Re: The Motley Gnus

["B. Douglas Hilton" <bdhilton@charter.net>]

Hey thanks for the good ideas. I'll try it out the next time I put
on my artist's hat :-)

Yeah, I have layers and such, but got better results by merging
the words / thingy / hurd into a single layer, then plasmafying
it & etc. To make the blues I tinkered with the chroma curves
quite a lot after running plasma on it.

Here's an indexed black / transparent file if you want to give
it a whirl. A whopping 1Kb!

- Doug



Mike Warner wrote:
> I like Doug's work. I don't like the new greenish one as much as I like the 
> royal blue one, though. The problem with the new one is that the entire 
> picture has been lightened in an attempt to lighten the lettering. Blue has 
> gone to green. I don't know how you did it, Doug, but, if you haven't 
> arlready, I'd suggest developing the picture in layers with the words on a 
> separate layer. That way you can apply effects to the words independently.
>
> I realize I'm treading on thin ice here, but my $0.02 would be to split the 
> hurd, place the words in the middle and let the rising sun be the artistic 
> source of the illumination. Since the sun is behind the letters, you could 
> get away with simply "crisping" the letters around the edges with light. Keep 
> the blues. The blues rock.
>
> I think I'm going to throw my hat into this ring. My tendency is to go with 
> something humorous. I like the basic pencil Gnu the FSF uses. My visio
> n is of 
> "The Motley Gnus." In pencil on white, a ragtag group of Gnus crowded 
> together, all standing on two legs, some short, some tall, some fat, some 
> skinny--caricatures--sloppy, prim, smart, dumb, weird, crazy.
>
> The Hurd
>
> -m
>