Profile for Demented - Random silly idea's, anything good?

Demented aka Mathijs Vissers is a 23.11 year old boy, has been a member since August 26, 2007, has scored 15,390 submissions, giving an average score of 2.36, helping 322 designs get printed.

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Jan 31 '12 by Demented
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Random silly idea's, anything good?

Thought I'd digitize some sketches I had oodling around in my sketchbook.
Just real quick ones, but I thought they were fun.

Anything worth working on? (no worries FA and Biotwist, our collabs are being worked on too ;) )

1. Annoying alarm clock.
Don't you just hate the amount of sound those alarm clocks make to wake you?

2. Paper-shredder enjoying his job a bit too much.

3. A naughty remote control? Haha god I don't even know why. But he's twisting his nipple-button. Yup.

4. The life of an elevator has its ups and downs. (Surely this has been done? maybe as a slogan?)

5. Football VS Football. The endless battle.

Let me know what you think!

soloyo on Jan 31 '12 at 11:15am

5. with American and English uniforms (from the revolution era )

2. looks a lot like a threadless shirt already printed

1. Yes, that would work nicely

3. ummm not sure

4. elevators/levels many slogans were made

mirisch on Jan 31 '12 at 12:18pm

I like the nerdy alarm clock and the elevators!!

pijaczaj on Jan 31 '12 at 1:25pm

2 is the best but well soloyo...

Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 1:32pm

Hmm 2 has been done? Could you show me the shirt? I don't remember it.

Worked on the alarmclock a bit:

soloyo on Jan 31 '12 at 1:40pm

http://www.threadless.com/product/726/Party_Pieces

Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 1:42pm

Oh right, that one! Yeah, that's pretty similar indeed. Too bad.

soloyo on Jan 31 '12 at 2:03pm

Yeah, sorry.

how about the alarm clock around some other objects that are very annoy by its noise ( glass of water, glasses, book, lamp ) you know. bedroom stuff

Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 2:18pm

Haha alright, guess it still needs some work :)
I want to keep this simple, not add too much. Maybe I could try having him bounce around on a pillow , with a few other bedroom items around em, all with sleepy faces. Keep em super simple and low in color. That could work.

Thanks for pointing me to that design, if you hadn't, I would have gone ahead an finished the design. Maybe I can still finish it and send it to another site. Or would that be in bad taste? I know it wouldn't work over here because it's too similar to the other one, but I think it's also just different enough to try and sell somewhere else.. Right?

Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 3:08pm

How 'bout something like this?

Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 3:15pm

Small update. Tried to make some sort of surreal flowing fabric stuff underneath em.

nathanwpyle at gmail.com on Jan 31 '12 at 3:18pm

haha that alarm clock character is great and super accurate!

ibyes on Jan 31 '12 at 3:47pm

Ha, great alarm clock character.

I think it would be more impactful to make the characters around him more shocked. Like the lamp could be scared kinda tilted in mid air, eyes bulging etc... You could keep the one pillow sleeping through the whole ordeal though, thats a nice touch.

Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 3:55pm

Great suggestion! Makes the noise part more convincing. Thanks :)

Resistance on Jan 31 '12 at 3:59pm

5 is brilliant... i like the direction of the alarm clock one as well

soloyo on Jan 31 '12 at 6:16pm

Loving it, you need at least one character trying to cover its ears from the noise

myteemo on Jan 31 '12 at 6:19pm

I'd like to see 1 and 2. Love what you have so far!

Demented on Feb 01 '12 at 2:22am

Thanks! One character covering its ears is a good idea! Cheers for the suggestions :)

Goldendust on Feb 01 '12 at 2:52am

I think that the elevator one would look great on a shirt...

Demented on Feb 01 '12 at 10:58am

How about this?

soloyo on Feb 01 '12 at 11:06am

This is crazy good

Kruxn on Feb 01 '12 at 11:16am

This alarm clock is coming along great! And about 2, I say go with it on another site. I feel it is different enough. Yours has a much different feel to it. More sinister; I kinda like it better then the one similar to it on threadless already...

Adhesive Hippo on Feb 01 '12 at 11:55am

I love your illustration style. I don't think it needs the ! above the alarm clock, but other than that it looks great.

ibyes on Feb 01 '12 at 12:10pm

MUCHHH better. That's exact;y what I was thinking.
Looks great!

Demented on Feb 02 '12 at 4:35am

Thanks! Ready to sub?

Kruxn, thanks for the input, I'll probably give that design a shot on another site.

ibyes on Feb 02 '12 at 7:02am

It might be nice give the lamp shade some vertical lines
like this

It feel a little unfinished to me like a subtle background could be added, but maybe not. It would be good to see it on a shirt mockup to tell for sure.

soloyo on Feb 02 '12 at 12:49pm

Waking up too alarmed

soloyo on Feb 02 '12 at 1:02pm

Alarmed awakening

Demented on Feb 02 '12 at 1:08pm

Good idea.

I was thinking of simply calling it WAKE UP!

ibyes on Feb 02 '12 at 1:14pm

looks good. No need to add a background.

WAKE UP! is a good title.

I think it's ready

Demented on Feb 02 '12 at 1:32pm

Done!

WAKE UP! - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

Thanks so much for the help guys, much appreciated!

2 days later

Demented on Feb 05 '12 at 11:04am

And the shredder:

Wharton on Feb 05 '12 at 12:22pm

These are great. Alarm clock is looking tight as a tiger and I'm liking the shredder too. Maybe there could be a pile of unfortunate paper people waiting to be shredded, he could have an executioners mask, he could be spitting their remains out in reams. Just a couple of thoughts.

ibyes on Feb 05 '12 at 1:43pm

Looks great, although some of the shredded paper looks a bit like feathers.