I submitted this before but it had a few gradients. i took those out and now i hope that this makes it in.
thanks

this is my first design as well, please be kind

why no eyeballs?

for some reason i think of the gorillaz, i think its the facial expression and the fact its a monkey. I'm counting at least 7 colors not including 1 for the t-shirt color.

well, in answer to both of your comments, a lot of my artwork is inspired by the artwork of the gorillaz. thats why i always draw my characters with no pupils in their eyes. other than that, it was just supposed to be an awesome monkey

clasic! i would buy it!

I think that monkey needs some eye balls its freaky

mag391 is right, this should be disqualified for too many colors. There's three browns, four greys, red and black, plus white if that's not the t-shirt color. Plus there's still a gradient in the headphones.

This could be kinda cute with some work, but before any work it needs to at least follow the rules. Why don't you submit this for a critique first?

Nice shirt kid! What the heck, my avatar has no eyeballs, just these commas...

love it.

love the no eyeballs

never have eyeballs in my drawings...ever...it's more ambiguous...
love it!

thanks for the comments!

the concept's there, but the execution seems a little lacking.

but I wouldn't have given him pupils, either. good call.

he's pretty fun, no eyeballs, and its perfect just on white.

I'd wear it on red. Nice! You could even lose the heart above his head..

amazing. simply amazing.