2024 Halloween Merch Run

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Any complaints? I'll get the 'cute' alt going soonish.
 
Absolutely perfect, lil kiwi guy is metal as fuck and is on his way to sail his longboat to lands far away to shitpost in monasteries and sneed in villages....
 
Null said:
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Any complaints? I'll get the 'cute' alt going soonish.
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I was extremely confused what this was and had to look at it for a few seconds before I saw the kiwi. I think the beak should be open a little. I was seeing the eye as pointing to the right, and thought the horn was a beak somehow. Then I thought the bottom of the helmet was a jaw and the beak was a giant jew nose.

In general the flow of this design is very odd, the weight of the line work and the emphasis is overall "not quite right." Just something proportion-wise. Not one specific bad thing, just the whole thing in my eyes, so sorry for not being more specific. It doesn't look very cohesive. If I was getting this comissioned, it'd be back to the drawing board. I wouldn't buy this (and I've bought kiwifarms merch before and was looking forward to getting a spooky shirt.)
 
Do you know how much stock there will be, specifically the hoodies? I've missed out in years past because they inevitably sell out
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
I think the beak should be open a little.
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There was a version like this and I found it more confusing.

bliblblblbbllb said:
In general the flow of this design is very odd, the weight of the line work and the emphasis is overall "not quite right." If I was getting this comissioned, it'd be back to the drawing board.
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Dunno, I was the one that had the idea of the sketchy look and if it doesn't sell well I guess that's my fault. I like how it looks, especially after the revisions. The alpha channel helps emphasize the structural lines.
 
Agent Snigger said:
Do you know how much stock there will be, specifically the hoodies? I've missed out in years past because they inevitably sell out
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All the runs are presale and are made to order. I usually have a few spares but not many. So just order when they're available. I do this in case there's an issue with the processor.
 
Null said:
There was a version like this and I found it more confusing.


Dunno, I was the one that had the idea of the sketchy look and if it doesn't sell well I guess that's my fault. I like how it looks, especially after the revisions. The alpha channel helps emphasize the structural lines.
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Do you know yet how large the design will be printed? I think that would make a big difference imo. The bigger it is on the shirt the more readable the design is going to be. The right color choices will definitely help too.

The gray shading isn't super logical- in some places, it's used as highlighting, but in others, it's used as shadow. If the beak is white, you'd think the close side of the face and the close horn would be lighter, but instead they're just outlined (black fill) and the back horn is light gray and looks like it's coming out of the forehead instead of being in the background. The foot on the right has the same issue- the gray should be on the left edge, not just all over the middle and right of it.

Someone went a little overboard just putting gray around everything and it looks cheap. If you can do tweaks still, I'd ask your artist to redo the shading to better clarify the whole design, while keeping the sketchy idea. But if it was red or lime yellow on black it might look really cool as is LOL. I'm not against the concept here.
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
Do you know yet how large the design will be printed? I think that would make a big difference imo. The bigger it is on the shirt the more readable the design is going to be. The right color choices will definitely help too.
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As large as they can get it.
 
Could you do a re-print of the saint slobber mutt again sometime? It's one of my favorites but the pull over is getting to the point where it's just an around the house thing.
 
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