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Hello X-Freaks,

there will be an X-Freaks T-Shirt which you can order soon.
So you can show all people and all X Japan fans all over the world that you are a supporter of X-freaks! Fuck yeah!

And if you do not want the t-shirt to look like this, then get involved and post your own design until 31.08.2018 // 2018-08-31 // 08/31/2018 in this thread



Then we start a poll among all members and choose at least the one with the most votes, maybe also the design, which takes second place.

The file format does not matter. We will do vectorization later. The other conditions are not so important at first. Important is your creativity!

It would be best if the design were monochrome. This allows us to push the printing costs enormously. Two to four colors is also acceptable. But please no photo collages. That's it for now.


We look forward to your ideas!
« Last Edit: July 31, 2018, 09:41:03 AM by nb »


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Reply #1 on: July 25, 2018, 10:16:24 PM
I'm really curious what the artsy people on here will deliver. And I'm glad I could help nb with the production of this beautiful example for a shirt in paint :D :D :D

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Reply #2 on: July 26, 2018, 10:23:14 AM
Hey nb, by no photo collages do you mean no photos at all or is one photo ok? What about multiple shirts with 1 photo on each or is that too many?

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Reply #3 on: July 26, 2018, 08:01:21 PM
Hi LEMONedMe,

thank you for your question. Maybe I havent said it clearly. I have to apologize.


Photographs usually have very many colors. That in turn is harder to print and therefore more expensive.
In addition, there might be legal issues because the image was either not shot itself or the person in the photo could see their personal rights violated.

Therefore, it is better to completely do without photos.

(There are really cool X Japan T-shirts with 4-color photographs as well, Kasumi has one, maybe she likes to post it ^^)


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Reply #4 on: July 26, 2018, 08:29:55 PM
Hopefully some talented people will post their design soon.

nb, the sample you posted almost gave me a heart attack.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



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Reply #5 on: July 27, 2018, 07:00:57 AM
Hi LEMONedMe,

thank you for your question. Maybe I havent said it clearly. I have to apologize.


Photographs usually have very many colors. That in turn is harder to print and therefore more expensive.
In addition, there might be legal issues because the image was either not shot itself or the person in the photo could see their personal rights violated.

Therefore, it is better to completely do without photos.

(There are really cool X Japan T-shirts with 4-color photographs as well, Kasumi has one, maybe she likes to post it ^^)

Hmmm.  ok.  This makes it more difficult in a way.  I was thinking of black and white images of band members.  And using filters and effects to change the way the photos look to make them look like artwork rather than a photo.

I understand a little about 4 color process for doing t-shirts as my ex husband used to design t-shirts for Vintage Guitar sellers.  So I know, much more expensive with colors and more than 4 but even 4 and they have to be specific colors, I believe, even within the 4 color limit so that was why I was going to go with black and white.

I understand what you are saying about images and copyright on those, too, so you are probably right that it's not a good idea.  Now I don't know what to do.   :D  :D :P

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Reply #6 on: July 27, 2018, 10:42:05 AM
Hi LEMONedMe,

thank you for your question. Maybe I havent said it clearly. I have to apologize.


Photographs usually have very many colors. That in turn is harder to print and therefore more expensive.
In addition, there might be legal issues because the image was either not shot itself or the person in the photo could see their personal rights violated.

Therefore, it is better to completely do without photos.

(There are really cool X Japan T-shirts with 4-color photographs as well, Kasumi has one, maybe she likes to post it ^^)

Hmmm.  ok.  This makes it more difficult in a way.  I was thinking of black and white images of band members.  And using filters and effects to change the way the photos look to make them look like artwork rather than a photo.

I understand a little about 4 color process for doing t-shirts as my ex husband used to design t-shirts for Vintage Guitar sellers.  So I know, much more expensive with colors and more than 4 but even 4 and they have to be specific colors, I believe, even within the 4 color limit so that was why I was going to go with black and white.

I understand what you are saying about images and copyright on those, too, so you are probably right that it's not a good idea.  Now I don't know what to do.   :D  :D :P

Basically, someone with good drawing skills needs to design a nice X-Freaks logo ;)



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Reply #7 on: July 27, 2018, 12:23:11 PM
Basically, someone with good drawing skills needs to design a nice X-Freaks logo ;)

Maybe you?  ;)


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Reply #8 on: July 27, 2018, 01:11:39 PM
Basically, someone with good drawing skills needs to design a nice X-Freaks logo ;)

Maybe you?  ;)

I'm nowhere near that talented, and I suck at digital drawing.



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Reply #9 on: July 27, 2018, 03:08:07 PM
This is a lovely idea! I have no digital design skills but I'll try to doodle something on Paint  8) (Spoiler alert: there must be alpacas)

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Reply #10 on: July 27, 2018, 03:38:17 PM
Hey Teemeah and matsumoto,

you don't have to draw something digital. You can scan it and we work on it. That is really not a problem =)


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Reply #11 on: July 27, 2018, 03:44:22 PM
I think it is more important to just get involved. Maybe your art inspires others and we end up with a really beautiful design. I will try to do something too (even though I'm not good at this at all).

@matsumoto: yes please include Alpaca. :D Thats an awesome idea.

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Reply #12 on: July 28, 2018, 10:12:27 AM
Great, great idea!!  ;D I've got too much time in my hands right now, so I'm going to try to draw something today. I can't make digital art, so it's going to be hand drawing.



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Reply #13 on: July 28, 2018, 06:07:55 PM
Great, great idea!!  ;D I've got too much time in my hands right now, so I'm going to try to draw something today. I can't make digital art, so it's going to be hand drawing.

Ok, so I just took a picture, because I just want to show you what I thought would be cute.  ;D





Edit by nb: I've made the picture size a bit smaller; you can click on it to expand to the original size
« Last Edit: July 28, 2018, 08:51:17 PM by nb »



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Reply #14 on: July 28, 2018, 06:11:27 PM
I just took a picture, to show you what I did. I'll scan it, after we get other ideas!  :)



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Reply #15 on: July 28, 2018, 08:04:29 PM
damn,
this is really cool!

Hide and Taiji are in heavon and holding the banner. I like it very very much.
If this doesn't fit on the front we can put hide with the banner on the back.


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Reply #16 on: July 28, 2018, 08:11:24 PM
It's cute! I like the idea of hide and Taiji holding the banner. This way everyone in X is included.

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Reply #17 on: July 28, 2018, 09:51:30 PM
This is very cute. But Yoshiki looks kind of pissed?  ;D



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Reply #18 on: July 28, 2018, 10:02:04 PM
I love it! It’s so cool, I love how the alpaca is included too. I like the idea of putting the banner in the back ❤️❤️



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Reply #19 on: July 28, 2018, 11:20:57 PM
(...) But Yoshiki looks kind of pissed?  ;D

Maybe because Alpaca disrupted him (in London) ? ^^


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Reply #20 on: July 28, 2018, 11:31:54 PM
That looks awesome



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Reply #21 on: July 28, 2018, 11:41:09 PM
It's cute! I like the idea of hide and Taiji holding the banner. This way everyone in X is included.

Yes, I wanted to include everyone(even the alpaca), that's why there's so much going on there haha. That's a really good idea, putting the banner on the back!

Yes, Yoshiki looks pissed, because of the alpaca! ;D Come on, that thing made him mess upp Endless Rain! But I wanted to include it, so I put Yoshiki on alpaca's back. He wasn't happy about it :P

Thank you everyone for the nice comments!



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Reply #22 on: July 29, 2018, 08:29:38 AM
Hey sasasama! This is so cute, I don't know what else to say.  I can't come close to this cuteness with digital.  I just love it to bits!  :D

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Reply #23 on: August 08, 2018, 02:53:03 PM
I did this by tracing on an old photo, this is gonna be beamed on ym wall and painted on it (hopefully).

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Reply #24 on: August 08, 2018, 08:50:44 PM
Cool Teemeah,

do you want this to take part in the competition?  :)


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Reply #25 on: August 08, 2018, 11:23:08 PM
I posted it here as an option :) maybe if someone likes it :D



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Reply #26 on: August 11, 2018, 10:51:40 PM


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Reply #27 on: August 12, 2018, 06:16:19 PM
I did something... as you can see the theme is blood and roses (how unusual haha...)



now I need a scanner... hmmm...

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Reply #28 on: August 12, 2018, 06:23:09 PM
Oh,

i like it. It's something different compared to the others =)


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Reply #29 on: August 13, 2018, 06:31:45 AM
@fluffy: thx. I hope you can finish in time. I was worried about the deadline, too. So yesterday I decided "f***  it i am doing this now"

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