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wendytownley
wendytownley aka Wendy Townley is a 33.48 year old girl, has been a member since June 3, 2009, has scored 2,537 submissions, giving an average score of 2.63, helping 22 designs get printed.
URL: http://www.wendytownley.com
AIM: wendylovesapple
An open question for all Threadless designers
For years, while interviewing artists for magazine and newspaper articles, I often ask them a question that, at first, leaves them thinking: "How do you know when a piece is complete?"

I now pose that question to you, wonderful and creative Threadless designers, about your shirts. I can only imagine how many decisions and revisions you make for each tee.

So, how do you know when a shirt design is complete and ready for submission? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Gar0
   Gar0 on Jun 09 '09 at 9:32am
If the brief has been filled and the design feels new and fresh. It's done.
wendytownley
wendytownley on Jun 09 '09 at 9:49am
Good description of "new and fresh." That's key to a design that catches my eye.
bsweber
   bsweber on Jun 09 '09 at 9:51am
as soon as the third lead on my mechanical pencil breaks, I'm out.
evan3
   evan3 on Jun 09 '09 at 9:51am
there is a critique section

but in my case

when my fingers are covered in glue and i am sick of cutting

i make paper art
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Jun 09 '09 at 9:52am
it's intuitive. it's done when it feels done, and if later it doesn't feel done anymore, than it isn't.
tesco
   tesco on Jun 09 '09 at 9:52am
what GG said
sonmi
   sonmi on Jun 09 '09 at 9:55am
agreed with ginette
wendytownley
wendytownley on Jun 09 '09 at 10:11am
This is all great feedback! Many thanks for sharing your thoughts.
bortwein
   bortwein on Jun 09 '09 at 10:17am
"How do you know when a piece is complete?" When I stop working on it. This doesn't mean the completed piece is good, it just means I can't work on it any more without killing myself.



Another answer would be: I know it is done when the art in front of me matches the vision I had in my head. This usually never happens.
Montro
   Montro on Jun 09 '09 at 10:26am
it´s never fully done, but you reach a point where you´re satisfied with it.
agrimony
   agrimony on Jun 09 '09 at 10:29am
it's done when i say it's done!





also whatever the rest said.
randyotter3000
   randyotter3000 on Jun 09 '09 at 10:30am
its done when the next thing you draw you have to rub out :P
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Born and bred in the urban donut hole of Omaha, Nebraska, my perspective is anything but corn fields and cows. I can’t cook, don’t do yard work, have an unhealthy preoccupation with paper and am often mistaken for a Hipster. But above all else, I’m a writer.

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