Danielle's Garden: 2008-06-01

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Finally

Going to make a post that isn't promoting any of my shit. However I do have a question relating to this whole contest stuff, for anyone who might have answers.

First, Are there more of these that I should know about? threadless, designbyhumans, lafraise, shirt.woot, .tastythreads, bangbangt-shirts, shirtcity, yayart, popdeck, now I haven't submitted to all of these places, I submitted to threadless, DBH, tastythreads, yayart and popdeck. I don't really know about the others.

So I guess the second question is What are those other ones like?

Third, At places like threadless where there are tons of people voting ok, not quite tons, more like 1500 on average I guess, its easier to get votes, I do those promotional blogs, but I do realize that they don't really do much, you get the votes regardless of promotion if the work is good enough. At places like DBH though, where I don't know anyone and don't know how the voting works, how do I get people to take a look and vote on my submissions there. I don't like doing it in threadless blogs, although I do from time to time, is there another way, should I be an active member of some other design community that will give me the support that I crave and need? I dunno, DeviantArt or something? I have an account there that I have done nothing with so far.

I think I had more questions in mind when I started this blog, but now that I have gone through those 3 I can't think of them..

I really enjoy making doing designs like these, more so than even my job which I happen to love. But with these I feel I can be more me, and less clientish, although I see all the voters as clients to a point. It still sucks getting shitty scores on things I've worked hard on, or just thought they would do better. I won't be leaving threadless anytime soon, but I kind of need to find a place that would like designs like "Mistaken Identity" and "The Gardener" as well as silly things like "...Blinko..." and "Wonder Squirrel..." that you see on the right, or that you guys might already know about.

So if anyone has any advice for me, I could really use it. You can just comment here. I am assuming the only people that even look at this blog ever are threadless people. You are my only support group.. lol.

thanks

posted by Danielle Kerese # 11:20 AM 15 Comments

Eternally Entwined

up for voting now..

posted by Danielle Kerese # 5:21 AM 0 Comments

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Finally

Eternally Entwined

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