Upon doing some research I found that Poe's "The Raven" is in the public domain- no copyright laws. I thought it would be interesting to make a raven FROM "The Raven."

I wanted it to be kinda 8-bit Mario style where upon closer inspection you realize that the pixels creating the silhouette of the bird are actually the letters and characters of the poem itself.

This went thorugh a lot of versions in Critique. Thanks a lot to everyone who helped out with it.

I would like it more if the words wrapped around the whole shirt

I don't know if anyone brought it up in the critique, but this is unfortunately really similar to This woot design

Alas, nobody brought that up. I got more than one suggestion that I take that route, though. No background, just bird. I liked the boxiness of it and the contrasting colors, so I kept the background.

PS- Very large, fully readable version HERE.

this is awesome!

and now I'm sitting here feeling illiterate, because I didn't realise Terry Pratchett's discworld character Quoth the raven's name came from literature...

That's okay. I'm feeling a little illeterate 'cos I've never read any solo Prachett (only with Gaiman), so I don't get the reference you just made. Haha.

at least you don't now feel the need to re-read them all so you can actually get all the references :)

I think it looks great man, if the other words wrapped around I'd think that would look neat.

I think it needs some work

I really like the idea, but something is missing.

Does this have the full text of the poem?

Yes, it's the poem from start to finish. One of my posts a bit further up is a link to a high-res, fully readable version.

i would proudly wear this. 5$

I'm loving this. Raven from the Raven, Very apt for this time of year. 5!

This is awesome. I love it. Good job! $5

I lot like this one.

I love this, more as a print then tee. Its great. Also although there is a similar Woot T-shirt, this is much better cause it is the entire text rather then some abridged version that butchers the original poem and actually look very messy. Yours is clean and very cool. I'd love a huge poster of this.

ps If it rapped around it would look worse, it needs to be concise as it is. It would be very messy otherwise

This is basically the same as the woot concept. Looks like just bad luck!

The similarity between the two designs cannot be denied. But there ARE significant differences in the execution of the concept, as well as the final outcome. I hope that lends at least a little credibility to mine. But if not… somebody thought of it first, it happens.

I would really think that, even if this was tweaked at all, you'd come across the same problem as woot's: You can't read it. You can barely even see the words on the woot version (go look at the pictures they have from people who have purchased it) and this version will be the same. And adding the purple just makes the piece a boxy design. MAYBE, as o-in said, a poster/print would be okay, but not as a shirt.

Yup, too close to the woot design, you didn't know, no biggie, those are the breaks, and good luck with something else here!

i have never seen this idea executed in this way ever

and the thing with woo.com shirts , i believe, is taht the shirt on display can only be bought for that day and then they get a new shirt which is why the shirts for that website are so cheap...er besides this one is alot better and is totally awesome :D

I definitely prefer this version, and I do prefer it boxy. And it doesn't mind that you can't read it on the T-shirt, actually, I would never ever try to read a poem from a tee, I'd rather borrow the book...... so it's ok for me to know it's all there and that's about it. A poster would of course be very coool!

It'd be great if 'nevermore' was highlighted to the right of the Raven's beak as if he were quoting it.

I, and several other people, have done a design like this before. It could use some work to make it stand out.

As a huge Poe fan I love this. I'm not a fan of the Woot version simply because they didn't use the whole poem, and it kind of looks just like a sloppily done big bird. This one is prettier, and more haunting, and just more 'Poe'. So if it's printed I would definitely buy it.

Poe it's great

interesting