Derby 192 Loser Awards
Derby 192's theme was
"Woodcuts". A nice switch to the organic and artistic after last week's robots. Lots of wonderful detailed designs. Here's your favorites and mine. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Six On Each Arm" Award
With this theme it'd be very easy to create a single-color artistic design with no additional charm but Robsoul has done a wonderful job of making you forget that there are only two colors allowed along with a subtle humor to push it over the edge.
The BLAs
Here's the rest of the designs you and I liked. Everyone mentioned today will be getting one of these nifty BestLoser badges in their Shirt.Woot entry comments thread.
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JmmBell1987 says "I was disappointed in the lack of designs that actually strove to look like they were cut from wood. So many designers took the easy way out and submitted things that looked more fitting for a 'Lineart' or, worse yet, 'Anything goes as long as I use two colors' derby. Walmazan is not such an artist. His 'Gallows Humor' is simple, very wearable and funny. It's also very much on theme, with a lovely, grainy look that appears unmistakeably woodcut."
| If you still haven't had enough robots, LittleClyde's "Little Buddy" is a sweet design guaranteed to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
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MissKari's "Waiting for Spring" has some great bold choices in color and layout that sets it above the crowd.
| JmmBell1987 says "Grrlmarvel is consistently producing some of the most whimsical and charming designs in the derbies. 'Woodcut Woodsy' is just the right amounts of strange and cute."
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Kinzoku's "Lobster Knight" has Kinzoku's trademark awesome illustration mixed with beautifully balanced layout.
| PixelPants' "Woodcut" goes for the pun and does an admirable job with giving his character a lot of personality without skipping the great woodcut linework and throws in wood texturing as well.
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GeekFactor12 says "Really digging the throwback style, and how the piece conveys both complexity and motion."
| Solipherus' "Lionpowered" has some fantastic linework and wonderfully absurd subject matter.
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Comments
PixelPants
Thanks for the commendation ThatRobert. It's tough seeing a design you have confidence in wallow in the middle of derby voting so I appreciate the recognition.
ThatRobert
Yes, I'm really surprised it's not doing better. It seems vote totals are unusually low this week -- I would think the theme has chased away the meme-voters!
