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OhDystopia
OhDystopia aka Alexei is a 28.46 year old boy, has been a member since October 10, 2008, has scored 900 submissions, giving an average score of 1.78, helping 7 designs get printed.
This is the beginning of my new design... It's based on a pair of coffee mugs I found in a thrift store that teach you how to read your palms while you drink your favorite warm beverage. I couldn't tell you the age of the design, but it's looking prettttty old. I've re-created it as faithfully as I could, but I'm not sure it's making the jump from mug to shirt quite right.

What do you think?

What can I do to jazz it up a bit from here?

There will be more details to the lines on the hands, and the orientation and size of the various text will be adjusted to make it all look more integrated, but... what else?

I was thinking of changing the text (which is all accurate as far as palm reading is concerned) to something more whimsical, like "Magic Abilities" or perhaps "Awesomeness" or "Bad Attitude" for example.

Thoughts?



emilymmkay
emilymmkay on Oct 11 '08 at 2:42am
yessss love it
OhDystopia
OhDystopia on Oct 11 '08 at 3:25am
that's a good start, I suppose!

OhDystopia
OhDystopia on Oct 11 '08 at 1:12pm
Bump... anybody else?
Jellyes
   Jellyes on Oct 11 '08 at 1:26pm
I'd like it more if you handwrote the words!

really cool idea though
professorE
professorE on Oct 11 '08 at 1:30pm
Agree. Handwritten = win. Very nice arrangement, though!
OhDystopia
OhDystopia on Oct 11 '08 at 1:39pm
Good idea about the handwriting... that'll certainly make it look less produced. I will also probably distress the whole thing a bit, to make it look nice and aged?
Jellyes
   Jellyes on Oct 11 '08 at 1:41pm
good plan! Keep us updated
OhDystopia
OhDystopia on Oct 11 '08 at 3:10pm
Will do. ;)
OhDystopia
OhDystopia on Oct 11 '08 at 6:43pm
Bump! Updated the design... the text still isn't hand drawn, but I'm having a hard time deciding if I really want that or not. I like that it looks like a diagram out of an old manual or something and that the text is (poorly) typed in. The distress which makes it all slightly less readable hasn't been applied yet.



I'll move this into the actual critique section when I figure out exactly when it's "done."
OhDystopia
OhDystopia on Oct 12 '08 at 10:26pm
Moved this to an official "Critique" posting. I appreciate all comments!
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