Not quite finished with this design, but i wanted to hear some feedback on it. thanks

It's a good start on a good idea... Just keep adding to it. Add some fish and maybe some color to the surface "berg".

Cool idea. Like arzie said, the concept will be stregthened if you add to the 'submerged' bit and create a really interesting upside down scene - maybe with a winding path up the mountain? Bring it life a bit more to contrast against the quiet scene above the surface.

thanks guys! yeah im working on adding more to the submerged kingdom below. ill have another version up soon. thanks for the comments.

what do you think about the monochromatic colors? im not sure if it flattens or lowers the intensity of the image

I like the color scheme, especially how it gets darker at the bottom. How about knights swimming around, scuba style? or some kind of Neptune-esque sea king patrolling in a sea-horse drawn chariot?





Also, narwhals seem to be popular :-)

thought i've seen this iceberg before. ;-)

but i really like the idea.. keep working on it!

thanks guys. bio-bot: love the idea of a sea king patrol!

ntths: yeah many photos of icebergs were looked at to get this going. a couple had boats crossing the icebergs path and i had to use the idea. it fits too perfectly with the hidden kingdom below.

Changed the ship design to give it more dimension and character. plus added sea life to give the kingdom more realism. (more buildings to come)

coming along, but not near finished

i like the change in the boat you've made... much better!

about the dotted/striped patterns below. I don't feel the dept of the iceberg. It's a bit like spots and stains, instead of nice gradient holes and bumbs.

the picture i referred to earlier has a great rocky feel.

if you can make thát work, it'll be great i think.

thanks mtths! yah ive been working on a lot of textures to get the ice/rock to pop more. ill be working on it and have a new version up soon! thanks again for the reference!

have you tried the halftone patterns, that usually works to get gradients

(wich really would help the rocky feel you're looking for i think)

yeah i need to make some halftone patterns. they take forever though to get them looking good! thanks for the idea

I think this looks pretty damn good, and VERY close to submitting. I would give it 4 or 5. But if you think it needs more work, maybe something you do is play with combining line shading and half-tone shading together, or else maybe draw some manual etch marks in there for shading some of the glaciers.

hey thanks olie! yeah im going to work around with define the under side of the berg a little more. just a few more details to get down

looks great! one thing though, flip the whale upside down, it looks weird and upside down. other then that if looks great!

I'd recommend making the towers a little different from each other in height, width, and structure. maybe put in some stone walls, cathedrals, villages, etc.

thanks guys! bright side: do you mean make the whale upside down? of does it like like it is and you would like it right side up? haha if that makes any sense.

bio-bot: yeah im going to adding more to the town/village to give more of an inhabitance to the underside kingdom

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- Needs more detail. For example: more/bigger schools of fish, more buildings, more shadow & texture...

- Those patchy things on the underside look kinda weird.

- I like the idea of making the iceberg fade into the depths. You could even use a 'depth fog' to give the iceberg itself more depth; i.e. the deeper crevices/parts that are farther from the viewer fade into the fog more quickly.

- Do not turn the whale upside down.

Really great idea, though. Makes me want to do one like this!

thanks man, yah the detailing is still a work in progress! should have a new one up soon!

Final version coming soon! thanks for everyones support on this design. would still love criticism/comments

really nice.

but the details kind of look out of place.

still really great though!

thanks jeeohdee!

I like all of it but the water line. Since the iceberg is such an irregular shape, the water line that surrounds it should be, too, right?



Wonderful illo!

I liked the way you rendered the iceberg in the first one best. Some of the textures in v4 are a bit strange. I'd simplify it and then focus on adding interesting details like the whale and fish. I'm sure you can think of other ideas: sea serpent, mermaids, squid, treasure, ect.

thanks guys!

yeah beesknees i didnt want the water line to get jumbled up by making it irregular. only because if you saw a photo of an iceberg half above and half below water you would only see a flat water line.



blamethesuburbs: im still working on adding more into it giving it more character and life, so look out for v.5

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im thinking this may be my final version. what do you all think?

looks nice to me! do it!

Where's that button that says "Awesome, submit this!" Oh, there we are. Great job, I'll be looking for it in the running.

thanks so much!

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looks quite a bit better without the dot halftones underwater.

I really like it

Amazing, why are the whales and the fish upside down though? surely they aren't reflected?

i like how you've added all the buildings, but i still like to see more gradient half-tones under water, to give the iceberg its rocky feel.

thanks everyone for your comments!



loowees: the fish are right side up some fish are dolphins which have the dorsal fin up and the whale has a flipper on the bottom left side.



mtths: yah i tried using some halftones or gradients on the different levels of ice but it was very busy overall

Final version! Check it out in the running soon! Thanks Everyone

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This is such a nice idea! I say submit =)

I'm not sure I understand the inclusion of the upside-down whale. But I really like the design a lot, on the whole. I'd even get go as far as saying I would be very happy to see this get printed. It screams Threadless to me, and it's very well made.

The whale isn't upside down...

kick ass

i'll take two please.

thanks everyone!

is that whale swimming upside down????

the whale is right side in correlation to the water

*right side up

Perfect!

make the ice around the building whiter and make the buildings shaded slightly a different color

this is very cool, but i wish all the towers weren't copied and pasted.

i like it a lot! :-)

great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!