Wary Wolf wallpaper - need some help

[Garyu]

Hey,

I was playing around in Inkscape 0.44 to learn how to draw so I can make my own icon theme. So I started by making a wallpaper from my wolfsrain-avatar. I'm no artist and this is my first try at vector graphics so I know the result is far from perfect. But what I need help with is the colors.

I decided I would only use the colors from the Ubuntu logo and from the Ubuntu palette located at the bottom of this wiki page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Propose/Results

So to make the back a bit softer greyish color I picked a dark brown from the palette and made the opacity close to 0. That way in Inkscape it looks quite OK. But when I set the .svg as background the opacity doesn't work for the brown thing in the back. Stranger still is that opacity seems to work at everything else.

Can anyone help me figure out why the background is so dark? The same thing happens by the way when exporting to a .png

[Garyu]

oops... hehe... I'm stupid. Sorry. I just realized that since the image has so much opacity, the desktop color shines through. So I just set the desktop color to white, and presto, everything looks nice. :cool:

[Madpilot]

Cool image - is the SVG created completely from scratch, or did you get Inkscape to convert a bitmap as a starting point?

[HanZo]

I like it too! I'd just make the ubuntu logo and the txt a bit smaller... that would make it look better IMHO. but anyway... good piece of art! did you make it in inkscape?

[Garyu]

the image is made in inkscape 0.44

I tried to use the built-in povrender-thing at first, but I didn't like the result. So I drew my own shapes instead on top of the bitmap. Then I moved them to the canvas. I definitely picked up some techniques from looking at the pov-rendered shapes, but I didn't use the renderer to produce this image.

EDIT: and since it's an svg, anyone can use inkscape to remove or resize the logo and text to their liking. I'm not putting any more effort into this particular image until I get a little bit better in using Inkscape. My next projekt is to make a dark-brown ubuntu-themed icon set using svg. :cool: