Just some quick notes about this design:
1. This design went through 18 (technically 21) versions in the critiques (and at least 5 versions not posted in the critiques) before I submitted it.
2. I wasn't aware of "Dog Fight" until I was already working on version 9.
3. I chose to use a generic balloon animal instead of a balloon cow because it is more easily recognizable, helps get the point across better, and makes the design a little more silly.
4. The idea behind the shirt is supposed to be that the farmer is milking the balloon animal to get helium, but if you want to think that he is inflating the animals so his farm can have livestock, go right ahead. It works both ways!
5. If you saw this and thought, "Why is that animal not tied down if it is full of helium?", then you are thinking too hard.
6. I am fully aware that balloon animals do not normally contain helium.
Anyway, thanks for all the help in the critiques, and thank in advance for your votes, everyone!
Very funny. I think it is different enough to stand on it's own without comparison. Technically, you should make the balloon animal more transparent looking. But that's just a minor qualm. Not my style, but it's still good. 4
At first I was really afraid it would be too similar to "Dog Fight" but after seeing it, I think its really good! Its definitely a solid design that I could imagine seeing on a t shirt (which is sometimes hard with subbed designs). $5
I think this is SO much more interesting and clever than Dog Fight. Shame it wasn't subbed before that one. Nice work here and there's room for both of these tees!
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^ best comment so far
the positive response from this design, in both the critiques and on here, is still very exciting for me
i just wish i had more places to promote it...
It's a fun idea and really beautifully executed. And while I love the colors you chose, I would maybe consider another color for the dog or tee, just to nudge it a little further away from the Dogfight design, which was also red balloon on light blue tee. I agree that your design is a totally different concept, but the visual similarity is still a little unfortunate.
i wasn't exactly going for realism with this design
...and, as far as i know, cows don't get tied down when they are milked, and part of the joke with this design was to take a hopefully-well-known image (a farmer milking a cow) and replace one of the key elements (the cow) with something unusual (the balloon animal), without changing much else
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