05/22/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 23, 2014May 23, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/22/14 Top Pick; Sons Of Mischief

It’s true, some girls love bad boys. Just look at this rendering of Loki. What’s not to love about this mischievous supervillain? Everything about this design is perfect. I’m speechless! This shirt leaves me in awe. I love the color choices. I love the composition. I could almost kiss Loki’s face (sorry Thor!). Medusa, I would love to see your process!

Thank You MedusaTheDollmaker

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05/22/14 Top Pick; Ken & Ryu’s Street Fighting Academy

Hadouken. Shoryuken. Tatsumaki. These are some of the moves you will learn at this Shoto academy! I really enjoy the warm color palette on the navy blue shirt. By substituting the whites for a light cream color it keeps with the same family of colors and the overall design appears warm. The arrows create a nice texture for the circular frame and illustrate the move inputs. The gradation along with the bold light lines convey the motion of the dynamic upward moving fist. All in all, this shirt scores a total KO!

Thank You OdysseyRoc

Buy The Shirt! Ken & Ryu’s Street Fighting Academy

05/22/14 Top Pick; The Sleeping Rose

One of my all time favorite Disney movies! Yes, I already bought my ticket to go watch Maleficent on opening weekend!! Wonderful romantic design. Aurora aka Briar Rose, is lovingly placed on a soft pillow as she slumbers. The many delicate folds of her covers are soft and decorated with roses. Her frame is wonderfully detailed. It shows the balance between the evil bright poisonous green enchantment and her good pink blossoming roses. My favorite part is the bright glowing green, pink, and blue spots in the center. They nicely represent her loving Fairy Godmothers Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.

Thank You Nados

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05/21/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 21, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/21/2014 Top Pick; Kingslayer Brothers

“Perhaps you should speak to me more softly then. Monsters are dangerous and, just now, kings are dying like flies.” I guess regicide runs in this family. The Lannister brothers look suave in their dark shades and black Blues Brothers attire. I very much enjoy the monotone design with a few bright yellow areas that pop and add contrast. Their golden additions (Jaime’s hand, Tyrion’s rings) also help lead the eye from their stylized faces to the bold, bottom text. I really enjoy the collage feel of the design. The faces of the actors, their suits, accessories, and even how they are posed together look pieced or cut out and pasted together. This is also translated to the text, where some is contained within a cut out white box.

Thank You Jonah Lynch

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05/21/2014 Top Pick; The Shadow on The Moon

Tim Burton meets Steven Spielberg in this delightful mash-up. Come out boys and girls of every age and see something strange in the town of Halloween! This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Jack magically flies with his good pal Zero in front of a huge glowing moon. I am really drawn to the enlarged moon. It is bright, round, and placed dead center acting like a bullseye for the design. Jack and Zero are nicely contained within the large nicely textured moon giving them full attention. The scene below is calm, evenly textured, and simple so as to leave the attention on the characters within the moon. I really enjoy the details of the bicycle. The spider web spokes of the wheels and the pumpkin basket are finely rendered. If Jack rode a bicycle this is definitely the one he would ride.

Thank You Wirdou

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05/21/2014 Top Pick; Daikaiju

Wooooow! This was my exact reaction during this scene in the movie. We see something light up bright blue, then rapidly the light trails upward and blasts out of Godzilla’s mouth! This was probably my favorite part of the film! This design nicely portrays this event. The bright blue blast was jaw dropping! (especially for the giant Muto!). It’s okay, most people don’t laugh at my jokes! Godzilla’s upward radioactive fire-breathing pose is epic and well rendered. I enjoy how the artist added the blue gradation on the monster’s body giving it texture and also helps show how the blast builds up from within and erupts upward. The large and bold block glyphs fit nicely with this large bold giant. The glyphs also seem to resemble the large broken down building in the midst of the destruction. Love it!

Thank You InkOne

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05/21/2014 Top Pick; Electric Type

PIKA!!! This design is electrifyingly (yes, I made that word up) awesome! Pikachu is glowing as he powers up for an attack! The cloudy yellow color bellows within the body creating a wonderful texture while setting a nice backdrop for the brighter thin bolts. The bright bolts make up most of the outline which gives Pikachu a radiating electric static appearance. While this design looks simple in a monotone yellow on black, the textures make this design positively explosive!

Thank You StevenLefcourt

Buy This Shirt! Electric Type

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05/20/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 21, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

Ouch, that’s right folks, only ONE design today! I had another in mind, but it has already been taken down. C’est la vie!

05/19/14 Top 2 Pick; Armored Maiden: The Hunter

Watch out Mother Brain! Samus is back and badder than ever! This hunter definitely knows how to Rock & Roll (wink wink, nudge nudge). Incredible action hero pose. I really enjoy how the composition really holds true to the original Iron Maiden cover. The design has been mostly contained within a circle in order to translate it cleanly into a shirt design. Still, the pose, scene, and fonts are spot on. This armored damsel looks like she really kicked ass during this battle. Standing up, flag in hand, and walking over a mountain of fallen opponents. Wonderful detail placed on the structure and appearance of the armor. I really enjoy the torn, jagged flag and the smoke still bellowing out of the arm cannon. The combination of warm oranges and reds with the cool blues are nicely matched up in similar earth tones harmoniously uniting the color palette.

Thank You NinjaInk

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6 available design at blueboxtee.com

This design is available at Once Upon A Tee & ShirtMogul

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Available at Zebra Tees!

Remember: Designs by human is matching Zerobriant Designs Fan Page‘s royalties for the remainder of May to raise money for his surgery.

05/19/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 20, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

Hello loyal readers! I’m shaking things up a bit today so bear with me…

So I only picked 2 shirt designs today. I am changing it up a little because no other design really caught my attention. Going forward I will be posting only the daily designs which truly captivate me so I can give them their due. I don’t want to be stuck with a rigid 3 design quota, and this allows me more wiggle room. I hope you enjoy!

05/19/14 Top 2 Pick; Boba The Animated Series

Have you noticed all the Star Wars and Batman designs lately? Well here’s a little of both. The lone bounty hunter stands tall, surveying the scene. Wonderful, strong silhouette stands surrounded by warm copper tones and cool glowing blue details. Boba’s armor, jetpack, and cape cast a strikingly similar silhouette to Batman, which fits nicely. I really enjoy the brown copper color which I feel I rarely see paired with that bright blue. The contrast of these two colors gives the design dimension. As a designer, it is always fun to try different color combinations. Sometimes they work and unfortunately sometimes they don’t. I think this color combination was a success, I’ll have to store it in my color combo memory bank.

Thank You Nicko Designs

Buy This Shirt! Boba The Animated Series

05/19/14 Top 2 Pick; Frosty Flakes

Cool down this summer with Elsa and Shirt Punch. These Frosty Flakes are Grrrrrreat! and magically delicious! Wonderful, well-balanced composition. I love the variation of color and thickness of the outlines. Elsa’s large bright eyes and wind-swept braided hair looks well rendered. The rest of the design consists of a wintry background with snowflakes for a well-rounded composition with depth. I greatly enjoy the snowflake cut out shape that helps the figure’s cape transition to the shirt. Yes, I do catch these small details, and I love them!

Thank You GillesBone

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This design is available at Once Upon A Tee, Designs by Human & ShirtMogul

Remember: Designs by human is matching Zerobriant Designs Fan Page‘s royalties for the remainder of May to raise money for his surgery.

Available at Zebra Tees!

05/16/2014 – 05/18/2014 GODZILLA WEEKEND!

May 18, 2014May 18, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

GODZILLA WEEKEND!

*WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the newly released Godzilla movie. Readers beware!

Okay, let me preface this pseudo-review by letting you know this was the first Godzilla movie I’ve ever seen. Okay, OKAY stop yelling at me! I know! The big lizard just hasn’t been on my radar until this year. The trailer looked good and all the shirt designs lately had me excited to see what this new movie had to offer!

First of all, I can’t talk about the movie without mentioning my favorite human characters, Dr. Ichiro (Ken Watanabe) and Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston). I very much enjoyed the scientist perspective showing the history of what we encountered leading up to the events of the film. The scene in Japan with Walter White err I mean Bryan Cranston was heartbreaking and set the stage for the human motivation of the film. Both of these characters made me care about the story and had me emotionally invested. Let me also give a small shout out to the writer for not portraying the military as the cold, hard-line prick stereotype, especially Admiral Stenz (David Strathairn). As it became increasingly clear humanity was not in control of the monsters, he began to put his faith in Dr. Ichiro’s belief of Godzilla as “Earth’s protector”. It was nice to have a sympathetic and non-butthead guy in charge for a change right?

Okay, so Walter White err I mean Bryan Cranston’s death was very surprising to me. I definitely did not see that coming. It made sense from the perspective of the story they were telling, including the 15 year time jump, but I was still shocked to see arguably the biggest star in the film die so early. At that point, the focus shifts to his son whose name I can’t remember (the guy from Kick Ass). I really like that actor, but his performance felt stiff and awkward at times. So if I have a nitpick, it was this shift in narrative focus. The son’s family was cookie cut right out of every disaster movie you’ve ever seen. The military dad, the wife/girlfriend nurse, and the kid who just wants to see his dad. I would have enjoyed the movie more if the story went on more of a “Walter White err I mean Bryan Cranston help’s save the world and get revenge for his wife arc”.

So how awesome was Godzilla himself!? I totally got caught in the misdirection the film set up. Maybe because I hadn’t seen a Godzilla movie before? I was totally caught off guard when the initial monster reveal was not Godzilla. I am vaguely aware of the Godzilla universe and that there is a monster named Mothra, however. I really enjoyed the easter egg of the Mothra tank in the quarantine zone. Very cool!

The monster designs were one of my favorite aspects of the movie. I can’t count the number of times I jumped when a monster came out of nowhere or made a noise. So intense! I very much enjoyed the build-up to the final stand-off at the end. I especially enjoyed the way Godzilla “powered up” and “atomic blasts” the Muto’s. I think I might have said “holy shit!” out loud when it happened! It was a super cool moment and one I definitely wasn’t expecting as a Godzilla newbie. And that final kill-shot of the female Muto was freaking epic! It was reminiscent of the T-Rex scene from the end of the first Jurassic Park movie. Sent chills down my spine and my fists pumping in the air!!! I can definitely call myself a Godzilla fan now :).

Overall I’d recommend you check out Godzilla even if you’re a newbie like me. While you’re at the movies this weekend, be sure to check out all the AMAZING Godzilla shirt available this week!

“RISING KAIJU” – Thank You Ddjvigo (only available one day)

“Incoming Natural Disaster” – Thank You Brandon Wilhelm

“Kaiju Alpha” – Thank you Pigboom

“Monster Island” – Thank You Austin James

“My Neighbor Gojira” – Thank You BeastPop

“Red Lizard” – Thank You Zerobriant

“San Francisco” – Thank You Baznet

“The Rising Kaiju” – Thank You Ddjvigo

“The Last King” – Thank You Ddjvigo

05/16/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 16, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/16/14 Top 3 Pick; All Work and No Play…

Instead of the infamous “Here’s Johnny!” scene from The Shining, we have a another significant scene depicted straight from the film. Jack Torrance is watching his family outside the hotel with a 1,000-yard stare. You begin to see his descent into madness. I enjoy how Jack Nickolson is portrayed in detail using small blocks of text. The blocks of text create a disturbed, heather texture due to the small positive and negative spaces. It creates visual static of noise which justly fits the demented state of Jack Torrance in The Shining. I love the font selected for the type. It is a typewriter machine style font. I can almost hear Jack’s insane click click click of his repetitive typing “All work no play makes Jack a dull boy”.

Thank You bennygraphix

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05/16/14 Top 3 Pick; This is MY Room!

Super cute design. This little man is ready to defend his territory from what goes bump in the night. He heroically holds up his sword ready to attack, but also holds on tight to his teddy bear companion. I love how the artist makes that doorway glow! By using the bright green and blues as an outline around the figures and door they almost magically pop off the screen. The artist also nicely varies the thick thin ratio of the figure to give them more or less light, adding dimension and shape to the characters.

Thank You Patrickspens

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05/16/14 Top 3 Pick; X-Ten

I remember not too long ago, going to the movie theater and falling in love with the new X-Men: Days of Future Past movie posters. The poster and concept were striking and I also greatly enjoy the X-Men movies. It also doesn’t hurt that I love James McAvoy! This idea also nicely translates for Dr. Who. This is a wonderful combination of both Doctors. Having one face appear within another face nicely depicts transformation. It also nicely shows the change in time period of an individual being. I also love how appealing and enthralling the bright blue monotones in dynamic angles appear on top of the grayscale image.

Thank You ZEROBRIANT

Buy This Shirt! X-Ten

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There are 6 Awesome ZEROBRIANT shirts available this week at Blue Box Tees!

“Red Lizard” – ZEROBRIANT shirt available this week at Once Upon A Tee!

“Touch Darkness” – ZEROBRIANT shirt available this week at Zebra Tees!

Also Design By Humans is matching Zerobriant Designs Fan Page‘s royalties for the remainder of May to raise money for his surgery.

Help keep this awesome artist designing by checking out his DBH Store here – http://bit.ly/ZeroBriantFB

05/15/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 16, 2014May 16, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/15/14 Top 3 Pick; Waiting For Alice

Wonderful use of beautiful silhouettes. The various compiled textures used to create the field of color are interesting and curious. The bright teal, gradation, and texture give it a fantasy or other worldly appearance. The Cheshire Cat is the only thing depicted in another color. The bright purple definitely pops and is appealing giving the design a little variety.

Thank You Ed Woody

Buy This Shirt! Waiting for Alice – also while you are on the site buying this shirt remember to vote for this awesome artist’s other design on Qwertee!

05/15/14 Top 3 Pick; Heroes

Awesome silhouettes! This design makes me feel like eating a slice of pizza; just leave off the anchovies! Each anthropomorphic turtle is divided up in to their own color slice. Each is rendered with their weapon of choice in an action pose. All four colors work well together. I love that each color sprays or splatter out of each frame. I also very much enjoy the slanted hatching on the corners of each frame giving the design complexity and a rough, in-motion quality to each Ninja Turtle. Cowabunga!

Thank You Tom Trager (one of my faves)

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05/15/14 Top 3 Pick; The Big Friend

Guess what? More awesome silhouettes! Wonderful rich textures fill this design creating great positive space for the negative space figures. I enjoy the details in the smaller side image. I really enjoy the teal tones used giving the design a misty, magical nighttime quality. The Totoro spirit looms large over the girl, watching from the woods awaiting a magical adventure.

Thank You Kharmazero

Buy This Shirt! The Big Friend

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“Red Lizard” – Awesome ZEROBRIANT shirt available this week at Once Upon A Tee!

“Touch Darkness”

Awesome ZEROBRIANT shirt available this week at Zebra Tees!

Also Design By Humans is matching Zerobriant Designs Fan Page‘s royalties for the remainder of May to raise money for his surgery.

Help keep this awesome artist designing by checking out his DBH Store here – http://bit.ly/ZeroBriantFB

05/14/2014 Top 3 Pick – Daily Shirt Designs

May 14, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/14/14 Top 3 Pick: First Shot

ATTITUDE! Both Han and Rocket are a shoot first ask questions later kind of guys. Rendered here in a tough, “cool guy” slouch, Rocket looks relaxed and nonchalant. Of course, hidden below this calm demeanor is his pistol pointed straight at its victim. I love his well illustrated raccoon face and his highly expressive eyes. The bold blocks and rough outlines of the letter forms justly fit the tough guy persona of both characters. I also really enjoy how the bright yellow of the fire really stands out against the earth tones of this design. And yes George Lucas, Han shot first!

Thank You CS3INK

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05/14/14 Top 3 Pick: The TARDIS Zone

Surprise! I picked a Dr. Who shirt! Weird huh!? Tah dah, tah dah, tah dah, tah dah (that was my best onomatopoeia of the show’s intro music). I really enjoy this clever mash-up. Exploring space and time, the Tardis could definitely be in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Nice, simple outline of the tardis floating through space. Wonderful translation of the letter forms including: the odd-shaped serifs, various baselines, x-heights, and shifting letter axis. As you guys know, I am a sucker for typography and black and white designs!

Thank You Drew Wise

Buy This Shirt! The TARDIS Zone

05/14/14 Top 3 Pick: It’s Hip To Be Square

It is hip to be square, in a pixellated digital world! I love the angle in which this design is presented. It works great for the little 3-d objects and block letter forms. All the little objects seem to shift planes which make them appear in motion. Having the design be in simple black, white, and bright magenta definitely helps give it a digital appearance.

Thank You Manos

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“Touch Darkness”

Awesome ZEROBRIANT shirt available this week at Zebra Tees!

Also Design By Humans is matching Zerobriant Designs Fan Page‘s royalties for the remainder of May to raise money for his surgery.

Help keep this awesome artist designing by checking out his DBH Store here – http://bit.ly/ZeroBriantFB

05/13/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 13, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/13/14 Top 3 Pick: Poke Fighter II

This shirt is a KO! I guess this is the next evolution of fighters. Awesome collection of mashed up characters featuring the original eight “World Warriors”: Ryu, Ken, Guile, Zangief, Dhalsim, Chun-Li, Blanka, and E. Honda. The little figures are nicely placed together in their action pose. Each Pokémon figure nicely emulates a Street Fighter through their outfits or hair style. Blanka/Pikachu is a particular standout. Great solid bold colors and heavy bold lines. I enjoy the combination of both franchises’ fonts to create this hybrid bold block title.

Thank You Louis Wulwick

Buy This Shirt! Poke Fighter II

05/13/14 Top 3 Pick: Sailor Team

Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus. Sailor Moon and her fellow guardians are all here in a bold team pose. These magical teenage heroines are depicted in a simple silhouette in front of a big bright moon, almost like “Bond” girls or “Charlie’s Angels”. Their elegant bodies with long legs and arms are nicely portrayed together as a team. I love that the combination of the colorful, space-like background and the large, round moon have a nice “James Bond” opening credits quality.

Thank You Ed Woody

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05/13/14 Top 3 Pick: Nosferatu Scooby

Like zoinks! The spooky and iconic Nosferatu shadow scene with a comical twist. This monotone design portrays the mysterious vampire’s shadow lurking behind two of the Mystery Machine’s members. Shaggy and Scooby seem to slink up the stair, frightened as usual with the long-nailed monster in pursuit. I enjoy the wonderful well-shaped dark silhouettes in the dim-lit scene. The simple lines and angles elegantly reveal a staircase. This design is nicely contained within a circular vignette to show the light source revealing the shadows.

Thank You Six Eyed Monster

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05/12/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/12/14 Top 3 Pick; No Love

Some of my favorite shirts are ones with subtle video game references. Something a non-gamer might not look at twice. Mario himself is not present and neither are Princess Peach or Bowser, who is only referenced in name. Interesting tattoo style design. The composition is packed with many components which are all nicely balanced. The X-shaped pipes in the background radiate outward while the light-colored wings in the center help unite and brighten the design. The dagger stabs the center and serves as a focal point to lead the eye to the text wrapped around the banner. I very much enjoy having the text incorporated and wrapped around the design instead of having it float elsewhere. Interesting use of a red turtle shell in the center with the dagger instead of the usual heart.

Thank You BeastPop

Buy This Shirt! No Love

05/12/14 Top 3 Pick; Fight Like A Woman

Who said girls can’t be tough? This strong superheroine, portrayed in a lovely rose shade, is ready to put up a good fight. The silhouette is easily recognizable as Wonder Woman by portraying her arm cuffs, head bead, and long curled locks. The letter forms in the foreground are large, bold, and extended creating a wide wall of letters which the figure’s arms look ready to break down. I very much enjoy the placement of the pink breast cancer ribbon within the letter forms. It snugly fits on top of the negative areas and is outlined slightly thinner which help prevent it from clashing with the letter.

Thank You Teeminus24

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05/12/14 Top 3 Pick; Genesis

SEGA! This detailed info-graphic of this retro console is nicely laid out. The first generation of the Genesis console is on display and not the later models. Fun fact, the Genesis is known as the Mega Drive in some parts of the world! The thin white lines on a dark background have a CAD like quality. The components are nicely organized and unified. The controllers are placed in a yin-yang format. The adapter and cables both are laid in a tall rectangular shape around the wide rectangular game cartridge. I enjoy the little labels and arrows pointed to various parts adding different layers of information. This shirt makes me want to bust out Sonic & Knuckles, Streets of Rage 2, and all the other 16-bit classics!

Thank You Melee Ninja

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05/10/2014 & 05/11/2014 Once Upon A Tee: Review

May 11, 2014May 11, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

Once Upon A Tee is a weekly t-shirt site which offers designs for 7 days, unlike the daily sites. Once Upon A Tee offers a collection of designs which are usually part of a theme or franchise instead of the daily design model. You can either buy the whole lot for a reduced price, or pick any individual designs that catch your eye. Each design is something an independent artist created and submitted. Because of this, the styles and subjects can vary wildly and add to the excitement of buying these unique shirts. Once Upon A Tee offers their shirts in 3 styles: Men’s, Women’s, and Youth. They also offer hoodies, phone cases, and mouse pads if that’s your thing.

I recently purchased Tom Trager’s “Justice” design from them and I was thrilled when it arrived! Ordering my Women’s style shirt was a cinch. Creating an account takes only a minute of your time or you can simply check out as a guest. They conveniently offer payment via PayPal or major credit card. I recommend creating an account in order to accumulate “Rupees”, a form of currency which can be redeemed later for a discount on future orders!

I placed my order on April 20^th and the shirt was shipped on April 26^th. That’s 6 business days to print and ship the shirt which seems about right. From there, USPS snail mail took 4 business days to arrive at my doorstep. That’s 9 business days from purchase, to shirt-in-hand. My experience may have been faster than usual because I ordered my shirt on the last day of availability. Your time may vary based on when you order. If you order as soon as the design goes up, you’ll have to wait for the week to end before the printing process begins. Just a fair warning!

Now, onto the shirt itself.

First off, Once Upon A Tee did an extremely good job separating the ink colors. Each color seems to have been printed where each color was intended. I don’t see any unintentional bleeding of the colors or smudges. The edges are clean and crisp. The lines are even and straight. The colors themselves turned out very, VERY close to the digital image of the design. This is very impressive considering colors may vary from one screen to another. The half tones used in the background turned out very fine in the shirt. Last but not least, the output does look like Chris Evans!

The shirt used for the print is a Gildan brand “Ultra Cotton” tee, 100% cotton composition. The women’s medium fit me just fine. It was “straight cut” and not tapered like some women’s shirts. This leads to a somewhat loose but comfortable fit. Perfect for lounging around the house, showing off to your friends, or maybe even fighting crime!

My only nitpick or regret is I didn’t order the hoodie too! I love this design!

In the end, Once Upon A Tee is a fantastic site for patrons and artists alike. They offer many different designers an opportunity to share their work for an extended period of time and deliver those designs faithfully to their customers. If you’re on the fence about purchasing from this site, I highly recommend you do so. Once Upon A Tee didn’t just sell me a shirt, they ensured I would enjoy my purchase happily ever after!

05/09/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Design

May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

05/09/14 Top 3 Pick; Sherlock Skull

Bright and appealing royal blue color behind a simplified black and white image. Although the figure is rendered in high contrast, there is a great amount of detail portrayed through textures and forms. This is especially evident in the well-formed human skull. I really enjoy the “Sherlock” hidden in the folds and curves of the figure’s garment. I also very much enjoy the use of the chemical molecules, gears, and binary in the background to create a wonderful, interesting texture. It also adds nice complexity which represents the figure’s mental processes. Brilliant!

Thank You Zerobriant!!!

Buy This Shirt! Sherlock Skull

While you’re enjoying this design, please check out Zerobriant‘s website and help out if you can. Remember, you can help by donating, purchasing a design, or even just spreading the word! Thank you!

05/09/14 Top 3 Pick; SeaWheaties

What to have for breakfast? “…Life’s full of tough choices isn’t it?” The evil Sea Witch would like for all you poor unfortunate souls to start your day off right! Wonderful render of this aquatic villain. Her curling, bright purple tentacles pull you in while her open reaching hands seem to go to grab you for a taste of these yummy treats. I love that her large voluptuous arms break the rectangular frame of the design. The treatment of the larger text is interesting and dynamic due to the angle in which it is in and looks great behind a well-balanced, symmetrical foreground. Ursula is not responsible for any injury or status you may incur including: loss of voice, new legs, your father’s wrath, or true love’s first kiss.

Thank You Gilles Bone

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05/09/14 Top 3 Pick; DaMasks

This damask print is covered in masks! Is this design available for wallpaper? Wonderful pattern full of lovely little details. I love how at first glance the design seems so simple and elegant, then under careful inspection, you discover it is filled with lovely and nerdy masks from all over pop culture! Each mask is delicately treated and placed nicely in a grid. I very much enjoy that each mask is portrayed using only two colors and still contains enough detail to be easy recognized. Can you name them all?

Thank You Fishbiscuit

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