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nightmare carnival

Loch Ness vs Godzilla print

Someone mentioned a vineyard print (grapes or blackberries) back in the strawberry print thread, I'd like to see something like that.

>>6751535
Is there a closeup of DDC I can use to modify anywhere?

That feel where I have what I think could be an incredibly successful print idea but I don't want to share it in case somebody steals it and makes money off it.

>>6751535

I can *sort* of draw horses; I'm willing to try and put something decent together. I have no fabric design experience, but I guess I can kind of draw a horse.
I may try to throw something together. I've even already got a piece that is very fitting.

>>6751633
spam watermark.

>>6751633
Yeah, I don't think you have to worry about that..

> inb4 someone steals a print and makes the most sought-after dress in 2013

>>6751633
>make money off it

Well, you have nothing to worry about there.

Honestly, if you're not in the business of making prints, who cares? You wouldn't make any money off of it anyways. It would just be a grand idea sitting off in the corner wasting away. Share your art, anon.

>>6751645

>said no indie designer ever

>>6751637
I already know who you are.

I also want to play, but I don't really have the time so I'll just lurk. Enjoy gulls!

>>6751535
I'm gonna give this one a shot. Any suggestions for colors aside from dark/silent-hill-esque?

>>6751690
Cream/lavender maybe?

>>6751690
>>6751697
I agree, I like purple, brown and cream together for some reason. Then maybe a bordeaux, white and black colorway?

>>6751604
I've been playing with some designs for a blackberry print with ravens and a raspberry print with chickadees. I'll see if I can have a mock up later today

>>6751704
>blackberries
>ravens
Hnnnghhh yes

Yes, please, anon.

>>6751667

The horses gave me away, didn't they?

Anyone who makes a Jurassic Park print will have my love forever.
No seriously, I'll send you Valentine's cards full of heartfelt praise to show my eternal devotion and gratitude.
Must include velociraptors. Please.

>>6751712
Every time.
I'm excited to see what you come up with though, maybe Grand National theme with broken limbs and fallen jockeys.

There's a real Nightmare Carnival idea.

A print similar inspired by Waterouse's Hylas and the Nymphs would make me finally take the die into lolita. Dryads or a Hades and Persephone print would probably snag me as well. I really wish I could draw.

>>6751780
>Hades and Persephone print

Holy shit that would be awesome as fuck, like a clash between gothic and classic.

>>6751756
I call dibs on this one. I have to go eat, but I will post later today.

>>6751829
you could do three varieties- a sweeter print with demeter and persephone walking through fields of blossoms and grain, a more classic, somber-colored print of hades snatching persephone away to the underworld, then a hard gothic print of pale whites and jet blacks of demeter mourning in snow with the border being hades offering persephone the pomegranates. it might be a little cliche, but it could also be awesome as mucha-style "windows"(like midsummer's night dream) in the print, telling the story.

>>6751843
I like the way you think.

>>6751854
i really like greek mythology, i think any prints of the stories would be awesome (and not just as paintings printed on a skirt).

I'd love to figure out how to work this into a good looking print.

>>6751905
IS THIS THE FLAG OF ROHAN

Because I've been meaning to draw up Tolkien-inspired lolita dresses for a while

>>6751910
Yes it is! I would love to see a flood of Tolkien lolita prints but I suck at the whole art thing. Rohan's flag is my first choice because I can just see it in dark green with copper or gold accents and I think it would be something that could be easily worn as a casual style since I'm not really into lolita.

Oh man, Junji Ito print, can you imagine? So many crazy textures and creepy ass themes to work with.

>>6751690
The first time I heard Nightmare Carnival I instantly though of the scene from the new silent hill movie with pyramid head.

>>6751933
I'd be in heaven.

>>6751933
YES. any of the craziness from spiral

What I really want to see is a Day of the Dead print, with sugar skulls

>>6751690
Completely sepia-toned. Please.

>>6751551
I can't really draw, so this is me basically editing and putting together a bunch of pictures from google.

>>6751999
OH M YGOD YES
can we get this in Chaotic Green and Navy?

>>6751999
I didn't know I needed this

>>6751999
Oh man. This in navy, and then I am so in.

Okay, so I'm working on my Nightmare Carnival design right now (Hand drawing it because fuck you.) and I'm basing it off a semi-skeletal horse piece I did a while ago. I'm not going to post my art all over the shop, but I'll post the design here once it's painted.

I'm going down the ghostly, flesh gently turning to skeleton route but I'm a tad lost on background imagery. I was thinking a border of wilting roses, but I cannot draw flowers.

>>6752037
Google clip art dat shit.

>>6752013
Something like this?

>>6752044
I would wear the shit out of a dress or skirt with this design in the blue.

>>6752037
You could make a spear going through the horses, instead of those pole thingies

>>6752050

That's an interesting idea, I was struggling with what to use for the "pole".

I was considering doing the ghosts of war horses in all their cavalry gear impaled upon cheval de frise; not strictly a "carnival", but I thought it might be interesting.

Horsemen of the apocalypse? Well, maybe not the horsemen themselves but the four in the forms of horses. Death would a skeletal horse, war would be in vicious looking armor, famine would be starving, and pestilence would be decaying.

It's a bad idea, isn't it? I found this thread a few hours ago and now I keep thinking of stuff. I'm not even a lolita.

>>6752044
... Are you going to upload this on spoonflower or something? Because I really want this print, in every color.

>>6752052

>I was considering doing the ghosts of war horses in all their cavalry gear impaled upon cheval de frise; not strictly a "carnival", but I thought it might be interesting.

I NEED THIS.

>>6752044
OMG. I'm in love

>>6752037
Oh yes, that's exactly how I imagined it. In sepia tones. I like the idea of wilted roses, maybe you can find a tutorial, since you're going the hand drawn route?

>>6751766

And I know who you are.

Guuuh Im going braindead trying to make this look nightmare-ish. Thoughts?

>>6752086
You could use a play on words "night mare"

>>6752086
wilder manes, twisted proportions, more menacing faces

>>6751766

Oh God, I can actually picture it in my head. I've got a few ideas I'd love to put down on paper.

And I am not this anon (>>6752073); I have absolutely no idea who you are!

>>6752086
put a tiny animal on that horn!

>>6752086

Dude, don't trace stuff.

>>6752054
I don't think it is good enough quality for printing, sorry. Maybe someone will make a better version or something.

>>6752097
Considering this is a rough version and not a final (was only using it for pose and proportion) I feel tracing my own photo of my own horse should be fine. As I took a bajillion photos of her when she was running about the field last summer and winter.

>>6752063

I could work with sepia. Saying that, what do you think of tea/coffee painting for the colour? I think it'd produce a rather nice effect if I could make it work.

This is the past piece of mine I'm basing it off (I've posted it once before, I believe.), excuse the sloppy work (I did say I could only sort of draw.), with the sort of... melting into skeleton rather than the "rotting" zombie look if you know what I mean?

Tutorials are a very good idea, I will work on that.

Now I want a pyramid head carousel print. Too bad there is no way to make that look good. I'd call it kawaii carousel triangle head.

>>6752108
You have no idea how badly I want to make this a reality.

>>6752104
Damn that's one fine looking drawing.

>>6752111
Thank you very much!

>>6752108
I think it could work, but I'd do it with a transitional sort of effect. I'd have a regular carousel slowly turning into a "fog world" carousel slowly melding into an "otherworld" carousel and back again, with a more... subtle horror than just PH standing beside a carousel if you get what I mean.

>>6752086
While I'm on the subject of silent hill, here's a screen shot of the silent hill 3 carousel.

>>6752104
YES. Yesgasm. This is perfect, and I really love the idea of using coffee and tea. I think it will really add to it.

No problem. I can't draw at all, so tutorials are great.

Here's a very experimental print about teenage angst

>>6752133
This reminds me of myspace

Dude, I leave the dream dress thread for my bed and I come back to this? Hoooooly crap /cgl/.

>>6752133
Seems pretty accurate. Given the right design I'd probably wear this trainwreck.

I would like a print with cheeses on it. Like cheese and crackers and wine, that sort of still life ambiance.

>>6752148
That reminds me of a game called Dinner Date for some reason, you might like it. It's like a few bucks on Steam.

>sage for no point.

>>6752086
instead of a perfect unicorn horn, maybe some sort of wicked, curved looking horn, or something jagged and sharp

>>6752200

I'm not the anon you're replying to (I'm >>6752104) but what do you think of ram's horns to give a sort of Satanic image?

>>6752086
zombie kids riding every other one

black roses with big thorns

>>6752206
get out

>>6752201
that could look really cool, i thought about that briefly. or maybe something like a question mark? where the tip of the curve is what comes from the forehead and the point is the end of the straight line, if that makes sense?

>>6752121
Maybe something like this but less clashy and with gradients and by someone that has time to make it neat.

Also, this just reminds me how much I hated that second film. Dammit.

>>6752086
also i would make the horses far skinnier, emaciated or sickly.

>>6752207
okay.

I was just trying to help, though.

>>6751842
I'm very excited. It will be so beautiful.

>>6752121
How about something like this, but less clashy and by someone with enough time to put in gradients/not colour over lines etc?

Pony outline from google.
I hate you all for getting me so distracted from my work, but not as much as I hate the second Silent Hill film, which this is reminding me of.

>>6752246
Jesus, I left out so much stuff.
Oh well.

>>6752246
OMFG I love it so far.

Can't resize images right now, so apologies if this is huuuuge.

This is the beginning of one of my carousel horses, I'm the anon planning hand-drawing everything and coffee/tea-painting it.

Bear in mind it's a very rough sketch, so proportions are crazy. What do you think of the pose? The majority of the hind half will be skeletal. Should I put tack on the horses? Any crit so far? I'm using images of horses mid-buck/rear for reference points as I want very "odd" poses.

>>6752322

And like a twat, I drop the image.

>>6751302
Deers and bunnies. Anthropomorphic. Browns,pinks, wines

On phone so I can't do any mock ups

>>6752324
The straight leg might look nice if it sweeps a little forward around the final joint, but I don't really know how to explain that any better. How many horse pose variations do you plan to do?
Maybe sketching them all in one go will help you keep the space balanced before you get fixed on specific poses.

>>6752333

Do you mean if the leg is slightly bent with the fetlock sort of curving under so the hoof is raised and not directly on the ground?

I was planning on using three pose variations, but possibly more. I can't really do lots of little sketches, I've never been good at that. I do best at just sitting down, getting one part done, moving onto a new piece, etc.

>>6752336
Exactly that.
But i tried it when I was anticipating what i said making no sense, and actually it's more striking your way.

>>6752353

Ah, I see what you mean! I only just remembered that all four hooves don't actually have to be touching the ground as carousel horses don't need any support from their legs, so that's made my poses way more interesting. I may bend that leg under a touch so it's not so rigidly straight, but I'll see how the rest of the sketch turns out.

I was planning on having each variation with a different "horn"; one with a long, lethally pointy traditional horn (possibly twisty-turny like on the drawing I posted further up the thread.), one with ram's horns and a third with some other variety.

Here's what I'd imagine the one piece would look like for the angst print.
It's got two layers: a layer with distressed edges that the print is on, and a chiffon layer underneath it. Very good for a punky look

Redux, thanks for the suggestions. Anything else?

>>6752373
why are their horns coming out of their butts

>>6752381
*there
and I wanted a silent-hill carousel-esque reference, thanks to the anon who posted the screenshot.
It's nightmareish, non?

>>6752381
because they're horny. b'dum tiss

>>6752366
I actually really like this

>>6752373

They're very... "shaggy ponyish", though I don't know if that's just your lines. They look like the silhouette of a Haflinger to me. I find making ponies frightening is hard; you'd be better replacing them with something sleek and Baroque-y like Friesans, something with Spaniard/Iberian blood? Or you could go to either of the extremes of something lean and tall or huge and drafty.

In vein of Nightmare Carousel, how about something involving the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Or a Ragnarok print?

>>6752384
Their is correct. There is not.

At any rate, they look too realistic for my liking. The original print is really stylised and cartoony. I think it would pay to alter the proportions and make them gangly and grotesque. Their faces are also too boxy to be menacing. They'd look more ominious if you give them a predatorial shape that's slightly less horse-accurate. Go with sharper, wedge-shaped faces with eyes that aren't so round--flatten the top line and give them some angle.

>>6752392
Considering I based these off my own horse, a QH/Belgian mix, I'm being serious when I tell you she ain't no pony. She is thick and short bodied, though. I could always lengthen them a bit, thin the neck out, see how that looks?

Okay, here's a slightly cleaner sketch. Ignore the blocky back part, that will all be skeleton.

Any crit?

>>6752396
Seconding the Four Horsemen. This may or may not be because of my obsession with Supernatural.

>>6752389
arigato anon-san

>>6752398

Ahhh, that'll be what it is! I can definitely see the Belgian silhouette, but without the context of BULK and height, it looked very ponyish if you know what I mean?

I say look at Akhal Teke builds, they're quite angular?

>>6752401
I'd do it myself but I'm not that skilled of an artist. I'm not very familiar with horse anatomy, either, and anything I drew would probably come out looking awful.

>>6752397
Actually, rereading. There can be correct. But I'm going to assume that anon meant "why are the horns that belong to them coming out of the butts that belong to them"?

Changed a few things, made the faces longer, eyes angular, limbs longer and added a bit more lean-ness to the torso.

>>6752418

I'd do it anon, but I can't draw riders.

>>6752400

This looks amazing. I really hope you actually go through with this, anon.

>>6752438
If you want to try your hand at it without any riders, I'd be just as thrilled.

>>6752447

Sure thing. I'll do it once I'm done with my Nightmare Carnival stuff.

Any ideas you'd like to see? I was considering shooting with a lot of tarot card imagery.

phantom of the opera print. I know some taobao brand did one or something but it was a failure imo. Needs more masks and nooses and roses and fire and violins and opera houses and blood and music notes and.. and..yeah I could go on. I love POTO.

>>6752459
Awesome, thanks. Feel free to do whatever you think is best, anon.

>>6752459
Different anon, but have you ever read Good Omens? That's my favorite interpretation of the Four Horsemen.

>>6752482

My girlfriend is a huge Pratchett fangirl, so she's probably read it, but I have not. I will do a pollution horse just for you.

>>6752485
That would be amazing! I want this co-ord in real life so badly...

>>6752086
didnt someone post a night mare carnival print in another thread

>>6752366
coording it with red would be so cute

>>6752474
Phantom pf the Opera prints make me happy. Agree with you that Krad's was a bit meh. But Aatp's Masquerade Theater sets the Phantom print bar high.

>>6751905
>motherfucking flag of Rohan

I'm not even a lolita and I would by the shit out of a dress with this print.

Also a dress with a print based on the ring of Sauron would be mine in an instant.

>>6752507
where the ring text was the bottom border in gold screenprinted on a black dress? that might be a little simple, though...

>>6752526
I used to have a copy of Fellowship with this on the cover. The color on this one's a bit weird, IRL it was just black with a red/copper color and gold, I think it could make a beautiful dress.

>>6752571
Oh wow, it would!

>>6751756
Working on raptor themed print I got this far I've been through so many ideas. Any suggestions to make this less fugg.

I wish I could draw something other than horses. If I could, I'd be all over a series of prints based on the ASOIAF houses.

>>6752583
It's looking a little cluttered right now with the bones; maybe make the patterning of them a little less randomly overlapping on each other and more planned out?

>>6752585
Oh my god, I'm a little bit ashamed to say how much I would be all over those. Classic lolita with those motifs would be gorgeous. Maybe based off the dress descriptions in the books as well?

Okay, seeing as I'm more attuned to pencil and paper, lets try that nightmare carnival again, shall we?

>>6752571
oooh, yeah that could be really pretty. i forgot about those covers, i think that's the version my roommate has of the trilogy.

>>6752501
I felt masquerade theater was too cluttered. you have to really inspect the print to know wha it's about and i like more 'obvious' recognition. However I love the falling chandelier motif.

>>6752583
First off, I love you, let me bear your children, other various creepy attempts to express just how much adore you, etcetera, etcetera

As far as suggestions go, maybe make a layer of velociraptor (or other dinosaur) eggs to put at the very bottom instead of the long spine and skull thing going on down there
It also needs something above the bottom area, more dinos or dino parts/features (eyes/teeth/claws), I'm not sure
Maybe a mosquito in amber, be more jurassic park-y
Or to go with the skeleton theme, fiery meteors?
Maybe you can even fit some T-rex action or skeleton in there somewhere
It might need something besides just dino skeletons, maybe like exotic plant leaves
Maybe see if you can do some sort of reptile skin texture for the background
These are just ideas of course but maybe they'll help a little

And thank you, again. You're great,a non. When it's done, I might have to get fabric of this made and make a superkawaiidesu loliraptor JSK or something out of it. It would be fabulous.

>>6752596
pls look up and utilize some horse anatomy, that looks more guessed than exaggerated/cartoony.

I suppose this is not really a print idea but a series of dresses with the curtain front effect (a la haenuli Cinderella) with different cities' colours and their emblem in the curtain part (like rohan, blue/white/ gold dress with horse print emblem in the window

This may not be in keeping with the current theme of the thread but I've always wanted to see a cute penguin print! Maybe with little top hats and canes...

I know an Indie brand already did a design similar to the Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries, but I want one based off of this particular one.

>>6752474
Someone please do this. And take all of my money.

My half-assed attempt at Nightmare Carnival. I think a heavily decorated gold-accented carosel would look stunning, without too much emphasis on thorns and skulls and all that other stereotypical stuff. And the skeletal/zombie thing is a little overdone in prints lately...I guess I'm just going for a normal, more gothic toned SC print....

>>6752583
I'm with a paleontologist and would literally throw money at that until you gave it to me or I died. Which ever happened first.

>>6753232

>>6753245
Dat last one on the right. Did...did you impale a horse on a pole and now it's just coughing up blood from it's lungs and convulsing in death throes?

>>6753249
I feel i need to clarify that this wasn't an insult but it does look nightmarish enough for a nightmare carnival.

>>6753249
Yeah, that's the general idea. Kinda makes me sad to draw dying horses, but happy go lucky horses running through the forest aren't exactly anyone's worst nightmares

>>6752583
Please put this on spoonflower when you're done. Would buy and give you firstborns and subsequents.

I always thought horse head skeletons were the creepiest. So this is how I envision the horse on the print would look kind of like. I don't draw horses much so sorry if its not anatomically correct. I tried.

>>6753299
Love it

>>6753299
I love this and would buy a dress with this kinda print in a heart beat.

I wish lolita had a lot more "creepy" prints.. And I don't mean like "We're All Mad Here" prints, those are still on the "kawaii" side. I want creepy fucking prints.

>>6753312
+1

>>6753245
>>6753249
i like that idea; maybe if the horse is flailing in death, it would have its head arched back?

>>6752434
Oh, this is much better. The horses look so much less cute now which was really bugging me

All of this is going to be on Spoonflower, right?


Could we have a kawaii sloth print? I really like sloths, maybe they could be linking their arms like those plastic monkey barrels they used to sell.

I know that this is a pretty scribbly thumbnail, I'm sorry. I just saw this thread this morning and got excited and wanted to contribute. Would anyone possibly be interested in a classical-styled chess set print? I feel like this has already been done before but I can't find an example in hellolace.

>>6753791
chess chocolate?

>>6753791
I know I would be, that looks lovely!

>>6753807
I was thinking about that one, but I don't know if it would be too much of a rip-off as long as I make the colorways more classic instead of sweet. I was thinking of drawing a bunch of roses along the border and making chess pieces wood-textured to give it a more romantic, antiquated feeling. :x

>>6753814
Thank you! :o I'm going to try to do a really good job on it.

>>6751999
Deep Purple or Navy and just take my money.

>>6751999
Hahaha! This is great, I love it.

>>6753684
Excuse my poor attempt

>>6753960
>Those sloth faces along the bottom
Holy fuck that's adorable.

>>6753960
Simply amazing.

>>6753960

O M G it's so fucking cute!!

>>6752434
I really like the design, but the butt-horns are bugging me. I know it's a reference because of the thread, but anyone who doesn't know SH is pretty unlikely to get it. If you ever get it to the stage where you'd consider releasing it commercially, you'd probably want to consider getting rid of them.

If you'd already realised/considered this point, feel free to ignore me, haha. It's looking really cool so far.

>>6754024
>>6754038
>>6754043
Oh stop it anons, you're making me blush... but I do wish I had better drawing skills so I could make it print-worthy.

>>6752434
>>6754045
Ok so I didn't realize what was going on... the horses do not have 'butt horns' (to the anon designing this, not to the anon I'm replyin git) they have huge hooks hooked through their back with the points protruding out of the hip area. I know this picture has already been posted, but I just wanted to explain to to people a bit better so they realize it's a hook point, not a... butt horn

I'm not a fan of the print above because of that (since it doesn't look like a hook at all in the design) and the anatomy is bugging me. I used to ride as well as own horses so funky anatomy bugs me a bit.

>>6754058
If that was navy and available as a cottn print I would buy it. Galpal has a sloth obsession and that would make a darling skirt.

>>6754084

>not to the anon I'm replying to
>out over the hip area

stupid typing

>>6754084
Oh jeeze those ARE hooks haha man I did NOT see them as hooks last night.
I've since omitted them completely anyway.
What specifically is wrong with the anatomy?
I was mostly trying to exaggerate on what my references were. Anything you can point out to help make this better?

>>6754084
I'm >>6754045
Ah, so they're like abattoir hooks? Makes sense. I think I got confused because the horses in the design were still on poles, instead of actually being suspended from the hook.

The hook idea sounds pretty cool, actually.

>>6754099
The leg joints (specifically around the fetlocks, which would be like... ankle joints) are a bit funky. I don't have time to really point out all the specifics and it doesn't look terrible or anything, it just looks off to me personally. The other anon who had reference pictures earlier in the thread had a good grasp on leg anatomy and then the anon who made the other nightmare carnival print looked good (though the front leg pointing out appears to either be too short or the cannon bone is too long, can't really tell).

>>6754084
i do get kind of an idea from that silent hill- where instead of the horn being grown from the horse as part of its anatomy, it's part of a spear or an arrow, like it was an impaled battlehorse?
this thread also has me re-reading the sailor moon manga to get ideas for a themed print... maybe one for each soldier?

>>6754099
And these horses have feathers (long hair coming off their fetlocks) so it may be distorting your view of the joint down there as it's not very visible. Try looking at a sleeker/shorter haired horse to get a better idea on the leg anatomy I would suggest? And the gate you're looking for in regards to leg movement would be a trot.

>>6754099
wanna pet dat horse

>>6754109
what? it's a hook coming from above in the SH picture. Do you mean you'd like to see a battlehorse with axes and spears impaled into it? I guess that's what you mean

>>6752053
>Horsemen of the apocalypse
FUCK YES, but with both men and horses and the bible version because the horses and men and well detailed and badass.

>>6752246
You should have a dead limp horse like it was impaled by the carousel pole. I would pay for ALL the horses to be dead

>>6753791
MAKE IT HAPPEN.

>>6754179

Goddamnit, dropped the image.

I've started drawing the bones in at the back end. They're a bit too chunky right now, so once I've drawn the skeleton, I'm going to slim the bones down a touch more.

Something looks off to me and I can't figure out what it is. It's still a sketch though, so there's plenty of time to fix things.

Does anybody have any ideas of stuff I can add etc?

>>6754184

Looking good but I agree with you on the beginnings of your bones.

>>6754206

Yeah. I'm not actually using any references, so hopefully I can finetune it once I get access to a decent skeletal reference. I want it to be as anatomically accurate as possible.

I'm not using references for any part of this besides a photo I based the pose off, so hopefully my anatomy isn't too skiffy.

I posted this a while back in another thread but seriously a tarot card print would be really rad

I'll give a shot at drawing a nightmare carnival horse tonight. This looks like something fun.

Meanwhile I'd like to request prints of aquariums. I live an hour from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the jellyfish/the Outer Bay tanks have been one of my favorite places since forever.

>>6754134
yeah, sorry, i'm posting stupid. when i was first looking at the silent hill image, the suspension point of the horses on their heads looked like the carousel roof was skin that had grown downward and covered/suffocated the horses by growing over their heads.
the hook concept is really cool too, suspension horses and such. if it fits with the rest of the carousel theme, then a battlehorse where its pole was a spear and the unicorn horn was an arrow would be pretty creepy. too many designers in the art studio~

>>6754236
general underwater themed prints (more coral reefs and fish and things as opposed to mermaids) could be pretty, especially if done in colors like deep jade or navy with the water refraction effect as a relaxing background pattern, like the diamond pattern on chess chocolate.

>>6754242

Not the anon you're replying to, I'm half-skeleton-horse anon, but what do you think of a macabre unicorn print, where the horn is the tip of a spear thrust through the horse's body and up through it's head to burst from the forehead?

>>6754257
yes, i think that was along the lines of what i was thinking of. or a general print that looks like unicorns, then you realise it's a battlefield after war. i like horses i don't know why i keep going on about this ;_;

Moon Kingdom print (sadly would probably look tacky)
King Arthur and his knights print
Thestral carousel print (honestly, I'm not digging the horses)
Seashell print

>>6754298
>sadly would probably look tacky
Everything in this thread is tacky.

If anyone wants skeleton references, I work in a zooarchaeology lab on Fridays that has a metric fuckton of specimens, some of which are mounted. So if anyone has a specific animal they'd like to see bits of I could probably get detail pictures and close ups for anatomy.

Just some examples, mounted we have an otter, a goose, a coyote, a raccoon, and a two headed calf. We've got skulls everywhere too, including various horned animals, a rhino, and a walrus.

Just let me know and I'll try and get back to you on Friday.

>>6754313
That sounds so cash!
I mean, we'll probably just use google for refrences, but maybe you could show us some of the cool ones anyway.

>>6754250
That would be good. I was thinking of something else that would be similar to Haenuli's /Snowfield's Royal kitten print, where the kittens are "showcased" in a frame. Except I'm thinking a pretty oval frame with different jellyfish such as Pacific Nettle, Spotted jellyfish, Cassiopeia jelly, etc.

I'm absolutely terrible at making "print" patterns. Help me /cgl.

>>6754335
jellyfish sound pretty, too. now we're straying into jellyfish princess territory...

>>6753299
This looks excellent, even just as a sketch it looks brilliant.

and damn, I had thought about a thread like this 4 days ago when I was at my friends house (who doesn't have internet). Kudos to the anon who put this into action.

I had thought about a print the revolved around something circular like a round fountain with a woman in the middle, then I thought it was impossible, due to not being able to capture it in it's 3d glory.

>>6754321
It's a lot of fun, and the grad student is like, "Fuck it, just don't break anything." So it's chill and they give you coffee. I'm currently trying to get a bison skeleton cataloged, which is an adventure.

I figured you'd use google, but you can't always find close ups of what you need and such, so I was throwing that out there.

>>6754346
TWO HEADED CALF PLEASE

All this talk of carnivals is making me want a freak show based print. I will kill for a skirt with a bearded lady on it with kind of a morbid and/or antiquey feel to it.

>>6754349
Gotcha. If this thread or a successor is still around Friday, will post pics. It's a bit old and in need of repairs though, one leg has mostly fallen off.

>>6753960
spoonflower plz

This is amazing, thank you anon!

>>6754359
official thread music
http://youtu.be/OsjTBdiPq8o

Maybe some freak show animals, like a two headed snake or something, maybe as a border.

If it could be done artfully, I'd love to do a stained glass Windwaker print, with the stained glass windows of the sages and stained glass window art on it. It'd be adorable.

Sadly pretty much all video game related prints turn out looking tacky, ugly and obnoxious.

>>6754466
That would be cute!

I think Journey would be good for a subtle game print.

>>6754408
I'll draw up a bigger version and see, it might turn out a hot mess

>>6754466
best friends~ i want to make a stained glass or mucha style print of link, zelda, and ganon, or at least skirts themed around them. sweet/hime for zelda, classic in cream and emerald for link, and gothic black and red (and or gold) for ganon.

>>6754426
Yesssss! That would be amazing! I wish I could draw so bad to make this!

>>6754481

PERFECT. That sounds amazing.
I'd also love to do an Okami print.

>>6754298
>Moon Kingdom print (sadly would probably look tacky)

If drawn ala Twinkle Journey art it would be quite beautiful.

I know one thing, they better give us some detailed views of the moon kingdom in the rehash of Sailor Moon. Cause blurry ass small pictures of it for the last 18 years has been annoying art wise.

>>6754466
I would love this.

I'd also love a Starry Night Van Gogh print, something JetJ style.

>>6754494
I only remember scattered episodes from my childhood, but why is there a moon behind the Moon Kingdom if it's on the actual moon?

>>6754511
That's the earth

>>6754494
It'd be perfect if it was like Twinkle Journey, but I feel like a lot of lolitas would prefer it to be more like Milky Planet.

I do like that AP stuff glitters, and a Moon Kingdom print would HAVE to be glittery. ~*~Magical girl~*~

>>6754511
You serious?

>>6754508

STARRY NIGHT ~
That'd be beautiful.

Art-wise, I'd love to see a classic print feature Stubbs' Whistlejacket... Picture it, that lovely antique brownish colour with brown velvet ribbons and shit... It'd be beautiful.

>>6754515
Calm down, I can barely remember. All I can recall is the episode where Artemis turns into a kangaroo and the Super S movie.

>>6754526
You don't have to remember. You responded to a picture of it. A picture and a little logic is all you needed.

I'd love a really nicely done Cardcaptor Sakura print. Picture a classic style Clow Card print.

>>6754526
Anon, if "you serious" is the worst thing said to you on /cgl/, you're doing good.

>>6754532
Okay. Sorry to be a stupidface and derail the thread.

So, how about them Magical Girl Prints? Maybe Madoka Magica one with Soul Gems and Grief Seeds. Not just the Soul-egg part, but like the symbols on their costume to.

>>6754489
i think a desire to use the characters themselves is what can drag a print down and make it cartoony. not that it couldn't be done in an elegant way, but a lot of people, when designing a print, want the print NOW and just slap some 8bit images pulled from google together and call it a day, instead of considering what elements of the character can translate well to a print. with link, for example, dark green with a cream border, maybe with da vinci style schematic sketches of some of the more famous weapons, fairies, and a soft gold background pattern of interlinking O's like his chainmail. with ganon, i immediately think bright bold reds on black, maybe a greek key motif (similar to the one on his robes from WW). zelda, i would definitely pull in her dress trim from either OOT or TP, as well as elements like the harp.

>>6754514
hell no, i want it like twinkle journey. it can still be glittery, damn it!

>>6754551

Yeah, I think "inspired by" definitely looks way less tacky than directly lifted from the game.

I'd also love some of the beautiful Final Fantasy art made into a print. A print with Yoshitaka Amano's work would be beautiful, but could never happen.

I would like to see a print of the beheading of Marie Antoinette. I would also like to see a print of the Annunciation.

>>6754566
Ooh, I'd wear the Death of Marat.

>>6754566
>beheading of Marie Antoinette

>>6754566
>beheading of Marie Antoinette

>>6754058
I love the sloth print so much! Don't give up on it anon!

I'd like one of soldiers marching with bayonets. All around the edge of my skirt.

Or, to go along with all the Lord of the Rings clamor, a map of Middle Earth print.

>>6754635
I would love any kind of old school map print in general. I think that would be lovely!

>>6754546
Sorry to be a samefag, but maybe they could be in seperate prints?

Like the Grief Seeds could be in a gothic print with runes on the hem saying "Aren't I Lovely?" or something along those lines.

Maybe a sweet print with Anthonies? I could try my hand at this stuff but I'm poop at drawing

>>6754603
High-res sloths incoming. I still need to do the faces at the bottom, are there any requests for colourways other than pink and navy?

>>6754691
lavander, please

>>6754639
Map prints? Oh god please yes. I would by that shit up in sepia tones.

Especially if it's pirate-y. I love pirates.

Can we get like a dancing narwhal or something? Just a narwhal print of any kind would make me super happy.

>>6754698
Doesn't this exist already...?

>>6754566
Well here's my take on the chopping off heads print concept. Made this for Oo Jia's print contest of oblivion.

My ultimate dream is to get some tailor to collab with me and get this thing made

>>6754698
Yes! Or any kind of old school ships or like the sea creatures they used to have on those things along the bottom! I would so by that!

>>6754704
10/10 would wear

>>6754703
It does but to be honest, I don't really like the border and it's kind of plain for my taste.

challenge accepted

>>6754704
In pink

>>6754711
In teal

>>6754704
Loooovve!

>>6754704
I... I love you anon!

captcha: worship Oheream

>>6754704
Would invest time and money into this project/10.

Sadly, my skills are not good enough right now, but I wish you luck!

>>6754715
holy shit this just about seared my eyes off.

..I kind of love it.

>>6754711
Cute, but I do wish it was a bit bloodier.

>>6754722
The colors aren't right until your eyes are burning
-Confucius

>>6754704
this is amazing!

>>6754704
Holy shit that looks amazing.

I'd wear it. Don't know where, since I don't go to meetups, but I would.

>>6754724
>>6754723
>>6754722
>>6754718
>>6754717
>>6754713

Thank you anon. My secret desire is for some chinese company to somehow steal this design and make dresses, I would not even care if I didn't see a penny

>>6754703
Yeah, this version http://www.babyssb.co.jp/shopping/ap/jumper/108P226.html in navy is slowly climbing up my wishlist, but ffff so expensive, and there's no such thing as too many maps and pirates.

>>6754706
Krakens and sea serpents and the like? Jezebel, I like your taste.

>>6754556
oh amano's art is stellar, for sure. i also like some of the art by the new person doing it...? i'm really bad at names.

>>6754691
yellow! or green. something happy and jungly.

>>6754730
Yessss. In fact I would even be happy if it is just a krakens/sea serpents print with map accents I think haha.

This is a WIP
Somebody asked for penguins with top-hats and bows and the like.

Not very good at this, anything I should change/add?
Also the green is supposed to be like a stage (working on it, obviously)

>>6754783
Maybe maps with like... kraken's taking ships down to the deep, Jörmungandr with a long sunken ship, A leviathan, and whatever other monsters of the depths we can dream up? I'm unopposed to more mundane sea creatures like narwhals, whales and dolphins of course.

>>6754860
Maybe some thing above the penguins or a background. It seems kind of plain.

>>6754860
>>6754877
If they're on a stage maybe curtains and/or stage lights?

>>6754871
I want a map/seamonster print so bad now! That sounds so cool! Giant squids/Krakens/Leviathans/etc. + Antique Maps would be the neatest to me!

>>6752044
>>6751999
>trips
>dubs
10/10 Anon, though I would probably use a Huey instead of a Little Bird for the helicopters. Something that could actually fight giant monsters.

>>6754883
Me too. Fuuuuck why can't I draw. I would make this and sew it and be happyyyyyy.

improvements?

Jesus Christ, /cgl/, you have no taste.

>>6754704
I don't know if she'd be down, but my favorite seamstress is Il Sangue.
http://www.ilsangue.com/IlSangue/gallery.php

And there are lots of places to print your fabric.

> gif related, you go gull, im happy you've taken the first steps to following your dream

>>6754942
Why did the sloths suddenly become purple? The cheeks changing I get, but their fur is a little silly, sorry to be a buzzkill.

The dark green sloths are perfect though, because sloths are so slow moss grows on them and they turn green.

But I'm happy you did this to.

>>6754943

can we see the print you designed anon?

>>6754958
I got too lazy to change the individual colours, but you're right it does look a bit off, I'll go back and do that.

>>6754973
You're a peach!

>>6754979
better?

>>6752366
can we get a version of this without the words or the animals? just the face?

>>6754546
yesplox.

>>6754994
Yes! It's so sugoi!

>>6755000
t-thankyou senpai (*´∀`*)

>>6751829
I REALLY want an Icarus print, hell add the labyrinth and a minotar as well and I'd give you my firstborn child.

>>6754961
I don't need to design a print to know that
>>6752133
is atrocious. A lot of these ideas are fun, but would look terrible as an actual garment. Does anyone remember Derpy-chan? /cgl/ fell all over itself making Derpy-chan prints and when they actually got made into skirts they looked horrible.

>>6754704

For the love of all things good in the world PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Or put it on spoonflower I DON'T KNOW I JUST NEED THIS PRINT IN MY LIFE OKAY
And I'm sure Im not the only one who would be willing to pay

>>6755009
The one you pointed out was obviously a joke, you moron.

>>6755022
Thank god. That one as a joke is better than the Nightmare Carnival someone made in a different thread. The one with the crazy neon colors. Dreadful. Unless that one is a joke, too. I'm not on /cgl/'s level of humor tonight apparently, I'll give it a rest.

>>6755055
...Yes, that was a joke too....

>>6755061
THANK GOD. I thought the multiple edits of it meant it was serious.

Alright, /cgl/, I'm the asshole. I'll take my exit from this thread and leave you all in peace.

>>6755061
Wait that was a joke? This one? >>6748933

...I actually liked it. I know the original file name said tacky lolita print, but when they said it was going on spoonflower I thought it was serious.

>>6755081
Well, people asked them to put it on spoonflower so they did, but yeah, it's pretty clear that they were avin a giggle.

>>6755081

It started as a joke, to respond to an initial anon, I got about 15+ girls asking for it to be put on spoonflower on tumblr and quite a few locally, and now it's on spoonflower.

That's it. I didn't spend days on it, I spent a grand total of 40 minutes on it, I don't understand why anon has to whine about it for days

>>6755087
>I don't understand why anon has to whine about it for days
That seems like a weird overstatement when they only mentioned it in one post. Apparently lots of girls like it, why does it hurt your feelings that one bitch anon who can't tell a joke doesn't?

>>6755096
not the creator but it is odd to bring it up two days later in a thread full of unrelated print ideas just to rag on it

>>6754994
Spoonflower please. The blue would make cute pillows

>>6755096

My feelings aren't hurt at all about people disliking it, you'll see the dream dress thread where this all started had the same few anons complaining about how I had ruined dreams etc a day or so after I had put it on spoon flower.

I explained the same thing there, it was a joke, the fabric is available if people want it, that's all.

>>6755101
>unrelated print ideas
Half of this thread is scary horse carousels.

>>6755104
Well that's severe. How does making fabric available ruin anyone's dreams?

>>6754994
I liked the rainbow sloths more.I mean they are super stylized anyway. But as far as design they both work

>>6754994
I liked the heads at alternating angles, like in the early draft.

tried, kinda hit a rut

>>6755464
oh my fucking god I popped the biggest boner

>>6755464
Maybe build on the theme of each witch? Gretchen's mask, Ocktavia's swords or mermaid tail, ect. Dear gods I love Madoka.

>>6755464
I'm not even a madoka fan but i'd wear the fuck out of this holy crap

>>6755464
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I could finally wear my grief seed pendant with lolita.

>>6755464
Honestly I wouldn't let it get too cluttered. I think the best route would be if you could maybe make the grief seeds a bit larger and more elaborate or ornate, like lettering in an illustrated manuscript.

>>6754704
Really cool. I'd personally prefer it if it looked a little bit more 'gory' somehow since it looks more like sleeping maidens rather than beheaded maidens. Maybe the drips could be more... drippy...

>>6754942
I preferred when the sloths were more wonky. It gave a kind of cute and clumsy feel to them.

>>6754958
>sloths are so slow moss grows on them and they turn green
Oh my goodness, that's so cute...

>>6754994
Maybe you can do another one where there are green (or just different coloured) sloths. If all the sloths are brown it kind of gives a boring feel/lack of options.

I would kill for a subtle neon genesis evangelion print. Maybe something with the angels?

>>6755994
I know there's an edit somewhere that takes all the characters out and just has the horizon. Maybe that?

>>6755928
I agree on the wonky faces, but I'm not sure about the colours, people are saying different things

Edited according to concrit.
Not that anyone is particularly interested in this, I'm just having too much fun. I fucking love sloths

>>6754871
>Jörmungandr
Asatruar here, I'd love to see more Norse mythology themed prints!

>>6756057
Hnnngh
This is freaking ~adorable~
I think the colours in this are perfect

trying not to spend more than 10min on each

>>6752401

... Is that Misha?

>>6755464

Maybe the grief seeds could be at an angle? They seem a little rigid, but it was lovely of you.

Also, can we get this in Brazilian Night Blue?

>>6756057
Perfect. 10/10 would wear.

>>6755464
Awesome! I would love it in just gray/white on black. Maybe if there was some kind of background or ornate frames around the grief seeds? I would wear the shit out of that and a soul gem print.

>>6755464
>>6755536
Hmm, maybe add some large, overlapping, barely visible, semi-transparent grey gears to the waist-ward part of the print for Walpurgisnacht.

And, like >>6756202 said, a rich Walpurgis blue is a given. Maybe incorporate Wally's circus-like procession into account in the form of thin lines of multicolored lights/tags...whatever those decorations are called around the bottom. Nothing too flashy.

If you wanted to focus on Oktavia like >>6755500 said, a border of thin crossed swords in a pale grey over which the rune strip would be transposed might look good at the bottom. In fact I think the rune strip would look nice if the runes looked embroidered into a red ribbon strip symbolic of Oktavia's necktie, just to break up the grey blob.

And wheels instead of Brazilian Night gears.

Holy shit, Oktavia, y u so loli-able?

>>6756825
Oh snap

Wall Mart Night's Circus Procession OTT Sweet Print

Maybe some familiar/witch love? Charlotte would be good, obviously, but Patricia, poodle witch, and Gertrud would work spiffaroo as well.

bump~~

>>6757137
Oh shit, grorious Gertrud print. Completely separate from Grief Seed print, since Gertrud's barrier was a clusterfuck of textures and butterflies.

...Pic related is what I imagined and threw together on my phone. The black circles are supposed to be strings of butterflies following the same curve, but I can't exactly copy and paste within the app.

Right now the "roses" look like disease. It came out a lot more garish than I imagined... HLEP

>>6756057
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssss.
It's ~PERFECT~

>>6753791
YES

i did a more detailed sketch and I'm about to start inking, but I wanted to ask beforehand: what's the best way to submit a fabric print to spoonflower? like, will it turn out better if each color is in a different layer as it would if you were screenprinting, or will they accept standard .jpgs and .psd files?

>>6758634
i think it has to be .tiff files? they should have all the specs on their site. though don't use anything with a black colorway, their black tones are awful.