Re: HURD icon attempt number 2 : Full-body Gnus.

[Ian Duggan <ian@ianduggan.net>]

I liked the last one on your page best, with the gnus to the left of the
word Hurd. I did a few variations on it using a simpler symbol for a
gnu. It might be easier to draw and recognize quickly, but it does lose
the cuteness factor...

	http://www.ianduggan.net/hurd/index.html

I like the vibrant colors.

They are, in order of appearance:

1) Your original
2) A variation with simpler gnu heads
3) A meeting of the gnu minds
4) (3) rotated slightly
5) Attached by the horns
6) (6) rotated slightly
7) A little closer, interlocking
8) (7) with a slight variation

--Ian







Glenn Alexander wrote:
> 
> HURD icon attempt number 2 : Full-body Gnus.
> 
> This email referrs to images at:
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~glenalec/hurd/index.html
> (Scroll down. Newer stuff is at the bottom of the page)
> 
> As I said, I can't draw complex things. These Gnus look silly. I traced over
> the GNU gnu-head in gimp to simplify the outline for scaling down and drew
> the body freehand (whoever it was - some guy at Apple, I think - that said a
> mouse is like drawing with a crayon stuck in a potato wasn't wrong!).
> 
> Although hopless at drawing, I have a good eye for art and see two quite
> fixable problems with these sketches:
> 
> 1) All the gnus are identical - since I just re-pasted them from a master
> image, that is understandable. They should be standing around in different
> poses, though facing the same general direction.
> 
> 2) They are too flat. The line art must be kept simple, but not THAT simple.
> The heads look fine (as I copied them) but my bodies are not too hot. I do
> like the shaggy bottom of their bodies, though. Something rendered in 3d (as
> the geomes were) would probably look really cool but I can't get through
> Blender's obtuse UI that far yet!
> 
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