[Master of AFTER]

Wow, that's nice. I think it looks pretty great as-is... I think it would be a good idea to go ahead and adjust the color a little to increase the blue tint (to give it more of a winter-y feel), but beyond that I can't really think of any way to improve it.

[razourikthehedgie]

That whale pic looks pretty cool sway how long did it take you to make? Btw wouldnt it make more sense i the whale was simply beached in the sand and not diving through it like its water?

[nick_phizz]

razourikthehedgie, on Nov 1 2008, 11:34 PM, said:

That whale pic looks pretty cool sway how long did it take you to make? Btw wouldnt it make more sense i the whale was simply beached in the sand and not diving through it like its water?

Stfu. No wait, seriously.

[Mr. Retro]

razourikthehedgie, on Nov 2 2008, 12:34 AM, said:

That whale pic looks pretty cool sway how long did it take you to make? Btw wouldnt it make more sense i the whale was simply beached in the sand and not diving through it like its water?

Have you not heard of surrealism? Very popular genre. Its essentially drawings of things that can't happen in reality. Like a levitating flower pot, or you saying something intelligent.

[Scourge]

Sway, those are some really neat works. I may be a little late on the whale image, but that doesnt make it any less awesome. I think the aurora is good as-is too.

[Gold_TSG]

Damnit, Sway! I'll never catch up to your skill in art at this point!

[???????]

That's very nice, Sway. I think you should probably go ahead with AFTER's suggestion. I'm no art critic, so that's all I'm really able to say.

[Sway]

Thanks everyone for your comments. If anyone has anything to say about the snowflakes or text, please let me know, since I'm focusing a lot on making that look the best possible while remaining inconspicuous since I want the eye to go immediately to the aurora.

Razourik, the whale pic took probably six or seven hours of real work, but longer to plan out and figure out adjustments. And Gold, I know exactly how you feel. http://www.toxel.com...y-platinum-fmd/ -- just completely demoralized me.

[Gold_TSG]

Sway, on Nov 2 2008, 07:15 PM, said:

Thanks everyone for your comments.  If anyone has anything to say about the snowflakes or text, please let me know, since I'm focusing a lot on making that look the best possible while remaining inconspicuous since I want the eye to go immediately to the aurora.

Razourik, the whale pic took probably six or seven hours of real work, but longer to plan out and figure out adjustments.  And Gold, I know exactly how you feel.  http://www.toxel.com...y-platinum-fmd/ -- just completely demoralized me.

H-how.....the fuck....?

[razourikthehedgie]

@deadly bandages:
Yeah, duh, I mean that maybe if the whale was beached instead, it would look less like a recoloured picture of a whale in the ocean. And dont say it would be impossible, because you could of copied the original picture of the sea whale, pasted it into photoshop or gm sprite editor, and used "colorize partial" tool. Regardless of that though, the whale picture is very good sway... I think that since Ill never be as good as you Ill stick with pixel art instead

[KennEH!]

Sway, on Nov 2 2008, 03:15 PM, said:

And Gold, I know exactly how you feel.  http://www.toxel.com...y-platinum-fmd/ -- just completely demoralized me.

Holy crap. That's amazing.

[Master of AFTER]

Hey, I used to have that image of the water flame coming out of the Zippo as a desktop wallpaper for my laptop... Small internet.

Sway, once again I have to say that greeting card image you came up with rocks. Speaking of the text, I was thinking about what you said regarding playing with the colors, and one idea I had was to maybe leave the aurora the way it is with that deep purple color to preserve the look of the original school logo as much as possible, while incorporating more blue into the wording and/or the snowflakes. Like maybe you leave the text itself purple, and recolor the snowflakes to be varying shades of dark blue. Or mix and match, like have some of the snowflakes blue and others purple, or have the "Season's Greetings" text in blue and leave "from Winona State University" in purple, since that's the school's color.

Also, maybe have the snowflakes begin a little higher up over the text, so that they almost start near the top of the treeline. Might give it the appearance that the snowflakes are cascading down from higher up, as snowflakes generally tend to do. Leave the larger flakes lower and keep the smaller ones higher up though; I think that looks really good. I also like the varying levels of opacity for the different flakes. It gives it a neat effect.

Those are just a couple of suggestions, anyway. You're the graphic designer, and again I think the image looks great as-is, so I'm sure whatever you come up with will look awesome.

[C.Joker]

Awesome work, dude. Any chance we could get a wallpaper version of the Seasons Greetings picture?

[Sway]

You really want a wallpaper version? I thought no one here would be interested since they don't attend WSU. But okay, here ya go:

 wsucard.jpg (330.11K)
Number of downloads: 2

 wsuaurora.jpg (250.76K)
Number of downloads: 2

Not quite 4:3, but you animals know how to crop.

[Scourge]

Sway that aurora image is simply beautiful, bravo.

[Kvitne]

Nice, I got a new desktop for my work computer. Great works Sway!

[Sway]

Thanks once again, everyone, for your nice compliments. I'm honestly surprised some of you want this as a desktop. I guess the WSU basketball team is pretty good, though, so maybe you could pretend to be a fan?

Thanks also for your suggestions, MoA. I'll definitely consider them should my design get picked and I have a little bit of time to improve things. I adjusted the purple color a little anyway; it was a little too fuchsia for me before.

I'll let you guys know if they put it on their card. I don't really get many designs published, so this could be cool for me.

[nick_phizz]

Dumbledore Calrissian, on Nov 3 2008, 01:40 AM, said:

Nice, I got a new desktop for my work computer. Great works Sway!

Seconded.

[Sway]

So I just remembered I took some pictures of my sister and the family dog last time I came home for some big extended family get-together since none of us ever see each other.

Shot on black and white ISO400 35mm film and developed/enlarged myself using good-old-fashioned chemicals. Some spots are a little hot, and I should have used a higher shutter speed, but I like it.

 photo.jpg (168.99K)
Number of downloads: 2

[Gold_TSG]

And your sister is how old?

And why are you posting images of your family and pets, but not YOU?