A - E - I - O - U . . . and sometimes Y.



Like an awkward kid on the playground, 'Y' never knows if he is going to be 'in' or 'out' of the vowel club. So, he just hangs out on the back of this shirt, waiting for an invite.



Words have always been my recess. When I was four, I wrote my first "book" on the back of some of Dad's old business papers. (The protagonist was a wolf who ate wolf food instead of people.) I still remember sitting on the cold basement floor, awed over that my two hands had made a real story happen.



The magic of making letters make pictures is one high growing up hasn't worn out of me. This shirt celebrates that love. I hope it will inspire the kid in you to do a little scribbling of your own.

^

Seriously, what the hell went wrong with this tourettes-like computer program above me?



Anywho, i like this idea for the childhood contest a lot, i like all the different perspectives at play, although the Y on the back should have a child playing with it a bit, maybe a slingshot in the middleo f the Y or having the y strapped to its back like a backpack.

oh man. the backpack would have been great, frickinawesome. i wish i'd thought of it before subbing! :/ next time i want your eyes on my stuff before i sub it!!



thanks for defending me a little bit. that poor guy above us. he's been doing this to lots of subs tonight.



hey, let me know if you have anything you need me to vote on. i'll check your page...



and thanks again.



yeah, it's supposed to be a kid's shirt.

(p.s. some of your slogans are hilarious.) the TV one made me laugh out loud.

the placement is really cool... for me, i guess placing just the "Y" at the back has more impact :)



thanks for your comments. I hope you can find time to check my Geisha as it progresses

thanks, guys! this is my first sub, so i'm sort of nervous... it's crazy having people vote on your stuff!



i want to keep up with the geisha, lunaclone. if i miss and update, feel free to post something on one of my designs to remind me! :)

Really cool concept

((THANKS to Threadless! They took off those nasty troll comments under my design! Yay for them!))



Thanks, whathandsyield!

I like you drawing style! Really fresh! Can't offer any better suggestion than the "Y" as a backpack! Cool idea!



My only niggle is the lower hand of the boy swinging in the "O"! Maybe nudge it up the "O" a bit! Looks like he as an unnatural bend after his elbow!



Great stuff! ;-P

wow they actually took that creep dude who posed naked on his profile (dont ask how i found that out :)??? he was a dedede

thanks, mjhazelwood! :)



agreed, flyman96. he was just posting nasty stuff on everybody's pages. :( i'm totally fine with critique... even rough critique.



but that was just sad. poor guy.

I just gave me $5!!!

is that tacky?

does it actually help?

if i bump this, will more people score it?

bump (someone please tell me if doing this is bad form. i'm new.)

Nah it's not bad form to bump your own design, but it is bad form to link it from a comment on someone else's. But you'll be forgiven, cos you're new.



But you're probably bumping it too much. Generally, you wouldn't want two comments in a row being red, so wait for someone else to comment first. You'd be better to make a blog about it and just bump that and link people here from that.



Anyway, sorry for that long-winded comment. I quite like the idea with the vowels and Y, but I wish there was a better way to indicate that the Y was sometimes included. Right now he looks left out on the back. Of course, sometimes he is left out, but I love FA's idea about the slingshot. I also think you have a good storybook kind of style to your illustration which suits the Childhood contest very well.

thanks for the help, squatterjohn. oooh. i've done that comment thing. darn. sorry, everybody. i saw people doing it and thought is was ok.



i'm still trying to figure out how things work here yet. (green and awkward.) i got that email from threadless telling me to promote it like mad. but i'm not sure what that means or what is normal.



anyway, thanks so much!

Great style. Looks like an old "Reader" book. As usual, FA is right on on his suggestions about the Y. It's supposed to look lonely, I know, but it looks lonely and odd there.

I see what mjhazelwood is talking about - more the wrist than the hand, but it's minor. His face and posture are spot on.

Poor AE still bound together like Latin or the Encyclopędia.





I'm kind of sorry i missed the taurette's nudist. Maybe.

You got the latin AE!!! I'm so impressed!



If, by a weird chance, this goes to print -- would they let me add the backpack on the Y???

This is beautiful, voting 5 just for poor old Y

aww, thanks! this is my first shirt sub, so i really appreciate it.

I like this, but the O is the only one that actually looks tied on. Maybe loop the rope around the tops of the other letters?



You have a good style, though!

Hey, thanks for the comment! And good thought!



Initially, I had those ropes around the other letters too. But they sort of cluttered up the clarity of the piece. So, I decided they were attached with those big metal eyelets playgrounds use sometimes instead of loops... haha!

P.S. Are you an engineer? You're pretty observant! :)

a really thoughtful comment and design, you hv my support on this!

fun concept, especially the O as a tire swing!

thank you!

I like it, I like the little y at the back. its kinda a little cheeky y

haha. thanks!

last day of voting!! BUMP!

the way the letters are hanging reminds me of my childhood reading story books with drawings just like this.

THANKS!

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thanks so much!