Hi, Guys! It's been awhile!

[Toonicorn]

I don't know if this board is active anymore, but I thought I'd visit it just in case and get some feedback from you good folks.

I created a new t-shirt design. What do you think?

[Jonopen]

Hi Toonicorn, pretty sure I'm not the target audience for your t-shirt and also I'm that not clued up on popular culture, so take my feedback with a massive pinch of salt, but there are two things I'm not keen on (both of which might be exactly whole point of the design!):

1) Santa's green hands!
2) the offering of behavioural changing drugs

It's really well drawn but not for me!

Happy Christmas!

[handrawn]

hi TC

nice drawing, bold symmetry that should work well on a TShirt

jono saw hands, I saw gloves, and the colour is just right for the composition between the dark red and the dark green

what did it say to me ? - it said: 'wise choices, like puppies, are not just for christmas' - which is [probably] not what you intended and just the way my mind works....

[Acorn]

The problem is the red/blue pills as offered by Morpheus (well, his avatar), who is black, in the Matrix alludes to (Alice in) Wonderland, not Santa. In the Matrix, red was to reveal reality.
I am therefore at a loss here as to whether red is 'Naughty' or blue is.

@handrawn - might be a typo but you may, with others, have a colour perception problem that means the green gloves destroy the allusion.
I would go with tan gloves, the colour of errant reindeers' hides.

Now who's naughty?

Acorn

[handrawn]

not sure what you mean by colour perception problem acorn, certainly I don't see an allusion, what is that meant to be ?

I see the pills ok but not a matrix aficionado

alice was big and small, not naughty or nice, or am I being too simplistic here... there are certainly reality issues in Carroll's books though, and not just alice...

[Acorn]

not sure what you mean by colour perception problem acorn, certainly I don't see an allusion, what is that meant to be ?

I see the pills ok but not a matrix aficionado

alice was big and small, not naughty or nice, or am I being too simplistic here... there are certainly reality issues in Carroll's books though, and not just alice...

I assumed your 'dark green' was the blue pill's colour; the board is dark green, the gloves, paler green. Therein lay my confusion.
In the Matrix, each pill's purpose was given. Here, you have to guess. Santa is the arbiter and so there's no choice.

Acorn
Acorn

[handrawn]

sorry no, I meant the green of the 'sign' with the lettering on it

because from a compositional point of view, it being a TShirt, it is intended to be viewed comfortably outside of personal space [aka from a distance, be that long or short] and so the pills are actually too small to make a difference to the whole

light tan gloves might well make a difference to that, I'll agree; on the subject of which: don't reindeer have dark tan hides... long time since I saw one in the flesh... [should that actually matter ]