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Thanks, yeah I think it's a simple illustration that looks great on a shirt. This is a COPYWRIGHT FREE illustration I got out of a clip art book a while back. Totally free to use for what ever reason.

I just wish you would have drawn it yourself instead of using clip art. That's a bit cheap if you ask me.

Not a big deal to me, I paint and draw my own original work anyway. This is a shirt, not an art piece. Your a designer, you know all about taking other art and using it for other purposes right? I could really get into that if you want...

I'm gonna have to agree with travisty on this one. Though it is a neat graphic, it loses all meaning when you say you just got it from a clip art book. I was appreciating it until I read that you didn't draw it yourself.

Well whatever, I'll submit some original artwork coming soon, then make your comments. It's a sweet illustration, it's COPYWRITE FREE and it deserves to be on a shirt because the source of the artwork was a "hard to find". I think most people don't care if it was drawn by me or not, and I plan on giving a portion of my prize money (if I win) to the original artist. If I can find him/her, that artwork is so old. I think I remember it on my peachy folder in junior high...oh yeah back to what I was saying, if your an artist AND A DESIGNER (most guilty of using other peoples ideas) remember that your ideas are not 100% original, they came from someone or something. How do you Andy Warhol became successful and one of the most popular artist of our time?

YES!!!!!!!! bigup for paslay! and i dig the shirt.

Regardless of whether you drew it or not, I cant say it really does much for me. It cuts off really sloppily at the bottom, and the colours aren't exactly the most beautiful ones to look at.



I'd like to see you draw something yourself, because regardless of whether it was photocopied or not, it isn't really that impressive of a theme or of artistic capabilities.

It supposed to be sloppy at the bottom it's an illustration. That red color will work on many different colored shirts, I don't know how they chose that though...

excellent use of clipart

paslay, Warhol did not become one of the most famous artists of our time by yanking clip art and putting it on a t-shirt. He also modified pop images and made us look at them in ways that we were not accustomed to. Any image that he appropriated he fashioned with his signature style. I will agree with you when you say that most of our ideas are not 100% original, but you have successfully submitted a piece that is 100% unoriginal.

Wrong, it's original, I've never seen any shirt similar to this on this site or in stores? SHOW ME if Im wrong... This is FOUND art on a shirt. Does anyone know what that term is when talking about art? Look it up...I searched for weeks trying to find this gem and it looks SICK on a shirt!!! Come on, 4 guys playing tennis with nothing else, it's minimal approach and colors rock. Look at your shirt MIJA, "DESTROY + REBUILD". Looks a rave flyer if you ask me, NOT ORIGINAL...



Your Warhol Comment --> That's right he didn't become famous from yanking clip art, but he did by yanking existing art (campbels soup, Marylin Monroe photo, Elvis photo). All he did was change the color with screen printing, like I did with this clip art, I searched and searched for this retro 80s clip art and carefully chose the right red. This isn't your typical piece of crap clip art. It's a gem and hard to find. I'd say most people are not accustomed to seeing this type of art on a t-shirt as well.

I didn't realize my shirt was still up for critique here. I'm sorry you feel so defensive. I've sat in numerous critiques in my life and it is considered bad form and pathetic to counter-attack someone elses work because they didn't like yours. Maybe my design did look like a rave flyer I don't know. But I made it. From the concept to the hand drawing and vectorization. However, I appreciate your comment.



It's funny that you compare this to Warhol when your technique is more along the lines of Duchamp. When Duchamp released "Fountain" on the unsuspecting American art scene it was new, exciting, offensive and ultimately hated. However we study him in art schools around the world and he is generally remembered as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Perhaps I am wrong and like the narrow minded art critcs of 1917 I just don't get it. Maybe someday my great grandchildren will be studying your work for it's "minimal approach" and "bold use of color". Only history will let us know...

This was so old, back in 03', my clip art rip off has mellowed out by now. I still love to tweak it though...