Wow... looking at the winner entries I'm very impressed at the multitude of mediums that people chose to use... really amazing
Lady pyro, I'm sorry you didn't manage to find the time to get your project to the level you wanted before the submission date, same thing happened to me as well. My swamp picture was intended to have both chernovy's in it, and have a lot more details. Work and RL commitments will be the death of us all
I love your clean lines and your sense of perspective... I usually have to muck around for hours fixing things that I know are wrong but somehow just can't seem to find out how to correct (hands.. oh glod, don't start me on hands
)
Timo, I saw your work in the thread you started yourself in the general forum and it's been my wallpaper for the last few days
Obviously when you draw/paint an image in photoshop you have an idea what the final resolution will be, and add detail accordingly. Looking at the city in the background I was wondering if you were indeed working on this image on a much higher resolution and then scaled it down, and if so, if you would considder performing the downscaling process again and perhaps not go as far down... perhaps something closer to 1920*1200? (But not at this resolution obviously, looking at your image it seems that you don't use that aspect ratio). If you designed this image to look its best at 1024*576 then to upscaling it (or downscaling less) will obviously not look as good as you intended it to, and I appologise profoundly for meddling in your affairs
. (Hint; I doubt your qfg1 image would suffer from a higher resolution version either
)
Laura, I'm still trying to figure out if this is a vector drawing or raster... (well, obviously it's raster now, but you know, before that
... if it's all vector based, and if your textures allow it I'm sure no one would mind if you posted a higher resolution of it here
I was going to post that I was sorry that I didn't have enough time to comment on all the entries, because I had to run and have a 5 min bath, throw some clothes on and jump in a taxi (on the weekends I do volunteer work through my company (my as in I work for them, not the other way around
)). sadly it didn't even get that far, as I was still uploading pictures when the taxi came, so I didn't get to post this this morning. It _does_mean however that I now have enough time to comment on all the entries:
Sticker board looks amazing, will definately be abused by myself as a wallpaper from time to time,
Fabric quilt & shema actionfigure; wow... that must have taken so much time and dedication to do... well done on the see through trouser fabric.. you really made an effort with the materials
Watercolor (/pencil?) looks amazing, remember first time I saw it on the forums... level of detail is amazing... I like photoshop because I can correct mistakes.. pencils and paint make it a bit harder
Colouring on the hero running away from the bad saurus looks amazing! was impressed when I saw the first version in the thread earlier, but the colour really gives it dept.. especially the shield!
I love the tarrot deck, reminds me of trying to screencapture all the different cards from qfg4 :P
Costume looks amazing, and can of course be used for other dressing up purposes a this time of year... hmm.. should maybe look into making one for next year
David, I love the saturation on your colours, it definately makes the entire image pop out of the screen.
Richard, did you use actual crayons for this or is this some sort of photoshop magic? I recomend that everyone take a few minutes to go over this picture and look into some of the shading that is used.. I didn't notice it until the third time I looked at it, but now that I know it's there it pops out at me every time.
I've attached (if anyone is interested) the 1920*1200 versions of my two submissions. If anyone else feels like posting higher resolutions of their work please do so
They're in zip files, as images 1920 pixels wide tend to stretch the forums ever so slightly