So I'm super obsessed with sphinxes, and I just did this intaglio print of the greek sphinx. And I thought it might look good on a shirt (redrawn with revisions of course) And I was wondering if anyone else thinks it might look good as a shirt design. This is the intaglio print I made, but on a t-shirt I would have it like this:

-Sitting in a pile of greek heads rather than bones, like the heads coming out of her mouth

-Ghosts coming out of her bum instead of the bone

-Positioned near the bottom of the shirt, and kind of wrapping around like in "We're Friends, Right?" with the alligator, so that her head and wings are on th front of the shirt and her butt with the ghosts coming out are on the back.

-Colored.

So, would anyone like to see this or would it not make a good tee?

I'm currently doing a painting of Little Red Riding Hood, and I decided maybe it'd be fun to take pictures at various stages of completion. Actually it's a pain in the ass rather than fun, but maybe the RESULTS will be fun! Anyway, here are some process pics-- I'll post the finish when it's, uh, finished!






My sketch on shitty paper-- generally I just draw until something cool comes out and think up a concept later. I wanted to make sure the wolf looked pretty demented and Red pretty skeptical.





Inked with Microns-- my nib pens tend to stick into the Arches Coldpress. For areas that need colored outlines I wait until the end, since my colored pens are not waterproof.





Started coloring, I mostly only use red, yellow, blue, Burnt Sienna, and Payne's Gray. Sometimes I'll mix them right on the paper which gives a look seen on Red's hood. To get the speckles on the wolf, I put salt over the paint while it is damp.





Stil painting, I've moved into the pinks and got Red's skin over with. I HATE painting skintone.





Lots of progress since the last pic. I finished the base layer of paint for everything except the bed, because it's going to be an annoying gingham pattern. Started adding cast shadows like on the wolf's belly, and also added second layers to areas like the wolf's mouth. Pulled out my awesome colored pens, as well.


All that's left is the bed and final highlights using gouache! I'll post when I'm done. OMG CLIFFHANGER.

Does Threadless consider scores like this or are they generally too low?

Hey guys! There's only one more day, so if you want these on your body please VOTE!

Getting a design printed sounds like perhaps the coolest thing in the world, so I was wondering what other sites are out there that sell shirts and accept submissions from people not on their 'staff'? Sites like threadless, or sites that are just open to looking at people's stuff. Anyone know some good ones?

I'm new here, but I notice a lot of times people saying things such as "TOAST? OMG NOT ANOTHER ONE" so I'm just wondering what ideas have been beat to death here so I can avoid doing them? (I was sad because I wanted to do a jar of jam poopin' it's stuff out onto a bondaged toast...)

I hope I am not asking something redundant, but I've looked through and haven't been able to find an answer to this specific question---

I'm very new at this, and the minimum color has me stumped. For example, if you are painting,say, orange, with a brush in Photoshop, will the anti-alias effect (all the pixels around the color to blend it in with the background) count as different colors, or does Threadless ignore the anti-alias and count it as only orange.

And if it DOES count it as 30 colors or whatever, and I get rid of all the anti-alias to lower it to 8 colors with no anti-alias, will the jagged nasty edges that result PRINT jagged if they were to pick the shirt?

Someone asked a similar question a while ago, and people said "Don't worry about it now that there's simulated process." But I'm interested in how it is without simulated process. Thanks!!