Stupid Elephant :-)
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- monospaced0
Go back to the drawing board. If elephants, in asian cultures, represent good luck, I would hunt down images of elephants from asian cultures.
Consider the final product: a t-shirt. Narrow it down to less than 4 solid colors for best results. Somebody posted a pinball t-shirt here a few months ago for a crit...and I think something in that graphic treatment would serve you well here. I'm sure someone can find it.
When you ask for a critique here, and you get one, try to follow it.
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- Daymn!OSFA
- I hear what you're saying. I'll try looking for that thread.
Thanks,hubb7designs - Ganesh!vaxorcist
- eating_tv0
Oh my god!
- monospaced0
Start with something like this, maybe.
- I dunnomonospaced
- better than the gay showgirl elephantTheBlueOne
- The picture of the elephant is what the client wanted. I know it's just plain terrible.hubb7designs
- OSFA0
Hey hubb, what do you think about this site?
- hubb7designs0
Here is the picture of the card that my client sent me. They wanted it to be THIS elephant in the design. I think working with this I didn't to SO bad, but I do agree.... it's not good.
- you have a good attitude for some of the shit being said in this thread. Get used to clients effing your shit up.baseline_shift
- No attitude I swear. Sorry if it read back that way. I can deal and really enjoy the QBN bashings. :)hubb7designs
- i wasnt being sarcastic. you do have a good attitude. Not taking harsh crits personally took me a long time.baseline_shift
- Oh... well then. Thank you for that. I just know that I have a lot to learn and that people on QBN have a lot to teach or show. So I enjoy it all.hubb7designs
- yes, clients will fuck up everything, but it is your job to guide them into something good and that works, if not, you're not doing your job...OSFA
- you're just a production monkey and you're not doing your job.OSFA
- OSFA has spokena_iver
- ephix0
please execute the client.
- I their defense, I guess it has to take some balls to be willing to put something like this out. My hopes is that this design is a complete flop, and then I can design something that I think will work. Then I will start from the drawing board with the support of QBN behind me... kidna.hubb7designs
- tasty0
do the same but with cats and you'll be a rich man.
- Cats? I don't get it.hubb7designs
- lolmonospaced
- ahhahAHAHHHaHavsplus
- Something to do with Pussy?hubb7designs
- no just lolTheBlueOne
- Cats! HAHAHA!! That's funny :)hubb7designs
- mayo0
Did you copy that illustration almost exactly?
- i see some differences, but...mayo
- I know, it's really close. Here is what my client said... quote, "I want it to be changed enough to where it's not the same." So yea, it's pretty much the same thing.hubb7designs
- CGN0
what's the companies website?
- rippedursite0
i think the elephant in the "inspirational" magic card they sent (wtf client sends a MAGIC card by the way?!?!?) was a good place to start... i think the design starts to fall apart in that the background doesn't do ANYTHING for the suject (elephant, dice, cards).. the background is so similar in color and such an LSD trip that the entire piece falls apart around it. dull your back ground or remove some of the design elements within it and your subject will come back to the front.
also, the way you skewed those dice should be punishable by jail. leave images alone. don't use shitty photoshop filters and keep your backgrounds from shitting on your foregrounds.
- Well put :)hubb7designs
- That's a Yu-Gi-Oh card actually, and I only know this because I was 6 when the show came out. :Dismith
- Ismith, you totally called it!hubb7designs
- tgqt0
Your elephant is an African Elephant and not an Asian Elephant.
The African variety has larger ears to help regulate it's body temperature. They flap [flap-flap-flap] their ears to cool the blood flowing through the many capillaries. Asian Elephants have smaller ears.
- rson0
You have done a poor job my friend. You can not blame the client for your poor design decision. It is your job to steer them in the right direction and give them solid direction. I would be ashamed to present this to a client no less on QBN. Sorry, to be harsh but there are so many bad things with "design" I do not know were to start. It is not design. Did you go to school for this? Do you work in the design field? Sorry to be so harsh but this is not the type of work I expect here.
- monospaced0
Where it all started. You really should have made more progress in this amount of time, also. http://www.qbn.com/topics/593409…
- hubb7designs0
I completely agree with what you are saying about listening to the advise of QBN. But my client says they have exactly what they were looking for. So should I follow the advise of the professional opinions that I'm receiving on QBN? Or should I give the client what they are looking for?
I'm really hoping that there will be more design projects from this client, and then I will be able to apply the great criticism from everyone on QBN.
I really hope that you guys don't think I'm ignoring what you are saying because I really value everyone's opinions and professional out looks on everything.
- its one more project under the belt. learn from it and move on.baseline_shift
- monospaced0
I think you should follow the advice of QBN AND create something awesome and original. If you want to be a designer this shouldn't be a daunting task or really anything out of the ordinary.
As a designer it's your job to explain to the client why what they envision isn't really the best solution for t-shirt art. Don't walk over their creative egos, but get technical about gradients and printing techniques. Offer up a better solution and you can sell better design.
- That is really a great point. I agree with telling them that they are wrong with out being very negative.hubb7designs
- You definitely don't want to be mean, just informative. Your job is to offer the best solution.monospaced
- rson0
@hubb7design The client gave you inspiration it was your job to translate that. My hunch is you took everything to literal. Sure you can get some good advice here but it is not always going to be right. I think where you went wrong is your lack of research. You simple said I have elephant and some shit around around it that I throw together in PS. You did not get to the core of what they were looking for. You should of had some inspiration/creative feel like ...
This is your clients inspiration (this does not mean cut the elephant out and throw in your design) It means we like this.
- This is PRECISELY what I was trying to say at the top of this page. Thanks rson for the backup.monospaced
- Oh yeah missed that ;)rson
- no biggie, you're expanding on it with great examples...I want to give hubb a fighting chance with this onemonospaced
- kld0
I think I saw theat middle one on discovery's "in the womb"
