Here is the Maxim edition of this shirt. I also touched up some areas that were heaviy suggested. I chose to keep the design center becuase...I just did.

The pose shoudl indicate Im not talking about cards, but rather a club, strip, dance, or otherwise.

I think this is the best Maxim design so far. It's amusing without being as tasteless as some of the others.

I disagree, it is very tasteless.

and how would it be tasteless, shes not naked, shes not suggesting anything lude, shes dancing...unless you are a Quaker I wouldnt think this is tasteless at all...no wait... dancing IS the work of the devil!

An improvement on your prior...however I still have a few complaints. As stated before, good concept (even though there's already a queen card up for the contest) but could still be revised, in my opinion.

- The black club looks more like a baby's rattle or something weird.
- Playing cards are typically very ornate, this one is bland. Since you're playing up on the whole dance/strip club idea, add more color! The queen of said club would have far more pizzaz.
- The pointy areas of the merging bodies creep me out. I see what you were doing, how it's the hips/butt forming... but if you tilt your head sideways, her navels & points make it look like a masked superhero's glaring eyes.

I know you've redone this a bazillion times & won't any further...just my ideas.

no I see what you are saying....but there are 4 colors, NO outline would defeat the multi color ability of the shirt as it would be an undefined hole. I didnt like what I did when I did the image with ornate intent....the pizzaz thing...I couldnt do it with only 4 colors, maybe Im not good at it, but thats what I got...I did rework it a few times... the fire haired lady I reworked 48573947853 times...and may do it one last time...with normal hair and a different color

Great great great. As for improvement suggestions, you may want to box the figure in as they did in these playing cards:
http://www.displaycostume.com/products/103119.jpg

Otherwise, I think it's sexy without being exploitative and very clever.

i dont see how its at all tasteless. gatsby prolly would burn my one deck of cards ... they dont have shirts on ...

i really like her hair and the stylized club ... i'd wear it, but i dont think its what they're lookin for for the girlies.

you've been workin hard man, and it shows, your stuff keeps gettin better.

thank you..very much :)

A definite improvement. Great work~

definitly a good revision.

i think this is my favorite for the maxim contest that i've seen so far.

i love how the hair looks too. well done.

well...taking the advice of MEZO, and hopefully also pleaseing DISENCHATEE (thanks for the blog post), and hoping you guys can stoach my antics of several submitted revisions (and I PROMISE this next revision will BE THE LAST OF THIS IMAGE)...I have revised it once more and made it, in my opinion even nicer...I changed a couple of colors and got rid of that "creepy masked super hero thing". I also made it look MORE like a real card, added a basic deco in the midriff touching her back, and boxed her image as well as added a little bit (I do mean little) but of facial detail, so she doesnt look like a faceless person. BEFORE submitting I am going to change my profile pic to my proposal, so I'd like to see if you think I should resubmit the revision before making half of you sick with this one too.... thanks for the wonderful constructive input.

also thank you Jui for your boxed input, its a much NICER smoother feel and it adds a focal point..good suggestion

you MAY see a revised ed in a week

im a girlie and i like it just fine.

gatsby - Im still coming to terms on the comment on thisbeing tasteless...if you mean as in bland...engh. So far its been better recieved than I had anticipated. Although I have a no so surprise for you guys when I get back in town

nice design, seems a little awkward where the hips meet, this should be the sexiest part.

ok. first time commenting on anyone's shirt... i definately want to see this one improved because i think it's an awesome idea for this contest.

1. there does needs to be a box around her. the card looks so empty without one.
2. her reflection needs to be smoother. ex: take those points on her hips out! i think that you should take out that middle white part, which i'm assuming is her bottom piece, and try and warp the belly buttons together.
3. if you take a look at that image that JiuNoon linked to, you can see that (not including white) there are only 4 colors. i know this is an issue because you don't have white for any of the colors of your shirt. so i'm stumped on colors, but i think it should be more detailed.
4. the Q can't be in that font. i don't think if fits a playing card well.
5. and finally, the club symbol. it needs some refining.

overall, i think it has great potential, and i like it a lot as it is now, so i'll give it a four.

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ok, the one in your profile pic is a huge step in the right direction. there is no more akward point at her hips, and the box holds her in nicely. i love the Q that you are using now but i still think the club symbol needs to be changed... i hate getting vague criteques, but i don't know how i'd change it. i don't know if i like the leafs or not, also, is red going to be the only shirt color now? and if i'm just imagining things, smack me, but i think you should change the gray background to white.

Much stronger than the previous version. I have to agree on the 'hips' aspect tho'

great concept!

-make it a bit smaller
-use spades instead, for the love of god dont use hearts, heh
-the only real problem i have with this is how empty it looks, the card looks plain, maybe add some background detail like you see in real playing cards, but MAXIMized (worst pun ever)

also, id say add more cards... straight flush, women with different hair, skin, clothes, etc

Thepoint of htis design is to have the play on words...shes dancing, you dance in a club, its the club suit. having aflysh would remove that play. I will resubmit this later tonight when I get home...thanks for the input

I don't like the pastels with this design, but I also don't like the pastels EVER, so I guess I shouldn't bother you with that. I like the idea, but I doubt that many people would understand the play on words just by looking at the shirt. So, as many have said, make the 'club' element apparent.

the shirt IS a girls tee...I mean if guys wanna wear it I have no issue... but its designed for the female wearer...part of the concept....

I assume that my first submission of this shirt - ... uh... got canned by threadless becuase I cant find it anywhere... but its a good thing

This would be cool... if it looked more like what it is supposed to be.
Try making it look more like a woman,

well I would but the revision got declined....I'll try again after the voting period on this one is done....as I have noticed that ver 1 of this is no where to be found...even threadless hates me

I think there is something wrong with that girl.. Cant put my finger on it..

I'm sorry and check my comments:

http://www.threadless.com/submission/39613/Queen_Sexy


Good luck!
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