• I was told to "digitalize" our Abitur logo.
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Well basically in Germany, when we are almost done with school, we think up a theme and a slogan and print that on shirts and all that boring stuff. Also the theme is usually a play on the word "Abi" (A-level) Sadly none of us can do digital art, so I was told to "digitalize" the scanned + mspaint logo. (Actually they somehow stitched together all the parts in Adobe Reader. Don't ask me how.) Our theme is Abitendo (:rimshot:, our slogan is worse) and some guy who is a pretty good drawer came up with Mario in that university graduation outfit (Even though we don't wear that in Germany) Now I have [B]no[/B] experience with digital art, or art in general, whatsoever. I have [B]never[/B] done anything like this in Gimp (or any other program) before. I only accepted because I hadn't done anything else in the class yet and I could still back out. Here's the logo they actually tried to print already, but couldn't because there weren't enough shirts available: [img_thumb]http://guegan.de/abilogoALT.png[/img_thumb] Yeah.. would suck to run around in that. So I decided to actually try real hard. She told me to "Somehow make the gameboy fit mario's style and also the stars". Very specific instructions there. So I decided to trace the whole thing in gimp and redo it vector-like with paths and stuff. After that I decided to gradient the shit out of everything. After 3-5 hours I am done: [img_thumb]http://guegan.de/abilogoNEU.png[/img_thumb] I realize the d-pad is kind of shitty. You like?
take ALL of the shading off of it. If you need to have shading, do it with stepped changes in colour. Change the stroke colours to fit better with whatever colour is around it. With logos and especially tshirts the rule to make a good design is: SimplifySimplifySimplifySimplifySimplifySimplifySimplifySimplify If you don't change anything hope to god they've got a printer and not a screen printing setup because they'll look at you like you just killed their dog.
All that was mentioned above + You need to variate line thickness.
You should add a bit of empty space around the outside.
[QUOTE=Maya2008;28750529]All that was mentioned above + You need to variate line thickness.[/QUOTE] I can't really do that. Like, I have no idea how and it's now too late anyway.
Make some lines thicker than others. Make them, you know, vary.
Best way is to trace out the lines like how you trace out the color. Simply stroking the line look awful in most cases.
Well here's the image without gradients at least: [img_thumb]http://guegan.de/nograds.png[/img_thumb] [editline].[/editline] Meh, the stars have gradients. My friend made those.
I'm serious, adding thickness will make it look 100x better. like this: [media]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/034/7/d/Pottery_Painting___Spring_by_fadingz.jpg[/media] Do the lineart as you do in coloring. Yes, time-consuming, but the result will worth it.
I'm not good with computers.
You just use the pen tool and press button
Then use an ink pen to trace out the lineart and scan onto your comp. Set it up an an overlay layer. There are million ways you can make a decent looking line-art.
[QUOTE=Maurice;28751195]I'm not good with computers.[/QUOTE] haha
it looks awful to begin with
It's supposed to be like he came out of the gameboy. I didn't come up with this.
I like it.
I feel bad for whoever has to walk around their school wearing that.
:frown: you so harsh
Gradient shading = worst shading possible. It's like a cheap way to quickly shade something with 0 skill. The outcome is cheap zero skill image
It's okay, it doesn't have to be 100% perfect! also johan, gradients can be good, it just depends on where/how do you use them!
[QUOTE=johan_sm;28764157]Gradient shading = worst shading possible. It's like a cheap way to quickly shade something with 0 skill. The outcome is cheap zero skill image[/QUOTE] Well that's good because I have 0 skill/talent (as I mentioned in the OP). Also I believe gradients are okay as long as they are subtle.
[QUOTE=Maurice;28764504] Also I believe gradients are okay as long as they are subtle.[/QUOTE] Well they're not in your op
[QUOTE=johan_sm;28764514]Well they're not in your op[/QUOTE] Well then "as subtle as they are in my OP". Only the hat is a little too unsubtle but fuck that I'm not getting paid. [editline].[/editline] Well and the gameboy side but that's because it's a pretty big difference in lighting.
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