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Demented
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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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
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
mirisch on Jan 31 '12 at 12:18pm
I like the nerdy alarm clock and the elevators!!
pijaczaj
pijaczaj on Jan 31 '12 at 1:25pm
2 is the best but well soloyo...
Demented
   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
soloyo on Jan 31 '12 at 1:40pm
http://www.threadless.com/product/726/Party_Pieces
Demented
   Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 1:42pm
Oh right, that one! Yeah, that's pretty similar indeed. Too bad.
soloyo
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
   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
   Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 3:08pm
How 'bout something like this?
Demented
   Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 3:15pm
Small update. Tried to make some sort of surreal flowing fabric stuff underneath em.
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   nathanwpyle at gmail.com on Jan 31 '12 at 3:18pm
haha that alarm clock character is great and super accurate!
ibyes
   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
   Demented on Jan 31 '12 at 3:55pm
Great suggestion! Makes the noise part more convincing. Thanks :)
Resistance
   Resistance on Jan 31 '12 at 3:59pm
5 is brilliant... i like the direction of the alarm clock one as well
soloyo
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
   myteemo on Jan 31 '12 at 6:19pm
I'd like to see 1 and 2. Love what you have so far!
Demented
   Demented on Feb 01 '12 at 2:22am
Thanks! One character covering its ears is a good idea! Cheers for the suggestions :)
Goldendust
Goldendust on Feb 01 '12 at 2:52am
I think that the elevator one would look great on a shirt...
Demented
   Demented on Feb 01 '12 at 10:58am
How about this?
soloyo
soloyo on Feb 01 '12 at 11:06am
This is crazy good
Kruxn
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
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
   ibyes on Feb 01 '12 at 12:10pm
MUCHHH better. That's exact;y what I was thinking.
Looks great!
Demented
   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
   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
soloyo on Feb 02 '12 at 12:49pm
Waking up too alarmed
soloyo
soloyo on Feb 02 '12 at 1:02pm
Alarmed awakening
Demented
   Demented on Feb 02 '12 at 1:08pm
Good idea.


I was thinking of simply calling it WAKE UP!
ibyes
   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
   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
   Demented on Feb 05 '12 at 11:04am
And the shredder:
Wharton
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
   ibyes on Feb 05 '12 at 1:43pm
Looks great, although some of the shredded paper looks a bit like feathers.
IamCid
IamCid on Feb 05 '12 at 1:54pm
haha awesome style Sr!
Goldendust
Goldendust on Feb 05 '12 at 4:41pm
Oh wow, the shredder looks awesome!
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