[ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper

[Nicklas Widlund Bjurman]

Ohh, but don't let me going to make a modern-art Jackalope stop you
for cooking up something yourself.

It is always great to have many choices of Jackalopes to choose from.

Best regards
Nicklas W Bjurman

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Nicklas Widlund Bjurman
<lordmetroid at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>