Threadless T-Shirts - Dracula's Nightmare

Dracula's Nightmare

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projekct
on Feb 21 '08

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1.75 out of 5

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1,803 people

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75 days ago

Comments:

35 comments

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projekct on Feb 21 '08

Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!! garlic!!!!!!!

Dusty73085 on Feb 21 '08

I love it, but I think it would work better with out the sleeping Dracula at the bottom...I think the top portion gets the point accross by itself. :)

musique_456 on Feb 21 '08

if you did keep the bed, make it coffin-shaped. :D

Karebear010 on Feb 21 '08

i agree...i like it a whole lot better without him shown asleep. i think it comes across that way and more humerous without that part of it.

projekct on Feb 21 '08

For once I'm gonna disagree and say that showing Dracula sleeping in my opinion ties the design in well. It only comes across more humerous without it because you read the title "Dracula's Nightmare". Without that title people are gonna see a piece of garlic chasing a vampire with a cloud behind it. I was trying to represent a coffin with the lines. It would make for a small bed. Coffins come in all sorts of shapes though :)

MALES on Feb 21 '08

you should have more thought bubbles coming out of his head. as in smaller ones to bigger ones so it looks more like his dream.

Bando99 on Feb 21 '08

Even after reading your second comment, I still think that the sleeping Dracula should be cut. The "cloud" behind them looks more like a frame than a cloud.

MICHI84 on Feb 21 '08

soooooo cute! i love the colors. I like Dracula sleeping with his little sweat coming off his head!

Arius on Feb 21 '08

what if each image was on opposite sides of the shirt? garlic on front, sleeping on back?

I think that might be much cooler. I still like this a lot, the sweat on his brow is a great detail.

PerceptionistheWorld on Feb 21 '08

I agree with the designer, it's much better that it shows Dracula sleeping. Cool design...

Guize on Feb 21 '08

If you were to keep the sleeping dracula then I'd suggest putting him off to the side a bit and havin the bubbles of dream going up to the thingy and stuff.

ginetteginette on Feb 21 '08

it's as if you expect the threadless audience to be complete idiots. a sleeping vampire does not need to be shown for us to get that it's a vampire's nightmare to be chased by garlic. i think we could have all deduced that even without your title.

i don't think that green outline is doing anything for this either.

projekct on Feb 22 '08

I personally feel that showing him sleeping gives the design depth. I feel like it would have been a lose lose situation anyhow. I'd get rid of him sleeping someone would come on and post it needs something else. It almost seems like you need that alumni shield next to your name to get any respect.

Ginette I may have mentioned this before in another sub of mine. I need your Design advice/input like i need a d!ck in my @ss. I don't want it. I think you come off hateful and appreciate it if you would leave your zero and move on.

twoheadedboy on Feb 22 '08

Nah don't worry, alumni shields don't guarantee respect, i've seen some pretty bad alumni subs.

The bed needs to be more coffin-looking but i think that's all.

Negative10 on Feb 23 '08

F'ing highlarious. Although I do feel the coffin shape would be better. Djrianna liked it too.

knitteresa on Feb 23 '08

It looks like Dracula has no nose in his nightmare. I like the idea of the sleeping Dracula being positioned horizontally, with a more coffin shaped bed. Cool idea.

The Lone Hipster on Feb 24 '08

Love it~

stinkerbellee on Feb 24 '08

i thought vampires didnt sleep. . . . .
but i really like this design

stinkerbellee on Feb 24 '08

did i mention hthat i LOVE vampires?

whirzle1 on Feb 24 '08

I think the fully rendered Dracula at the bottom is distracting from the dream. Maybe you could have just shown a 3/4 perspective on a closed coffin with the "thought/dream bubble" coming from it.

and to nitpick - the garlic would be more dynamic if you varied the line width on the outline. But, like I said...very nitpicky.

You've got a good, clean cartoon style, though - good job.

Celesteleighb on Feb 24 '08

I'd definitely buy it either way, but I'm gonna throw my vote in for a more hexagonal-shaped coffin for Dracula--just to get the hint across a little better. Especially since, if you're going to get technical, a coffin by definition follows more of the outline of a body (an elongated hexagon); whereas a casket is rectangular.

FRICKINAWESOME on Feb 24 '08

Im also gonna have to agree with all the other Threadless voters on this one. It seems like two different unconnected images the way you have it right now. I don't think it needs a sleeping drac to figure out the idea, but if you must, please make the first image bigger or the sleeping drac image smaller, and like someone else suggested, make the bed more coffin shaped, Drac more visibly upset at the dream and maybe sweating a bit, and maybe have a little bat plush toy or something in bed next to him, and DEF connect it to the dream with bubbles. Other than that, great idea.

projekct on Feb 24 '08

Thanx frickenawsome, Celeleigh, and whizles, good critique and i totally agree with the coffin. Wish i could notice these things a little sooner, or if the critique section on this site worked a little better.

projekct on Feb 25 '08

I re- worked the design a bit using some of your suggestions. I like the Toy plush bat idea alot. I may use that. Here is some different versions if anybody cares.

http://usera.imagecave.com/projekct/vampire2copy.gif

http://usera.imagecave.com/projekct/vampire3copy.gif

JeffTheArtist on Feb 25 '08

First off, I like your designs for the most part. Second, constantly scoring other designs as "Zero" does not favor your chances any more or less.

kwwojo on Feb 25 '08

GARLIC

projekct on Feb 25 '08

Not sure what you mean there JefftheArtist?

elemeno0pee on Feb 25 '08

He doesn't give them 0's to better his chances of winning, he gives them 0's because they are bad designs.

I personally only vote on the ones I like, and don't vote on the ones I don't like.

Window13 on Feb 25 '08

yeah i like it a lot just no vampire at the bottom would be better

girafeenfeu on Feb 26 '08

Lose the sleeping Dracula, and I'd buy it!

phoenixwildfire on Feb 26 '08

i think experession of the dracula in the dream bubble is hilarious!! Good job...

and dont let others OPINIONS get ya down, keep doing what your doing and youll be fine.

rawrie on Feb 26 '08

Actually, coffins ae the polygon-shaped ones while caskets are rectangular. You, my frind, have drawna casket.

swift17 on Feb 27 '08

I think it's pretty hilarious. But it does seem a little too busy. Maybe you could have sleeping dracula on the front and the dream on the back? Just a thought but it looks good.

squidz on Feb 28 '08

Like the garlic chase scene