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Re: Finally we meet

Great design my friend!

Re: Tessellating Dice

Tanks to daboatayaz. It's not a very complicated tesselation, considering it's just a hexagon, but I like the effect. Glad you do to!

Re: The Questionable Stability of the Atom

I must say, I'm not getting the illusion either. It looks pretty straightforward to me.

tgentry wrote:The halftones on this look too fine and elaborate to print. Can you submit the print art please: derby@woot.com

Sent! I just sent them to you, with the same specs as you've have me use on all the other submissions.

By using colors that were a lot closer together on the palette, I was able to get more shading w/o the halftones becoming too crazy. (i.e. it looks more complicated than it is... I really wanted to up the crispness of the image, but I knew that would drive halftone quality down)

Thanks guys!

I do have a fondness for infinitely unfolding space as well!

Re: 2001: An Escher Odyssey

orabbit wrote:I must say, I'm not getting the illusion either. It looks pretty straightforward to me.

the illusion is there, it's subtle, but it's there.

Re: Reflection of what was

So let me explain this a little...

One of my favorite MC Escher pieces is the Reflection Puddle. He also does quite a bit of optical illusion.

So while this is not the customary style, I tried to include a puddle reflection of what "was" to provide the illusion. The fox is in the reflection but there is no fox outside the reflection only footprints...

tgentry wrote:The halftones on this look really fine. Can you submit the print art please so we can make sure it's printable: derby@woot.com

I think the problem is that I'm caught between Illustrator and Photoshop, so the resolutions got weird. I'll bring the whole thing into Photoshop and send it in. Just a moment...

Mavyn wrote:But that means the frosting just ends partway. It breaks the 'single sided object' rule by having a top to be frosted and a bottom left unfrosted.

I don't think it's supposed to be a mobius strip. Looks more like it's supposed to be an impossible triangle.

Re: cat love fish!

impossible love you know!

Re: Tessellating Dice

Very nice Mr. Rabbit.

Re: Escher's Jail

Very Nice.

There are dozens of pictures of that equipment (in space and on terra firma) - I used multiples to get the right shapes & some shadows, but it's not a direct copy of any specific picture.

(For example - in this pic, there's a patch, no reflection in the helmet, etc.) I kept the red velcro straps (used in every picture I saw with an astronaut ensconced in it), but kept the same general outline (which is pretty much the same in every head-on picture, since it's standard gov't equipment).

Re: Reflections

I thought about a design like this including the snow... glad I didn't yours turned out much better than what was in my head.

Re: The Questionable Stability of the Atom

It comes through nicely. I agree, it's subtle, but I think that makes it even better.

omarfeliciano wrote:Hey, Long time no see!

Great to see you submit again!

Thanks, omar! I did something last week, but it went WAY under the radar, lol. I have been really on and off with the derby recently but I'm gonna try to do it every week again.

@Shikausstan: You should do it if you want. I honestly thought there'd be more reflection designs up.

Looks like a lot of great artwork this week. Should be a fun one.

Re: carrots and conejos

just a funny tee!hope you like it!

Re: Escher's Jail

winner!

Re: 2001: An Escher Odyssey

That was fast!

Wow.... I love this weeks derby ! There is some really cool artwork out here.

tomspc wrote:That was fast!

Especially compared to last week.

And this one isn't even a photo.

The sun and the planetscape were done in DAZ Bryce (a 3D rendering program), and the Astronaut was done on a Wacom (the outline/shadows from a conglomeration of reference images - not an one image, and the shading and reflections by hand) and then all were manipulated in Photoshop.

I guess it matters who you are as to whether or not you get rejected for perceived violations.

lyonscc wrote:Especially compared to last week.

And this one isn't even a photo.

The sun and the planetscape were done in DAZ Bryce (a 3D rendering program), and the Astronaut was done on a Wacom (the outline/shadows from a conglomeration of reference images - not an one image, and the shading and reflections by hand) and then all were manipulated in Photoshop.

I guess it matters who you are as to whether or not you get rejected for perceived violations.

"And this one isn't even a photo." Are you implying that others were photos? LOL

Agree, I've seen a lot of photo use but you are always the quickest to get rejected. You apparently have pissed-off the wrong person.

Re: Burning Phoenix

It looks like the Phoenix(es?) are popping out of acorns. If I light an Acorn on fire can I have a pet Phoenix?

Damn good, damn good

Cute MC Escher.. I think you have something! VOTE!

tomspc wrote:This illusion is not working. Might be better if you got rid of the right most leg. Not sure if that would help or not. Giving me a headache to look at.

Worked for me... I didn't notice anything wrong at first...

Re: eschirt

I'm holding my laptop that same way to show my wife...


;)

Re: Finally we meet

The Hook was a great change. I really like this one.

Re: Escher City

I also enjoy.

Re: Escher Bolt

awesome!

Re: TEAssellation

Rule check--no text this derby.

tomspc wrote:"And this one isn't even a photo." Are you implying that others were photos? LOL

Ha! No, was implying that the "please don't use photos" was in error...

And yes, seems pretty odd that some artists use photos and clip art all. the. time. and get almost zero rejections. And in my case, someone posts a picture of an astronaut (which didn't even match my design), and the reject button is hit.

I'm thinking, though, it might have been for the sun, which was a 3D render, or for the planet in the reflection (also a 3D render).

Re: Tessellating Dice

fantastic illustration!

Re: Tesseract to the Soul

Hey guys... Wife just suggested something and I don't know if I should take this one down and resubmit... Is this cooler with a starfield or TOO BUSY?

Re: Zombie reflect

Detail image:
[url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/40457590/zombie.jpg[/url]

Re: Man's Best Friend

Inspired by "Eightheads" and my best friends.