I'll Have A Battle, Please

[Drew Wheeler]

I'd like to have a graphics battle, so consider this an open challenge to anyone in the GFX Forums!

I've spoken to Mister Norro and he's agreed to lend the judging hand.

So here's what I need:

-An opponent (or opponents, I suppose)

-Suggestions on a Topic and Size

-A due date that will work for both myself and my opponent(s).

Let's make the GFX forum interesting, huh?

[nufan]

count me in... if you wanna see if i'm up to scratch I have a thread here with a lot of my work or a flickr account... http://www.flickr.com/photos/brocknroll/

[Drew Wheeler]

Sounds good to me man! (I pilfered through your flickr and liked your work.) Is Friday good with you for a deadline?

Anyone else want in on this?

And can anyone suggest any topics?

[EddieG]

Count me in too, if we can make the deadline saturday?

[Drew Wheeler]

Count me in too, if we can make the deadline saturday?

I'm content with Saturday, bro.

Nufan? Any objections?

[DMN in the House]

If you need rules/theme, I'd be glad to offer some up. I understand if you want someone more graphically oriented to participate. I'd judge as well, if you like, although I'd have a purely aesthetic point of view, not technical ability.

Wallpaper

'Surfing a Sound Wave'

Pretty open ended, and I think you could do some cool stuff with that theme idea.

[Drew Wheeler]

If you need rules/theme, I'd be glad to offer some up. I understand if you want someone more graphically oriented to participate. I'd judge as well, if you like, although I'd have a purely aesthetic point of view, not technical ability.

Wallpaper

'Surfing a Sound Wave'

Pretty open ended, and I think you could do some cool stuff with that theme idea.

Well I'm pretty content with that challenging concept, DMN.

I've got Norro judging already but I don't mind having multiple judges by any means. The more the merrier, yeah?

[Rocky]

I'm not a competitive person by nature so I might just do one for fun

**EDIT**

Got bored halfway through so it's not cleaned up and totally on theme

Edited August 18, 2010 by Rocky Feller

[nufan]

yeah saturday sounds good for me.. mind you I am in Australia and it is currently Thursday 10.00am so saturday is in two days for me :-p

happy with the rules, so if your happy with them Drew, I'll get stuck into it

[Drew Wheeler]

Alright, it's on.

DMN and Norro will judge as a unit, and Saturday will be the deadline. Let's say we will have our wallpapers PMed to DMN on Saturday.

DMN's above listed rules will be the official rules and sizes.

Myself, FnG, and nufan are the competitors.

Good luck fellas.

[EddieG]

So we're just dismissing Rocky's entry ?

[Rocky]

I'm not entered... I was just bored...

[Drew Wheeler]

Alright, mine has been turned in to DMN.

Looking forward to seeing you guys' results...I found this to be a very challenging but rewarding topic.

[The Mask of Norro]

Just post it mate, I was still ready to judge (Y)

Plus most graphics battles involve the posting of the pieces in the topic itself so some public dialogue can go on about them as well. Get some critique from others before/after the verdict is laid down to help you develop more and all that.

[Drew Wheeler]

Just post it mate, I was still ready to judge (Y)

Plus most graphics battles involve the posting of the pieces in the topic itself so some public dialogue can go on about them as well. Get some critique from others before/after the verdict is laid down to help you develop more and all that.

Sure man, can do.

And there you have it. Let the discussion commence, I suppose.

[Rocky]

I like it... It's on theme, and you're not exactly drawn away to specific regions... It's viewable as a whole...

Only one picky thing

The colour is just cut off clean in the bottom right corner above your name.

After noticing it originally I'm drawn to it & now everyone else will see it

[Drew Wheeler]

I like it... It's on theme, and you're not exactly drawn away to specific regions... It's viewable as a whole...

Only one picky thing

The colour is just cut off clean in the bottom right corner above your name.

After noticing it originally I'm drawn to it & now everyone else will see it

LOL.

Man, I'll be honest, I realized my name wasn't anywhere on the entry and didn't know if that was expected around here or not, so I wanted it to be moderately translucent.

[The Mask of Norro]

Well rather what he's saying is that the color abruptly shifts in a diagonal line from brights to shadows, and that the area it occurs is directly above your watermark. Watermarks are great, we don't discourage them, it's just that in this case he was using it as more of a landmark on the graphic to point something out

[SeanDMan]

We do discourage them if your graphics are terrible, but yours was pretty sexy. The blending in the bottom right corner is probably the only thing I dislike (the way the tail gets black at random rather than slowly fading away).

[Drew Wheeler]

Ahhh, I understand.

Thank you Norro, Rocky, and Sean for the constructive criticism. I guess in my sweep over checkI missed the tail end of the fade. Technical error, I think. :/

Anyway, I am pretty excited to see what FnG and nufan can come up with.