[ubuntu-art] Edgy Eft Checkpoint One (Propose phase)

[Frank Schoep]

Hello artists,

You've all been very active on the mailing list lately, for which my  
sincere compliments. Also many thanks to Troy who is doing a great  
job at focusing and reflecting on the community artwork submissions.

The 20th of July marked the first checkpoint in the process we're  
following, this checkpoint is aptly called "Checkpoint One". It's  
main purpose is to look back on the artwork we've produced and see  
where we now need to focus our attention. I've been thinking about  
this for one and a half day already now and there's a few things I  
noticed, let me share them with you.

I think we've got a lot of proposals which are already in a very  
advanced state of development, which is great for judging the whole  
picture in itself, but it's kind of hard to take ideas and reuse them  
in other designs, because of the pressure to make the derived work at  
least technically on par with the original one.

For the login splash, Troy made some sketch-like pictures which in my  
opinion are great for judging the compositional aspect of a  
submission. I'd really like to see some more submissions along those  
lines this week for the other three artwork targets. I know it's  
difficult to work with the restraints of being able to only use black  
and white and simple line art, but it gives a great base for sharing  
and combining ideas, I hope you understand.

It would be great if we could focus on getting some more sketches in  
for (in order of importance) the login manager theme, the usplash,  
the desktop wallpaper and the login splash. I'm going to make some  
design myself as well, especially in the area of the first two  
artwork targets: usplash and login manager theme.

If you are wondering what will happen to the sketches: during the  
Produce phase we'll work out the best compositions we came up with  
and work with the colors and texture we've defined during the  
previous phases (and of course this one). By selecting the best  
textural elements and combining them with the best compositional  
elements we can work out great artwork in a structured fashion.

As Troy already said, I hope we can keep the momentum and keep  
working together the way we've been doing the last few weeks. It's  
really great to see the community flourishing like never before,  
thanks for your continuing involvement.

With kind regards,

Frank Schoep