This is a tribute to the Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" that inspires many people including me to be individuals and not follow the crowd. It's hard to see in this size, one path leads to a forest, the other a city. Here's a link to a larger version if you want to see details:

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Thanks for any comments and criticisms, all are welcome!

meh ... pretty good though the poem is distracting from the design itself.

^the poem wouldn't be printed on the shirt, though, right?



love the poem, and love the shirt.

o god. this is like our stupid school motto >.< it gets old after hearing it like 10 times. :D nice design though.

No poem on shirt...sorry deathcabfortom!

I love the design. It is really calm and simple. Definitely $5

I like the design a lot but I HATE the poem so I am torn... maaah I will still give it a 4

don't put the poem but if you must,put it really small at the bottom right/left corner and in small.the colours are great.

Poem is definitely NOT on shirt design (see little t-shirt), just part of the submission gif....thanks for your comments!

Haha, this is cool because I actually recognized the poem from 8th grade. :]

The art is cool, but when you have those white lines that I think are supposed to be mountains, they make me think of water or clouds. Unless you wanted it to be that way... but I think the design could do without.

And maybe if one path seemed more glitzy or appealing than the other, or possibly a person (you) walking on the road not taken.

if you like robert frost you should read some of his other poems, they're great and with a little more substance, not just sunshine and motivation

the illustration is pretty

where is the yellow wood? *shrug*

whoah, i instantly fell in love with this design. I MUST HAVE!!! $$$555

great shirt....$5

must have without the text... not buying with text

Rest assured, there is no text on this :-)

love the simplicity of the design!

jesus, does anyone actually LOOK at the sample shirt design you have in your presentation which shows NO poem? lol. Anywho, I like where you are going with this, but the smaller sun on the road more traveled at first looked like a small flower on the end of a tree branch to me! To get the point of the shirt across, I suggest making the road more traveled a tad bigger and hang the sun further over the mountains, which will not take away I feel if done properly from the immensity of the riches of the less traveled road. Plus, i couldnt tell the little glitches of color on the road were footprints, so eiter make the road a tad wider and make them more reallistic looking or have just the one trail of footprints going up to less traveled road done up with gold-plated ink to make it stand out all the more. 3 as of now. good work.

Wow, thanks for the feedback Frickin! I think those are great ideas. The one thing I intentionally did was make the entire design look like two flowers(a rose and a bud) as well as the road and mountains...not sure you or anyone got that yet from the comments, but I hope it's visible...I was going for the optical illusion of both images.

This is the problem with Threadless. People take like a 1.5 sec look at a design and vote or comment. They dont take time to properly study it. They are shooting themselves in the foot because they are letting great designs slip which they would love to wear, and letting talent go less noticed.

Here's the deal, Robert Frost was, in my humble opinion, a poetic hack with a good sense of meter. You, on the otherhand, have expressed something wonderful with none of the pretension and a whole lot of simple, beautiful style. The shirt is better than the poem will ever be. Cheers!

beautiful

Ha ha, thanks roxie! Ending: true, that's the problem with "Quick vote"...no one reads the comment

Really pretty! Just a few things: The thin lines that are 'mountains' and the ones higher up that are 'clouds' look so much alike that the whole thing ends up looking like a bunch of little mountains floating in the sky. Ground it a little more. Also, I'd like it if the road less taken was a dirt path, and not black, because that makes it seem paved, i.e. it's been travelled before.

awesome 5$

i love this design.

i wouldn't mind it at all if the poem is in a corner on the back or something...as long as it's not side by side with the design.

This poem inspires you to be an idividual and not follow the crowd? I've heard people say this hundreds of times before and I always wonder; has anyone ever read this poem? Good shirt though, a 4.

this is very nice. it looks like a woodblock print. top marks. i would buy this in a flash.

could put design on front and poem on back.. I hate tees with a lot of words, no one is going to read you that long unless they are staring at your tits or they are drunk.. :)

To be completely honest, I could not tell at first that those were paths. It looks almost like a tree branch.

Somewhere in his grave Robert Frost is rollingover. This is quite possibly the most misinterpreted poem of all time. There is a reason the poem is titled "The Road Not Taken" and NOT "The Road Less Traveled". All one really has to do to is actually read the poem to see that it is not about some happy sun shiny hallmark message.



"the passing there / Had worn them really about the SAME."

"both that morning EQUALLY lay"



Neither of the roads is less traveled by.



The fact that he sighs when he recounts his tale later in life is to express irony and show his insincerity.

Thanks for the clarification, I think I prefer being on the misinterpreted side, call me an optimist.

Frost is mocking indecisiveness, call me a pessimist. It is a very pretty shirt though.

Ah, in that case it's me, I'm very indecisive...even better!

i love it! i would definitely buy it!

this is a really nice shirt. it says what it needs to say :) good job

Interesting,.... but no.