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Posted on 05/12/04 3:55:44 PM |
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maiden
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
Oh thanks for that Paul that comes with naming files with the same name and then you get the wrong image displaying. All fixed now. _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 05/12/04 4:33:49 PM |
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trinityofone
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
I wondered about that too 
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Posted on 05/12/04 8:26:21 PM |
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Glen
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
any chance of someone putting up an image soon ?  _________________ most of the lack of sunshine in our lives is caused by us standing in our own shadow |
Posted on 05/12/04 8:50:54 PM |
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trinityofone
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
It has got a bit out of hand, trouble is, the posts can't be moved to a different forum individually. _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 09/12/04 11:58:35 AM |
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CubanPete
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
Not quite how I wanted it to look and I don't have enough spare time to work on it further. I can't wait for my digital tablet to arrive on the 30th of December. I find the mouse far to restrictive when trying to intricate tracing.  _________________ Paranoia is reality on a finer scale. |
Posted on 09/12/04 3:41:52 PM |
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bottledregrets
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Very nice CubanPete, I like the tomato that is getting demolished. |
Posted on 10/12/04 09:15:48 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
Hmm. Seems like a lot of you found the prospect of starting with a blank page just too daunting! Well, yes, it is, and the hardest part of any commissioned job is getting started. It was ideas as well as execution that I was interested in here, and there was no shortage of those. Maiden got in first, as usual, with a great in-store sack race. The idea was great: that the kids are still treating the place as a playing field, which the supermarket sees as an everyday nuisance. Excellent treatment, too, with spot-on perspective matching, a great flowing banner and some real movement in the kids. Like the finishing tape, that's a nice touch. My only criticism, really, is that this may be a good cartoon but it's not a newspaper section cover! As he admits, Jeff Scranton copied maiden's idea, but with a very different treatment. This, certainly, would fit the front of a paper or magazine, and the counterpoint of the hockey player with the frozen food section is really good. It's the headline, really, that looks wrong on this layout: it's crammed in the top, when there's acres of white space bottom right. But the angles are good and dramatic, and the composition works well. A great piece of work from Brian Garrison, which is both inspired and accomplished. It picks the moment at which the deal is done - clearly a surprise to the kids, who have turned up for football practice as normal. It's the detail that works so well: the shadow of the building on the grass shows how the supermarket is being lowered in one piece, the fluttering corner flag tying the picture together vertically. Best of all are the headmaster and the supermarket boss, who look the part exactly. Is that a real ACME store? I thought they only existed in roadrunner cartoons? A great piece of drama from CubanPete rounds off this week's entries. How did you get that squashed tomato off its background? Did you photograph it yourself? Looks like a complicated cutout job, however it was done. Not a great feeling of school sport there, but hey, you can't have everything. And finally, here's my interpretation. I wanted something that would be immediately understandable, that would get the point across in a glance, without it looking too jokey. It is, after all, a serious subject, and the paper wouldn't want to look like it was trivialising it!  |
Posted on 10/12/04 7:51:57 PM |
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Jeff Scranton
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
My headline would have made a better caption. Oh well. |
Posted on 12/12/04 6:37:43 PM |
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CubanPete
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
The splat was a lucky find on google and nothing more than the magic wand for selecting. _________________ Paranoia is reality on a finer scale. |
Posted on 12/12/04 7:35:56 PM |
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trinityofone
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Re: Contest 23: The horror of the blank page
Steve, that's great, simple but effective. Was that the piece you created at the time? _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
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