Before finding PixelJoint my main place for interaction with other artists was DeviantArt.  Now mock DA if you will but if you sift through all of the crudely drawn, colored pencil anime/manga pics you'll find some really breattaking pieces by some really talented artists.  I am not one of these artists.  That being said, there is a contest on DA to design their next T-shirts; three catagories with one winner in each.  I entered a design under the DA-branded catagory.  The voting, unfortunately, will be by the general populous and not the DA staff meaning it will become a popularity contest and not a judging of the art, IMO.  Anyway, as my entry is an old school, REALLY basic pixel art design I thought I'd mention it here.

I know, I'm setting myself up for a fall, both because my entry is not "polished" and because I'm not popular.  At all.  I've seen a lot of the entries and they're good art but I wouldn't want them on a shirt, I think people lost sight of the fact that this would be something will actually be walking around in.  Oh well, much like the challenges here, it's the effort that counts.

When I saw the word, "deviantart", I instantly said, "No.", aloud.

That, and it needs work. Sorry, but it's messy around the edges.

I know what you were going for, but the skull is asymetrical, and there's some jaggies aroudn the edges. I like retro stuff in concept, but if there were a slightly higher resolution version of this with more detail, I'd buy it without a second thought. A good idea when designing T shirts is to make something that you would buy if you saw it in a store.

Edited by Evilagram - 06 March 2009 at 10:32am

I did that exact same thing in a recent piece. I cut, pasted, and flipped a few times so the sides would mirror each other, then at the end, I decided I didn't like it, so I painted over the edges to make it asymetrical.

Oh, and here's something slightly more off topic, I duplicated a movieclip to get this to mirror itself easily: