[ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper

[Nicklas Widlund Bjurman]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Ryan Prior <ryanprior at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Chris Tomalty wrote:
>> > Hey (I'm new to the whole mailing list thing, so please bear with me if
>> > I
>> > mess up a bit :) )
>> >
>> > I was looking at the default wallpapers proposed for Jaunty in the
>> > Incoming
>> > Artwork section on the wiki (
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/AlphaBackgrounds ) and I
>> > don't think that it's really possible to do a jackalope as well in a
>> > similar
>> > style as we did the Heron and the Ibex.  I decided to open Photoshop and
>> > tool around, and my submission is on the AlphaBackgrounds page under
>> > Ubuntu
>> > Energy.
>> >
>> > This is my first creative submission to the Ubuntu community and I would
>> > like some feedback as to its quality and/or suitability.  One of the
>> > people
>> > in the comments section said that we shouldn't have text, but my design
>> > feels incomplete without it and the black bar.
>> >
>> > Anyways, any feedback that I could use to improve the submission?  Need
>> > we
>> > use animals now?
>> >
>>
>> While I think it's generally ok, I don't think it's currently what is
>> being looked for.
>>
>> And what *is* being looked for, seems up-in-the-air atm.
>
>
> Jaunty: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
>
> I think what we need to look for is a jackalope that is decidedly modern.
> Any artists inspired to do that somehow?


I'll give a modern-art Jackalope a shoot...
See what I can achieve. Hopefully something awesome :D

Best regards
Nicklas W Bjurman