6 posts tagged “design”
There's finally been a "Love" theme at Threadless that I want to get in on, although I must confess I haven't been watching them for that long. Until mid-September, the theme is "Drawing" and the prizes rock. I don't expect to win, but why bother if you can't at least hope, right?
I only have one entry that is in "pending" status right now, but I plan to get a couple more new ideas drawn up and submitted to the critique section this weekend.
Here's the first one pending:
Those of you who have followed my "work" for the past couple of years might recognize it as a variation on an Illustration Friday design I did a long time ago. It was handy and time was short.
A revision to Zomby (now Zumby)
Zomby design @ © SplitReason.com
PaWN3D! design @ © SplitReason.com
My Favorite Color is Dead design @ © SplitReason.com
Dancing with Death design @ © SplitReason.com
Frogger Blogger design @ © SplitReason.com
I have 3 designs up for voting at SplitReason.com. Two are designs that I did for the Woot shirt derby last year, and one is a new parody I made of Gumby. If you like them, please vote for them.
Zomby design @ © SplitReason.com
Zombie Day at the Mall design @ © SplitReason.com
Taste the Brainbow design @ © SplitReason.com
None of my three designs this week that I actually put time and thought into came close to my one, half-assed, last minute design last week. The best scoring one wasn't even a tenth of the final winning vote total.
The hot dog was the highest with 47, followed by the bones with 34 and brining up the rear is the penguin with a measly 24 votes.
I've decided that I have no idea what people want. For the next derby, whatever the topic I'm making a zombie fit. Fuck it.
Well, four really, but I'm only calling attention to three. I'm not that fond of the fourth. Neither is anyone else, judging by the votes. The theme this week is "Heat." The limitations mainly are to stay within six colors, avoid gradients, and no "Woot" related shirts.
This was my first entry. It didn't quite turn out as well as I hoped. Nobody to blame but myself. Moving on...
The second entry so far is doing better than the first. Still not blazing up the ranks, but what can I do? Suck less I guess.
My last entry. Too early to tell how this one will do. I only saw two other penguin related designs after I got this idea, and the one closest in concept is nowhere close to the same in execution. It's also above 130 votes, whereas mines... not.
I said it before, but I really mean it this time. They need to not allow voting until after the submission deadline. In spite of what they think, I do believe that some people vote for the lead designs just so they can back a "winner." Allow submissions through noon on Tuesday and voting from then until noon on Thursday. But whatever. It's not my contest.
