BIRTHDAY GAME: HAND DRAWN MEH SHIRT CONTEST
15We’re looking for ideas for the next great Meh shirt. Shout out to @targaryen for the genesis of this contest idea, which was actually the first contest we discussed for the birthday week.
Here’s what we need. Grab a piece of paper and a marker. Or a dollar store shirt. Hand draw your idea for the next Meh shirt. We’re looking for realistic, usable shirt ideas here. Dig deep into the Meh world and give us something we’ve never thought of. And @targaryen thought of a Meh Dead Robot shirt, so, you’ve got some work to do.
We’ve got prizes for our favorite designs.
We’ll also find a way to print a version of one or your designs. We’re not committing to a full run and having it sold on Meh, but hey, there is always a chance…
We’ll award prizes as we go. We’ll announce details of the shirt we’re printing next week.
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Ah, hand drawn? So you want like real artists with actual talent? Boooo
@medz Nope. We want everything.
Its a plain tshirt with a pocket and the pocket says Meh on it. I’m a fashion genius.
@gnol I’m really enjoying this theme you’ve established.
Bravo.
@gnol What a long neck you have, are you a giraffe?
I give you Mirk, Irk’s inbred cousin.
For a truly Meh effect, print it on a drab brown color.
@capguncowboy
@capguncowboy That looks awfully familiar…
@capguncowboy @Thumperchick If you are referencing the “Blindfolded Irk”, I hadn’t noticed that at all.
Not a zen garden, but a meh garden…
@lisaviolet well, they never promised us a rose garden…only meh
@medz Short fat sausage fingers. I would almost think you used me as a hand model.
@medz
@lisaviolet No, but I did use @carl669’s pic for inspiration. Edit: pretty much nailed it
@carl669
@lichme
@carl669 @lichme Love it! Are you a TWD fan???
@carl669 @mehbee
Kind of sort of. I never finished the last season. 3 episodes behind. I love the Coral memes though, but this reference is from here:
@mehbee yep!
@carl669 @lichme I love those memes myself, and the bad lip reading video Coral Poops ( think that’s the name). You should watch those episodes, the finale was pretty great. I thought so anyway
@medz
Pinging @ACraigL
Pinging @jasneko, @marcee, @spiritgreen, and @taternuggets too.
@narfcake Oooh, thank you narf!
@mfladd Hope to have some time today. Not sure I will but thanks for the ping.
@ACraigL @mfladd I’m sorry. I didn’t see this until just now. Didn’t mean to nag!
Although this isn’t shirt.woot, do be mindful about designs and concepts that exist already.
In other words, meh wouldn’t be printing something along the lines of this catshirt:
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/ok-life-you-win
Ok Life. You Win.
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@narfcake Way ahead of you. But I appreciate the public notice as well. Same goes for designs.
Now if only I could draw 1/3 as well as come up with idea for shirt designs I’d be
May I request womens PLUS sized shirts? I would love to rock a Meh T but don’t want to wear a boxy mens tshirt w a crew collar
Something in a plus sized scoop neck would be a-meh-zing…
@tinamarie1974 or V neck! But definitely plus…female style
@mehbee agree, maybe a deep V? But yes. Something that doesn’t make me look like a stuffed sausage!
Nope, nope, nope. I’m stay away from all markers.
@Barney
Crayons?
We know you’re talented with them.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/barneys-goat-prize
I know there are some problems but here we go
@tnhillbillygal think you meant here we GOAT
@tnhillbillygal This one is totes (mehgoats) my favorite.
Like this, but actual font, and more distinguished lettering
Happy now @medz?
So Mehny Mehs, So Little Time
@lichme Much better! A cursive “neh” shirt would be great! I kid, I kid. Clearly, I’m not one to judge handwriting skills.
@lichme Funny, I was actually doing this…
@medz @narfcake
Yeah. Critiquing handwriting is the job of @heartny!
@heartny @medz @PlacidPenguin
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/facepawlm-3
Facepawlm
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@lichme That’s like a flock of meh-gulls.
I don’t know why Meh insists on turning all of my photos over. I even rotated it to the right and resubmitted it. It still turned it to the left.
@capguncowboy
This shirt design could also use the quote “I’m nothing without you inside me!”
@capguncowboy “mommy, his shirt says ‘fist me’, what does that mean? Ummm…nothing, it’s something just you say to a friend?”
@capguncowboy That was happening to me. I finally got it to stop by editing the size just a bit if it posted sideways. I would just bring the sides in a bit and waalaa upright photo
@capguncowboy @lisaviolet thanks for this!
@capguncowboy
Huh. She even dressed like Glen…
I assume this contest is a way to test a small batch through the whole phase of concept/design/printing/sales/shipping using your new printing equipment and space. This way, if it turns out crappy, you can blame the user who came up with the design and privately learn from your mistakes.
mediocritee gonna be launching soon, eh?
@medz
/8ball Will Mediocritee ever come to light?
Better not tell you now
@medz It’s not. It’s just a contest to see your ideas for shirts. I wish I had thought to use it as a test process for our own capabilities. That seems like a good “Hey, look at how smart Chad is, he has real potential” moment.
@ChadP So delete @medz’s comment and then claim it as your own. Mediocrity at its best with a little bit idea “borrowing” thrown in. We’ll never tell if appropriately bribed.
@lichme Like a messed up Power Ranger or something.
@Targaryen Ouch, right in the feelings.
@lichme @Targaryen
@lisaviolet @Targaryen It’s too late, my self esteem is destroyed
Very meh art work for very meh candy…
@Kthnxbyenow this is genius
Awww… Thanks! @Panegyric
i spent hours (minutes) on this…i was going to say “just face it”, but that was to much cursive for me…
Oh shirt — I’m in
How about one that reads:
life is
meh.
Using the meh logo, of course.
@medz PEN. AND. PAPER.
@ChadP
@ChadP @medz OMG!! It’s Jesus!
@ChadP @medz Hell, just use the entire picture. As is. If I was more motivated right now (heat doesn’t help), I’d ask @medz for the shirt size, print out a transfer, trim it, weed it, put it in the heat press and put it on a shirt and send it on its way.
Everytime I see it, I start snort laughing.
@lisaviolet can not see the picture. the s in https might be the problem?
@Kidsandliz I don’t know, I copied it from Google images. You’re the first to mention not being able to see it
Features your best selling product of all time. Bonus points if it uses actual lights.
@OnionSoup As they say at catshirtswoot, “Rejected because: outside print area.”
@OnionSoup They should be melted together.
Several t shirt ideas
Not sure if it shows well but those are irk faces making up the word meh
@OnionSoup
I like this design.
I’m just curious how it could be adapted for t-shirts of other colors.
@PlacidPenguin I think it would work on black too… Could probably do a white Halo around the text on other colours.
@OnionSoup @PlacidPenguin I think it would work on cream and navy also. Very pretty.
Doesn’t it say “hand drawn”?
@capguncowboy yes I don’t actually have pen and paper with me. I’d have to walk down the hall to the supply closet. And that’s at least 20 steps.
Or I could scratch my pen knife on my leg and draw in blood. Not trying to win anything… Just having fun .
@Ignorant
@Ignorant So pretty
@medz thanks.
For anyone that doesn’t know, it’s just a ripped off My Little Pony logo.
@Ignorant I love purple.
Ok… If you want hand drawn not computer…
FYI Mezkvalita means medicore in Esperanto, uh… I mean Meh-speranto… The most Mediocre of languages… Guarenteed to make people stop you and ask what it’s all about… So you can tell them about meh.
If I didn’t suck at drawing I would draw Glenn and Irk wrapped around the sash… (That’s why I prefer a PC… Noone can tell how bad I draw that way)
So, how about something like this, where it spells meh both right side up and upside down?
@marcee
@marcee The meh “69” shirt. Where we all feel good.
One last one before going home… The top left are blue colored irk faces. The red and white is glen
Good for 4th July
@OnionSoup for our Canadian neighbours could do the Canadian Flag but replace the maple leaf with a red-Hue Irk head… His head is roughly a maple leaf shape.
Could add the words… “Canadian, M-eh?”
There’s probably a Mehxican flag design we could come up with too.
@OnionSoup that would be the shirt for me!
Don’t be a jerk, Irk
@meanjene
/giphy naughty
Not sure how I’d draw my design but I want white Tees with a white Logo, like the old black on black meh shirts only better because then we can have branded DIY tie-dye Meh shirts.
![Meh him in Store four u’s][1]
Meh him in store for you (s)
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And yet another shirt design![Meh T shirt][1]
Meh T shirt
[1]:
Sell this shirt as Meh’s biggest fan.
Have a meh face in center area of box fan
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@AttyVette Shouldn’t this really be a dyson bladeless fan?
So I sent way too much time on this … particularly when you see what came out of that time LOLOL
So… First: !
And then this happened. I… don’t know
It’s a Meh-asaurus Rex
there are more… like “the league of mediocre stick me(h)n”
Into each life, a little meh must fall…
@Kthnxbyenow I think this looks better in my head…
@Kthnxbyenow maybe if it was light blue rain drops all over, but then the ones that spelled out meh were darker blue ?
I like the idea a lot
My kid is kind of artsy…Maybe I can get some fabric paint and see if she can make it. It will still be meh…But at least it will be an original meh!@capguncowboy
@Kthnxbyenow Oh, now we’re getting philosophical.
@Kthnxbyenow @capguncowboy
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/meh-day-4
Meh Day
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@ChadP — I’ve got to “hand” it to you, this contest is “drawn” out and meh almost lost their “shirt”— just kidding — love yalls neat meh birthday contests … Thanks for letting us have a lot of fun at Meh’s expense ( literally y’all have to even pay for the shipping of awarded Fukos). You’re the best
@ChadP What is the deadline to upload something?
I was going to draw one. But then I thought… Meh.
Simple, but in your face.
Could even add some screen art of meh faces at the bottom.
I was going to hand draw a shirt, but it became apparent that is not a skill that I possess. But then again, Photoshop is not my forte either.
@heartny But I’m wearing a penguin shirt right now …
@narfcake That does not compute.
@heartny It falls into the 80+% of my shirt collection that’s cat-free.
@heartny where’s the heart icon ? Or do they all get the normal VMP now?
@heartny this is really, really good. The only thing is like added(and it’s just what I lime) is either a liked star, or a Meh face does not equal a star, like if you click meh, it’s not liked. JMHO! I would but this one in a heartbeat
@narfcake so just how many years can you go before you run out of t-shirts and have to do laundry?
@Kidsandliz
/roll 1d20
You rolled a total of 5
… maybe.
@narfcake
First of all, why were your catshirts stacked around a penguin shirt? Sounds like you need some catshirt repellent.
Secondly…
SPACE PENGUINS!!!
Requisite cheesy pun and inside joke.
For any color shirt.
@lordbowen For anyone who doesn’t get this, it’s Ewe Irk Meh.
This could also work for bags, magnets, stickers, keychains, mugs, socks, underwear, and whatever other crap you could come up with.
Hoo boy. I can’t draw worth a crap. I wasn’t going to participate in this, because of my complete lack of drawing skills, but this design popped into my head and wouldn’t go the hell away until I put it on paper. The idea is to mimic Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe painting with Irk as the subject.
@Pony I think your muse was at work here, it’s a really good idea
@mehbee Thank you.
@Pony That’s awesome! You get full credit for this inspiration…I have Warhol’d friends’ pet photographs before, so I gave Irk the same treatment.
@QuietDelusions That looks great- it’s what I was trying to get across, but I couldn’t do it by hand with just my sharpies. heh.
Obiwan would be a better image but I’m guessing copyright?
“Hand drawn”… you know…
Ugly, but true.
and sideways.
IRK, killer of 不幸袋.
@acraigl where are you?? Start the t-shirt mehvolution! Use your clever artistic talent!
@mehbee away this weekend. But I’m thinking about it!
@ACraigL think harder…lol
How do I post a pic? Won’t let me paste.
@jonfisher7 if you’re on your phone, turn it sideways. That will bring up the icons. There’s the pretty standard photo icon there. Click that.
@tnhillbillygal I like it. I’m trying to think of something like:
Get F5’d
at
meh.com!
Using the style of some kind of 90’s soda logo, but F5’d doesn’t really make sense since the user is the one doing the F5ing…
@medz I like that 90’s soda theme idea!
@Trillian Those shirts suck. This one’s better.
@Trillian May I suggest underwear for this design.
@Trillian or you could say instead Pressing matters or Pressing Meh’ers
@Trillian along @mfladd’s line of thinking, for the R rated version the meh button needs to go on a pocket strategically placed… just sayin’
@Trillian This might be a better design to avoid sexual harassment by @mfladd.
@Trillian
@jonfisher7 First thing I saw, meh sperm.
@mfladd Where do you think Meh’r-maids come from?
@jonfisher7 @mfladd
Here’s my concept design. I thought about printing the meh-faces and taping them to an actual shirt, but meh, it’s hot out and I’m lazy.
Obviously, better faces could be picked.
You did say you are judging on the idea and not the presentation… (just sayin’ )
To go along with my earlier hand drawn one… Here is a quick 5 min Photoshop mockup. I know a professional artist could do better.
Instead of amehrica could say amehirka
I have no drawing skill. So here’s this. You can use better font. But I think it’s appropriate for meh
@savvysapphire or mediocre everything here !
@AttyVette oh crap…that sounds even better. Too bad my brain couldn’t come up with that one lol
Poorly Drawn Goat.
@ChadP have you guys looked over all the designs yet? I’m dying to know which (if any) will get printed.
@Pony We’re trying to work out the best way to facilitate the winner. It’s tricky.
@ChadP I can imagine!
@chadp are there “winners” with fukos with this or winners with t-shirts that will be made that are chosen yet?
@Kidsandliz it looks like we’re all losers at this game.
-pessemism is my trademark.
@Kidsandliz We’re still working on this one. It’s tricky.
@ChadP OK. Also I submitted mine prior to 11:59PM central on the 15th but was in eastern time at the time so my post says 12:28 eastern on the 16th which is 11:28pm on the 15th central, meh time, (which is by the deadline to get a fuko) so I get one. Correct?
@Kidsandliz yeah… We’re all winners! I knew we would take be let down .
/ Optimism is my trademark
Am I late to the party, as usual? My invitation must have been lost in the mail again, RIGHT?
Here is my entry: Pocket Irk
It could be a real or fake pocket, or offered in both.
@mfladd It pains me to say this, but I like it!
@Trillian Hahaha, thank you
Other Options: The pocket could be made to look more like a VMP Shield, or it could take up the whole front of the shirt and called Marsupial Irk.
@mfladd OR the pocket could be made to look like the cracked flask
@Kidsandliz I blame you and @pooltoywolf that you made me stay up and do this. I also blame pooltoywolf that if you do a search for “mediocre labs cracked flask shirt”, under images in the second row is a pic of me giving the finger in the shirt @ACraigL gave me! The internet is forevah - ugh!
@ACraigL @Kidsandliz @mfladd Yes indeed, the Internet is forever! Simply Googling ‘Pooltoy wolf’ will prove that…just last week, a friend found me in my full fursuit on a roller coaster on Reddit, bahaha!
@mfladd or have the bottle high enough it looks like Irk is emerging from the bottle (so add two lines from the bottle to the edges of irk’s head).
@Kidsandliz But he has such a fat head. An emerging head would probably be better suited for Glen and the flask.
@mfladd think jeanie in the bottle style - curved lines.
@mfladd via an online drawing program cuz out of data on my phone for a photo of hand drawn (so it sucks) but like this (only much better) - although popping out of a pocket alone - like you have it - is cute too
i never submitted mine because i thought it was kind of strange… the bad strange, hahaha. i know it makes no sense, which is why i didn’t post it earlier. yes i realize the contest thing is over, but i did that on purpose there were some awesome designs on this thread! can’t wait to see some of them on shirts!! you guys are great.
@LemonTheCat I like it!
@LemonTheCat I would totally wear that.
Just an idea, and not a drawing, but I think it would be fun and drive the idea home.
How about a shirt of all the Meh employee’s usernames composed in a way that would spell out meh
@capguncowboy I kinda like this idea too!
Everyone who submitted an actual hand-drawn design before 11:59pm 7/15/18 scored a fuko!
@Thumperchick Thank you!
/giphy wowzers!
@Thumperchick woohoo!
@Thumperchick
@Thumperchick Thank you!
@Thumperchick you lot are awesome… I’m lost for words. I don’t care if I get a bag and some dessicated dog poo in mine (please don’t do that though) just getting a fuku is awesome.
@Thumperchick are we allowed to redirect our winnings to a meh employee? I sort of Gifted One to @chadp
However, I may have overstepped my authority (as I have none) in doing that. But if you can…cool.
@Thumperchick WOW ! Thank You!!!
@Thumperchick thank you woo hoo
@Thumperchick Thank you!
@Thumperchick That’s wonderful. Thank you kindly.
@thumperchick So the date on mine says 12:28pm on the 16th eastern time but meh operates in central time so I would have submitted it by 11:28pm on the 15th in central time. So I get one? Yes?
@Kidsandliz meh operates on ET.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’ll have to make due with the other 2 you scored during birthday game week.
@Thumperchick OK. I guess I was thinking since meh is in TX it was central time…Oh well. I had actually asked earlier in the thread when the contest was over and there was no answer. Was at mom’s and couldn’t do anything until that late as that was more important. Hope you will at least look at our designs when thinking about shirts regardless of when they were submitted.
congratulations!!! all you fuko winners! very nice.
i did make one!!!
just never got to posting it… lol
@ChadP Lies, filthy lies.
@lichme
Unless they took showers right before making those statements…
@lichme I don’t think they are going to print any of our shirts. They will come up with their own design and say that they used our ideas for input.
OR, they were just hoping we would all forget about this
@lichme Let’s just say this one is tricky. And we’re still looking for the best way to do it.
@ChadP @lichme Yeah, given the great variation among human bodies, it turns out it’s pretty hard to pre-cut nipple holes in a shirt for a general population without them being awkwardly large.
Should I just post which shirt won and let you know where we’re at, or do you want some kind of mystery?
@ChadP
If this is in any way associated with Mediocritee, you deserve to have catshirts thrown at your car.
@ChadP post it.
or… send one to a random 'mehrican if they swear to post a picture. (i wear large… just in case)
@ChadP Yes
@ChadP Post it now and ship my prize!
After going around and around on the best way to handle this, I am happy to announce that @heartny is the winner with this cool as hell design:
So why haven’t we printed it? Well, it’s not that easy. We’re going to have to edit the design a bit, and quite frankly we’ve just had other stuff going on. I’m not going back on my word though. We’ll find a way to get a few of these out into existence.
So, yeah. That’s where I’m at.
If you had a chance to buy one, would you? What if it was expensive?
I’m working on a couple solutions, but wanted to make sure y’all knew that we did pick a winner.
@ChadP can you not put the ‘meh’ right over the crotch? maybe on the sleeve instead?
i’d still buy one though. how expensive you talking?
@carl669 how expensive you buying?
@ChadP
I believe that that bottom line should have an arrow instead of a “greater than” sign.
@heartny congrats
@ChadP 20 minus 25^½?
Congrats to @heartny! Great job!
@heartny Congrats!
@ChadP Cool, now who won the hand drawn shirt contest?
@heartny @lichme Since we gave everyone fukos, we decided to accept all entries in the contest.
@ChadP @lichme I could have done way better had I known I didn’t have to draw. In fact, I recall doing a forum icon hierarchy concept long ago that is suspiciously similar to the winning design…
I can’t remember if I had put in on a shirt or if it was just a box to illustrate who is better than others according to the icons. I can’t find it though… I remember it had the dark grey background of the forum with things like K > VMP and so on…
@ChadP
I’m gonna sound ungrateful below, and believe me that’s not the case, especially because:
But…
Everybody who submitted a hand drawn design won a fuku. If contest was opened up to all entries, will the non hand drawn ones get a fuku too? Or @Kidsandliz, who submitted an entry 30 minutes passed the deadline that wasn’t announced.
@medz submitted an text idea, and was told in a way, that it had to be hand drawn. Expectations were set from the beginning, and reiterated in the forum. Somebody like @marcee, or other talented artists could have pushed out some pretty sweet designs.
I understand, it’s all for fun and I don’t want to discourage contests from happening, but changing rules after the fact (especially without notice, and no disclaimer saying subject to change) is so not cool that it actually makes me furious. It’s not fair to the people who did what was asked of them. It happens often, and I’ve voiced my displeasure with it before.
@medz I’m aware. I actually was in the middle of pointing that out above when you posted, but I had to choose my words, which took a while.
@Kidsandliz @lichme @marcee @medz Pretty sure everyone got the appropriate fuko, regardless of what rules they followed. If that’s not the case, let me know.
@ChadP
Everyone who submitted an actual hand-drawn design before 11:59pm 7/15/18 scored a fuko!
Not even mad because of prizes though.
@ChadP @lichme @medz Same.
@ChadP I would probably buy one, as long as it wasn’t stupid expensive
I probably wouldn’t buy it 'less it was stupid cheap. I don’t really love purple. The cat and penguin don’t really belong.
@medz I did say we were making edits…
@lichme Fair, and I know the post is there, but I think we sent fukos where needed and just didn’t post about it.
@ChadP Ok. Let me know when you fix it.
@ChadP @Kidsandliz @lichme @medz I did get totally FUKU’d and I am in a constant state of appreciation. However, I (like many other a-meh-ricans) would have been more excited and honored to have a shirt printed and sold. And I (like many other meh-nanites), would have had a better shot if I could’ve used software instead of a pencil. It’s objectively wrong to choose a winner who distinctly didn’t follow the very clear instructions to “grab a piece of paper and a marker (or shirt) and HAND DRAW your idea”. So yes, while I’m grateful for my fuku - truly, I’m disappointed that you chose a winner who didn’t follow directions.
@ChadP Ten bucks. I would pay ten bucks for one.
@ChadP @Kidsandliz @lichme @marcee
Boycott mediocritee.com!
@marcee Agreed, although a sale wasn’t guaranteed, overall not cool for those that followed the rules.
@medz Aren’t we doing that already?
@sammydog01 involuntarily, yes.
@Kidsandliz @lichme @marcee @medz Sorry to disappoint. I do have plans for 2 of the hand-drawn designs, but unfortunately can’t make an actual shirt happen from them. That’s why we’re running with the other design. Like I mentioned, we ran into some issues. But we’ll get it down. I’ll find a way.
@medz @sammydog01
Speak for yourselves.
@ChadP I still love you. And not in a normal platonic way, either.
@ChadP @heartny Woohoo! Congrats!!!
@PlacidPenguin Hmm you are just lucky that you were immortalized to begin with
@ChadP
In another thread, someone (I don’t have time to look for it now) posted a fantastic irk made up of click faces. That would rock as a t-shirt (separate from this contest). I would be wonderful if you could work that out with the person who posted that. We need another click face shirt. This one was great!!
@ChadP @Kidsandliz
Lol, that would be mine. I would have submitted it, but you know.
Original Post
Post in the Mehtizen poll about flask threads
@ChadP don’t worry about it. My mom says I’m already a winner.
@ChadP @lichme for what it’s worth, I don’t think my crappy IRK/captcha design scored a fuko, but I’m good with that and I never expected one — I won two others (name the bag contest and a stupid poem in the deserve-a-fuko contest I think), I blatantly disregarded the hand-drawn rule and I knew that going into it, and I mostly submitted it as a joke.
Now hurry up and print this shirt so I can buy one!
@ChadP Wow! Awesome news! Thanks Chad! I appreciate you all selecting my design in spite of me being in clear violation of the contest roolz due to my inability to draw anything recognizable beyond a stick figure. It’s almost like winning the lottery without having to quit work, buy a new home and lot of expensive cool stuff! Hoping the shirt doesn’t fall into the expensive cool stuff category, since I didn’t win the lottery.
Congrats ! i’d buy one!
@ChadP did the @heartny shirt ever make it into existence?
@lichme Not yet, but I haven’t forgotten.
@lichme He’s probably afraid the meanies will dump on it.