Like the Cover Art? Tell us why...

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:34 pm

bortwein wrote:I also submitted a design that has the art from Pass/Fail on it:

http://www.threadless.com/submission/36709/Pass_Fail

I know that as soon as I click on the link I will be disappointed that the image on the shirt isn't animated. *cries*

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:36 pm

j$ wrote:Systematic Panic is great. It's like a still from a punk monkees tv show that I wish I could get on cable .... nice work!

j$

Yeah, yeah, it's the punkees, and they like to punkee around. Thank you for the compliment.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:39 pm

Dude, did we rehearse this or something?

I've noticed that, although Bortwein and I used different source hearse (shearsce?) images, they are both of the same model of hearse, with that integral-looking decal on the back sides of the car.

Haha.

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:43 am

Toy Puddle: Funny

Digital Chimera: Fun - but a bad font for the title... or maybe size and placement is what bugs me. Still fun.

Hiss and Hearse: Interesting and scary (that we used the same type of hearse)

Man Date: Lame attempt to be interesting

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:30 am

bottleknife: Great job on the covers this week.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:16 pm

I had an idea for "Die For Me," but I'm quite sick and tired, and, frankly, I really like your art for it, Morbid Morgan. I want it to be chosen.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:49 pm

Sweet mother of moogly-oogly! Trying to get Morbid's 400 pixel art up has been... challenging. Spud, is there a maximum size (in KB) that she's crossing over, which is keeping the image from being acknowledged by the code or is it something entirely different?

And if it's in the FAQish for cover art, I'm very sorry for being so lazy

Blah blah blah blah... using Macintosh Photoshop CS's "Save for web..." instead of "Save as... (jpeg)" got it to work. On the fourth try, but still...

Post by **Spud** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:27 am

Rabid,

Yes, there is a max file size, it is 200,000 bytes. It is possible that a high quality/low compression jpg could hit this. The file that eventually got through was 168,000 bytels. I will raise the bar to an even quarter million and see if that doesn't do the trick.

Another problem that sometimes occurs (Robyn, are you there?) is that the file gets saved as a CMYK instead of RGB (Image>Mode>RGB to change it), and won't display in most browsers.

SPUD

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:58 am

Spud,

Thanks, yeah, hers were weighing in at ±240,000 bytes. Why photoshop's "save as" and "save for web" options with the same compression settings (max quality @ normal) give such different sizes is beyond me. But good to know what the size cap is.

And hey, the new avatar kinda looks like a love child of Penn Jillette (sp?) and the John Goodman character from "The Big Lebowski". Trés cool.

rg

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:19 am

It would appear that I get to be the first to congratulate Bortwein on his reclycling of the "Ancient" artwork for "St. Peter." Very clever, and not, y'know, excessively tasteless or anything

Charles (just finished re-reading "The Shoes of the Fisherman")

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:56 pm

king_arthur wrote:It would appear that I get to be the first to congratulate Bortwein on his reclycling of the "Ancient" artwork for "St. Peter." Very clever, and not, y'know, excessively tasteless or anything

Charles (just finished re-reading "The Shoes of the Fisherman")

I hope it wasn't "excessively tasteless or anything"

I don't know much about religion or saints, and I didn't do any research on it either. So I didn't know and still don't know anything about St. Peter.

Yeah I recycled... I was actually thinking of challenging myself to try and include the previous week cover art into each new week cover art. But the main reason I recycled was because I was too damn busy to think of something different.

Or if you actually liked the fact that I recycled art. Gee Thanks.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:47 pm

A&A: Is that just a straight-up photo, or did you edit that? I can't tell! I.e., if you did, great job!

Baseball Vs. Opera: Congrats.

The exploding baseball is impressive. What does the Japanese say?

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:30 am

Gemini6Ice wrote:A&A: Is that just a straight-up photo, or did you edit that? I can't tell! I.e., if you did, great job!

Oh, um... yeah, it's an edit. The original sign said "LOMBARDI'S," this Seattle-area chain of restaurants. I took the picture while in Ballard, at the tail end of my March visit to Seattle.

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Mon May 02, 2005 12:22 pm

Gemini6Ice wrote:Baseball Vs. Opera: Congrats. The exploding baseball is impressive. What does the Japanese say?

The Japanese is a number (ostensibly the issue number for that comic).
The shards of baseball are actually parts of the Sydney opera house btw...Doesn't that just blow your mind!

Oh funny I just saw your avatar. That's a good take!

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:39 am

J$: love the Scissor Kick cover this week.

Oh and my cover is actually a photo of My Brand New Car for those people I haven't already told about it.

I love the new color look of the site. SongFight Dark ROCKS!

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:07 pm

Agreed. The scissor kick cover is uber awesome. Yeaaaaahhhhhh J$. And the dark SF makes things look mysterious and cool.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Mon May 09, 2005 2:59 am

abecedarian wrote:
Gemini6Ice wrote:Baseball Vs. Opera: Congrats. The exploding baseball is impressive. What does the Japanese say?
The Japanese is a number (ostensibly the issue number for that comic).
The shards of baseball are actually parts of the Sydney opera house btw...Doesn't that just blow your mind!

Oh funny I just saw your avatar. That's a good take!

I don't quite understand... the issue number for what comic? I think I'm missing a reference in your art.

And, OMG, shards of the Sydney opera house! That's incrdibly clever, and I didn't even realize! You win, hands down. I'm not sure what. But you win.

And thanks. ^_^

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:02 am

<b>Get Me Back:</b> <i>(Denyer)</i> I was thinking something along these same lines, Denyer, but I couldn't conceive of how to illustrate a missing back. Bravo! I wanted to go for pirates with this one, but I knew I wouldn't have time. I implore you to add an eye patch to your stick figure and a bandana to the second stick figure. ^_-

Or not, though. Your art is already funny enough as it is. Good work.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat May 14, 2005 4:40 pm

i too really enjoyed the 'get me back' artwork. very simple but effective. the 'remember' picture took me a minute to figure out, because the backwards letters distracted my attention and made it seem like there was a more complicated meaning that i wasn't getting at first. the art for 'hand-me-downs' i'm afraid is totally over my head.

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:17 pm

i like the cover art this week. fluffy's is great. i thought bort was vanilla?

and denyer's last week. excellent.

holy crap, i just realized that spud is driving the tanker truck!

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:28 pm

jack wrote:i like the cover art this week. fluffy's is great. i thought bort was vanilla?

and denyer's last week. excellent.

holy crap, i just realized that spud is driving the tanker truck!

I usually go for Vanilla, and I did do a cover for that title. When I submitted my Mad City cover, there was no other art for the other 2 titles. So I went ahead and did covers for all 3 titles this week so Spud could spread the joy around the other artists. Spud got on IRC and sparked up a flurry of fighters to do art, including fluffy.

I love how fluffy's cover came out this week and Duncan's cover was cool too.

Note about the One Beautiful Summer cover I did... Hoblit is the face in the sun.

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:42 pm

bortwein wrote:Hoblit is the face in the sun.

... and I like the pun on that old classic movie, "One Crazy Summer", for the OBS fight this week.