JAFO, my last comment here about your last post.
1. I don't know what jaggies are.
2. After communication about the rejection of that piece, it was my pride to make it better. Nothing like, hey check this out, what do you think. That is really an insult again. Yes, you seem to be good at it lately.
3. I begin to think that you don't know anything about art, and that you haven't looked at famous artists. You even didn't comment about the email I sent you regarding Alber Namatjira. As an Ozzie (
) you should know about him.
4. Mondriaan for instance didn't "blend" his work, he glued paper on canvas, painted it over, gave it different colours, glued some more, and so forth. It isn't always about smoothness. It is about how it looks.
5. You just don't like it. Your personal taste, I think, is tending towards being a great clicker and applying nifty effects on different items, basically, how to get the most out of a paintprogram.
6. I don't believe anymore that you know what a collage is.
7. I happen to like the rough look it has. The composition is good too.
Now, how I made this:
As some readers don't want to read all the history above I will begin where it begun.
I used PhotImpact 7, a program that is affordable and costs 15 times cheaper than Photoshop.
OK, I opened a new file: size 1280 x 1024, transparant background, 144 pixels/inch, true colours.
I chose to start with a triange. You can opt path drawing, so I chose a rhomb and cut it horizontally in half. I resized that and filled it with a woody look. Gave it a darker look at one edge, and gradually lighter towards the opposit end. Copied them and made a rectangle from it. Copied the rectangle and turned it 90 degrees and resized it, placed it to the right. Then I chose for the sky a dark blue with path drawing tool with 3D round look. You can still see the diagonal line in the right upper corner. Because I wanted to come the light from the right I applied that with the light effect tool. Basically I did everything similar like that, and when I wasn't happy with the teint of the colour I kept on searching for the right one. The screen that goes through the roof was a rectangular resized into perspective, and rotated in 3D mode. Applied a glass effect first and did a painting on edges with a bleuy white. That's how I placed and drew all objects. When I wasn't satisfied with the light I used the paintbrush to make it the way I wanted it. I did that on all objects actually, apart from the blue sky.
If you think you can reproduce this with your proggie from scratch in 5 minutes then I challenge you to try so. Because I believe that was also a criteria.
And finally, I know this is a skinners site and not an arty site. It's what you said. Sklinners aren't arty therefore.
I have looked at deviant.art, it's again basically the same as here. ...there isnt one wallpaper that I would like to look at longer than 1 day on my desktop.
I went to a few others too and I am disappointed really. One site had a FEW good works and that was gifx.com if I recall correctly.
Final conclusion:
I might try someday to upload another wallpaper design, but I can actually tell already the result it will get. Very disencouraging. At least I can use it on my own machine.
I think you look wrongly at the way things look, and just want every pixel neatly ordered against each other. I can tell you, many people will find it masterful, but it is boring..It is made by a machine and a machine is cold, dumb, and has no feelings. I have seen people make brilliant stuff which make me want to look at it again and again and again. I would like to have such works on my wall, or as as a wallpaper when I fall back on the desktop after working with a proggie.
And I also want to say that the wallpaper I made was terribly good or so. It is DIFFERENT. Being different doesn't mean bad. I am very glad with the 2 genuine comments I got, that strengthens me in my vision. I am thankful towards them. Thank you guys
