For larger view, view HERE!!!



Color is also optional.. view colorless image HERE...

Reminds me of the covers of harlequin novels.

That dude is creepy. Is that a knife he's holding around her waist there?

i like the side placement

Very... Decemberists-esque

Yeah, I purposely made him look "creepy"..lol.. and you're right, that is a knife.. tried to match the scene from "the island" lyrics as much as possible..atleast from what what I understood is going on.. here's part of the lyrics I based it on:

"As I was rambled

Down by the water

I spied in sable

The landlord's daughter

Produced my pistol, then my saber

To make no whistle or thou will be murdered



She cursed, she shivered

She cried for mercy,

"My gold and silver if thou will release me!"



I'll take no gold miss, I'll take no silver

I'll take those sweet lips, and I'll deliver



I will dress your eyelids

With dimes upon your eyes

Laying close to water

Green your grave will rise

Go to sleep little ugly

Go to sleep you little fool

Forty-winking in the belfry

You'll not feel the drowning

You'll not feel the drowning

"

According to the contest details "the lyrics chronicle a tale of abduction, rape, and murder,"



Basically from what I understood, this guy spied on the landlord's daughter while he was taking a walk by the ocean.. it seemed as if he wanted the girl for himself so he took out his gun and dagger to force her to love him. She probably thought he was robbing her that's why she offered him gold and silver.. but he said he didn't want that, but instead he wanted her. And I guess he killed her first before laying her in the ocean to "drown".. that's why she won't feel the drowning. Again, this is my view.. and it might not be correct. ;)



Please make sure you see the larger views as the image shown is blurry. Also, the design can be just black and white.. wasn't sure if it looked better with color or not... And thanks for the comments!! ^-^

i prefer the side placement...good creepiness, but not sure i'd buy it.

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Here's another color/placement : VIEW DIFFERENT OPTION

Placement is the common center/med. size... on khaki

Oh! Love it on the khaki! Love it altogether. :)

I really like it on Khaki

Wow this is just ..wow i really like this i love the design and your style. just everything about it great job

i like it! and of course i'd buy it! i would get it in the other color tho!

this is really nice. can't decide which placement i prefer.

both placements are lovely, i like this.

The ov erall shape and both placements are great. The colors aren't too bad, either, even if they are a little too monochromatic for my taste. I think the sketchy styles are hit or miss & this one, for me, is a miss. It's too messy. It looks like the 1st stage of illustrating- the concept stage. There needs to be a bit more cleaning up and refining- especially in the water ripples of the water, it looks a little swampish now. And the knife the guy is holding, the placement is wrong- he is poking her arm while breaking his own wrist at the same time. And I must know - what is that brown pile on the lower left? 3

thanks for the comments guys.

And mezo wow a 3!? lol.. That's actually pretty good.. really appreciate your comment.. can be put to good use.. and you're right, I might need to work on the sketchy look a bit more.. I can't lie, I rushed on this so I might have not left it exactly how I wish I wanted, but since I did it a night before the deadline, I didn't want to miss the chance to submit it...

and the brown pile, If you look at the larger views.. you can see that it's a bag of coins.

this is alot diffrent than your other stuff. I like it. the ground that they are standing on could be cleaned up a bit - and I would prefer the guy to be younger. Just my taste - this is great effort - keep going!

Wow, awesome! I love the side placement definitely. PRINT PRINT PRINT! $5 Great job!

very nice! i like the new center placement you linked. I hate hate side-oriented shirt designs! totally 5$

Is it the Highwayman?

btw, stickchick... this is based on the Decemberists song "the island".. a few do say that is very similar to highwayman..possibly based on it. ;)

She reminds me of Angelina Jolie. & I like how you cleaned up the sketchiness in your update.

teh new clean version is much better. I still have one annoying thing to point out to you though (and I hate doing this to things that are teh most part finished so .. Im sorry)



her legs .. the anatomy is off teh bent leg is waaaaay too short shed be one of those people wearing the wonky shoes that have one heel super thick and the othe rnormal to make up for it.



okay now back to other things .. teh drawing is good and the nice muted tones work well esp. for teh decembrists the only color thing that I would say to try would be instead of khaki try a sepia motif see how that works

Khaki.. definitely...



this reminds me of The Highwayman, poem by Alfred Noyes... beautiful words...



"Beth the landlords daughter, the landlord's blackeyed daughter, plaiting a dark red loveknot, into her long black hair"

oh man this looks gorgeous... i'd wear it ( or buy it for a male friend to wear)

This is a rather cool design, but I think it might be better without the Landlord's Daughter wording.

pretty cool, but i'd prefer the side placement myself.

I really like it. I'm not sure why, but I'll give ya a five anyway!

It's great artwork, but not something I'd ever consider wearing.

i like the bottom side placement....$5

Love the placement on the side.

I like it, but I think it should be a bit smaller on the shirt

The update is tenfolds better!

the update is really good! like the brown. just one question, doesnt the landlords daughter have a red ribbon in her hair? i know i sound picky, and im not suggesting you change it, but am i right?

thanks for the comments! excited to hear that the update is alot better too! :-)

about the red ribbon.. you might be talking about the landlords daughter from "the highwayman".. which is very similar.. or maybe it's what the Decemberists based their song from.. so you may be right if that is the case.. but I based the design on the song which didn't mention a ribbon not knowing for sure if this really is based on the highwayman... nice observation though :)

very nice this is my favorite so far. i think you really capture the mood of the song and all that. good work.