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- vburo0
it doesn't work..
- Kiko0
http://www.flirtallday.net/links…
Seems to work here?
- vburo0
is it only a frontpage??
you just want the cover to be criticized?
- Kiko0
yeah
what do you think of it please? likes dislikes ect all welcome
- sajets0
what is it.. but it's nice... though the chick looks like one from Third Rock from the Sun which ruines it all :)
- vburo0
i am sorry man.
not trying to be a cunt here but i think it is not nice at all.
it seems to be some medley of popular graphic styles applied in a far too rough manner. just thrown on top of each other for the hell of it.
I also noticed you have been inspired by nopattern but the way you did it i think chuck would have done it way better so why bother?
then there's the hatches, the color dodges here and there that doesn't seem to have the effect you probably wanted them to have..
it seems to completely lack a core concept.. a soul if you will.
just random collage of things.
in my humble opinion that is no noteworthy piece of graphic design.
- Kiko0
thanx man. I really appreciate it. thants what I think too, but sometimes you just need someone else to point it out, if you know what I mean.
- vburo0
yes. hey, not to offend. making these things can be great to exercise your technical skills. But you should not expect this to stand out from the rest. Certainly not as a magazine..
try to take time to develop an idea/concept first. where do you want it to go? who do you want to reach etc.etc.
goodluck man.
- Kiko0
thanx no offence taken
- tenpointtwo0
While I don't completely agree with vburo, I think he's got a good point in that it smacks of being thrown together. A mishmash of things you've seen.
While I like some of it, other parts fall a little flat. I don't think you've really utilized the photography (not that it's a great picture, but you could definately enhance it).
It seems to me like you would have done this regardless of the picture, and regardless of the magazine. It could be applied to just about anything- and that's where the problem is. Whenever I hit a snag or get too hung up on technical things, I try to simplify. Or a better word is distill. Distill your idea and your design down to it's core element. What is it you're trying to say? What look are you trying to acheive? And, perhaps most important for a magazine cover, how to I entice someone to spend money on this? To pick it up and read it?
Why flowers? Why army green flowers? Why the sparkly lights in the upper right area? Why that bit of magenta?
Distill your idea/design. Make it more potent, and you've got something. You clearly know your way around Photoshop, so goodluck.
- mattyd0
its waaaaaaaaay too nopattern. with the coloring on her and the little outer glow dots.
a little too much like this:
http://www.nopattern.com/Detail/…
im with janne. do you thing man, it will come through a lot better. i agree with the fact that doing a mock-up like this will help you hone your technical skills, but one thing you definiitely dont want is for someone to look at your work and be immediately reminded of something else.
- UndoUndo0
all respect to nopattern and everything but it seems that anything that has slight resembelence to his work is labelled a rip off.
i think that is bollocks.
i think the cover needs a little work and if you compare it to anything its more like
http://www.vault49.comwork it a little and i think you'll get tjhere with it