I did this one time to a frog when I was a kid. I guess this is my sick way of dealing with the guilt I now live with on a daily basis.

It needs to be down by the bottom of the shirt, with bubbles coming farther up so it feels like it is at the bottom of the water. Otherwise you should get rid of the shadow so it can still be sinking.

yeah, she's right. also, the pig wouldn't be very shiny at the bottom of a river. get rid of the shine lines.

imaginary world people, don't be so worried about reality.

you animal killer...



cute though. $$

I don't like soggy bacon. 4

You are a horrible person. Zero.

i agree with them actually. i'd put it lower to sell the idea that he's sunk. and let your guilt go, little boys do hideous things. It's how we learn to care.

I think I'd like it better if you left it center and just removed the shadow instead of changing the placement.

We always bring reality along as one of the contexts in which we evaluate art. Dissonance between the art-world and the reality-world is one of the ways that art means. When dissonances do not mean, they get in the way of ones appreciation of the art. It's kind of like a sentence with three or four words added from way out in left field.



Now if you're going for dada, meaningless dissonance can signify insignificance, which would be the pointless point. In the case of your shirt, on the other hand, the image depicts something with enough relations back to reality that two or three meaningless dissoancnes get in the way of the pleasure one might otherwise experience from your shirt.



I suggest you take Miss Nicki and Michael's advice to heart. Certainly, I would think more highly of your shirt if you made these changes. I'm guessing they'd also make it more likely that your shirt will be printed.

Wow.

And no one takes into consideration that it is a CARTOON pig amidst all these suggestions of realism in the illustration? Okay, here we go, in reality the pig would be trying to swim to save his life. So make his little pork-chop legs kicking, and probably make a little line of blood where the rope would have cut into his leg in his struggles. Also, put a look of extreme terror and agony on the pig, or make his eyes rolled back in his head as if he had already drowned.

In other words, I think the shirt should stay as is. I love the shiny pig-baloon look it has, and the design I think should stay where it is.

that's not a <i>drowning</i> pig now is it?! O.O... but it's still cute. i thought it was a ballon at first... haha.

I thought it was some anti-Pink Floyd design!

very nice

Steve Swartz really has a lot to say. In fact, he's actually composing his 32-part dissertation on Modern T-Shirt Interpreatation as we speak. My humble opinion is that his insightful tome will go into the annals of history as THE preeminent critical text on the T-shirt's dual role as outerwear and communication forum in the New Millennium. The guy's a fucking genius.

ha, i thought he was floating

def i like it!

I like it! I also like the idea of moving the design lower, but don't change anything else! its cute and dark all at the same time

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eheh, i thought it was floating too.

its funny. i would wear it! but dont worry about the shine lines . . also it would look better if it was on the bottom corner of the shirt.

sad...but yea, put it at the bottom and more bubbles.

Ha ha! I must be totally naive... I looked at it and thought, "It's a balloon pig, and they had to tie him down because he's floating away!" I liked it a lot as a floating balloon pig. If this shirt gets printed, I might buy it anyway and tell people that's what it is.

Yeah people. Chill out. It's not a real pig. And it's funny as hell.

I also think it has more of a floating balloon appearance as it is now. I say ditch the shadow and maybe make a simple single-line ripple or wave up top to signify the surface of the water. P.S. it should be a puppy or a bag of kittens