Profile for Smitty McGillicutty - What's the point?!?

Smitty McGillicutty aka Matt is a 27.78 year old boy, has been a member since April 24, 2007, has scored 13562 submissions, giving an average score of 1.67.

May 16 '07 by Smitty McGillicutty

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What's the point?!?

ok, so I used to be a threadless member about a year ago and got really busy and lost track of it, since I rejoined they invented this beautiful Critique section, however, I never really get that much feedback from it, there is way more if you actually submit the work, and then someone commented on another of my designs that we have a wonderful crit section and I should use that instead of resubmitting. *sigh* Do you guys actually go to the crit space, or is it not important to the threadless community?

ISABOA on May 16 '07 at 1:34pm

this is a tough situation - You are prolly gonna have to promote your crit on the blogs to get more traffic - post the link

ninja.bassist on May 16 '07 at 1:44pm

I never got any viewers of my critiques but after some self promotion I got some more. I think the key is advertise, advertise, advertise! When posting a blog about your critique use a catchy and interesting phrase, like "Hot chicks" or something random like "Great yellow spoons of death"... something that will catch people's attention.

Good look and post a link so I can see your work!

Smitty McGillicutty on May 16 '07 at 1:47pm

http://www.threadless.com/critique/3178/The_Princess_and_the_Pea

thanks for the tips, and also for letting me know what you think on the piece, I am working on it now, so I will post a diff version in a little while

ISABOA on May 16 '07 at 1:57pm

it is a great use of color - I am not clear on the ref, but I am not an expert on fairy tales. Critiques just suck, no way around it - I posted a work in progress last night and have gotten zero feedback and 4 needs work - I posted the same design in the blogs and got lotsa info and suggestions.

Smitty McGillicutty on May 16 '07 at 2:10pm

I will check yours out now, thanks again

canadianbeaver on May 16 '07 at 2:13pm

I have given up on 2 Threadless things, after trying them over and over. One is critiques, the other is collab submissions.

Critiques because there are only a few folks there who I really want to hear from, and I pretty much know the answer. Also, minor refinements would come from Threadless anyway, if a design ever got that far.

ISABOA on May 16 '07 at 2:14pm

you stopped short of explaining the collab abandonment

Smitty McGillicutty on May 16 '07 at 2:15pm

that is true, but I am just so sick of hearing things that are simple to change and have people give it a low score because of something small.

canadianbeaver on May 16 '07 at 2:20pm

Oh, well my subs have sucked lately and I guess I don't need need any help sucking more. Also, any initiative in that department came from me finding ideas in the slogans, coming up with the visual and do the work, yet I feel I have to get approval or permission from the sloganeer. If the thing got printed, I would have to share the winning with them too. It seems a bit unbalanced.

I am now interested in this work beyond Threadless and I have to deal with the writer.

Smitty McGillicutty on May 16 '07 at 3:16pm

inspiration will come back to you, I have been looking at a lot of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Remember, when it rains it pours. I would love to see more of your work tho

Smitty McGillicutty on May 16 '07 at 3:39pm

by the way, the changes have been posted on the princess, please let me know, I think I am close to submitting

Torakamikaze on May 16 '07 at 3:42pm

yeah, i hate it too when voters dwell on an aspect that can be easily changed... most winning subs make minor changes before being printed

Smitty McGillicutty on May 16 '07 at 3:44pm

yeah, just read some of the other coments on the stuff I sent in, on Into the Woods people said the forest was too close to That Way and then when I changed it, they said they liked the old one better.

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