Challenge #2 "Windmills of Your Mind"
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icon_styleWelcome to our second challenge, "The Windmills of Your Mind". The theme of this challenge is circles. You must use circles in your icon design, whether that be circular objects, or circular patterns in the background or foreground, or wheels within wheels (or indeed, windmills of your mind...)
Yes, you can use text and brushes. Even better, you could use circular text and circular brushes!
This challenge is now closed!
Techniques:
- selecting circles
- colour filling
- layer masks
- curved text
Useful (GIMP) tutorials:
- basics
- http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Borders_On_Selections/
- Manipulate Text So It Forms Semi circle
- Curved Text
Rules:
1. From one to four icons can be submitted. (Future challenges may allow fewer icons, if there become lots of participants, but we'll start with four for now).
2. You have two weeks to submit the icons; that is, they are due on Sunday 15th of July (that's my time, Australian time, so for some of you that will be the 14th).
3. Icons will be submitted in comments to this post. All comments will be screened, to preserve anonymity.
4. As soon as I can after the 15th, I will make a voting poll here. People will then have about a week to vote.
There will be two sections in the voting: (a) "Best embodiment of style"; this you vote for whichever icon you think demonstrates the style/technique of the given challenge (b) "I just like it"; where you vote for whichever icon you simply like the best.
5. You are required NOT to post your icons anywhere public until after the voting is over, so as to preserve the anonymity of the entries.
6. When the voting is over, I'll announce the winners here. Discussion of the challenge will be encouraged, especially discussion and demonstration of techniques used.
In short:
Due 15th July, post entries here, don't show them elsewhere.
Yes, you can use text and brushes. Even better, you could use circular text and circular brushes!
This challenge is now closed!
Techniques:
- selecting circles
- colour filling
- layer masks
- curved text
Useful (GIMP) tutorials:
- basics
- http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Borders_On_Selections/
- Manipulate Text So It Forms Semi circle
- Curved Text
Rules:
1. From one to four icons can be submitted. (Future challenges may allow fewer icons, if there become lots of participants, but we'll start with four for now).
2. You have two weeks to submit the icons; that is, they are due on Sunday 15th of July (that's my time, Australian time, so for some of you that will be the 14th).
3. Icons will be submitted in comments to this post. All comments will be screened, to preserve anonymity.
4. As soon as I can after the 15th, I will make a voting poll here. People will then have about a week to vote.
There will be two sections in the voting: (a) "Best embodiment of style"; this you vote for whichever icon you think demonstrates the style/technique of the given challenge (b) "I just like it"; where you vote for whichever icon you simply like the best.
5. You are required NOT to post your icons anywhere public until after the voting is over, so as to preserve the anonymity of the entries.
6. When the voting is over, I'll announce the winners here. Discussion of the challenge will be encouraged, especially discussion and demonstration of techniques used.
In short:
Due 15th July, post entries here, don't show them elsewhere.
Re: Here's mine...
Date: 2007-07-07 04:22 am (UTC)