Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper
Everyone feels free to use one of the jackalopse i've created for this project: http://passphrase.interfree.it/ubuntu910artwork/jackalope.html take a look at these backgrounds.. http://passphrase.interfree.it/ubuntu910artwork/sfondi.html 2009/1/30 Saleel Velankar svela...@gmail.com Are there any specific suggestions on how to make it better? I'm trying to integrate a stylized jackalope into it but success continues to elude me. -Chris Personally I agree with Kenneth, when he said that the default wallpaper may/(should(?)) be an abstract one. Abstraction gives the final desktop a professional quality, without distracting the user with mad eyecandy, that is to say that it does not force on to a user any particular artstyle/deco that the artist prefers. As such, it is also less divisive within the community, than one featuring a subject. Looking to some of the competition, Windows Vista . Windows Vista has a large amount of Default Wallpapers: I think they are rather good, featuring nature vistas, abstract light,textures. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070126/finding-vista-wallpapers/ It is clear that /none/ of the wallpapers features a subject with an abstract background, like what I have have been trying to do. (check out my Mr. Bun submission.) Having spilled all that, I think what I am disliking in your submission is all of the harsh angles and blocky colors. A good abstract wall should imo should be smooth and unjarring to the vision.I should be similar to a light array. It should be able to hold a users sight and complement his/her Icon theme. Saleel V. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper
Are there any specific suggestions on how to make it better? I'm trying to integrate a stylized jackalope into it but success continues to elude me. -Chris Personally I agree with Kenneth, when he said that the default wallpaper may/(should(?)) be an abstract one. Abstraction gives the final desktop a professional quality, without distracting the user with mad eyecandy, that is to say that it does not force on to a user any particular artstyle/deco that the artist prefers. As such, it is also less divisive within the community, than one featuring a subject. Looking to some of the competition, Windows Vista . [snip] Having spilled all that, I think what I am disliking in your submission is all of the harsh angles and blocky colors. A good abstract wall should imo should be smooth and unjarring to the vision.I should be similar to a light array. It should be able to hold a users sight and complement his/her Icon theme. Saleel V. Thanks for the feedback! I've modified my wallpaper and my submission entry now contains a Mark II with an included jackalope (I think I actually may have made a decent one) and at the side instead of the centre. Looking back, you're totally right about Mark I, and I think I've addressed some of those remarks in Mark II, which has a lot more poise to it and the addition of sky blue so it's not so monochrome. I'm using it with Dust right now and it goes really nicely. It also looks nice with the gnome-colors iconset (which is, I believe, the proposed iconset?) and by all indications will work with the Breate iconset when that's finished (looks amazing so far) As far as it having to go with things (just in general) I think that it's pretty much impossible to design for every eventuality because we have so many options with GNOME. What I'm looking for is something that will go nicely when the user boots Ubuntu for the first time and sees Human/DarkRoom/Dust and Gnome-Colors/Breathe with this wallpaper. It's inevitable it will be changed, but the wallpaper is all about branding, imho. Could you take a peek at Mark II over at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/AlphaBackgrounds and see if that fixes the flaws you saw? (there are a few rough edges which I've ironed out and am soon to upload to my flickr account with all the wallpaper variations (about 10) which is linked to on the art site). If not, do you suggest I try to add more nuance? I'll admit it doesn't have much of that, but I was going for something bold and energetic right out of the gate and I see where some could desire a bit more nuance. -Chris -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Ryan Prior ryanpr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: Chris Tomalty wrote: Hey (I'm new to the whole mailing list thing, so please bear with me if I mess up a bit :) ) I was looking at the default wallpapers proposed for Jaunty in the Incoming Artwork section on the wiki ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/AlphaBackgrounds ) and I don't think that it's really possible to do a jackalope as well in a similar style as we did the Heron and the Ibex. I decided to open Photoshop and tool around, and my submission is on the AlphaBackgrounds page under Ubuntu Energy. This is my first creative submission to the Ubuntu community and I would like some feedback as to its quality and/or suitability. One of the people in the comments section said that we shouldn't have text, but my design feels incomplete without it and the black bar. Anyways, any feedback that I could use to improve the submission? Need we use animals now? While I think it's generally ok, I don't think it's currently what is being looked for. And what *is* being looked for, seems up-in-the-air atm. Jaunty: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners I think what we need to look for is a jackalope that is decidedly modern. Any artists inspired to do that somehow? I'll give a modern-art Jackalope a shoot... See what I can achieve. Hopefully something awesome :D Best regards Nicklas W Bjurman -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper
Ohh, but don't let me going to make a modern-art Jackalope stop you for cooking up something yourself. It is always great to have many choices of Jackalopes to choose from. Best regards Nicklas W Bjurman On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Nicklas Widlund Bjurman lordmetr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Ryan Prior ryanpr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: Chris Tomalty wrote: Hey (I'm new to the whole mailing list thing, so please bear with me if I mess up a bit :) ) I was looking at the default wallpapers proposed for Jaunty in the Incoming Artwork section on the wiki ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/AlphaBackgrounds ) and I don't think that it's really possible to do a jackalope as well in a similar style as we did the Heron and the Ibex. I decided to open Photoshop and tool around, and my submission is on the AlphaBackgrounds page under Ubuntu Energy. This is my first creative submission to the Ubuntu community and I would like some feedback as to its quality and/or suitability. One of the people in the comments section said that we shouldn't have text, but my design feels incomplete without it and the black bar. Anyways, any feedback that I could use to improve the submission? Need we use animals now? While I think it's generally ok, I don't think it's currently what is being looked for. And what *is* being looked for, seems up-in-the-air atm. Jaunty: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners I think what we need to look for is a jackalope that is decidedly modern. Any artists inspired to do that somehow? I'll give a modern-art Jackalope a shoot... See what I can achieve. Hopefully something awesome :D Best regards Nicklas W Bjurman -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper
Chris Tomalty wrote: Hey (I'm new to the whole mailing list thing, so please bear with me if I mess up a bit :) ) I was looking at the default wallpapers proposed for Jaunty in the Incoming Artwork section on the wiki ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/AlphaBackgrounds ) and I don't think that it's really possible to do a jackalope as well in a similar style as we did the Heron and the Ibex. I decided to open Photoshop and tool around, and my submission is on the AlphaBackgrounds page under Ubuntu Energy. This is my first creative submission to the Ubuntu community and I would like some feedback as to its quality and/or suitability. One of the people in the comments section said that we shouldn't have text, but my design feels incomplete without it and the black bar. Anyways, any feedback that I could use to improve the submission? Need we use animals now? While I think it's generally ok, I don't think it's currently what is being looked for. And what *is* being looked for, seems up-in-the-air atm. -Cory K. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: Chris Tomalty wrote: Hey (I'm new to the whole mailing list thing, so please bear with me if I mess up a bit :) ) I was looking at the default wallpapers proposed for Jaunty in the Incoming Artwork section on the wiki ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/AlphaBackgrounds ) and I don't think that it's really possible to do a jackalope as well in a similar style as we did the Heron and the Ibex. I decided to open Photoshop and tool around, and my submission is on the AlphaBackgrounds page under Ubuntu Energy. This is my first creative submission to the Ubuntu community and I would like some feedback as to its quality and/or suitability. One of the people in the comments section said that we shouldn't have text, but my design feels incomplete without it and the black bar. Anyways, any feedback that I could use to improve the submission? Need we use animals now? While I think it's generally ok, I don't think it's currently what is being looked for. And what *is* being looked for, seems up-in-the-air atm. Jaunty: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners I think what we need to look for is a jackalope that is decidedly modern. Any artists inspired to do that somehow? -Cory K. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
