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What is the big idea? Is it that hard to say, I don't really like the idea, or, maybe don't have jesus fucking a cow people don't like that? I find it frustrating to not receive any comments just ratings. I am sure others feel the same way. I realize that a lot of my early designs, like everyones, where pretty crappy in their presentation. They where ideas I was trying to express and my skills didn't equal successful presentation.

I just wish there was a way to get people to make comments, I would even take the "This is the worst idea/design ever" over the 5-10 don't submits without a single comment. I would of course prefer to have something constructive that would help me fix things in the design.

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I finally got a design into the running. Please check it out and vote ASAP. The general Idea, in case you haven't been following the design is just that it is a duck and he is lame. The light bulb moment was when I was discussing how afraid I was for Bush's lame duck period and the idea of a hobbled duck came about.

I am just so excited. Vote early and vote often... that doesn't really work so don't try to vote often.

Here or if you just want the link to copy paste

http://www.threadless.com/submission/182919/Lame_Duck

Thanks in advance,

Dylan

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I got thinkinf abour warner bros cartoons and how they always had the sign the said "crazy" or the like and I thought that it would be fun to do with a duck.

I admit that this was a fairly quick sketch and some things, like the feet, need some work. I am trying to keep it simple with the drawing. I want it to be obvious that it is a duck, which I think it is. I am planning on doing a better job on the letters, those where the last bit before class.

I am on my phone right now so I cannoot link to the design, but you are fairly close to it if you are reading this blog.

Let me know what you think of the idea and the design.

Thanks.]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:00:54 -0500 critique mine links at the end of people's comments. I recently submitted my newest design and while I value other people's comments about my work it bothers me that in order to get comments you have to be a comment whore.

Most of these comments are a short sentence:

I like the design, crit mine

What is the point. For a little while I tried it and felt dirty. Pulling people away from someone's design without providing valuable feedback to that artist just feels wrong. So I decided that I would instead try to leave comments of value, with no link, and see how my critiques fared. It didn't work. I was thinking that by putting a comment that might assist the artist in perfecting their work they might follow through and check for any critiques in my profile. They could then click on those and see if they had anything to say.

Apparently in order to get critiques, or at least to get people to look at a design I must spam up others critiques and join the cycle of dumbness.

Of course this isn't just a threadless problem, I have noticed a similar problem on the etsy forums. I had more sales when I would waste an entire day posting a comment and my link to a thread. Never actually saying anything that mattered, just doing the internet equivalent of blurting out the first thing on my mind and including a link. Now that I don't feel like "advertising" that way my sales have dropped.

I just don't understand the need for this type of "advertising". I would rather have my work draw people in, which I think is scarier for the artist, then be the artistic equivelent of an impulse buy. Of course I am going to end this post with links to both places.

Check my Critique

Check out my shop

Ha Ha tricked you]]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:45:10 -0500
I made another design... for critique... someday I will actually submit one for scoring. But the forum is cold today, everyone most have started the weekend early. Usually I get a few comments pretty quickly after submitting a design but not today. Last I checked I was the last commenter on every design in the critique forum.

Here is my critique.
http://www.threadless.com/critique/29058/Head_Heart

Let me know what you think. If I go by the previous ones I have submitted for critique it needs more work. Let me know.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:25:00 -0500
Though when I first submitted some designs people commented right away about how they should never be submitted and what not. With these new ones the feedback has been so much better and less mean but there has been less of it. Does that mean that the designs are getting better?

Anyone....]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:31:32 -0600 Etsy store]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:23:50 -0600
My store has yet to sell anything, which I am fine with. I mean if I was selling stuff that would be good, maybe even better but giving me an outlet for all of my sewing that I want to do is a gift in itself.

You might notice that I am making sock creatures in my store. Sock creatures that I learned to make in a book, the same book that I am noticing a lot of etsyizers must have also received since it appears that others are making similar creatures. Now that I have worked my way through the book, I think I have one more book creature to make, I have started branching out into making/designing my own set of mutant sock creatures.

The first just happens to have two heads, one coming out of the back. I would have pictures for you but I ran out of Polyfil. I should finish it tonight and have pictures up tomorrow or late tonight.

That is all.]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:12:22 -0600 ETSY. Any ideas would be helpful]]>