[COHO] concept: hops

[Mike T]

Don't forget that Brett has been working on the design with the t-shirt 
company. I'd hate to see everyone come up with the same idea when there's so 
many other things we could be doing.
The lupulin glands comment was a joke. I just felt the need to bust on your 
drawing. ;)
-Mike


>From: Tim Howe <thowe at bendtel.net>
>Reply-To: Central Oregon Homebrewers <coho at lists.bendtel.net>
>To: Central Oregon Homebrewers <coho at lists.bendtel.net>
>Subject: Re: [COHO] concept: hops
>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:29:56 -0700
>
>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
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