claw footed tubs! I had this idea some time ago and drew it but was never really happy with it. When I heard about this contest I wanted to rework this anyways and it works perfectly with the theme, perfect reason to make it fabulous!

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 9:14pm

(it was not an idea I had subbed here, of course :) )

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 9:14pm

(it was not an idea I had subbed here, of course :) )

emory on Nov 02 '09 at 9:21pm

Awesome! Can't wait to see the finished drawing!

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 9:38pm

SuperRyan on Nov 02 '09 at 9:41pm

this reminds me I'd really like to go to Red Lobster

SuperRyan on Nov 02 '09 at 9:41pm

p.s. Looks great!

evan3 on Nov 02 '09 at 9:42pm

itll be great

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 9:42pm

nooooooo you can't eat my crustacean friends!!!!

greenttentacle on Nov 02 '09 at 10:41pm

looks great! the bath tub is brilliant... :)

what colours are you planning?

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 11:00pm

Seafoam tee, more of a bluish palette probably, since it's a nautical theme :)

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 11:03pm

jillustration on Nov 02 '09 at 11:04pm

that's what I'm playing around with right now. Obviously, I have a bit more to do with the waves, and I have to finish the color on the crabs, only the one in the center is done. Oh and that bird up above, have to finish him too!!

spacesick 2 on Nov 03 '09 at 2:20am

fuckin awesome. the coloring on the front crab is gorgeous.

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 03 '09 at 2:24am

i am excited!

crabs have played a substantial role in my childhood. Not only was I Sebastian the Crab in a 2nd grad production of Disney's The Little Mermaid, but I also played a crab in a community theater production of Alice in Wonderland. I was the crab.
a crab was also the first shirt design I printed when I got my home screen printing kit like 9 years ago. I still get asked if I'm a cancer when I wear it. I'm not.
Also, crustaceans are just up and out crazy animals.

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 03 '09 at 2:25am

they eat like cigars.

olie! on Nov 03 '09 at 2:26am

sounds like sam's got a case of the crabs

WHABAM!!!!!!!

olie! on Nov 03 '09 at 2:27am

this is coming along very nicely btw :)

Aphte on Nov 03 '09 at 2:28am

I'm also a big lover of crustacean, so I'm totally loving this :D

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 03 '09 at 2:29am

why, yes i do, i just ordered them from Alaska Seafood Incorp...

oh i see what you did there.

SteveOramA on Nov 03 '09 at 2:43am

nice flow to the whole design.
the coloring is great so far!

jillustration on Nov 03 '09 at 10:47am

Thanks!!
You guys are silly btw.

jillustration on Nov 03 '09 at 12:46pm

yay!

Hi my name is on Nov 03 '09 at 12:49pm

AWESOME!

jillustration on Nov 03 '09 at 11:45pm

I dunno, am I getting closer to done? I need to add a bit of that brassy color to the tub handles I think. Should I add white to the seafoam?

jillustration on Nov 03 '09 at 11:46pm

Also not entirely sure I like the waves. I think I might redo those closer to the second version, simplify a bit.

Krimson on Nov 03 '09 at 11:51pm

It is absolutely amazing, as is everything done by you.

jillustration on Nov 03 '09 at 11:54pm

I think I'll make the waves more like this but with outline round the bottom part. Off to bed for now though!

Also thanks Krimson!

jublin on Nov 03 '09 at 11:56pm

great! i love the crab colors. woooo!
has threadless even announced this new loves contest?

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 12:10am

Your idea is stupid, give up now and don't submit this, it will never win...not with a lousy 3.6 score that it will get. You might as well just stop being a so called "artist" too. You and I both know people don't like terrific illustrations like this, and that's all you can do, you one trick pony you.

*just in case its not clear, I really love this and the style

brentendo on Nov 04 '09 at 12:13am

woah the latest version is amazing! your colour work is so nice, I'd love to know how you get such good halftones

jillustration on Nov 04 '09 at 8:47am

Yay thanks! Jublin, I think that the loves contest is announced on the front page? Also Brentendo, there's a tutorial on threadless somewhere for halftones, I'll have to dig it up for you.

randyotter3000 on Nov 04 '09 at 8:49am

IM ON A BOAT MOTHA FUCKA TAKE A LOOK AT ME

jillustration on Nov 04 '09 at 8:50am

Ha randyotter, swap tub for boat and you got it.

randyotter3000 on Nov 04 '09 at 8:54am

dammit :(

ecsu on Nov 04 '09 at 8:56am

your work is so pretty... so so so so pretty.

spacesick 2 on Nov 04 '09 at 9:01am

awesome!

TheInfamousBaka on Nov 04 '09 at 10:08am

Those halftones are splendid!

randyotter3000 on Nov 04 '09 at 10:09am

mow mow mow

SuperRyan on Nov 04 '09 at 10:17am

looks so good!

sonmi on Nov 04 '09 at 10:19am

so whimsical and great! right now the linework on the clouds is kind of distracting, though. it looks connected to the tub. perhaps have the lineart for the clouds just be the color of the shirt, instead of black?

jillustration on Nov 04 '09 at 10:30am

Great idea Julia, thanks! I will try that.

jillustration on Nov 04 '09 at 11:16am

Ok, how's that?

jillustration on Nov 04 '09 at 11:31am

Ehn?

jillustration on Nov 04 '09 at 11:32am

I am very happy with the way the clouds look now, I knew something was not quite right, thank you Julia!

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