i am the last man on earth to do so, and very late to the game, but i has a blog.
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lotsa one color tees today- both new and reprinted...nice! they are typically the only ones i wear and the kind i am afraid will be a waste of time to submit...but this gives me hope.
-although how much time will have to pass before so many one-color subs wins and print again? what are your opinions on one-color stuff? any design that can get the point across in 1 to 3 colors is tops, IMO.
guess the score exactly (or closest w/o going over) and i will send you one of these pins/badges i had made in the rare and glorious satin silver color!
(i have two left that are not for sale, from my personal stash) ![]() you can also buy them in white, gray and pink HERE so vote! :) the only sucky thing is the slight pixelation on this animated gif template, but it had to be done to get it under 250. no, i don't have flash..lol ![]() about The Madness of Mission 6
thanks for the reprint and the continued support for this design.it's still so crazy to me how it caught on, how so many people didn't even realize what it was about when buying it/wearing it until friends or strangers pointed it out to them. i thought it was a painfully heavy handed metaphor when i drew it up, and i know it's not even one of my best drawings, technically- but the idea has really connected with people and it never ceases to amaze me to find it blogged about, or get personal letters from people who dig it so much. thanks everybody!
i'm still working on color combos for the tee, the grid, and the blob people... for now, help me by telling me your fave of the four here.
i'm guessing this would have to be done with simulated process or whatever. i'm not going to change the color of the structure. is magenta played out? it just looks so damn good! lol i'm leaning toward the black tee, teal grid- but there is something about the magenta grid on black that's nice too. thanks! smallish ![]() biggish ![]()
i was thinking about transformers the other night.
not the horrible movies, but my childhood figures. and i wondered why there was never a schoolbus. and then i figured out why, which made me want to draw up a sub. a schoolbus transformed into the robot form, but still mildly recognizable as a schoolbus, complete with the 'STOP' sign flipping out from one wrist or something. but he stands shamefully looking down at his body because we see the limbs and parts of the schoolchildren that were in the bus when he transformed, mangled and poking out of his reconfigured parts. blood running down his leg, maybe a child or two running or crawling away from the tangle of children caught in his musculature. sick? trite? or just stupid?
thx to kennybanzai for starting me off looking up captain planet.
i hope to make this the best of the best of bad convention costumes- preferably the super hero variety. i'm not making fun of the people, per se, but the costumes and the fact that their friends and family let them go outside in horrible recreations. i'm not much of one to talk...i was a predator for like 3 haloweens and 'Cons straight.. ![]() but at least my face was covered.
saturday mornings SUCK now.
most of the channels don't even show cartoons anymore, and the toy commercials don't even come close. so here's a few of my old favorites to bring us back to the day... first, the best cartoon of the 80's, IMO i especially like the kid's growling in these commercials this ALIEN commercial is before my time, but how awesome- one of my favorite toys..they don't make stuff like this anymore.. i had one.. somewhere between rock paper scissors and pokemon- were battlebeasts! and wash it all down with the best cereal of the 80's alright, add your own!
well, seems i probably should have used the critique option before i subbed this next design, but i like acting first and thinking later sometimes :)
i'm subbing an american flag made of bacon and a waffle. it's kind of a statement about health, gluttony, and america in general. it's not anti or pro american, it's just a pop statement that i hope can be looked at both ways. ![]() so, i figure i will use a thin wash of translucent ink to simulate the dripping bacon grease and drop shadow that will make whatever shirt color darker like it's wet. threadless used this ink on the shadows of 'urban camouflage' over the heather gray. i guess my question is- would you wear the dripping grease tee? or would you prefer a version with just the drop shadow. it's bolder, but a smaller print in center chest. the drippings at least extent the print and but the also make the them mocking, instead of proud. which would you wear, if any? and thanks to everyone who voted up my last two subs! over a year since i subbed and they got the exact same score! lol 2.89 is that even good anymore? i remember how hard it used to be to crack a 3, and anything over 3 was a miracle.
everybody's broke. times are tough.
money is on everyone's mind. i got a new tee up....first time back in...god..how long? got a new tee pending approval- PYRAMID SCHEME i'm gonna try to not be a stranger. i have a few ideas and i'm gonna try to submit them again. threadless is still the best! travis http://www.flickr.com/photos/zom-bot/ |
![]() The best compliments I ever received here (that haven't been deleted): -from the master: --------Glennz on Jul 12 '06 at 2:53am I think there will be a few different subs in the top 20 once all the loves threadless have finsihed scoring. Travis has to be up there somewhere, his last few subs have lifted the bar on here-------- -from the co-owner: skaw on Jul 07 '06 yea this is super neat, i would wear it -from a blogger: starr226 on Jul 07 '06 I don't know if anyone else who's been hanging around threadless for far too long (like myself) gets really excited when under-printed designers put out a sure thing - but I know I do. I feel the same way about this as when I first saw "No Peeking" by Jublin. That "THIS is a print and it couldn't happen to a better person." Enjoy your...uh...12 pack of Red Bull. ______________________________________ friends and business inquiries feel free to contact me at pittsillustration@gmail.com |