02/17/2015 Top Pick – Daily Shirt Designs

February 18, 2015 | jjlockhartdesign

It’s a Snow Day here in VA! The ground is covered in nice white powder. Time to blog! What better way to spend the time indoors? Luckily there are two designs today that captured my interest 🙂

2/17/15 Top Pick; Son Of Hell

Composition – Nice simple bilateral symmetry. The round plate in the background nicely unites the two smoking guns in the foreground.

Color – I really enjoy the monochromatic reds with the limited cream color highlights.

Lines & Forms – Wonderful lines and forms in the details of the guns. I also really enjoy the geometry in the round plate. Hellboy’s face looks rough and is nicely highlighted by the thin brighter red lines.

Thank You Fernando Sala

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2/17/15 Top Pick; Project 626

Composition – Awesome radial symmetry. The many limbs and weapons nicely balance around the center. I really enjoy the light blue icon and text on the bottom of the design. It pulls the eye downward, stabilizes, and completes the design.

Color – Nice mix of warm and cool colors. I especially like the glow added around the entire design. For example, the light reflecting from Stitch’s nose, weapons, and even background.

Lines & Forms – Clean line work. I really like the dark and light outline around Stitch. It makes him glow and stand out from the busy round background.

Thank You Emilie B

She is one of my favs! Make sure to follow/like her on Facebook. She aways has awesome stuff on her page!

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02/06/2015 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

February 6, 2015April 2, 2016 | jjlockhartdesign

2/6/15 Top Pick; La Fille Du Feu

Lines & Forms – Wonderful organic lines and forms. Beautiful negative shapes in the frame. I really enjoy the 2D and 3D play. While the female form and drape look dimensional, the negative breaks in the frame flatten the image.

Colors – Wonderful variation of soft earth tones.

Thank You Megan Lara!

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01/21/2015 Top Picks; Daily Shirt Designs

January 21, 2015January 21, 2015 | jjlockhartdesign

1/21/15 Top Pick; Dark City

Composition – Wonderful play with positive and negative space. Like most of Kharmazero’s designs, it is composed of simple dark or negative space against a wash of exciting color as the positive space. I love that this designer is not afraid of stark contrast and he utilizes it wonderfully.

Color – The contrasting light and dark colors nicely develop the design. The radiating reds, yellows, and oranges create an attractive field for the dark city landscape.

Thank You Kharmazero

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1/21/15 Top Pick; Never Say Die

Lines & Forms – What a beauty! This designer’s female figures are breathtakingly gorgeous with an easily recognizable style. I love the thick wavy strips of hair. His typical big eyed beauties never fail to impress. I absolutely love the thick outlines and waving banners giving his designs a tattoo style appearance. As a part-time body piercer at a tattoo shop, I encounter this style on a regular basis. His lines, drawings, and sketches, which he frequently shares on Facebook, are just a beautiful!

Color – The wonderful shading technique nicely develops the forms and thus very little color is necessary.

Thank You Tim Shumate

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12/30/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

December 31, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

12/30/14 Top Pick; Samurai Wars

Composition – Wonderful balance and circular flow. The composition nicely leads the eye around the entire image.

Color – Wonderful muted cool blues with warm bold reds.

Thank You KindaCreative

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12/30/14 Top Pick; Kingslayer

Concept – Great mash-up. Jaime’s golden hand works nicely as a symbol.

Execution – The design elegantly conveys the concept. Simple.

Thank You alex.pawlicki

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12/30/14 Top Pick; Minimalist Nihilist

Lines and Forms – Clean minimal lines and shapes create this very interesting design. Its simple appearance nicely captures the concept. Sometimes less is more! I love the simplified bowling ball background.

Composition – Although the lines and shapes are simple, all the components are nicely placed together.

Thank You Mephias

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12/3/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

December 4, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

A great day for Alice in Wonderland!

12/03/14 Top Pick; The Flowers of Wonderland

Color Scheme – I love the warm colors in contrast with the cool blues and grays of the leaves on the navy blue background. Although there are warm and cool colors, they seem to harmonize well.

Typography – Wonderful looping script type. It nicely weaves through the field of flowers. It boldly serves at the main component in this design.

Composition – The typography slants across the field leading the eye through the flowers. The little Alice figure in the bottom right corner is nicely balanced with the smaller type in the top left corner.

Also, I love the little branches with buds which add decoration to the flowers. Can you spot the hidden white rabbit? Too cute!

Thank You Gemma Roman

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12/03/14 Top Pick; Curiouser and Curiouser

Lines and Forms – Megan Lara! Geez, master of expressing my favorite characters in an elaborate Art Nouveau style. Wonderful thick outlines. Beautiful floral motifs. Expressive hair and doll like faces.

Color Scheme – Wonderful muted earthy hues.

Composition – Elaborate frames which seem to visually retell the story.

Thank You Megan Lara

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11/19/2014 Top Post – Daily Shirt Designs

November 20, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

11/19/14 Top Pick; Relativity

Interstellar was just a wonderful and amazing experience. A must watch on the big screen. So, if you haven’t watched this movie yet (what’s wrong with you!?) go head, get in your car, drive to the theater, and prepare to be delighted for the next 3 hours. Side note, if you cry during movies bring a box of tissues or two. Trust me!

Color – I love the rich earth tones used in this design. Not only do they reflect the maze of books in the movie, but also Earth and humanity.

Composition – Balanced bilateral symmetry that gives the erratic lines stability.

Lines and forms – I really enjoy the simple geometry forms that make up the center part of the design. They fall nicely creating an interesting positive space in the field above the helmet. Then they run down to develop the round shape of the helmet. The lines continue down to form interesting drips that mimic the top creating repetition.

I’d also like to give a shout out for depicting Matthew McConaughey so well using simple blocks of color. Kudos!

Thank You DannyHaas

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