Now I feel bad. I wasn't trying to call you out on not knowing about what your doing. I guess I just have liked the content more than composition of a few of your pieces, but it sounds like I just have a different preference of balance in things. Sorry I turned that into such a long diatribe. Don't want to pull a loomdun and try to over-explain something only to turn out wrong.
This is a good piece, don't get me wrong. I like it a lot. My main criticism is that there's a bunch of squiggles drawn together, and then all the big ones in the middle don't taper off, they just disappear behind another one, and then two small ones come off to the side. The comment about the center of her body was wrong, it is basically in her center. Ultimately, I guess it's all a matter of graphic preference.
Anyways, I your arts, and am just trying to be helpful, and perhaps failing.
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I didn't mean to make you feel bad. There just aren't alot of general theories about art that Im not working to get better at in one way or another, and I think its important for me to say so. I generally decode nitpicks for overarching problems, but balance that with knowing how I want my art to look.
This was gonna be on white, but fooling around with the spacing on the tee I went for creme. Gonna add some white to the design now, I think:
Its for the DBH incubus contest, they only gave us one logo to work with
Incubus the band, correct? DBH meaning "Design By Humans" tee company.
This looks rad. Should be pretty successful in the competition in comparison to some of the other designs. I don't like the logo they give either. I'm glad you're putting at the bottom rather than the center. I wouldn't mind it absent if it didn't make the design too vague. I think some of them didn't have it, but I might be wrong.
I would buy a tee of just the bird design on the bottom.
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BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
You can enter the contest without the logo for the DBH pick, but I love Incubus and would want the fucking concert tickets if I won. If you want the tickets you can only use whats provided in their style pack, which is just that logo. I pencil sketched over it so it wasn't quite as vector smooth but I want to stay eligible.
The angler fish and the crow are both part of Incubus's iconography, The crow being for Crow Left of the Murder, one of my favorite albums ever, and the anglers for the new album Monuments and Melodies.
Tomorrow when I wake up I'll see if some pencil hatching or moving around the Logo helps integrate it more. I cant to much to it but I can make it less tacked on.
BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
I love the design, though it would be an absolute bastard to print all that fine detail.......
Something to also bear in mind: regarding the shirt with the girl and soul-sucker -- you can't screenprint transparancies; if you want something to 'appear' to fade or be 'patchier' you need to halftone it.
If your design gets chosen by Th'less or DBH, I think they rework it to fix issues such as this but it's good to be able to give them the files print-ready.
They rework stuff all the time on DBH and threadless, which it why they have permission to do that in all their legal gobbly-goop. I try not to do stuff I've never seen done, but they've printed some highly detailed stuff on both sites.
I'll keep the half tones in mind though, I'll have to research it some.
iruka that incubus one might be my favorite of your work you've done thus far
is it all digital? or pen and ink or something?
you probably said it somewhere else but i am the WORST at reading.
I really love that skeleton\girl shirt Iruka! I want to buy one! Has it been printed?
Oh I voted aswell. The crow looks fantastic!
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I'm a little late on the Incubus shirt so I have no idea if it can be changed or not, but I think the anglers would work better on the back of the shirt but keep the drowing crow as is (or maybe raise it a bit to compensate for the moved items. As it is, the anglers are very strange floating in nothing above a dronwing bird.
But that drowning bird. I would buy that in an instant.
I'm a little late on the Incubus shirt so I have no idea if it can be changed or not, but I think the anglers would work better on the back of the shirt but keep the drowing crow as is (or maybe raise it a bit to compensate for the moved items. As it is, the anglers are very strange floating in nothing above a dronwing bird.
But that drowning bird. I would buy that in an instant.
I'm glad people like the crow. I understand where people are coming from, but I stand by the fish in that design.
Baghdaddy, I have to submit that skeleton\girl shirt to DBH, I'll do that sometime in the next few days, I'm on the road right now.
The Black Hunter, You mean the bird vomiting its guts and the spirit? Or the Bird spiral? I think the former would be too gross for people.
Just for the record I love the anglers floating up above the bird, that fact that it is weird makes it all that much better.
Just the drowning crow would still look cool but it wouldn't have the surreal quality to it that makes it so awesome I think.
its surreal but, as it is now, it feels like two totally separate ideas on the shirt. As if the top half and the bottom half aren't the same picture which i don't think is a good thing.
Napp, Do you know that they are both part of the iconography for the band? If you're talking about the literal connection between the two, having flying anglers in contrast of a drowning crow only makes sense if you know incubus. I was hoping it would be strange if you didn't know the band, but for fans who at least knew the album titles and covers they'd see what I'm getting at.
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Is there a fine print in the submission that makes the artwork there's even if they don't pick it? Because I'd love to see that design worked out and on an actual t-shirt.
edit: maybe if you could get the crow to seem as if it was looking at the flying fish, they would appear more connected.
I wouldn't like that at all, think he's sort of hauntingly gazeing at the viewer. And while I see what you're saying technically, I really like the shirt the way is. I probably wont be changing it too much.
But no, DBH has no claim to the art work after the 120 day voting period if it doesn't get picked.
I wouldn't like that at all, think he's sort of hauntingly gazeing at the viewer. And while I see what you're saying technically, I really like the shirt the way is. I probably wont be changing it too much.
But no, DBH has no claim to the art work after the 120 day voting period if it doesn't get picked.
I guess with no pupils its easy to read the birds eye how you want- I was seeing his line of sigh making a diagonal line up the shirt that crossed below the fish. That said, I like your interpretation of it much better.
Also, its really nice they let you keep it after 120 days, I'm always hesitant about things like that
edit: Looking back on the picture with the mindset that the bird is looking at the viewer, I think it works much better as is. That said... I'm not sure I would have thought the bird was looking at me if you hadn't mentioned it.
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This is a good piece, don't get me wrong. I like it a lot. My main criticism is that there's a bunch of squiggles drawn together, and then all the big ones in the middle don't taper off, they just disappear behind another one, and then two small ones come off to the side. The comment about the center of her body was wrong, it is basically in her center. Ultimately, I guess it's all a matter of graphic preference.
Anyways, I
Its for the DBH incubus contest, they only gave us one logo to work with
edit: Oh, wait. they made you use that font / logo?
This looks rad. Should be pretty successful in the competition in comparison to some of the other designs. I don't like the logo they give either. I'm glad you're putting at the bottom rather than the center. I wouldn't mind it absent if it didn't make the design too vague. I think some of them didn't have it, but I might be wrong.
I would buy a tee of just the bird design on the bottom.
The angler fish and the crow are both part of Incubus's iconography, The crow being for Crow Left of the Murder, one of my favorite albums ever, and the anglers for the new album Monuments and Melodies.
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anyway, more muted logo
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Something to also bear in mind: regarding the shirt with the girl and soul-sucker -- you can't screenprint transparancies; if you want something to 'appear' to fade or be 'patchier' you need to halftone it.
If your design gets chosen by Th'less or DBH, I think they rework it to fix issues such as this but it's good to be able to give them the files print-ready.
I'll keep the half tones in mind though, I'll have to research it some.
is it all digital? or pen and ink or something?
you probably said it somewhere else but i am the WORST at reading.
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Shirt's good. Voted.
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Oh I voted aswell. The crow looks fantastic!
But that drowning bird. I would buy that in an instant.
But it is a fucking brilliant artwork
All your shirts are excellent
I'm glad people like the crow. I understand where people are coming from, but I stand by the fish in that design.
Baghdaddy, I have to submit that skeleton\girl shirt to DBH, I'll do that sometime in the next few days, I'm on the road right now.
The Black Hunter, You mean the bird vomiting its guts and the spirit? Or the Bird spiral? I think the former would be too gross for people.
Thanks for the votes guys, I appreciate it
Shell entrance is kinda square and out of place.
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Just the drowning crow would still look cool but it wouldn't have the surreal quality to it that makes it so awesome I think.
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its surreal but, as it is now, it feels like two totally separate ideas on the shirt. As if the top half and the bottom half aren't the same picture which i don't think is a good thing.
Either way its submitted, and I like the fish.
That's my point. You could integrate them better (even if you keep them flying) and keep the overall effect.
edit: maybe if you could get the crow to seem as if it was looking at the flying fish, they would appear more connected.
But no, DBH has no claim to the art work after the 120 day voting period if it doesn't get picked.
I guess with no pupils its easy to read the birds eye how you want- I was seeing his line of sigh making a diagonal line up the shirt that crossed below the fish. That said, I like your interpretation of it much better.
Also, its really nice they let you keep it after 120 days, I'm always hesitant about things like that
edit: Looking back on the picture with the mindset that the bird is looking at the viewer, I think it works much better as is. That said... I'm not sure I would have thought the bird was looking at me if you hadn't mentioned it.