This design was inspired thinking about the way people are in the music industry, specially producers and label execs. They will always tell you "you're great. your voice/music rules! We are going to make it big". The moment you leave, they are ready to drop your butt and move to the next one.

I also thought it would be a good t-shirt to break the ice with and start a conversation with the person of your choice.

Please let me know what you think.

http://drwagnernet.com/40b/lectures/08.1.jpg

ooooooooo i saw the link! i still think that little kid is awsome!

That kid is freakin me out. i like it. I love his bottle cap hat.

My design is getting alot of copyright comments, but at least its something I drew myself. This is just old Coke art. 0...

Ok,
hankd and Mr Rocks:

I didn't find anywhere in the contest rules that all submissions had to be personally, hand-drawned or be part of just one style. I use a lot of old scans to develop textures and create new composites.

This image is a scan that I have from a very old 1940's magazine, the ad talks about enroling in the army so I had no idea it was also a coke ad. However, it's one element within the design, but whe you are judging an entry, you should think about the following factors:

• OVERALL CONCEPT
• COLOR
• COMPOSITION

As you can see from the link that you found, new colors and elements where added, the image is the base for the overall composition.

There's a huge difference between doing this and ripping somebody else's work, it's not hard to trace Gorilla's heads or horses either, but arranged as elements toward a completed composition can create a great design.

You can go to the store right now, pick 5 of the latest graphic design books and you will find people doing great work within the same style, grabbing elements from differents kinds of media and doing something different with them. Once again, it's all about composition and concept unless you are doing character design then yeah, you should create your own from scratch and not copy what other people have done... movies included.

Ok boys, think about this next time you are about to make any ignorant comments.

i think you have too much of the 'borrowed' element.
you could have instead of just flatly scanned the image
redrew it yourself and changed aspects of the image (like hand placement, eyes, hair, the pop cap hat...so on)

other then that i like the overall look of this submission
eventhough it is worked to look aged and that sucks.
but other than that good job.

you could have even made mention of the forty's ad in your first comment about what it ment to you. then i would have had more respect for you.

remember it is always different to use something as a source but what you did is basically just scanned then made it a monotone image then added some so so elements.

anyways..nice colours, dont like the aging, and you could have played with the image more to make it your own.

oh yeah and the wording doesn't work for me.

Style and content are two different things.

You can imitate someone's style until your heart's content and you probably won't get into any trouble, but copying the content of someone's image is a different story. This piece isn't as subject to the criticism Mr Rocks got because this one is pretty much a generic 40s style kid, whereas the alien was a blantant copy of the ones in Mars Attacks.

You don't go seeing popular characters on shirts if they aren't being sold by the company who owns the rights to them, do you?

Lastly, you must not have read the rules very hard because they tell you not to use gradients.

I'm not digging this, man. If you can design as good as you can defend, please show it. Also threadless can't print this.

Whether you know it or not that child is from a Coca Cola ad. That's why it's hat is a bottle cap. Also your audience shouldn't have to read your description to get your message. It's not in the image at all.

boy all that writing, more people would read what you're all writing if it was in dot points. mmm, dotpoints

i agree, bullets are a definte plus when it comes to writing out long comments.

it's my opinion that found art should be excluded from printing. I would hate it if I designed something and 40 years later someone else got paid for putting it on a shirt. I'm sure this isn't the best example of this persons work.

It's really funny to see that someone who say :"THAT'S NOT COOL HAVE MORE RESPECT FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK." taking picture from a ad and do not create himself. Ok I won't be so hard with you 'cause I imagine that U needed to take your revenge after all the comments here... I'm sorry for U guy