[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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