Challenge #3 Results!

[kerravonsen]

Drumroll please! The results of Challenge #3: Art For Art's Sake are:

Embodiment of style
First:
by vilakins
Second: (two-way tie)
by shrike_15
by taibhrigh
Third: (three-way tie)
by kerravonsen
by sallymn
by sallymn

I Just Like It
First: (two-way tie)
by shrike_15
by sallymn

Second: (two-way tie)
by vilakins
by vilakins

Third: (four-way tie!!!)
by sallymn
by taibhrigh
by mistraltoes
by mistraltoes

Mod's choice
by mistraltoes

Thank you, everyone!

I've also revealed the entries in the challenge entry post.

Now, discuss! The joy, the pain, the techniques...

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, it was Sally who made the lovely Hiro and the coffee I voted for! What do the characters on the Hiro one say?

I'm also intrigued by shrike_15's Chinese print, another of my picks. I love the use of traditional colour in that.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

:) See below, the character is something like spirit/mind/force' :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and my two that made it to a place were hand-drawn including the letters, except for the background to Avon which I stole from Picasso for verisimilitude.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Ooops, I think I forgot to vote what with all that was going on :( Oh well, after much dithering I probably would have gone for vilakins's winning entry (those eyes! that pout! that nose!) Handrawn, I take it? (you clever person you...)

Thankee all for voting for Hiro and the coffee cup. I admit that I used rather the same, errr, technique in both; I've been playing with the 'sketch' or 'cartoon' functions on several different little programs. For Hiro, I used a very light 'sketch' function on the original picture, then overlaid it it back onto the photo, then washed it over with a simple greytones 'rain' texture.

For the background, I found the Japanese symbol on a stock photo (it stands for 'spirit/mind/force' apparently, which I thought worked for him :) and did much the same, but heavier on the overlay it make it look handsketched. Then overlaid it onto Hiro, cut and feathered (lavishly!!) and added a simply border (which, I found out, looks black on my work computer but should be transparent; I used the erase with the brush and it seems to have worked on my own computer...)

The coffee cup was a similar thing... I found the original picture (which was apparently painted with coffee!!) which was lovely but didn't leave much room for text; cut and reduced it to smaller than icon-size, then used the overlay and screen to turn it mostly white and put it into the corner of a blank white icon. Then I 'borrowed' the cartoon graphic from my sister's camera software, converted my picture, and overlaid the conversion on the original. Bit more fiddling with the contrast, and a pretty 'handwritten' font (that I rarely get to use 'cause any smaller and it's unreadable) and that was it.

I might add that doing these gave me quite a lot of practice with using these fuctions... which seem to be useful in helping 'lift' a way too small and fuzzy picture :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all that! As for the transparent border looking black, I've found I get that too under different browsers, which you may have at home and work.

Yes, I hand-drew my Avon, than nicked one of Picasso's backgrounds for the background because I'm lazy that way. :-)

[kerravonsen]

As for the transparent border looking black, I've found I get that too under different browsers

Yes, IE doesn't support the PNG format properly.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And I have to use that at work. :-( I couldn't remember under which circs I see your slanted icon with black fill.

[ozsaur.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite challenge so far. I'm impressed with the range of techniques used. There are some very talented artists participating in these challenges.

[kerravonsen]

Yay! You make me feel all encouraged for running this. 8-)

[ozsaur.livejournal.com]

I think everyone is having fun with icon_style. So far, I haven't been able to do much besides vote, but I've been enjoying seeing what kinds of icons the participants have come up with. And the challenges have all been interesting. I'm sure the icon makers have been learning a lot.

And thank you for putting so much time into this challenge, you're doing a great job!

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!