for theurbanraptor's contest.

gimme ideas for titles and how to improve the design. please.

all of the shadows are in different directions. it's distracting

Perhaps put the pages in something less harsh than black?



I agree the shadows in different directions confuses it somewhat.

i did have the pages in gray before. i'll try again.

so the colors will be pink, blue, yellow, white, gray.

i'll make the shadows in the same direction.

are you guys saying i should go with v. 2?



thanks.

oh sorry i forgot to put i want you to chose which cloud shadows are the best, v1 or v2. ignore the sun.

merci.

I like v2 but the shadowssss.



haha.

ok i will change les shadows tomorrow.

...need help with the title!

or is the one i have ok?

and the books need a bit of cleaning up i think

^ very much agreed. The books remind me of books I used to draw on paint when I was 10.

you're seven years off but yeah that's what they are.

it's tough with the program i'm using, that's my only excuse, but i'll try.. thanks.

shadows are subtler and in the same direction.

substituted black with a softer gray.

the clouds and book style dont match, I also think you could get a bit more creative with placement, and maybe flip a book the other way so the cover is on the top, give it a bit of variety.

ok thanks i will

added new books w/ new colors, and made the clouds more in the same style.

please add your thoughts.

Getting there.... ummm

what to say... the books need more detail... bigger and more character, you know?



but keep going for it! sometimes these designs take a long time!

thank you.

yo. bump.

take the black outlines out

they're gray now.

but ok i'll show you a version without them..

never mind. i'm not taking them out; it will look worse.

i want to call this

Bookshelf and Beyond

bump

the purple and the ornage books look pretty harsh softhen the lines then press submit

ok i was gonna try making them striped instead.

thanks

made the books nicer.

ok what else?

(two of them have stripes now)

gee thanks..

:| this is for a contest, people. i'm subbing it soon.

anyone with productive comments??

please comment

bump

ok, first of all - i don't know how big your design is - but you should really consider the pixelation of your books - both in pages and patterns. i would like to see this design in it's real size, cus this looks like crap, sorry to say it.. also - the upper right books pattern; the colors doesn't match very good in that pattern..

thanks guys. i appreciate you saying something about it.

i'm using appleworks. it's all i can use right now.

I spend a lot of my free time doodling flying books. You can look here:



http://www.threadless.com/submission/72812/Out_of_the_Library/



if you want some inspiration for different "wing" positions.



I admire your persistence with this design, especially sticking it out in Appleworks. But you really need to find access to photoshop or illustrator or gimp or SOMETHING that will let you make non-pixel party picture if you're going to submit to threadless.



Alteratively, you can take a step back from this image and really thing of ways to make the pixel thing work FOR you. But I think that would be a lot harder.



Do some sketching, draw out your books, and find a library or computer lab that offers access to a scanner and an image-editing program.

those are really good, and gee, i'm sorry i'm using your same idea :(

i have a scanner, or at least my brother does, that i could use.

also my dad has photoshop on his comp lol.. but i don't think he'd let me use it.

thanks so much!...

There's a great song by Busdriver called "Low Flying Winged Books", but if you don't listen to him using his song title might come off kinda weird.



Re: the design itself, what program are you using? You could grab Inkscape (freeware) for vectoring, that does me quite well.



What's theurbanraptor's contest?

Oh, Appleworks. Didn't see that, mea culpa.

sorry here's the contest.

ok i'll try downloading a few programs.

Thanks :) I actually have a design I'm working on that fits pretty well with the theme. That SNES mouse sounds well beast.

The books look better now

really?

oh. i have a new version of this... let me try to post it.

i put new patterns on the books.

i'm probably going to sub this one for the contest because time is running out.

what should the shirt placement and title be?

thanks for the help.

BUMMMP

omg in v1 of this, it looks like my clouds have stubble :D

*makes fun of self*

Although I admire your determination to see this through, I really don't see this going anywhere without you starting from scratch.

ok but i don't have time now!

but thanks for the comment.

i want title ideas just the same!