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Black, White and Red all over

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colin_greenwood

About my design

by colin_greenwood
Hey, this is my first submission. I\\\'m not sure how great it will go over on a t-shirt, but I think it looks pretty cool otherwise. Anyway, here\\\'s the bigger picture:



http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9136/spydan2webreadyblackng1.gif



Hope you all like it.
freegracefrom
freegracefrom on Jul 28 '06
My favourite colours. $4.
swimmergirl66
swimmergirl66 on Jul 28 '06
dan, it's cool. yes I'd buy. $5. good luck :)
Theowlrulestheworld
Theowlrulestheworld on Jul 28 '06
Uh... What?
NaughtyPoppet
NaughtyPoppet on Jul 28 '06
Uh...no...sorry
colin_greenwood
colin_greenwood on Jul 28 '06
I don't think I'll ever understand the people that don't actually put substance for their comments. I mean, the person that makes the submission takes a ton of time. Even if it sucks. Input always helps, not like, a word. Thank you for your helpful comments. It's not supposed to mean anything. Just a picture. Like half the stuff on this site.
papersky
papersky on Jul 28 '06
Is he drinking something? Or is it a tin can that he's talking into?

I think the red behind his head is nice, but if it didn't end so abruptly it would look better (in my opinion). Maybe adding a few more rays of red behind him would help outline his head.

I really like the pinstripes! It's a nice concept. I hope my comments helped you out. :-)

Aaron the Cedar
Aaron the Cedar on Jul 28 '06
I'd go for this, $5
the czar
the czar on Jul 29 '06
Interesting but maybe not on black? Don't now if that would be better on a dark gray or something to make out more detail.
colin_greenwood
colin_greenwood on Jul 29 '06
If it's on a dark gray I don't think it looks as good. I'll put up a picture real quick, I'm doing stuff with it right now anyway.



http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9827/spydan2greyws0.jpg



There's all the black on grey, which looks all right, maybe with a darker grey but I'm assembling an entire portfolio and don't want to take the time to fix it.



http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4176/spydan2greybackow7.jpg



And there it is with all the black regular on grey. I prefer it with less detail. He's drinking out of a cup. Well, I am. It's an old picture of me that basically could be any guy with similar hair, which is nice because that way nobody can look at it and notice that it's me. I like images that are defined by their shape and not by their outline, like in Samurai Jack, how often there isn't an outline for the characters. I could extend the red, but adding more stripes kind of takes away from the asymetry of it all. I originally had it with 4 stripes and it kind of killed it. Thanks ya'll.
cranradical
cranradical on Jul 29 '06
it could very well but a business man ... drinking his coffee..

hee. i think its a good illustration!
aikoe
aikoe on Jul 30 '06
It reminds me too much of the Japanese flag pre-Occupation. It's still an interesting design, though.
colin_greenwood
colin_greenwood on Jul 30 '06
It feels Asian to me as well, I just couldn't place it. I think if I took out the red it wouldn't look like that, but I liked it. I keep on checking back. I think I am watching my first baby grow up, and it didn't die after the first day. I feel good about that.
knn
knn on Jul 30 '06
I think it look svery cool, like one of those freeze scenes in the middle of a CB episode. Menacing and I love it on black. The cup makes it slightly humorous in light of all the mencae.

$5 I'd buy. Thanks for sharing your skills.
Catttttt
Catttttt on Jul 30 '06
It reminds me of franz ferdinand [the band, not the assassinated Archduke of Austria]. I also like his ear...it looks like an industrial is in it. The pinstriping only adds goodness to this. $5
TheVoiceInMyHead
TheVoiceInMyHead on Jul 30 '06
Liking it! But since it has a stright line at the bottom, I would place the design t the very bottom of the tee as well.



Cattt, Franz Ferdinand? Saw them live too many times and this designs does not enter at all in their imagery... wondering where you got that from.
Fwuzzle
Fwuzzle on Jul 30 '06
Reminds me of the Japanese and Chinese flags..



Is that a...coffee cup?



I don't get the message.
swimmergirl66
swimmergirl66 on Jul 30 '06
fwuzzle, let me tell you, I watched my brother work on it FOREVER and it doesn't mean anything. and it's a cup. it's just a cool design that doesn't mean anything, like half the stuff on the site. my favorite is how the pinstripes define the suit. it's a picture of my brother drinking out of a cup that he reworked in illustrator. I happen to like it.
Mazy Mallone
Mazy Mallone on Jul 31 '06
It's pretty cool, I just really dont like all the shadowing around his eye ... but other than that, I really like it.
atienzar
atienzar on Jul 31 '06
i like it without the cup.
haranguer
haranguer on Jul 31 '06
i think the cup and some of the shadowing could use some work, but i love the style 5
mcgowen007
mcgowen007 on Jul 31 '06
I'm really liking this shirt, but I have a problem with the cup. Could you add some red into it? Nice work, though...excellent first sub.
colin_greenwood
colin_greenwood on Jul 31 '06
Thanks guys. Should it somehow win, I'll do what Threadless wants, but since I'm just a rookie, I'd be glad to resubmit it with some of those changes. If you've met me, which only one of you have, you'd probably notice that my eyes are like, sort of Colin Greenwood or Christopher Walken-ee, hence the extra shading because they are sunken deeper into my head. But yeah, well, I'm just happy that it made it past the 24 hour mark, so that's a success for me. Thanks ya'll.
coykoi
coykoi on Jul 31 '06
I like the design but I'm not inspired to wear it. Would look good on a corporate website though
morning entry
morning entry on Aug 01 '06
it has no point. None that I can see anyway. If it has meaning please enlighten me, but it looks like you just stuck some clip art together and threw it on a t-shirt
swimmergirl66
swimmergirl66 on Aug 01 '06
does it need a point? some shirts don't, and this is one of them. no, it's not clipart, it's hard work in illustrator that you obviously have no appreciation for. But that's not our problem :)
morning entry
morning entry on Aug 01 '06
yes, it needs a point. it's a t-shirt. if it was a beautiful design then it wouldn't need a point.
morning entry
morning entry on Aug 01 '06
and if by hard work you mean taking out the pen tool and tracing a photograph then i don't buy it
jar_bombadillo
jar_bombadillo on Aug 01 '06
i'm giving you a 4 for the pinstripe suit. i really love pinstripe suits.
colin_greenwood
colin_greenwood on Aug 01 '06
Morning entry, somebody told me the exact same thing. Kristy, chill out. Seriously. I don't care all that much. I wouldn't say hard as much as time consuming and all that, but at least I don't have two guys hugging as my picture.
slow_learner
slow_learner on Aug 01 '06
i think this is really cool. uber points for the pinstripe suit. it's very 3 demsional and the red in the back. $5
Onegoodbumblebee
Onegoodbumblebee on Aug 01 '06
very cool

swimmergirl66
swimmergirl66 on Aug 01 '06
haha whatever
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Running Out of Line
Running Out of Line on Aug 03 '06
nice work colin 5$
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drfindley
drfindley on Sep 10 '06
The design choices and everything really are tremendous, that is the colors and the hands and stuff. The red really pulls in some cool asian feel. But the cup really just isn't all that exciting. I'd much rather see the cup or the suit or something fit into some thing more asian. Like maybe if the cup was see through and something interesting was going on there. The Red asian stripes tend to mean war or something, so it might be kinda cool to involve that,but I don't know you could use the cup. Maybe some planes?
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