Spud's Art - Ghost of Calico (June 21st)

[captainspud]

Thanks a ton for the feedback, folks!



(refresh your page if you're still seeing the old version)

-Made the boat's silhouette more distinct
-Erased some of the seaweed
-Added a figurehead
-Added a pirate flag
-Turned the front sail into two smaller sails

Any better?

[psychopanda]

Much imrpoved. I really like the light effects.

My suggestions would be to break up the strands of seaweed towards the front of the ship, one piece looks like one long strand from the top of the two sails all the way to the bottom of the ship. Everything seems pretty dark as well, but I'm guessing either my monitor is making it dark or maybe that's the effect you're looking for. The two figures on the right are hard to make out.

[captainspud]

Fixed the seaweed.

The printing folks will adjust the brightness and such when they get it. It's dark on my end too, but I'm not sure how much of that is my ancient monitor.

[MJB]

Much better. I can actually tell what it is now. :thumbup:

-MJB

[Reepicheep]

100s times better. As if the last one wasn't brilliant.

That is an absolutely amazing piece of art there. Well done!!!

[Tortuga]

Very nice stuff.  One or two quibbles.  The two people on the right rock...the guy on the left...his left hand is...wierd? humungous?  Something about it isn't right.  Also, those people on the right rock seem to stand out a bit too much.  They're too clear, or bright, I dunno.  They seem to be floating on the picture as opposed to being part of it.

[BatWing]

thats so tight man really cool undead pirates

[Uncle Yuan]

Muuuuch better.  It's gone from "um . . . it's a boat?" to "oh! a pirate ship"   :thumbup:

And here's my quibble - the guy in the foreground should have a wooden leg.  I have no particular "artistic" reason for saying this, I just think it would look cool.

[Tortuga]

Another question -- where do you/they plan on putting the text?  (band name, album title)

The biggest chunk of blank space is at the bottom, which is not a good place for text.  It's not easily viewable when flipping through a typical CD rack in a store.  The top of the pic has that nice ghost cloud which you don't want words splashed over...so...where would you put it?

[MJB]

Darn you Tort I was just getting ready to ask about that.

-MJB

[psychopanda]

That one pixel 3/4 up on the left, really bothers me. ;)

[zuludelta]

Awesome work, you should really bundle the image as a mini-poster to go with the CD, since the standard-sized CD sleeve will probably be too small to do justice to the image.