The Random Image Challenge

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:11 am

Reposted from old Forum:

I know this is not really songfight.org related but I wanted to challenge all the cover artists and song fighters that feel up to the artsy challenge to give this a go.

I created a website that has the guidelines for a random image creation challenge. It is just for fun and it is a great way to push yourself to try something new. All I ask is you share your results with the group. There are no prizes.

So please try The Random Image Challenge and see the results from my first attempt at the challenge on the site.[/b]

The Internet 2.0 · Post by **The Internet 2.0** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:53 pm

I like it

Tawny · Post by **Tawny** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:39 pm

Here you go! This was fun.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:36 am

very nice, tawny. i LOVE the way you incorporated the mushroom as a texture!

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:26 am

Excellent. looks like an album cover from a more trippy generation. Who lives under the stairs?

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:55 am

Looks like one of those places you have to go to solve a clue, in Mist the game.

My only constructive feed back is: It's a bit busy and washed out in parts. Try on your next go around to think simple and allow the images to stand out a bit more.

Overall, really cool first image. Looks like you had a lot of fun with those images.

I like it.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:41 am

Image reposted from the previous board.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:32 am

I find it a bit disturbing. Must be the skull with the flowers for eyes... And I'd run a mile if one of those birds came my way. Very Gothic. Good I think...

<edit> I like the way the rulers have been used for teeth, jaw and skeleton</edit>

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:48 am

Re-posted from original board

Tawny · Post by **Tawny** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:58 am

Thanks for the comments and feedbacks!
For the record, i wrestled with the idea of the mushroom texture potentially taking away from ("washing out") the rest of the image. But, to quote another, I liked the "trippy" feel it offered. I wish I could have done more with the license plate, too, but I ran out of time.
"Who lives under the stairs?" Maybe it's a doorway to gumdrop land?!

Tawny
PS - Awesome images Henrietta (it's kinda Tim Burton-like) and Kamakura (would make a great album cover for an 80s band/artist)!

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:38 pm

I've spent a good while trying to 'get' a set of six images that work together, and it seems impossible. I am often presented with three or four that would work well, but there are always images in a set that don't...
So I've given up. I'm going to roll a dice and whatever number comes up I'll refresh the screen that many times and then use whatever I'm given.
More fun, and more like real life methinks.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:43 pm

The dice just don't play fair. Lucky I don't gamble.

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:47 am

Kamakura wrote:(image)
The dice just don't play fair. Lucky I don't gamble.

I disagree, I really like how you handled the set you got. Plus the way I see the set you gambled on, it was a good set. Some very strong images in there to work with. You could have gotten 3 textures, 2 blurs and a twig.

I like the way you made the plates look almost egg-like and the butterfly coming in from below gives it a really nice feel. I do think the windows could have been used better, but that is my own opinion. You were taking the tree line somewhere cool, but then hid them behind the egg plates. I think you had it all going on in this one. A lot of improvement from your first attempt, which means it's getting you thinking. Which to "get you thinking" was a major part of the challange.

Great job. Keep it up, I think you are getting really good at this. I also think it is ok to go back and tweek your designs later if you step back from them and think it should be better or you could do something different.

drë · Post by **drë** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:43 pm

new one

and a repost from the old board..

i'll try something more abstrac next...
good work kama...

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:02 pm

i like that picture a lot, dre. (the one with the giant shoes).
i am not seeing where you used picture #5 though.

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:28 am

tviyh wrote:i like that picture a lot, dre. (the one with the giant shoes).
i am not seeing where you used picture #5 though.

He used it. It is in the arm of the digger between the feet. It took me longer to find the rocks than it did ti find the foil.

drë · Post by **drë** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:48 pm

bortwein wrote:
tviyh wrote:i like that picture a lot, dre. (the one with the giant shoes).
i am not seeing where you used picture #5 though.
He used it. It is in the arm of the digger between the feet. It took me longer to find the rocks than it did ti find the foil.

lol
this is becoming a "Were's Woldo" type of game... i like it.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:25 pm

I like this game muchly. 'tis BIG fun!

The Random Image Challenge

The Random Image Challenge

random image challenge

Henrietta

thx!

Bortweins photoshop thingy