[COHO] concept: hops

[Tim Howe]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
Ryan Gibson <gibson_ryan69 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey Tim, I think they look good! We don't need perfection here, if we wanted
> photo-realism we could just take a picture...or hire someone to do the
> graphics for us. I think the hops should be a little more rounded at the tips
> though, more pine-cone looking than triangular.

	Yeah.  Each "petal" needs to have more of a point and some texture to it.  All I really did was make a couple different sized of oval, color them with a green to yellow gradient, and overlap them.  For the "base" I merged two ovals.  Looking at some pictures of hops, I think they need large swaths of yellow going down the sides and more of a pinecone look like you said.  I guess I could even color it with some yellow spots to give Mike his lupulin glands.
	My girlfriend was actually the first one to inform me of my suckage (can always count on her).  She said they looked like wings.  One of my goals was to make it simple enough to etch on a glass.

> As far as the fish goes, I've
> got an idea in my head, I just haven't had a chance to put it to paper yet.
> My thought was to have an under-water Coho that is bent as though he is
> getting ready to jump out of the label. Somewhat 3-D, being that the head
> would need to be larger than the tail, indicating depth of field. My mental
> image was of a water-color look, but with true-to-life coloring. In other
> words not photo-realistic, more like you would do with a childs water-color
> paintbrush set.

	I think we have the same pic in our head.  The fish is sort of facing you, curled tail, the redish and blue-silver colors were what I was using (based on some actual coho pics).  I was going for a bit of a cartoon feel with the fish smiling with a beer in one hand -- like Michelle's original idea. Maybe a bit of "splash" at the tail...  The one I was trying to draw looked like it came right out of Finding Nemo.

>   Keep up the good work Tim! I'll see if I can make some time to sketch
> something out and Photoshop it.

	We should try to make it have a very defined outline so it can be etched on glasses.  Also, silk screening T-Shirts may be easier if we use as few colors as possible(?)  Not really sure what the constraints there would be.

--TimH