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heyheyitsme aka Eileen Slifer is a girl, has been a member since February 12, 2007, has scored 11696 submissions, giving an average score of 1.39.

URL: http://www.lettersource.com

Apr 01 '08 by heyheyitsme

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1 more day left--guess the score!

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Here is my Re-Sub

(First version which got dropped...)

Well as I mentioned in post below, I plan to re-submit this design by revising it with part of the watercolor version of the original drawing. I just finished scanning and piecing it together, here it is...(the original line drawing was about 20 x 30 inches, and I painted it with watercolor after doing the first Threadless tee version).

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DaniellesGarden on Apr 01 '08 at 10:39pm

its beautiful.. nice escher feel to it too.

5napple on Apr 01 '08 at 10:40pm

thats so cool.

i hope it prints.

ginetteginette on Apr 01 '08 at 11:21pm

it seems like i'm looking at it in the dark? personal thing but i would have preferred it looking brighter (especially the white bits that are actually grey) i like the dashed line texture a lot though

heyheyitsme on Apr 01 '08 at 11:26pm

thanks!

heyheyitsme on Apr 02 '08 at 10:35am

I emailed Threadless last night and asked if they could take the "!" off the title before it goes up for scoring...it's actually a more somber piece....sometimes I overuse "!"...don't know if they can adjust titles for you, maybe....

SoulfumeInc on Apr 02 '08 at 10:36am

nice, definitely like the flow to it

Amy Kollar Anderson on Apr 02 '08 at 10:46am

Very pretty! Would the lines be done in embroidery?

I thought I read somewhere that it takes up to 8 days for approval, but now I can't find that info. I have had a design pending approval for 7 days now. http://www.threadless.com/submission/157145/Shangri_La_Te_Da

I am getting anxious!

Good luck with your design!

DaniellesGarden on Apr 02 '08 at 10:50am

when there is a contest the contest subs get approved before the regular contest subs, and it kind of throws things out of wack as far as the pending approval time.

Amy Kollar Anderson on Apr 02 '08 at 10:54am

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!

heyheyitsme on Apr 02 '08 at 12:13pm

AmyKollarAnderson that's a really cool design! Did you hand-draw and scan and color it, or was it done in Illustrator with a tablet?

heyheyitsme on Apr 02 '08 at 5:25pm

Oh, Amy...about the embroidery...I don't know...I didn't specify for that, it seems like that much embroidery would make a shirt stiff??? But I guess that could be an option if it were to be printed and Threadless thought it would look good that way. I was just thinking black dashes on the gray...

hope your design goes up soon!

heyheyitsme on Apr 02 '08 at 10:15pm

bump:)

2 days later

heyheyitsme on Apr 04 '08 at 11:38pm

maybe this will go up on Monday?

4 days later

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 10:20am

bump!

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 3:21pm

hope this doesn't get dropped early, guess people don't care for it as much as my other designs cause I'm not getting many comments! oh well...

wotto on Apr 09 '08 at 3:22pm

done & done

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 4:38pm

thanks!

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 5:36pm

Jemae on Apr 09 '08 at 5:47pm

very nice! ...all the best to you sis! :D

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 7:48pm

thanks Jemea:)!!

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 10:06pm

pimp pimp pimp:)

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 9:50am

good morning, it got dropped!!!:(

SoulfumeInc on Apr 10 '08 at 9:54am

dang! that really surprises me. maybe you can use some people's suggestions and resub?

DaniellesGarden on Apr 10 '08 at 10:01am

what?

smitten kitten on Apr 10 '08 at 10:04am

:O! I'm shocked, I really like this!

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:09am

me too! it was different but i thought it would do better....

peterpansyndrome on Apr 10 '08 at 10:09am

? how many days did it have up?

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:11am

one

Jemae on Apr 10 '08 at 10:13am

ugh! :(

peterpansyndrome on Apr 10 '08 at 10:14am

OHH im making a very sad face with blood dripping out.. I got my wisdom teeth pulled this morning which is the second saddest thing that has happened today.

meaning i would have worn the shirt

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:20am

oh no Mikey!!! that's terrible...no sad faces with blood dripping out, please! only HAPPY FACE WITH BLOOD DRIPPING OUT--ha ha! hope you heal quickly and enjoy the drugs they probably gave you:) thanks for the thoughts

againstbound on Apr 10 '08 at 10:33am

damn, i was confused how mine didnt got dropped, and now that this did it just confuses me further

YourPalSal on Apr 10 '08 at 10:37am

I really liked this art. I would have bought it for my women.

peterpansyndrome on Apr 10 '08 at 11:01am

wow that was really creepy guy above me.

anyway I think my problem is I cant get enough people to look at it. here it is, only my second but give me some suggestions on the capaigning side of things?

lordog on Apr 10 '08 at 11:07am

I didn't even get a chance to score it. It sooo should not have been dropped early like that. I don't get it.

gorty on Apr 10 '08 at 11:20am

dammit sal, youre creeping people out again!
sucks your design got dropped, and im suprised peterpans got past 24hours

J-Ray on Apr 10 '08 at 11:24am

You should show this kind of design on the shirt better so you can see how good it looks.

peterpansyndrome on Apr 10 '08 at 11:24am

oh thats pretty rough

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 8:26pm

thanks for the comments guys! yeah, J-Ray i never am quite sure how to best feature the design---i always opt to make the design maximum size, figuring people should be able to visualize it on a shirt, but maybe that isn't the case. i personally don't care too much to see it on the model figures, i'd rather see more of the artwork, but that's just me...

i'm planning on re-subbing it...i painted the original drawing with wild watercolor colors, i'm going to incorporate some of that piece into the tee shirt version and try again.

ginetteginette on Apr 10 '08 at 8:49pm

for me personally, the lack of contrast was sort of a little downer with this design though i liked it overall.
ps. i like the sound of watercolours for this

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 9:08pm

:) i'm scanning as i speak:)

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:36pm

I plan to use the watercolor from the inner parts and birds, but to keep the outer part which cuts into the design, showing the birds on the edge, in the navy tee shirt color, as well as the hands in navy.

any thoughts on this? i'll probably work the new tee version tomorrow night.

DaniellesGarden on Apr 10 '08 at 10:41pm

ok. I was thinking to shorten the length so that the top bird and the bottom bird are almost kissing, maybe instead of three side birds on the left and two on the right it could be 2 and 1. or maybe even 1 and 1.

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:45pm

hahahaha Danielle!!!! methinks you ferget...i DON'T WORK IN ILLUSTRATOR!!!! Basically this would mean re-doing the whole design and I'm not that attached to it:) I just spent the last 2 hours scanning the 20 x 30 original painting in 8 sections into Photoshop and piecing it together through rotating layers and using the clone stamp, healing brush and the levels function to repair in flaws in the seams!!!!

i'll file your idea for another design perhaps:) he he!!! thanks anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:46pm

i like the kissing birds idea:)

DaniellesGarden on Apr 10 '08 at 10:53pm

I think you could do it.. if you managed to use the healing brush etc. etc and piece this together I bet you could mess around with it more on the computer than you are allowing yourself to think you could.

what did i just say? I dont know, I think I said, you should give it a go. Its tough not to be flexible with things.

What might be a good idea for future subs is to scan in your sketches for your paintings and post them up for critique so you still have the option to change things.

wotto on Apr 10 '08 at 10:54pm

boo! that's a shame.

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 10:58pm

thanks wotto

Danielle let me give that some thought! although maybe i'll save that for a different design, as it changes the original concept i had....yeah, i'm stubborn as an artist too:) i tend to make things i like, and critique is secondary...

maybe that's why i haven't won yet--he he!!! but...as i said, i'm a stubborn one...ya gotta convince me:) i gotta think on it:)

peater on Apr 10 '08 at 11:39pm

man, i keep seeing this blog title and think it's about a baby.

heyheyitsme on Apr 10 '08 at 11:49pm

ha ha! that's mean:)

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