the best place for the design is probably right about where the red X is placed on the shirt template.



suggestions?

I don't know. I feel that the x could stand to be moved a smidge.



"smidge" being a technical term.

i think thats the perfect place, you can submmit it now!!

i'm so torn!

A bottom placement might look nice, have you tried it?



Any more color options?

It would be more symbolic if it was on the back of the tee.

cassie, colors of the shirt or the design?



meli, good idea! maybe the front and back.

i'd buy it as is.

I think a sans font might have more impact.

Perhaps larger so it wraps around from front to back, that will add more mystery.

And the colors rock!

thank you whynaut!



oh man, sectionbb, i hadn't even considered that!

I would like more shirt color options.

Like...clear maybe?

lose the text...

trying to open up the placement options still

super tiny, at bellybutton placement

and over the nips

one sleeve should be shorter.

*takes notes* BRILLIANT!

lol, yeah definitely over the boobal-region.



and maybe some circles, like a dead snowman on your stomach!

perhaps i should rename this ONE MAN'S TRASH

death AND snowment......i love it. i'll see how it works out w/ all the other ideas too.

Lose the text.



;D

I find this to be a bit on the obscene side. Can you maybe add something to not be so obvious?

5$

just like version 5 but not as blank as version4

eye-gore!

" ...but they told me it was E-gore..."



"...Well, they were wrong, weren't they?"

YAY!!!!

Is that Igor? Or Mother Theresa? I can't tell.



anyway. I would totally wear this! TO THE PROM!

wtf are you playing at?

i thought of snape...



:(



chelly your work is amazing



(psst look at my latest blog...pretty please:)

*head explodes*

according to these reactions, i am heading in the right direction

i dig v1. go chelly, go!

Just made staffell's head explode more violently, and then I think we have a winner.

I like version one the best.

I partiuclarly like the neck-hole.

version one? big fans on simplicity i see~!



maija, thanks for noticing!

Chelly, I love you.



You totally just made me laugh out loud (it even deserved spelling it out), and I almost spit out my soup.

neckhole

no chelly you were supposed to go to the talent show blog



haha

A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING. everyone seemed to like the placement from the first shirt, so i made it the focus of this version.

oh my goddddddddddddddddd

bad shirt color?

Is that a dog wearing a hat or a man with no arms and no shirt with a face painted on his belly with nipples for eyes and belly button for a mouth and a hat hiding his head? Because if it's the latter, 5$ and a used mattress.

it is the latter, mostly. it is a belly face dancer. his arms, shoulders, etc. are in the hat. the used mattress just warmed my heart.

aw sonmi, you never cease to make me fall.

this is a joke.

MANDERSS, THAT ISNT VERY CONSTRUCTIVE!



show me where another shirt has a belly face dancer.

anyone else?

you need a feather in that cap, Ms. Chelly.

for reference





oooh good point lbb!

I think the whole shirt should be a belly face because that would save the belly face dancers some time and money with their make-up. And then also it would give girls eyeballboobies and that's just a win-win for everybody.



You could move the X off to the sleeve because that's a really strong element that I think should still be included.



for reference

That's some quality entertainment right there.

This should be your Select design and then the hat could be included as an accessory. Also, the hair details could be felt textured ink and the nipples could be puff ink. Maybe glow-in-the-dark puff ink.

MAIJA IS A GENIUS BEFORE HER OWN TIME



you can quote me on that

sonmi on Jul 05 '07

oh my goddddddddddddddddd

kaloyster on Jul 06 '07

aw sonmi, you never cease to make me fall.

best critique ever

Omg, insta-win. Maybe more sequins though. OOH gold ink for the belly face dancer!

maybe if i use silver it will seem classy

You will see that I ticked "Needs work". This means it "NEEDS WORK". You have to give us another version.



And then submit every version.

there is definitively some inside joke here that I completely and totally missed.

^ That's what I'm thinking too.

You will see that I ticked "Needs work". This means it "NEEDS WORK". You have to give us another version.



these things take time. i don't like to rush beauty.

Yeah, you have to wait for the glue to dry or the macaroni will fall off.

i would actually buy this shirt ... bad design is good just like 'bad' art would make real statment as I walk down the street ... like 'I'm BaD!' in a Michael Jackson kinda way!

i love you chelly!! this is the best. i think i like either version 1 or version 3 the best! :D

Whoa! AMAZING artwork!

WOW! What skill... you are an amazing artist!!!

aaah! it deleted my comment. uno momento.

I think you have one color left - you should add a heart

Too many colors though.... only 5 remember

lol

instead of a heart, i was thinking maybe a big red X

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Needs more filters. I'm thinking cutout.

livetrace it and it's gold

i feel like i might be heading in the right direction with this now

OH i think maybe if i put this on the bright green like an earlier version....

freddie mercury w/ drag queen chorus backup singers in the middle of queens

i like it

hahaaa!!!!

if i can please one blogger, my job is done here





not that i'll stop or anything

ooooooh i should have just done a zoooom on frankies head and then the queens and queens would be like a tiarra

too complex?

I can't tell what are lips and what are nipples so I'll call them "lipples".



Or maybe they are moustaches.

Psssst, Chelly, shoot me an email at stuffmg2 att telus dott net. I have an indecent proposal.

haha lipples

a parched man drags himself in from the desert and finds the cup of life; too bad about herman though.

that is the lamest cup of life ever.



that said, i would proudly wear this shirt... under another shirt.



$5

p.s. love the ufo.

PLZ Subb it I N33D teh shirt!!!!1

wow, here i thought you guys hated me when in fact you just needed a little more circus death in your life

when i first started reading this thread i thought you all were serious. i had lost hope for humanity. but now that i get it, its hilarious. thank you all.

maybe move the neckhole lower. like, center-chest. a definite buy!

I actually really like the neckline as it is because my head is slightly off center.

most people are totally uneven and i want to make sure the world knows i care

however, it is very important that the cup be where a person's bellybutton is

chelly on Jul 18 '07

however, it is very important that the cup be where a person's bellybutton is



Well yeah, otherwise, what's the point right?

how about a really wide neckhole. so it can accomidate neckholes of any origin.

good idea alpha! i mean, we don't want to forget people w/ elephantitis of the head.

needs more lens flare.

ok to me this is pointless, why are ppl saying submiit to me it's hopeless sorry sounds harsh but i mean come on does it compare at all to anything thats won etc. no it doesn't i dunno maybe put more effort instead of doing a design in about 2 hours

cantstopsmilin21, I hope you realize this thread is a giant joke...



for fun. you know...haha? yay?



it's brightened my day a little. :-)

Oh, man, every time I need to giggle, I should just remember to come to this critique!

maybe you should try incorporating the original x

in regards to cantstopsmilin21 the reason we say submit this, is because it is so funny that if it did win i think we might wear it on a t-shirt, because it is so insane. i would $5 this cause it makes no point and is rather funny and makes me laugh quite hard once i see some of them. the red X for the first one is still by far my favorite!

this sucks... im in the computer lab at school and we need to be quite... i cant stop laughing... i think i might wet myself... chelly thank you for putting this up and for the rather funny comments.

is that ladder made out of macaroni?

I love the diver dude!! heheehehe



(he-he)

macaroni!!!! macaroni!!!! why that's nothing but the best linguini in the world. blasphemous macaroni!

as for the original X i probably should have had it where the diver is supposed to land and have the glass in the thirsty guy's hand....but that's what a work in progress is for yes?



also, i really want that diver's threads.

sweet! can i get v9 with the description on the back? especially if it's in the same style as the front. make sure you put the x in somewhere, like at the end of the description, like a signature, although i like your idea for putting it where the cup was.

more. original. designs.

less ego.

i saw a shirt similar to version one today and now i know i was too late on the draw

sub v7

too lazy but want to project that you are making an effort? feel like going out in drag but not really? like turkey?

gobble

it should be noted that i kept the X as close to the belly button as possible

my eyes .. they are confused

i see paris, i see france i can see her big red X...

i just realized that i should have gone w/ fish-net

$5!

Hahaha, the placement of the X is GENIUS!

oh my goddddddd

What the heck is.....











OOOOOOOH. I see what it is now.

HOW







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MISS









THIS????

it is what makes dreams come true, w/ placement that makes you look twice

fuck censorship!

Beautiful!



Great artwork!!



I love it! :)

this is select material!!!

but leon, they are THEME PANTIES!



oooooh select. puff paint legs~

puff paint is a definite must. and have you thought about applying ruffled lace to the shirt for the skirts?



how much glitter is going to be on this? i don't open my wallet for anything less than 20 packets of glitter. i want it to catch the sun and throw it in everyones eyes. consider the glitter.

alphabetapi, you see the way!!!!

i like to think my genuis is the product of heavy drinking, and being dropped often as a child.

LOL

i honestly cant see why everyone likes these. they look like akids drawing! they first one looks like no effort has gone into it, its just a cross. sorry i just cant see nothing decent. cute dog by the way =]

"i'm sorry, captain. there is no reading on our sense-o-humor radar."

nomesmcfly, you aren't here to critique everyone's comments. give me suggestions on how to improve the design. do you not like the colors? is the the subject matter that makes you so uncomfortable? do you think that there is a way to make the design more original?

great illustration style! very nice! 5$



the only suggestion i would make is i think this should be in green with big text and if you created your own broccoli pattern halftone brush and shaded the sides of the building with it that, then. would be perfect. also if the model were wearing athletic running spikes it would make a bit more sense.



but thats just me. obviously you know what you are doing.

this is all a joke right?

WOAH! holy loop of doubles batman!



here's the original comments if they didn't show up anywhere else:



i saw some punny shirts and that must mean that everyone likes those better, so i've created CLOUD CYCLE. a slightly mellower shirt color. this bike has no kick stand.

Version 15 is the best. I like the simplicity. 16 is too busy.

really? i was thinking the most drastic changes were between 11 and 13.



thanks stevetrpi!

Yeah, I didn't want to mention it, but I'm pretty sure 12 is a direct rip of this.

I agree, #16 is a bit over the top. I liked the negative space in #14 though -- maybe you could incorporate a bit of that into the final design?



The bicycle direction is really cool, but I worry about the shirt itself. Both of my arms kinda hang down from my shoulders when at rest, so I'm concerned that the right sleeve might be a little awkward if I have to hold my arm at that angle. Not that I'm adamantly opposed to holding my arm like that (after all, it'd only be when I wore that particular shirt) but it's more a question of broader market appeal.

on the contrary! that guy totally ganked my notes.

My mistake. Comment redacted.

I really liked V1, is it to late to bring that back? Or perhaps the V10, a bit obvious tho... I feel like you have moved to far from the original idea now... :(

inchbyinch, i had assumed that ppl would wear the shirt while riding their bike and thus wanted to encourage using their arm signals for turns and stops



vannjenta, i had to step away from that because i saw a shirt that was already printed w/ that design

version 15's placement of the x is over the top

oh, ok, wont mess with copyright and stuff... to be honest i think I saw this last version in a couple of stores as wall, at sale actually, so I'm sorry but it seems like that idea already is getting old... v13 tho is pretty nice, perhaps the clouds should be more pink? and some toads falling from them with x's for eyes and an x to mark the landing-spot? just a little suggestion if you have time to try it out, its really good as it is also!

an x tshirt? why?

SERIOUSLY RAMONESTATTOO... BACK THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE CRITIQUES YOU ARE ANNOYING ME NOW... LEARN TO READ THE DETAILS.

ALL CAPS!

hahah i was getting angry...so I caps it to prove my point :) have a look through the critiques section, you will see why ramonestatoo forced me to hit the caps lock button

"i had assumed that ppl would wear the shirt while riding their bike and thus wanted to encourage using their arm signals for turns and stops"



That's mind blowing. Why don't I ever think that far ahead? I have so much to learn still...

damn. the new setup makes the laughter go away on this one.



ah well.



take one for the team.

GO CHELLY! :)

I really like the colors.

Este diseño es ridículo y lo odio. En primer lugar, huele como una puerta vieja. En segundo lugar, prueba como un hombre sucio del queso del vacío. ¡Cuarto con diecinueveavo, su alrededor de un hombre de la robusteza ..... apenas que embroma I ama este diseño que usted oscila!Este diseño es ridículo y lo odio. En primer lugar, huele como una puerta vieja. En segundo lugar, prueba como un hombre sucio del queso del vacío. ¡Cuarto con diecinueveavo, su alrededor de un hombre de la robusteza ..... apenas que embroma I ama este diseño que usted oscila!

¡Im que dice a mi mama en usted para hacer un diseño trashilicious repugnante de mala calidad tan sucio que adoro absolutamente!!

Jojolo tan apesadumbrado. La única cosa que sé es que es española, por supuesto como usted dice tan derecho no puedo leerla realmente en todos...

haha

So, did you submitt any of those? I actually read the whole critique :-) Great stuff! What program did you use?

do you think i should? i used magic.

I think you need to focus in just one concept.

Somethig weird happen with this, some of the versions don't appear.

I think the glass of water and jumping man concept is really good.

I'll sugest to go for that.

keep working!