Threadless T-Shirts - The not so Little Prince

The not so Little Prince

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DracoImagem.com
on Apr 14 '08

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2.61 out of 5

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1,847 people

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DracoImagem.com on Apr 07 '08

To details http://jrdragao.deviantart.com/art/Nem-tao-Pequeno-Principe-81714494

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C Kid on Apr 14 '08

Great idea! 5!

Pixtoons on Apr 14 '08

Great update to what is typically a tired, worn out theme here.

ginetteginette on Apr 14 '08

this is depressing me..
but it's very well drawn -

icebar on Apr 14 '08

:O so sad! $5

berrynoir on Apr 14 '08

Oh god, I want this. Please, Threadless?

Lhiiiz on Apr 14 '08

Oh! Now I'm sad and nostalgic! Very well done though.

Candice88 on Apr 14 '08

$5!!!!

mype4nut on Apr 14 '08

What a great idea, and well-drawn too!

Mountain Gnome on Apr 14 '08

Very nice Idea and well executed a 5 from the gnome!

mbutterfly on Apr 14 '08

i love this one! so clever. The Little Prince is probably one of my favorite children's books.. and i love that you've corrupted him. =]

PauloAccioly. on Apr 14 '08

genial! 5*

.java on Apr 14 '08

good context! it is unfortunately true...

Sunshine69 on Apr 14 '08

I don't think he's corrupted, he just grew up. A little sad. Very nice, though.

DrNolove on Apr 14 '08

looks familiar:

http://www.threadless.com/submission/150776/Re_Volt

Sunshine69 on Apr 14 '08

DrNolove, I'm sure that the planet earth is a common theme here. There's only a very superficial similarity between those two designs.

martiandrivein on Apr 14 '08

I love the little prince... but I don't see the allusion, I guess.

the_jcw on Apr 14 '08

cool work,

DracoImagem.com on Apr 14 '08

DrNolove
Do you know Little Prince?
Yes, this looks familiar, and?

anjrea on Apr 14 '08

i love this design!!!!1

i don't think it's that he's corrupted nor that he grew up, i see it as the world around him has changed... he is wearing a suit, though, so maybe i'm wrong

DracoImagem.com on Apr 14 '08

He's wearing one like this

boysbeambitious on Apr 14 '08

This looks fantastic. :)

sugar.ice.and.everything.nice on Apr 14 '08

i like this one ALOT better than that "Re Volt" one.
5$

EmptybOx on Apr 14 '08

http://www.threadless.com/critique/18621/She_Who_Loves_A_Garden

icebar on Apr 14 '08

"The not so Little Prince" --he and the planet grew up

Ellsswhere on Apr 14 '08

your work never stops amazing me mang

auxocrome on Apr 14 '08

Amazing!

dacat on Apr 14 '08

Great work as usual man! $5

kidd7000 on Apr 14 '08

This shirt is fantastic.. I don't tend to like shirts that have a "message," but this one is brilliantly done and the Little Prince reference is great. 5$$$$$

DracoImagem.com on Apr 14 '08

Thanks for all comments =D

WootMan on Apr 14 '08

I have no clue what Little Prince is and I still love it.

DracoImagem.com on Apr 14 '08

You can read about the little prince here
And see a classic illustration here

chastinet on Apr 14 '08

Great one!! cool idea!! 5$

melonsherbert on Apr 14 '08

this is great! i just finished reading this book in my french class! i would most definetely buy a print!

junior_ on Apr 14 '08

Amazing design!
5$

turbolucy on Apr 15 '08

this is an excellent designs and any similarity to other submissions is simply because the Earth is in it. the cover of the book, Le Petite Prince, has the little Prince sitting on top of a beautiful blue and green Earth. PRINT THIS PLEASE! $5

Chengui on Apr 15 '08

I just watched a claymation version of the little prince that was super creepy. Awesome job on this one.

missmoon on Apr 15 '08

I LOVE the Little PRINCE !!!
I love the colors on this t-shirt...
Congrats DRACO!!! it´s amazing!
5$

squidspawn on Apr 15 '08

amazing please print!

walmazan on Apr 15 '08

awesome and incredible good $5

jiffybesmooth on Apr 15 '08

freaking great!

Cruddy on Apr 15 '08

And he thought the baobab trees were a nuisance...
I love this. I would definitely buy it.

NGAZIN on Apr 15 '08

Remidns me of Super Mario Galaxy.

bgonzalez on Apr 15 '08

SWEET. Love the "happiness inc." and the rose in a jar.

opifan64 on Apr 15 '08

great idea and design$5

Abby412 on Apr 15 '08

This is so great. I can hardly contain my happiness. If threadless doesn't print this, I might cry. $5

janelaneartgurl on Apr 15 '08

oh this is so sad and awesome at the same time!

je t'aime!

5!

PyroPaper on Apr 15 '08

I am SO going to buy this if it gets picked. I remember this book from middle school.

rosalarian on Apr 15 '08

Perhaps the best design I've ever seen on Threadless. 5$!

DracoImagem.com on Apr 15 '08

Thanks for all comments!

liberatesputnik on Apr 15 '08

It makes me sad, but in a good way.

FRICKINAWESOME on Apr 16 '08

This is like the really depressing version of the Mae Loves collab I did with Fat Pigeon!

http://www.threadless.com/submission/131051/Inner_Peace?streetteam=FRICKINAWESOME

Totally different perspectives and messages tho...I love the feeling of this one and all the millions of little details! Great work as usual.

4$

BlameTheSuburbs on Apr 16 '08

one of my favorites of yours.

liligouane on Apr 16 '08

hello my friend, I adore this visual, it is superb, as
always ! 5 $

DrNolove on Apr 16 '08

I don't understand why you took such a depressing tone with this. I also don't understand how all the people who have read this story can love this so much.

The book is about responsibility, caring, and love. In the end of the book the Prince lets the snake bite him so he can return to his planet and care for it.

This illustration seems to depict the opposite. The little prince in the story I read would never let this happen to his planet. Why would he sell the rose that he loved and cared for so much?

This is basically against everything the little prince stood for. Regardless of how good the illustration is it just doesn't make any sense, and if you ask me is very depressing.

DracoImagem.com on Apr 16 '08

Hahaha...you need more love.

DrNolove on Apr 16 '08

You jacked my planet

Harfangoria on Apr 16 '08

YES. So many lame "planet" ones around. This is one of the finest. Thank you. :)

northcutt on Apr 16 '08

Not similar enough to the other shirt for me to vote less than a 4.

Would've given a 5 if the design was smaller, but it feels like it takes up way too much room on the shirt. Still awesome, though.

bafocomics on Apr 16 '08

Did DrNolove invented circles in a shirt?

DrNolove will not buy one of those, but 3 thousand others will.

DracoImagem.com on Apr 16 '08

Thanks to all comments!
And Dr., definitely you make me laugh!

DrNolove on Apr 16 '08

I never said it wasn't a good illustration.
This is pretty much a more detailed copy of my planet.
It is almost exactly the same. All he did was add a rose a prince and some volcanos.

The oil tower the factory the tree stumps the clouds. If you cant see that you are blind.

The only reason I am pissed is because my submitted version was extremely rushed so we could make the Revolution deadline. I was planning on re-doing it with more detail and other changes to make it much better and re-submit it.

But now everyone is going to think I jacked the idea from this guy.

bafocomics on Apr 16 '08

and you actually think he jacked the idea from you?

This is lame...

DrNolove on Apr 16 '08

Yes

atomic child on Apr 16 '08

nice work

EmptybOx on Apr 16 '08

It does look very similar to DrNolove's, but props to this design. it's very nice, and something i would wear.

Dashichka on Apr 16 '08

I tend to hate shirts with messages such as this one.
But I love this shirt :]

i know very little about art on Apr 16 '08

Great work again!

cyanidee on Apr 16 '08

cool, i don't know if i like the oil tower being on the bottom tho.

Le Dobermann on Apr 17 '08

ace 5

Tarmaie on Apr 17 '08

i still need to read the book. but i want it!

DrNolove on Apr 17 '08

jacked...

http://www.threadless.com/submission/150776/Re_Volt

wilsinho on Apr 17 '08

Great! 5$

tom_carvalho on Apr 17 '08

Great Work Man!!!
You Have a BIG ideas!!

congrats!

cheers

...k on Apr 17 '08

bollocks. as if the idea of depicting a planet and stuff on its surface were something very original. originality is shown in his point of view. and exactly because he understands what the little prince was about he drew this as a critique to what has been happening. dr nolove, please, move on.

draco: great illustration.

rodrigomuller on Apr 17 '08

hahaha... I think DrNoLove is showing NoLove at all... =P come on man, you really think that your sketch was jacked and became this piece of art we see here? please... use a little of your common sense... he based his work on a book for Christ sakes! you must be colorblind or something to just think this work looks like yours... come on... stop bugging the ones that really know how to design and if you think your ideas are so good, go sell them and buy a patent...

btw, VERY NICE WORK again Draco! don't bother with his nonsense!

missmoon on Apr 17 '08

Dr No Love:
Get real....
You can't compare your design with this !!! concept is totally different !!!

So it has tow points in common, that does't mean that its Jacked!!!

maykelfotos on Apr 17 '08

aí ô pela saco do cacete. o cara manda pra caralho no desenho e tu vem dizer que essa prora que tu fez aí é boa pra caramba. e o que ele faz é o que? tem palavras? aprenda a desenhar mais uns 5 anos que aí vc, de repente, terá uns 20% do que eo draco faz. Enquanto isso, fica no sapatinho que de parecido, o desenho dele ñ tem nada com o teu. Com esse nome aí, Dr,NoLove, tu tem que trabalahr com disque sexo filhão. Fala com o Rodrigo Reis lá que ele te orienta. Abração e fica na moral aí.

berrynoir on Apr 17 '08

Huh. I'm going to have to say that in all fairness, I do see a similarity in design. I don't know that I'd go so far as to say it's "jacked" - but I think if it was the other way around, and it was a first-time subber putting something up that was as similar to an Alumni, there would be a lot of outrage. Like I said, it's obviously not a direct copy, and no one questions that Draco has the skills to create this design, but I think DrNoLove isn't trying to be difficult and I don't think calling his design "lame" or him "colorblind" is called for.

...k on Apr 17 '08

i agree with you, berry, that calling him colorblind or telling him that the design is lame won´t help. but we all must step back and consider that planets with volcanos and other stuff on them aren´t really new. we´ve seen them a thousand times. we´ve already seen almost everything represented in similar ways. nothing is new. the point of view is the only thing, in my opinion, that can be interesting and make something brilliant.

igo2cairo on Apr 17 '08

Cool design and a very clever idea! 5$

staffell on Apr 17 '08

nice design

...k on Apr 17 '08

more planets... oh, boy, draco, stop it!

http://www.caloi.com.br/

bulkool on Apr 17 '08

Draco, great great great work!

It's amazing how do you concept this. Congrats. 5$$$

DrNoLove, put your self in your place.

berrynoir on Apr 17 '08

I really think people need to stop ripping on DrNoLove personally - he has not been rude nor made derisive comments towards anyone of a personal nature. He feels wronged, and regardless of a poster being in agreement/disagreement he shouldn't be barraged by insults.

mad-ame on Apr 17 '08

goshhhhh
Dr. NoLove invented the world !! hahahah
f# genius!

paulobbruno on Apr 17 '08

Dr. NoLove invented the world !! hahahahHAUHAUHAUHhauhauhauhau
hauhauhauhuahuahuahuhauahuhauha[2]

draco filhão! 5$

DrNolove on Apr 17 '08

Listen, I never said I invented the planet, I never said I was the first to use a planet, I never said I was the first to use that perspective of a planet.

This is what I said and am saying again now. When I saw this design it immediately made me think of mine. Regardless of whether or not he jacked the idea from me or not.

If you take out the aspects of this illustration that come from the little prince(the volcanos, the prince, and the rose) what do you get?

You have a factory, a bunch of stumps, an oil tower, and a circle of dirty clouds.

Now look at my design. What do you have? a factory, a bunch of stumps, an oil tower, and a circle of dirty clouds.

What a coincidence.

If you turn the tank into a truck and add the stream from the other planet in my design our planets would be almost exactly the same.

He basically reproduced the same exact thing I had done and added stuff to try and make it his own.

If I had of submitted my version after this every single one of you would either accuse me of stealing the idea or say its already been done.

If this shirt is printed then my design is essentially worthless, regardless of how much I improve it, which I planned to do, I would be called a thief and be told its already been done.

...k on Apr 17 '08

so to avoid being called a thief, you accuse him of something you aren´t sure he has done? hey!

what are the main sources of pollution in our planet? i guess you both showed them in your illustrations!

bafocomics on Apr 17 '08

so, life is hard boy.
How about try to have another idea, you know, if you plan to work in this area you need to be creative, and trying to do the same thing again is not being creative.
Actually you can still do your world if you use your talented to show something different.
And You said that Draco stole your idea. But this illustration plays a other point of view, it´s not about choosing a better planet like yours, it´s just showing a tragic outcome to the little prince story.

It´s clear that he did NOT intend to steal your idea, sometimes people from all over the world get simmilar ideas even when they have no contact with each other.
I did a t-shirt design that used the same idea of one that was done here, about a kid under a monster bed, and later saw the threadless one.Sometimes coincidences happens.

...k on Apr 17 '08

take a look at this homepage, please, maybe you´ll see what i mean: http://www.caloi.com.br/

i could show you other images with the same objetcs/symbols, but i guess this one is enough show what i mean.

PauloAccioly. on Apr 17 '08

DrNolove : This design is yes, original!
Unlike, it seems, he has thousands of shirts, several ideas. No need to copy from someone who only has one.
You was not the first person to make a world in a design, if it were so, nobody could draw, it would be plagiarism. Repense their accusations, you ta doing shit.

DrNolove on Apr 17 '08

No, I don't know for a fact that he stole my idea.
But he has not denied that he saw my design. He even said himself that my design looks familiar. If he had seen my design before he produced this one then there is no way you can tell me he didn't take my design and make it his.

It's one thing to make a similar design, its another thing when four of the main aspects of the design are exactly the same.

Its the combination of the perspective, the oil tower, the factory, and the tree stumps that makes me wonder if he saw my design before he did this or not.

If he had seen my design before this, which is likely if you look at how much time he spends on this site and how many designs he has scored, chances are he did "borrow" from my design.

If he has never seen my design before this then it is just a shitty coincidence and I am sorry.

...k on Apr 17 '08

i think you should improve your first submission as you had said you would do. the main ideas aren´t similar and i don´t really think it´s a coincidence. i think it´s an idea that reaches us through the media exactly because it´s an issue these days... i think he might have seen your design, very probable. but i don´t think he copied your design. you both collected symbols and meanings that are everywhere!

your second version won´t be worthless as you put it. the ideas ARE different.

mandabala on Apr 17 '08

stole your ideia DrNolove?! Kiss my "earth" man!

DrNolove on Apr 17 '08

Regardless I will admit that this is a great design.

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