D'aw! That's really awesome! Completely retro design, I'm already in love with it.

$5 ... print, print, print.

skiiillllz

solid 5 dude. can't tell if the cowgirl is a elvgren (evlgren, sp?) pin up re vectored, but i don't care. well done.

Love.

It's really not my type of shirt, but I love the colours and the style of this... Nicely done :)

great work 5$

wowsa... great use of zipatone dithering here! love it!
$5

fucking sickkkkk 5$

Wow - great design. 5$

gimme.

$5

yeah, shit, it's from this.
http://www.moppinup.com/mop/elvgren/cowgirl.jpg
great re-vectoring of it though, and working it in, changing the arm, etc.
i'm iffy now, but i still like the whole thing!

5$!5$!5$!5$!5$! what more can i say???!!!

SCORE.

i love it.. makesmethink of ww2

absolutley!!!
$5!!

elvgren is one of my favorite pin-up artists!

i think the elvgren family are like the tightest copyright hounds too though...

explosive design man. 5$

thats hot

Totally hot, but I'm disappointed that it's a Gil Elvgren girl. Also, is that *your* name (hogboy) on the bomb?

wonderful.....!!!!!!!!

Trav is right, the Elvgren clan are copyright hounds. still the colors and layout are awesome. And someone else remembers ZIPATONE! Yehaw, BasicShift!

yeah, you changed it up a little bit from the original, but i still like the design and the idea.. maybe you could draw your own cowgirl to put with the design?

Just to clarify, as Trav, Alphabetapi, Redsugar & Grayehound have mentioned, yes the girl is a re-working of an Elvgren pinup.
The initial idea was to take an obvious piece of pop culture & place it in a fantastic situation... I went for the girl actually on the bomb as opposed to being painted on the side of the bomber.
I do wish that I was as aware as Trav & Graye of the Elvgren clans reputation as copyright hounds, I woulda gone for a different image... or perhaps in hindsight I just shoulda taken that extra lifedrawing class...dang!

Copyright infringment or not, you've done a great job mixing old & new. And that halftone background ties everything together perfectly.

Fantastic Color choice...
5$

concept is great, love the bomb, but agree with the need for redrawing the cowgirl. [her shading makes her look a bit odd]
great design.

beautiful!

Wow great!!!

hey, i still 5 it, and i'd buy it if it was available anywhere. i don't see the elvgren descendants torching every hot topic in america...yet...
classic bods overpower my sense of artistic justice. we all know you're an ace designer.

This looks great.

Cheers Trav... I've given this a lot of though on my way into town. Truth is the idea for this, as I've said was to put a recognisable piece of pop culture into a fantastic or ironic setting. I honestly wasnt trying to claim the pinup girl as my own piece of work. That said heres where I think I've gone wrong - it's one thing to directly parody pop culture for example Dark Side of The Garden using Darth & the death star as subject material or JC Was a Streaker using the Michael OBrien photo ( http://streaking.topcities.com/michaelobrienpic6.jpg ) -as long as the parodied subject matter is sufficiently stylised as to be original... Probably what I should've done is stylised the Elvgren pinup a whole bunch more - to make it easily recognisable but original.

Truth is, unlike a score of artists here (Graye, Mezo, Trav, Mr Rocks, John2 etc etc) character illustration is not my forte. Consequently I have a tendency to fall back on reference photos when trying to create realistic looking human characters in my design... Perhaps with this sub I have unintentionally crossed the line in what is acceptable & not.

I think I will rework this design with a more stylised girl, sub it & see how it scores, partially for the sake of credibility amongst the threadless community but more as a challenge to myself.

that's awesome!

nice mate, really fucking nice!

^Wow - I'm floored.

Mad Props to you for actually thinking it through rationally - seeing that fine line between parody and possible infringement - and owning up to "unintentionally cross[ing] the line".

It can be hard to see sometimes. And most people just get angry and defensive.

You've done some good work - you should definitely re-work this with a new girl.

I don't know how anal the Elvgren family are, but this is on the line I reckon. I think you have changed it enough, but at the end of the day the 'judge' could feel it's a rip.

I'm still giving it a 5 and have admired this design since I say it. Everyone know I love chicks on bombs!!

'saw it'

excellent, truly excellent.

THe Girl Is Hot

awesome!

That is nice. In every sense of the word. Well done, Hogboy. $5

$$5

Pretty cool man. Not sure I like the cloud thing in the background, but still very sweet

I love the design.

This reminds me of the Dvice clothing illustration we got for a Nexus article a while back. I really like the illustration and I have a feeling you might be the same person that we interviewed?

haha....I am. This one never got used for DViCE.

that sucker is bootyful! $5

Excellent attitude, hogboy. I'm voting 5 on this just for your mature response and plans to rework it into a design that's more of your own work.

wow, awesome work

cha-ching!

nice. :) good luck

Ha, she's riding Hogboy

nice use of screening.

hot!!!!!!!!

turned out well...

for those who care I spent half of today reworking the pinup girl... curse this whole copyright/moral obligation thang! My girl looks as stiff as Hayden Christensen in the new Star Wars!
I swear the human physique is the most challenging subject material there is... especially the female physique.... gahhhh (he screams breaking pencil)

I LOVE THIS. I'm very into the 40s and 50s style right now, and this almost vintage print fits it perfectly. I would buy it immediately.

schweet

doctor - i feel a strange love for this shirt...

awesome design!

YIPPIE YIPPIE YEAH KRAWALL UND REMMY DEMMY

i'd get it for the glitter! wooooooooo

wow i love the illustration!

It reeks of Dr. Strangelove. If I liked the movie I would be into it. Even though that cowboy was a boy... Hmm. Mixed feelings. Good work, bad connections.

Lovin it- Dr. Strangelove FTW!

I like the pink and the halftones on the moon.

Er... actually yeah, I like the whole thing. 5

Dr. Strangeshirt.
or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the design.

Fantastic colors.
I like it a lot.

very, very nice.......i want it $5

this kicks much ass $5

Now THAT is art! 5+

I'd Buy. Gets a 5 from me, good work.

I really like this, but I think you could get away with out the world (or whatever it is) in the background.

this gets my $5, love it

SO awesome. Definately needs to be printed!

I WANT IT ON MY TORSO THIS EXACT MOMENT!!
PRINT THIS MOTHERFO!!!

great design print

Cool design. I'm a big fan of Elvgren and would love a shirt like this.

As for copyright, Brown and Bigelow licence pictures for use if it was one Gilette did for them.