[COHO] COHO art

Tim Howe thowe at bendtel.net
Sat Jul 22 13:11:49 PDT 2006


I've been poking around with getting some reference art together for the club, 
but I am being thwarted by the fact that I have no artistic talent.  I can 
draw you mechanical and geometric figures to perfection all day, but I can't 
seem to get a smiling, drinking fish to look right to save my life.  I can't 
even get one to look right on paper.  If I have something decent to look at, 
I can overlay a grid on it and whip out something that should do.  So anyone 
with more talent than me and some free time should meet up with me or send me 
some concept art in electronic form (something in PNG or SVG would be the 
best).

	I have managed to get the circular club name working using a text path 
function.  Someone had drawn something like that before and it stuck with me.  
Here is a full-size version here: http://www.cohomebrewers.org/images/3.png  
and a thumbnail version here: http://www.cohomebrewers.org/images/3t.png.  I 
have this in SVG, so any size can be generated on the fly.  It currently uses 
Gentium font 
(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium), 
which I use for a lot of art because it is very clean and doesn't have any 
licensing issues.  Obviously font weight, color, size, font, mask, and 
gradients can all be added to this to suit.

	So, I need a little help on the fish.  I was kind of going from Michelle's 
original concept of the coho holding a mug, only my efforts have been more 
circular.  I thought the other fin could be giving the "hang loose" sign or 
something...

	Anyway, if someone can help me out that would be great.  I'm going to work on 
a hop flower.  Should be more geometrical...

--TimH


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