My childhood was shaped immensely by a single tome: "Young Years: Best Loved Stories and Poems for Little Children"

...and from that enormous and magical book came a great interest in all things fairytale, fable, nursery rhyme or otherwise. But of all the stories I ever read Pinocchio is probably the one that best describes the journey of somebody's child to one's own self.

We start out as just something to be molded by our parents, and within only a short time in this world our childish pride leads us to break our parent's controlling strings and run off into the world. Naive and feeling invincible, we come to discover a world that is not as conquerable as we might have it. Through this we fall, we get hurt, stolen from and lied to -we make asses of ourselves- we get swallowed whole in a sea of despair, but if we make it through this early journey, we shed our foolish pride and feelings of invulnerability and learn what it means to truly be human.

This design is in honor of all that, and a throwback to the simple style of designs from Threadless's own "childhood."

nice.

Wow!

very clever!!!

Wow! super!!

great work man! Nice to have you back.

VERY NICE

cooooool!!

nice!

Oh wow this is freakn awesome man! 5$

good to see you subbin again

great concept and cool-ly done :P

super brill, man!

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Great idea and really well illustrated.

hehe classic Ste7en

GREAT $5

yes! that's cool! :))

Clever. As Roadkill said earlier, classic Ste7en.

... you are also gay. ;)

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No one's disputing either fact, hogs!

totally gay- totally aweome totally classic

Fun

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it, and Aaron, what did I tell you about projecting?

nice idea man ! love it on a brown shirt !

Very nice, fresh take on an old tale. 5. Love it.

Really awesome. :D

Excellent concept!

COOL!!

hahah! funny!

wow awesome art and amazingly clever title!!!!!!!!

thanks so much everyone, I didnt know what to expect with this design what with the trends toward full shirt covering art (which I love and am currently wearing)

that's cool! like it on a brown shirt (:

brown is my favorite too :)

Hahah, clever!

good stuff

nice~

cool design.

Awesome!

Funny!

Great idea for the comp, awesome illo!

AWESOME!

thanks all!

Wow impressive, cool concept!
Also shadows and highlights are done very well 5$

Great concept!

great stuff

ha, great one, love the progression. well done.

Super.
Please, evaluate the update of my print "Calorie Prison"?
http://www.threadless.com/critique/49273/CALORIE_PRISON

DUDE!
that's awesome!
why didn't I think of that?!
great job!
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hahaha! cool!