Hey look, it's Art!

Meggie moo moo · 09-21-2007, 05:04 PM

It's finished. I ran out of time to polish it, as all my coursework was due yesterday.

Meggie moo moo · 09-21-2007, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nate

Her arm (that's an arm and not some kind of branch or something, right?) looks a little too skinny for her body. Other than that, it's beautifully done. Those flowers are absolutely incredible.

It is her arm. I would fix that, but I don't have it anymore.

Thanks, Nate.

zero91 · 09-21-2007, 07:52 PM

Wow, your work is incredible. I really like the way you did that last one. I also think those flowers are amazing. Seeing all this makes me want to draw more!

SecretAgentRat · 09-21-2007, 07:53 PM

Wow, I really love it. It's not my favorite of the things you've done, but it's still amazing.

**Rainer.** · 09-21-2007, 08:17 PM

Agreed. Amazing!

guitarfan01 · 09-22-2007, 06:18 PM

Perty picturs.

Meggie moo moo · 09-28-2007, 05:16 PM

I have found the best website ever.

These last few days, I've spent a lot of my time designing things (mostly logos) for corporate contests on a site called worth1000.com. Design briefs are added regularly to the site, and are a way for businesses or anyone requiring a design job to get it done cheap and well. I have entered a few so far, and below are my entries:
(I have discovered the 'save for web' option in PS, so these large files aren't actually that large at all! Oh, and all artwork is completely and utterly original, straight from my imagination to my hand)
For a Danish Magician who performs mostly at business functions:

Meggie moo moo · 09-28-2007, 05:24 PM

More.

For a Californian Pistaccio farm:

For some sort of IT company in NY:

Nate · 09-28-2007, 05:38 PM

Cool stuff. You can sort of tell it's outside your regular style, though. It's not that any of them are particularly bad, but many (particularly for the magician guy) are a little too "clip-art"-y, if that makes sense.

The FIRST set for the magician, though, is brilliantly conceived and executed. It might be cool if you blew up the picture some and used the "J" from the Jack as the "J" in "Jenson" somehow, so the picture would be bigger.

Do these companies give you any sort of requirements / guidelines? You might want to think about trying to stick to two / three colors (I see you've mostly done that anyway). Make sure they're vector files, too.

Meggie moo moo · 09-28-2007, 06:02 PM

The brief should say how many colours you can use, and whether you can use gradients or not. For instance, the magician brief allowed me to use any amount of colours and gradients I wanted, whereas the Gold Coast Farms prefered the use of only four colours, and wanted those four colours to be blue, yellow, red and green. The brief also gives some vague ideas for imagery and concepts, which is very convenient.

I realise my entries may look a little contrived and that I am outside my comfort zone, but I hope that as I continue to enter these contests I will get a lot better at interpreting the need of the client and what works as a corporate logo.

FTS · 09-28-2007, 06:35 PM

I loved the card set for the magician. Very cool

Meggie moo moo · 09-30-2007, 01:11 AM

Thank ye, old friend.

Here's a little something I did with fineliners and watercolour pencils today. SKELETOR!

FTS · 09-30-2007, 01:35 AM

Haha! That would make an amazing album cover! Brilliant

Meggie moo moo · 09-30-2007, 01:36 AM

Thanks! I actually had something like Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell cover in mind when I drew it. It's going to be part of an entry to a fun multimedia contest in which the subject is 'sword and sorcery'.

FTS · 09-30-2007, 01:48 AM

Sweet

I hope it does well.