Why (on earth) all this horror skully stuff is so fascinating for you ?!
posted 6 months ago by pipi-li
I am sooooooooo, sooooooooooooo, sooooooooooo confused!
Everytime I see empties home page, there are tons of spooky skulls. It’s kind of boring.
What about little birds, flowers, love? ;)
Ok, you are boys (he,he) but? ....
Just asking :) educate me.
45 Comments
heavyprints said 6 months ago
When you are a little boy who likes to draw, and you grow up reading comic books with all types of cool zombies, and skulls, and monsters. Generally, you grow up hoping to get to draw stuff you think is that cool for a living.
So, one day you’re an adult.. and maybe you don’t get to draw them ALL the time, but sometimes you do. It makes your day.
This is because of that.
ChadDoesDesign said 6 months ago
what empties? is it the emptees for ties?haha
conor said 6 months ago
Because designers are angry people. If you aren’t angry, you aren’t a real designer. Birds, flowers, love? psh.
jimiyo said 6 months ago
I like skulls and the other art here, though, emptees is an interesting demographic.
Im curious to the age range. For some reason, I think there’s some correlation with the age group and the popularity of garbage pail kids, madballs, slime, ghostbusters, thriller, similar zombie/skull/death type products during the youth of the designers here. Not sure... Just a stab in the dark.
Beadler said 6 months ago
haha +1 ...even though I probable fall in that age bracket
pipi-li said 6 months ago
"what empties? is it the emptees for ties?haha"
Sorry, it was just the letter-mistake (good eh?:))
I am a foreigner, you know, still learning...but especially for you, I will be checking every word in the dictionary now ;)
"Because designers are angry people. If you aren’t angry, you aren’t a real designer. Birds, flowers, love? psh."
birds, love, etc - it was a little provocation ;) although I do myself work with kitschy stuff.
thank you guys :)
Now I’m a bit wiser.
It is just so different from my philosophy and point of view ...
I need some time to write my observations ... checking out all the spelling ...
please keep answering and I catch you sometime.
conor said 6 months ago
I was being sarcastic, just so you know. Nothing wrong with birds, flowers, or love, which could all be kitschy as well.
ChadDoesDesign said 6 months ago
haha i know i was messing around. i dont really get to use much skulls thanks to my clients(jerks) but i would honestly love to use more skulls.
explodingtoes said 6 months ago
you dont like skulls the same way i dont like collaged together photographic elements splattered with watercolor smears. but hey...they’re both everywhere!
Randomentity said 6 months ago
there’s a post about how old everyone is, and it is an interesting mix.
Skullz rule, flowers drool, duh.
and i’m pretty sure a lot of it comes from the fact that most of the guys on here grew up reading comics and being badasses.
horsebites said 6 months ago
I’ll actually have to agree a little, I feel like most of my stuff would just blend in because there is a saturation of skulls and what not. Not that it’s bad but it’s a lot more competition to make your stuff seem different from the rest.
swissarmyshark said 6 months ago
Worst Nightmare: Motorhead plays a show wearing a flower t-shirt
godmachine said 6 months ago
when i watch tv and the program is boring- i either turn over or turn it off. I dont write in and tell them.
as fugazi once said 'never mind what they are selling, its what you are buying'.
I hope you get that.
matt901 said 6 months ago
I always get the impression that alot of the folks on here get off on the more technical aspects of the designs (I don’t include everyone here btw), ie they love designs that people have laboured over in illustrator and the like, as opposed to the other aspects of a design. I tend to be drawn more towards form, colour, the expression of ideas, and composition.
It’s all very subjective but it does seem like theres a certain type of persons who frequent this site. This is in no way a bad thing, just an observation. It’s just like if you go to other sites similar to this one they tend to have a dominant style.
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
You nailed it man. It’s the dominant style here on emptees which is not a bad thing just like you said. But to be fair, there’s a lot of work on here that shows more than just the technical illustration aspect. Some get loved but a lot of good work are looked over.
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
I’m biased because I can’t draw but I can appreciate both. As a designer, I look for the layout, composition, colors, concept. Doesn’t matter whether it’s clipart or not.
matt901 said 6 months ago
I fully agree Ray. The two are most definately not mutually exclusive. I think what i was trying to say is that just because something is technically sound doesnt mean it makes a great t shirt, great art yes, but not always something that belongs on a tshirt. All my opinion of course.
derekdeal said 6 months ago
i just love whichever designer is popular
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
Yeah but I’ve noticed alot of self-made stuff is still referenced from some photo/image/clipart. hehe I guess it just makes you more legit as an artist to draw it out rather than just use the clipart itself.
matt901 said 6 months ago
ha ha. exactly. I think you made a great point there
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
True but there’s nothing wrong with tracing either. I just don’t see why hand drawn is better than using something that’s available to you already. Don’t get me wrong man, I have all respect for hand drawn talent, I wish i had those skills. I just don’t like the whole "it’s better because it’s hand drawn" mindset.
a killer wombat said 6 months ago
Its cause skulls are fun to draw and look sweet. I mean, look how many people throughout history have tied so much of their cultures to skulls. All the ruins, paintings, etc... there is something very spiritual and compelling about them that just runs with how bad ass they look.
i loved myself last night
matt901 said 6 months ago
Me neither.
The whole can ultimately be bigger than the sum of it’s parts can it not.
godmachine said 6 months ago
when i first came to emptees the overall style was very different- just look back through the pages.
change will happen- styles will come and go- trends, opinions, favouritism, clip art, traced, drawn, fonts, techniques......all subject to change and opinions.
i dont understand why or how we can debate or evaluate personal taste or expession.
if you like it good- if you dont- good.
i dont like pears- this neither makes them wrong or right or boring.
its just personal taste.
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
Fair enough. So can i buy your art to use as clipart? hehe
Tender Branson said 6 months ago
I (try) to only love things that I would wear. I’ve seen a ton of great designs and illustrations but if I wouldn’t wear it or buy it for someone, I wouldn’t love it.
As far as illustration vs. concept vs. composition goes.. Though concept and composition are important, if your design looks like something I could have done then I’m not going to be as crazy about it as say checking out one of Ray or Jimiyo’s bad ass illustrated designs that I could never do.
matt901 said 6 months ago
The problem is when you look at the clip art in one hand and the hand drawn piece in the other. Clearly the hand drawn wins by a country mile, a no contest. However, if you then add to that clip art and create something amazing with it and then compare, there is a case for that new composition to be way better than the hand drawn image. It IS possible. Bear in mind the hand drawn image could be completely shit.
I’m not condoning the use of shit clip art don’t get me wrong, i’m just debating the point, and i have to say i’m rather enjoying it!
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
Lol or I can just desperately try to draw it and just use it as "reference".
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
That’s interesting because I’d love all great work on here whether I’d like to wear it or not. Just respect great talent. I mean I’ve loved a lot of Ray’s stuff even if I wouldn’t necessarily wear it.
matt901 said 6 months ago
sorry dude, i missed this part.
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
Makes total sense man. At least you’re pretty open to other styles. I mistook your stance earlier as "if it ain’t a hand drawn then it ain’t good".
godmachine said 6 months ago
how do i, and should i, justify what i like drawing ?
or indeed what i like?
collisiontheory said 6 months ago
You are god so you don’t have to justify anything my friend. haha
explodingtoes said 6 months ago
are we not men?
WE ARE DEVO!
Tender Branson said 6 months ago
There is a lot of great work on this site, but I try to stay true to the fact that this is indeed a t-shirt site.
heroes said 6 months ago
WHO CARES! : ]
draw if you wanna draw be lazy and steal google imaages if u want to steal images
EASY!
conor said 6 months ago
The truth is always in the middle. Siding to one extreme either way would be silly, and go against the art industry as a whole.
Matt Rupp said 6 months ago
I understand, if youre getting sick of the delicious amounts of zombies and skulls. I love it big time but I dont use it in my designs.
Just look at the name of my company.
Enough said!
swissarmyshark said 6 months ago
pipi-li said 6 months ago
I like it, like it, like it!
so many responses! made me think...:)
The skull!
Here on this site there is 50% (maybe exaggerating) tees with skully images.
I have written an innocent question (No judging - explodingtoes - i haven’t written ,I don’t like skulls, althoughI DO NOT LIKE THEM as a subject in such an amount!), wondering how many of you draw skulls just for money,
cos kids buy it? how many does it cos it is trendy and who really feels the inner need to explore the skull theme?
I am curious. That it.
...and by the way, regarding the discussion clip-art contra hand-drawn. I like what I like (good art :)
...and by the way, I like emptees and the passion around it.
Any girls here? I quess - no. Whyyyy ?
Yes, I’ve seen "All for Love"
Have to make a new post...
Everybody! It was interesting reading your lines.
My next tee - happy skulls of garden gnomes!
pipi-li said 6 months ago
Explodingtoes - I am not sure "collaged together photographic elements splattered with watercolor smears"
Was it about my art? If so I can explore the subject-matter...Dear Explodingtoes :)
Tender Branson said 6 months ago
Haha I like this idea, do it!
pipi-li said 6 months ago
ok, give me some time, but you have to vote for it ;)
conor said 6 months ago
Hmm, I would say closer to 15-20%, there aren’t as many skulls as you think! There are a good chunk of the skull/zombie/monster/metal genre designs, but not all are skulls, or even have skulls in them. I’d say there’s a pretty good mix of all genres here on emptees. You can check out all the winners here: http://emptees.com/tees/winners
Also, there are a few girls on the site, Laurie Shipley for one is a fav amongst us. http://emptees.com/people/1884-laurieshipley
pipi-li said 6 months ago
Perfect description Conor! That what I meant - the skull/zombie/monster/metal genre designs ! = 50%
Yes, seen Laurie works, good and funny :)