Opinion Poll On Shirt Design

Here they are.I put them on white for clarity, but they both look great on colored shirts as well.

I like the old one! The design should make me look thinner.

Both designs look very nice, I like b/w :)!

Is it really either / or? I like them both, but the compositions are so completely different from each other that to me they are totally different designs.
I take it you decided not to use the original image with the water and the red sun.

Personally, I like the symmetry of the new one. But why not offer both?

I like the original image, by the way. Simple yet dramatic!

"See My Design" has a point, the new design is large and wide making you look larger. I also think most adults don't want a large image on a T. A smaller image would be fabulous.

I would like the old one equally if the long tree trunks started to fade out further up the trunks. As it is now the dark lines of the tree trunks going down almost all the way causes my eye to follow it and weights the bottom half of the image. It takes my attention away from the delicate tree tops at the top of the image.

My dyslexia was in gear when I first read the OP. I thought you wrote, Onion Poll On T-Shirt Design, and I wondered what The Onion had up their sleeves? HAHAHA!

Having said that, I think both should be offered and I like them very much!

They are completely different so you could offer both although personally I prefer the old one.

You can never please all the people all the time! lol

i like the newer one. but the old one could look better if you make the trees look like they are melting. for no other reason than to add more surrealness and it does something with the ends.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

yea those ends. The part of the old design that I dislike is the gradient blend at the ends. Shortening them or maybe making them act like a reflection (melty, ripply effect) are both good ideas and I'll mess with both of those and see what I like.

I don't use the complete version because of the hard crop on the left side of the image and the sun is a very soft gradient and would be challenging to print properly on shirts.

Another alternative would be using lighter colors fr the trunks and branches, or for a majority of the trees. One or two less tree trunks could possibly do it too.

No, no, no, ... the gradient blend of the old design is what helps make it work better for me. Unlike the new design, where everything ends on a rectangular edge, the old design does NOT have an edge in this area, as the trunks dissolve into the whiteness of the greater background, as if emerging from its emptiness.

The shrinking of the trunks and the fill of the new design just seem like a contrived means of filling up the space, whereas the dissolve and the negative space of the first design are so much more elegant to me.

How about fitting that sunset from the source image somewhere into the old design?

I could try a solid sun, but gradients on transparent backgrounds are hard to pull off in print. it'll get muddy on colors, I'm afraid.

looks I have more fiddling to do! :)

I like Roberts idea with the sunset.

I think they are both great!

maybe you can have them growing out of a lake or something. they just seem ...looooong in there.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Yep, Roberts idea! the little splash of color will do it for me on the old image.

Ok I"m going to try adding a solid sun, and rippling the trees like the water is actually there.

I'll be back later with the result. :)

For a T-shirt I like the new one, the other one to me looks awkward for a shirt, but you never know what will sell.
I agree, it does look a little large, maybe it could be smaller, and the trunks ending abruptly does seem awkward.
Maybe fade them away towards the bottom like in the first one, as Robert mentioned, or another thought might be to stagger the tree trunk
lengths, or stagger and fade, like you were approaching woods or a forest, a more integrated look with your design.
It has an arbitrary cut off look now, but it does depend on the look you have in mind. There is the simplicity more graphic look.
It seems the Japanese look/reference can work with both.

Making the tree trunks more narrow or just some could do it, then you wouldn't feel like you have to add everything else. I like the economy of design very much which separates it from other more common designs.

Great work of art !

Just curious ....

in terms of the long tree trunks, how does black become muddy?

How about a note on this particular image's description, indicating t-shirt colors to avoid in order to avoid muddiness? Would gradients go muddy on heather, silver, cream? I think that I remember that you have expertise in this area, and so I am really asking for your wisdom, not questioning your rationale.

I just like the gradients, ... that's all. I hate to see them go. You ruined me by showing me the source image. Nothing else will now do. (^_^)

Robert,
Maybe she was talking about the red of the sun becoming muddy, if she used the sun from the original image. The edges of the sun aren't crisp, they are soft, which goes with the early morning mist effect.

It's too bad the sun will be difficult to reproduce, I like the original image, too.

I also like the super-long tree trunks, they're very dramatic.

I like the old one, make me look taller

Love the old one!

I vote for the new one.

Love love love the new one.

Will your customer tuck it in? If so, maybe the old one would read better? Everyone is breaking the rules now, so maybe it doesn't matter…and maybe the new design is high enough to escape the issue anyway.

generally when one looks at a t-shirt - they look at the chest area (not sexist, it's just where we look) - and your old tshirt focuses more on the chest area, where I find the new one has more of an awkward focus near the bottom - just my 2 cents though/

That being said, put the sun near the heart, and maybe elongate the reflective ripples of it to echo the elongated theme of the tree trunks.

I'm sidetracked at the moment by the master bathroom construction project (darn life getting in the way of art again), but I will share some variations with you all once I get a chance to work on these.

Yes, the sun is a gradient from white to coral. That gradient area looks odd on some shirt colors. However, I'm going to try a solid sun and I think I can make that work well. Stay tuned, and thanks everyone!

Life IS art, so it is merely demanding its share of the creative juices. Darn 3-D modeling getting in the way of life again.

I think the old design is fantastic!

yes I like the plunging lines of the trees to.. elsewhere that the shirt gives illusion wise, it makes your eyes travel DOOOWN..

Robert, I wish it was 3D modeling. I'm screwing green board into ceiling joists. I suppose there's an art to that. :)

I once spent a summer knocking tacks out of an old ceiling in a low-rent, slum-lord rental unit, as a carpenter's helper. Absolutely no art to that, ... just drudgery. But then again, art can often be drudgery too, so I take it back. Just think, you now have a sun to look forward to in your design update attempt.

Cynthia,

It looks like your male model means a male T shirt.

I have an idea for the older shirt design. About three inches down bring the tree trunks together and braid them
as in a woman's hair braid. Possibly just off center to the right as you face the model.

Perhaps use light inbetween the braids or turn them colors.

Workflow wise the braids would be made up separately and added with some changes to the current tree trunks.
Possibly a basic rainbow set of colors.

Of course for a woman's shirt design.
The metaphor a woman's mind with birds taking to flight.

Dave

I really like the old one ... It's a bit more fashion forward while also showcases your art beautifully

Teirra,

Welcome, Good luck to you,

Dave

On my present body, the trees of the new design would look rather deformed.

Well I'm still working on the image that is the subject of this thread, but I got sidetracked and made this one.

http://pixels.com/products/peace-bomb-cynthia-decker-v-neck-tshirt.html

To use an old saying, "Dat's da bomb!"

I think I like this one best! thanks to all for the suggestions!

Now, that woult fit my body specifications.

That one is perfect, Cynthia.

It combines all the good suggestions that were made.

Yes M'aam! Perfecto

I like it, Cynthia, but . . . where will the sun hit on a woman's body?

Oh Nikolyn. I hadn't even considered the sun alignment.

On the ladies' shirt, it's rather close in, and would miss being "dead center" if you will by a couple inches. Same with the V-neck. On the standard tee, based on the uh, location I can most easily reference, the sun would land well below ground zero.

I was going to order one anyway, looks like now I have a reason to do so!

Ok I ordered the V-neck. Good news: paypal checkout was fast and super- easy.

Good eye, Nickolyn. You're probably right.

P.S. The reflections really work. Gorgeous in fact.