04/06/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

April 7, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

04/06/14 Top 3 Pick; Boats ‘N ‘Hoes

Check out this once in a lifetime opportunity! “Investors? Possibly you!” Pay close attention to this design, it might look familiar… Great bright summer/beach time design. The design looks like a still from a rapper’s video.

Thank You Five Finger Tees

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04/06/14 Top 3 Pick; Sliced

Walkers and Governors beware, this is one tough girl you don’t want to cross! Wonderful sword action. The swooshing katana and the blood following are nicely shown in bloody brown tones.

Thank You whiskysteaks

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04/06/14 Top 3 Pick; Welcome to Cloud City

It’s not hard to imagine Lando Calrissian settling down and starting a family in Cloud City after the (Star) Wars. Maybe work a 9 to 5 for Mr. Spacely and his sprockets. The design is nicely stylized with solid shapes and clean lines. From George’s appearance, to the cloud shapes, and the Millenium design, you can see the obvious styles of The Jetsons.

Thank You djkopet

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04/05/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

April 6, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

04/05/2014 Top 3 Pick; 321-Let’s Jam

The 8-bit adventures of the Bebop and crew would definitely have been a NES classic! I’m sorry Cowboy, but your bounty is in another castle! Wonderful pixelized render of Spike. The type in an upward angle makes the design dynamic.

Thank You Pacalin

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04/05/2014 Top 3 Pick; Gizbo

What wonderfully nostalgic 80’s mash up! To survive war, Gizmo must become war just like John Rambo. You definitely want Gizbo on your side when the Gremlins take over your office building! This little guy looks cute and ready to fire. The design is simple, clean and has nice bold outlines.

Thank You Zacly

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04/05/2014 Top 3 Pick; La Kill

Ryuko looks ready to fight! Wonderful dark silhouette figure balanced by the big bold red. The design is full of interesting angles created by Asian characters.

Thank You lighting-bolt

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04/04/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

April 4, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

04/04/2014 Top 3 Pick; Beyond The Wall

Are you ready for the premiere this Sunday? I am!!! Here we have Jon and Ghost manning the wall with the Night’s Watch. Everything seems calm but “Winter is coming”. The white walker looms large overhead, the threat beyond the wall. All of this is contained in a wonderful oval composition. Nice icy whites and light blues on a navy background. Interesting use of negative and positive space.

Thank You Once Upon A Tee

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04/04/2014 Top 3 Pick; Through The Fire

This one would be pleased to wear this shirt. The mother of dragons and breaker of chains. The Unburnt. Daenerys Stormborn. Surrounded by her Dragons (Viserion, Rhaegal, and Drogon), Dany looks like “a simple girl who knows little of war”. However, the ranks of Unsullied in the background show her true nature as a force to be reckoned with. Watch out Mereen! The composition of the design surrounds the center figure, visually giving her importance. I enjoy the various sizes of the dragons giving them the effect of flight. Wonderful use of warm, arid colors on a maroon background with a refreshing touch of sky blue.

Thank You Once Upon A Tee

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04/04/2014 Top 3 Pick; Red Queen

This formal and strict governess is ready for a game of chess. The artist’s different sinister approach to the infamous red queen is stunning. Her beautiful facial features and the wonderful details to her garment and headdress are prim and proper. Justly fit with baroque style background. You’ll lose you head over this design!

Thank You MedusaDollMaker

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04/03/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

April 3, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

04/03/14 Top 3 Pick; L’Opera Della Diva

Tall… b-b-blue… With this shirt, you too can be the winner of the Gemini Croquette contest! This realistic render of the Diva has amazing details. The beautiful blue tones flesh out this elegant foreign body. The antiquated yellow and gold on the nouveau background gives the design a wonderful old opera house aesthetic. Bravo!

Thank You Penguinstein

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04/03/14 Top 3 Pick; Antique Adventurer

Warning! Do not look directly at this design for too long or you might suffer the same fate from Raiders of the Lost Ark. This design is face-meltingly awesome! The jungle print background is visually intriguing. Indiana Jones’ silhouette is handled in two different poses but both flow organically on one another. His bright orange sidekick in the foreground brings out the orange tones in the upper part of the design, making the eyes venture around.

Thank You Arinesart

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04/03/14 Top 3 Pick; The Great Fox Four

Fox, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy are all here. There’s no other team I’d rather fly with into an asteroid field! Wonderful use of color to create depth of field. The use of that bright yellow jumps out against the blues. The line work in the design is beautiful and humanist. Just don’t forget to do a barrel roll!

Thank You Nicole Martin

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04/02/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

April 2, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

04/02/14 Top 3 Pick; X-MON

This must be Professor Oak’s School for Gifted Poketrainers! Pikachu is doing his/her best Storm impression and Squirtle is a perfect fit for the brash, young Bobby Drake (aka Iceman). The different elements are shown in action and a wonderful dynamic composition. Rendered in solid bright colors with bold outlines, the design is captivating.

Thank You Harebrained

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04/02/14 Top 3 Pick; Charface

As Tony Montana said, “Say goodnight to the bad guy”. Actually, don’t go to bed at all with this creepy mash up! The design contains a very clever tagline combining both subject matter. The high contrast is alarming. The figures bright white knife fingers on the stark black background is intense. Wonderful use of textures, from the scary melting burned face to worn, ragged sweater.

Thank You Mephias

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04/02/14 Top 3 Pick; Free Gyarados

Remember all those hours you’d spend grinding your Magikarp knowing it would all be worth it in the end? You’d get the awesome Gyrados for all your trouble and that definitely felt like a whale of a challenge! Epic dynamic composition. This design contains a wonderful upward motion due to the wave and side spray. The creature captures most of the attention by being portrayed in detail over the simple figure in silhouette.

Thank You ADHO1982

04/01/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

April 1, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

04/01/14 Top 3 Pick; Titan

Remember the original Titan, Andre the Giant? This design is a wonderful callback to the original Fairey “Obey” design. The Titan’s face is large and close up. It’s rendered in solid outlines, in a grayscale color palette. The bold red box stands out on the gray head. The design is squarely contained in a large tall rectangle demanding to by obeyed.

Thank You Buzatron

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04/01/14 Top 3 Pick; Rabbit Hole

“You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” Okay, this isn’t a mash up with The Matrix but the reference still seemed appropriate because the red in this design really pops! This dream like design features a sweet large white bunny, with a big soft round eye. The gentleman rabbit wears a detailed fabric garment complete with a pocket watch. The white roses seem to drip with red paint. Meanwhile, the interesting winding thorny tendrils pull you in.

Thank You MedusaDollymaker

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04/01/14 Top 3 Pick; Inspector Spacetime

Looks like I can finally pick a Doctor Who shirt without having to talk about a Doctor Who shirt! This handsome design is actually a reference to a Doctor Who parody from the tv show, Community. I enjoy the star-space texture on the figure’s suit. The design contains nice, fine outlines around the space texture and gears to create a deco style background. The tall, serif letter forms fit nicely with the design. The blue and gold tones make this design stand out.

Thank You Violinsane

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03/31/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

March 31, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

03/31/14 Top 3 Pick; Dreaming Of Electric Shreep (sic)

The answer to the age old question posed by Philip K. Dick. The novel would later be adapted into the better known film, Blade Runner. The artist nicely depicts the book title by using cute round figures. The artist effectively portrays the android logo as a sleeping figure while keeping it recognizable by use of form and color.

Thank You TeeTurtle

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03/31/14 Top 3 Pick; Rock, Man!

Remember that 80’s metal band, Mega Man? Well, maybe it was a video game but this shirt definitely rocks! For those in the dark, Mega Man was originally known as Rock Man in Japan (of the Roll variety). Awesome pixel design. I love the large scale of the typography in the foreground. The extreme angles in the letter forms and gradation give it a totally 80’s appearance.

Thank You BiggStankDogg

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03/31/14 Top 3 Pick; Direwolf Winter Lager

Dorne can keep their wine, give me beer! I can just imagine the barrels fermenting in the crypts beneath Winterfell with all the Stark ancestors. The design is clean and uses a single color on a gray background. The old style etching quality and the organic forms on the sides of the design give it a beer label appearance. Remember to Drink Responsibly!

Thank You BustedTees

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03/30/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

March 31, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

03/30/14 Top 3 Pick; The Big Tourist

Chuck Palahniuk — ‘Marla’s philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn’t.’ I know you’re not supposed to talk about it, but I have to break the first two rules of Fight Club! Instead of the Narrator/Tyler, we have his morbid counterpart and link to reality, Marla. The use of a somber color palette visually conveys her mood. The out of focus background expresses her lack of interest to her surrounding world. Her face is wonderfully translated in the graphic novel style using varying lines and halftones.

Thank You Halfmoth

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03/30/14 Top 3 Pick; Hunter’s Moon

This warrior is ready to hunt. This is an interesting combination of the Predator warrior as an asian style samurai warrior. Wonderful use of brush strokes to create the figure. I very much enjoy the target symbol of the Predator as the red signature at the bottom right corner. The predator glyphs also very much resemble asian characters, adding a nice touch and balance to the composition.

Thank You Qwertee

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03/30/14 Top 3 Pick; Billy The Mad King

What do we say to the god of death? NOT TODAY! Or maybe today? This shirt is available only today! Awesome details revealed from the inter green glow. wonderful bilateral symmetry composition. The shading is smooth using different green tones with a hint of yellow, especially around the enthralling eyes holes.

Thank You Phillymar

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03/29/2014 Top 3 Pick- Daily Shirt Designs

March 29, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

03/29/14 Top 3 Pick; Adventure Bike

Embrace your inner man-child with this awesome retro mash up! Just watch out for your arch nemesis, they just might try to steal your shirt! Loners and rebels only! Awesome pixelated look with the use of bold primary colors. The artist adds interest by adding game label components such as the seal and series.

Thank You MikeHandyArt

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03/29/14 Top 3 Pick; Ink Face

A deviously clever Rorschach test! No Face is here to reflect back your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Will you corrupt him with your bath house greed? Or impasse your charity and kindness like Chihiro? The nice dark soot balls come together in this design. The dark ink in contrast to the white background is stark and creates an organic negative space.

Thank You Dr. Simon Butler

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03/29/14 Top 3 Pick; Frozen Kombat

Elsa looks like she’s ready to leap directly into Outworld! Stay on her good side or else you might end up on the wrong side of her Friendship as a snow man! Interesting background filled with crystal shapes and snowflakes. The figure is in a midair “S” pose waving her magical hands.

Thank You Shiny

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03/28/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

March 28, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

03/28/14 Top 3 Pick; Biotropolis

Andrew Ryan’s worst nightmare! A wonderful dystopian mash up. Just as Freder had to journey under the ground to learn the ugly truth of his city, so too does the audience of Bioshock go under the sea. The elongated design with the figure at the bottom mimics the depths to which the characters go through. The geometric, art deco style is justly used to convey both subject matter. I enjoy the warm antique gold tones on the black background. The typography uses cut out, angular shapes again tying both subject matter up nicely.

Thank You Jak_Gibberish

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03/28/14 Top 3 Pick; Falling Snowflakes

The shirt illuminates Elsa, The Ice Queen’s magic. The impressive glow effect achieved by the contrast of the bright blues against the dark background is incredible. I greatly enjoy the out of focus snowflakes represented by lighter circles floating in the mid-ground and background. Her cape has a nice dynamic pose defined out of the negative space. Else’s pose is interesting, as the figure is facing away and looking back. The glow around her head keeps the focus on her.

Thank You TeeTurtle

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03/28/14 Top 3 Pick; We Can Build It

Wyldstyle the MasterBuilder is doing her best Rosie the Riveter impression here. A classic design that translates well into Wyldstyle’s bold attitude and gender breaking perception. The combination of bright bold colors, and thick lines nicely renders her strength.

Thank You Drew Wise

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03/27/2014 Top 3 Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

03/27/14 Top 3 Pick; Snow Organa

This Disney Princess is ready to take a bite out of this apple. The artist did an amazing job rendering this beauty with delicate folds in her garment and detailed twist texture in her hair. The figure is framed in a simple oval design with small content references. I enjoy this design on this light gray color but it is also offered in purple and blue.

Thank You khallion

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03/27/14 Top 3 Pick; The Guardian

Lulu looks lovely! This black mage looks sultry with large enthralling eyes. The high level of detail in the figure’s face and frame is exquisite. Although the frame is complex, with many little elements, Lulu remains the focal point. The radiating background within the frame makes her glow, glorifying the figure.

Thank You Omega Man 5000 and Megan Lara

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03/27/14 Top 3 Pick; Gun Club

Target you attention to this design. These two pals are portrayed in a ready for action dynamic pose. The figures are contained in a target symbol, which is repeated in the design. I enjoy the details on the figures. Especially the bark like texture on Groot and Rocket’s red eyes. The typography in the foreground is wonderfully treated. The letter forms fit nicely together and the use of the gun metal grays make the design cohesive.

Thank You ccourts1

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03/26/2014 Top 3 Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

March 26, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

03/26/14 Top 3 Pick; Back to the Future Past

Looks like Logan is about to head back in time to save us all, 88 mph style! I think it’s safe to say the future is in worse shape than the Earth’s gravitational pull – heavy! Don’t pass off on this shirt. Offered in tahiti blue, charchoal, and silver I enjoy the blue option most. Visually, I enjoy the warm tones againt the cool blues. Pleasant color block shapes and bold shading in a wonderful bubble composition. Interesting selection of the artist to protray Wolverine as the comic book version, rather than the live-action Hugh Jackman. This decision lends beautifully to positioning the figure in a similar pose to Marty with his hands on his head looking down at the time.

Thank You Strongstuff

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03/26/14 Top 3 Pick; Another Titan in The Wall

“All in all we’re just another brick in Wall Rose“. Well, maybe that’s not the exact lyric but it fits this clever design! Something tells me these Titans wouldn’t care too much for pudding but would certainly eat their share of meat (human that is). Awesome white shirt design! While not very common, the design does a nice job of using the white background. It looks clean with thin delicate lines to represent the bricks of the wall. The warm flesh tones in contrast, appear to peak from the center. The wrinkles on the skinless Titan creates a different texture against the flat white. The use of simple perspective gives the effect that there is a Titan in the wall, behind the bricks and ready to break out from the shirt.

Thank You CatchABrick

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03/26/14 Top 3 Pick; The Shindig Dress

Shiny! Even nerdy girls can dream, right? Kaylee is a gearhead at heart but that won’t stop her from playing the part! The figure is easily recognized wearing her jumpsuit and looks ready to play dress-up. The pink dress is wonderfully detailed with many folds and creases. The figure stands in a minimal background, although enough information is given to provide reference. This nicely keeps the focal point on the figure and the dress. The artist creates visual interest by using the mirror to reveal the front of dress and Kaylee’s face.

Thank You Karen Hallion

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