Complimentary Colors

haha, I'd actually wear this.

i agree.

Nate said:

jesuisaimee said: yes it would help if the colors were actually complimentary :/

They are.

green and purple? it would be red and green and purple and yellow. unless my screen is jacked! or are we being technical and counting variations of shade and tint, but i don't think the laymen would exactly connect the dots. esp since i wasn't the first to comment on the matter although the others seemed to have disappeared.

They are technically complimentary. I just wanted some cool colors, but I can see how if you didn't have illustrator CS3 with the new color guide window you probably wouldn't know if it was complimentary.

i actually am not fortunate enough to have cs3 and i know tertiaries still count when comparing complementariness but i sell tshirts to walmart for a living and i just don't think kids without a few years of art classes under their belt would be like oh yes yellow based green and red based purple are in fact complimentary! but i do think it's quite witty other wise and i agree that the original is also more aesthetically appealing but the best part of complimentary a color scheme is the *tension*

jesuisaimee said: i actually am not fortunate enough to have cs3 and i know tertiaries still count when comparing complementariness but i sell tshirts to walmart for a living and i just don't think kids without a few years of art classes under their belt would be like oh yes yellow based green and red based purple are in fact complimentary! but i do think it's quite witty other wise and i agree that the original is also more aesthetically appealing but the best part of complimentary a color scheme is the *tension*

Do you think this would make the walmart cut? What do they pay nowadays, a few pennies above actual costs?

sittingduck said:

jesuisaimee said: "but i sell tshirts to walmart for a living"

people like you piss me off.

Anyone stop to think that each color is actually a character on this shirt? and each character is COMPLIMENTING the other?!?!?! holy crap ... I sell t-shirts to walmart is the new douchebag remark of the year.

hahaha sitting duck you are officially the man

haha nice segway

Captain Awesome said: haha nice sag way

what?

Thanks for backing me boys. I think she was only trying to help. So let's try and be a little bit easier on her, even though she works for walmart.

Je suis la jeune fille.

Jon Kruse said:

Captain Awesome said: haha nice sag way

what?

ohhhh segway ahahaha my bad

ryanmiller said: so when are you printing these?

As soon as I have enough money. Which will be as soon as I get a job. None of my job interviews are landing me a job as of yet. I think I need change my strategy of being selective and going after the places I really want to work at to just any decent studio that's offering opening positions. The worst part is I keep calling the place I want to work at and they keep on stringing me along saying they're still making personnel changes.

Any publicity is good publicity.

ok, i've gotta back a sister up..

as a fifth year design student, i thought she had a great point.
honestly, i thought the exact same thing, about most people not
realizing green and purple are complementary.

c'mon, was it reeeally necessary to belittle her for having sold shirts to walmart?

by the way, i love the concept on this.. simple and clever. =)

okay whether the colors are complimentary or not..
the point was NOT that she knows everything bc she works for walmart
but that she didnt think the average joe would get it and i agree with her.
ive had art classes for years and i even questioned it. her working for walmart is NOT the point!! stop being so condescending about it and give the walmart thing a rest..

fuck Wal-mart. Burn 'em all, Burn'em all to the ground and let them die a slow and painful death.

Rise of the Targets! whoop!

Even if I did sell shirts to WalMart, I WOULD NEVER GET ON A T-SHIRT SITE AND TELL ANYBODY! your just asking for it.

sweet shirt by the way, lov'd.

walart... qgegwew so i wcwn fvwfin? i xXCAN TAK IT DEEOOM AO MNty ddididwnre vefoewin wnsinfga

Jon Kruse said:

thomcat said: walart... qgegwew so i wcwn fvwfin? i xXCAN TAK IT DEEOOM AO MNty ddididwnre vefoewin wnsinfga

i know what you mean

my thoughts exactly.

YOU GUYS MISUNDERSTOOD ME COMPLETELY! lmao this is insane. but anyway, i meant that as far as selling shirts for walmart you kind of have to throw your pretensions out the window and design for a typical consumer. clearly i'd rather be illustrating my ass off and selling art as i see it the way i want it, but hey this job pays the bills and i also get to work for some kick ass clients like let's say... quiksilver and tony hawk. i don't work for walmart, i work for a company that sells shirts to walmart. i agreed that i was at first wrong when pointing out that they weren't complimentary but i still stand behind my statement that MOST PEOPLE wouldn't get it just b/c you aren't using primary colors.

i like the concept i think the characters are cute, i'd just choose a different color way! sheesh.

this shirt kind of reminds me of that cartoon of a black penguin talking to a white penguin and saying "why so negative?"

hah. cracks me up every time.

Well you've managed to create hype without a signature fly dance on YouTube.

I really like the concept. I think that people wouldn't even have processed the design/art angle of the color scheme actually being complementary. Moreso they would just think that the colors are commenting each other on their look, so it wouldn't really matter what color you made them unless that person was a designer--and then it would be an even cooler t-shirt because they would actually know what it meant.

I would buy it though if there were different color options, mine might be this:

Great stuff JK

great shirt!

haha :D