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Niva
October 13th, 2009, 12:39 AM
This is one of my recent sketches which I made for a contest at conceptart.org I've a few friends who immediately took to using my original artwork on their desktops so I figured I'd release a really dark wallpaper with the "flamer". Have fun! It's free for your enjoyment.

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V for Vincent
October 13th, 2009, 12:46 AM
The actual drawing is fantastic, but I'd say that, as a wallpaper, it doesn't work. The ubuntu logo is redundant, the edges of the original are too obvious and plain black just doesn't make for a very good desktop in general. Still, if you have more work in a digital form, please share it here.
Niva
October 13th, 2009, 03:16 PM
Hello Vincent,

Black works great for backgrounds, I have many of them. It works especially well with dark themes, of course it's all a matter of taste.

The folks who were running my original drawing simply used a black background with the image centered on their desktops.

Here's the original:

http://www.eternalseven.com/images/2009/20091001-Red-Hot-DOOM.jpg

Almost all of my works are digital and usually showcased on my site.

I don't normally make wallpapers out of my works, so I appreciate the crits.
alex.rayu
October 13th, 2009, 03:44 PM
Does it only seem to me that everybody started to depict Ubuntu Karmic as a monstrosity?
Niva
October 13th, 2009, 05:19 PM
Hey Alex, it's not intended to depict Ubuntu, especially any particular version as a monster. It's merely a wallpaper with a faded Ubuntu logo on it.

The idea of depicting Karmic as a monster is a good one though. I might work something up :)
mendozaro
October 13th, 2009, 07:26 PM
Karmic Koala... Karmic Koala... that really doesn't sound like a monster. Sounds more like a puppy.
vinutux
October 14th, 2009, 02:26 AM
Karmic Koala... Karmic Koala... that really doesn't sound like a monster. Sounds more like a puppy.

yeh...itz puppy


http://www.harunyahya.com/articles/images_articles/koala2.jpg
Silver_fox_
October 14th, 2009, 04:26 AM
Does it only seem to me that everybody started to depict Ubuntu Karmic as a monstrosity?

Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

I thought people would be koala mad at the moment :)

Still, like the beholder. Nice work :)
coldReactive
October 14th, 2009, 09:43 AM
yeh...itz puppy

That guy looks NOTHING like a nice cute puppy.