[ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Jasper Schalken wrote:
> I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy,
> and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant
> combination :P.
This is NOT constructive criticism of someone else's work! Please choose
your words more carefully in future.

> In my opinion, to prevent brown from looking like, well, what brown's
> usual connotation is, the theme needs to be smooth and clean. This
> includes the use of smooth textures, matte preferred and Dapper's
> current light tans also help, but browns and glosses can work just as
> well.
>
> JMak did an excellent job of this in his login screens
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/JMak>. He kept
> the same brown or tan hue throughout and the background was a plain
> matte circular gradient like Dapper's login.
>
> Junel Mujar also made some excellent backgrounds using very muted
> tones here
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/WallpaperProposal#head-b01caa0ad2b555a2d13de6fd89ae9072f47b0e07>.

Both good pointers. Troy Sobotka just called for more comments to help
get Edgy's artwork nailed, so your timing is good.

Mark
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