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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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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12/17/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

December 18, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

12/17/14 Top Pick; Vamping Beauty

Lines and Forms – What an alluring beauty! I love how the lines in her hair are mimicked in the lines of the roses around her.

Color – I really enjoy the deep, bloody red and brown tones.

Thank You Emilie Boisvert

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12/17/14 Top Pick; Kill Them All

Composition – Wonderful use of negative and positive space. The three negative space figures create a balanced triangular shape around the yellow glowing head.

Color – The deep muscle red contrasts well with the golden sun yellow.

Thank You Tom Trager

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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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11/18/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

11/18/14 Top Pick; The Last Space Bender

Color – I really enjoy the rainbow of colors that extends over all the positive Space in this design. The figure created out of the negative space sits boldly and simply amidst the positive areas.

Texture – The light washes of color give this design an airy, cosmic feel.

Thank You KharmaZero

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11/18/14 TopPick; Bat Attitude

Lines and Forms – Barbara Gordon is ready to BATter up! Wonderful thick line work. The thiner lines within the figure add a wonderful rough texture.

Composition – I really enjoy the simple composition of all the lovely girls in this series. The figures are all in varying sitting poses on a simple stamped background.

Color – The varying purples, cool grays, and golds work wonderfully together. I don’t usually rock purple. I believe I only have one purple tee shirt, so I might just have to buy this one!

Thank You Tom Kurzanski

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11/18/14 TopPick; Whip It

Lines and Forms – I would love to rock Selina’s outfit; it’s so CATTY! Again, the thick line work gives the design a bold look while the thin inner lines add detail.

Compostion – Like the rest of the series, I really enjoy the lovely figure sitting simply on the stamped background. The background has just been simply rotated to better balance the figure.

Thank You Tom Kurzanski

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10/8/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

October 9, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

THE BEST SEASON OF THE YEAR IS FINALLY HERE! FALL!!!

I have really been enjoying all the recent Halloween themed designs lately. Sorry I haven’t been blogging about them, but I have been busy with some commissions ($$$ :p). Remember, you can follow me through Facebook and Instagram!

10/08/14 Top Pick; Third Time’s the Charm

Composition – All the components are nicely placed together. The wrapping of the sand snakes give this design a festive wreath look.

Lines and Forms – Scary and cute depiction of these characters. I really enjoy the style in which they are drawn. I also really enjoy the rhythm the stripes of the sand snakes add to the design.

Thank You Joebot

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10/08/2014 Top Pick; Wednesday Feast

Composition – The ribbon throughout the design act like stories or levels of a building. This makes Wednesday look like she is popping out of the deep dark dungeon basement.

Color Scheme – Wonderful use of cool colors with a small pop of blood-red. This design is available in brown, black, and navy blue. While all colors look nice I enjoy the navy blue the most.

Thank You CrumblinCookie

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09/10/2014 Top Picks- Daily Shirt Designs

September 10, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

09/10/14 Top Pick; Wizard

Don’t tempt me, OTHERTEES!

Lines and Forms – Wonderful well-formed lines with a variety of widths. The lines create a detailed render of one my favorite wizards ever!

Composition – Intriguing layout using the figure’s hair to wind the eye around the whole composition.

Texture – The varying widths of the lines create an interesting color using simple positive and negative shapes.

Thank You 2mz

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09/10/14 Top Pick; Bad Seed and Criminal Miss Conduct

Concept – Wonderful idea and execution of these two tough broads as Roller Derby Girls. Their outfits and accessories work very well with the concept and the individual characters.

Color – I really enjoy these dark, combat color palettes. I also very much enjoy their simple brighter color frame.

Lines and Forms – Wonderful style in which these to figures are portrayed. They both look unique but easily recognizable.

Thank You Tom Kurzanski

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08/26/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

August 27, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

08/26/14 Top Pick; The Strange Case of Dr. Banner and Mr. Hulk

Composition – Awesome combination of image and type.

Color – Wonderful contrast between the bright green and purple demonstrating the duality of the two figures.

Thank You HartZack

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08/26/14 Top Pick; I Choose Fire & I Choose Water

Composition – Wonderful, intricately adorned frames. I really enjoy how the frame surrounds the evolution of characters, glorifying them. The Pokeball nicely brings the eye down to the banner creating a wonderful oval shape.

Lines and Forms – The tattoo style forms are very nicely rendered with a heavy outline.

Thank You jmlfreeman

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08/26/14 Top Pick; Get Over Here!

Color – Incredible pop of warm tones.

Lines and Forms – Wonderful foreshortened render of a classic fighter.

Thank You ThrashParty a.k.a Ottyag

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08/19/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Designs

August 20, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

A bunch of awesome shirts today!!

08/19/2014 Top Pick; Che/Hugger

Concept – Wonderful Alien propaganda.

Color – Wonderful vibrant, energetic red! The bold red definitely helps make a statement. The stark white face hugger in the center instantly attracts attention.

Lines and Forms – Wonderful render of each element, especially the detailed face hugger.

Thank You BeastPop

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08/19/2014 Top Pick; I Have Nothing

Lines and Forms – Nice solid bold lines.

Concept – Tough guy!

Thank You Olipop

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08/19/2014 Top Pick; RedSun Leon

Lines and Forms – Wonderful sketch-like lines.

Color – Nice Pop of red color.

Thank You Donnie

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08/19/2014 Top Pick; Final Boss

Composition – The mushrooms in the bottom nicely balance the spiky turtle shell top.

Color – Nice use of simple contrasting colors.

Thank You AutoSave

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08/19/2014 Top Pick; My Neighbor Tibbers

Composition – There are many well composed elements expressed in this design. This gives the viewer plenty to look at.

Color – I really enjoy this dark earth tone color palette. Both mauve colors nicely give this design a pop of color.

Lines and Forms – I really enjoy the sketch like stokes in this design.

Thank You Plaguesworth

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08/19/2014 Top Pick; Tribute to Alexey

Composition – The buildings are nicely composed together. The foundation of Tetris blocks is a great touch.

Lines and Forms – Awesome pixel art! There is a great amount of detail on the building using little geometric patterns.

Thank You Jimiyo

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08/16/2014 Top Picks – Daily Shirt Design

August 17, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

08/16/14 Top Pick; The Dude

Hey, will you just take it easy, man. This design is all things Dude: the White Russian, the joint, his bowling ball, and the rug that really ties it all together.

Color – Extremely interesting color selection. I really enjoy the warm golds against the teal field.

Lines & Forms – Wonderful render of Jeff Bridges. All the elements in the design have an awesome etched texture. I especially like the thin lines that give his hair added dimension.

Thank You Bubble Gun

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08/10/2014 Top Pick – Daily Shirt Designs

August 11, 2014 | jjlockhartdesign

Ninja Turtles Weekend!!!

Of course I went to watch this movie. Okay… okay… I know it seemed kind of lame, but I enjoyed it!

At first I didn’t know if I really wanted to go watch this film in the theater. The trailer seemed interesting, but I didn’t know how I felt about the crazy looking cgi Turtles and the whole Megan Fox/Michael Bay baggage. My husband convinced me to go being that he’s a lifelong fan and it was his birthday weekend.

To be honest, while watching the movie I was so wrapped up with the action and their individual personalities that I completely looked past how weird they looked. I also surprisingly didn’t mind Megan Fox too much. She is a very attractive actress and I was very happily surprised they didn’t try to exploit it (outside of Mikey’s crush on her). She wore plain jeans, a tee, and the same awesome yellow leather jacket throughout the whole movie (laundry must be easy)! Each Ninja Turtle had their own awesome personality and I loved how they bickered back and forth like brothers do. They actually reminded me of my cousins, so they definitely embodied the “Teenage” portion of the Ninja Turtles to the best of my knowledge; I haven’t really encountered any other kind of Ninja Turtles, mutant or otherwise!

I think Donatello was probably my favorite of the Turtles. He had an endearing nerdy personality that appealed to me. OMG was Shredder scary! His armor was amazing and terrifying. I think I got cut just looking at all those blades :p. I also really enjoyed the relationship between Splinter and the Turtles. His fight scene with Shredder was probably my favorite. You could tell he was a father protecting his children and he wasn’t just their master.

All and all 2 radical thumbs up!

COWABUNGA!!!

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