This tile is from Newbies 26: I Call Two Geeses, and Other Classic Tunes.
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Great idea!
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Hmrmr..
Firstly, your artwork is very smooth and interesting. I like the sun-cloud-esque shapes in the background -- a clear and effective, but wonderfully understated, use of small space.
I object only to the attention-grabbing nature of the cell phone and the spoof lettering. It's beautifully done! However, I feel that it detracts from our quilt and adds nothing to its theme; this self-contained tile simply draws the eye to itself and contributes nothing. Why didn't you advance the fairy-tale / old-song / folktale elements we've been cultivating per the title of this quilt?
Others voted this one much higher than I did, and your talent deserves it. I simply disagree with the implementation. :/
I object only to the attention-grabbing nature of the cell phone and the spoof lettering. It's beautifully done! However, I feel that it detracts from our quilt and adds nothing to its theme; this self-contained tile simply draws the eye to itself and contributes nothing. Why didn't you advance the fairy-tale / old-song / folktale elements we've been cultivating per the title of this quilt?
Others voted this one much higher than I did, and your talent deserves it. I simply disagree with the implementation. :/
Re: Hmrmr..
If you check my left border you would see a vertical 1 pixel line darker than the rest of brown (not easy to see, you may need zoom), that make it difficult to blend. We added that cell phone to the tile because it completely fix that line in the border. It could had been any other object with a vertical line in its shape, more related to the quilts title, but since the newbie quilts doesn't use to be very coherent, we did this tile very fast, and a cellular was the first thing I wondered, there it is... at least it fix the vertical line problem xD. And about the text, a famous cellular company, with a name similar to the one we used, as slogan uses one similar to our slogan, but changing "tiles" by "people". So, since what we were doing was conecting tiles (4 tiles in this case), then this text made a bit with more sense this tile.
Thank you for your critics goatboy. We agree that this is not a very good tile, we are adding much more effort in our new tiles (check our other tiles ;-) ).
Thank you for your critics goatboy. We agree that this is not a very good tile, we are adding much more effort in our new tiles (check our other tiles ;-) ).
contributes nothing??
hmmm, this is a very well done 4 sider. while i'm personally not a fan of text, i do think this tile contributes quite a bit. also, as long as it is blended well the fact that it draws attention to itself is just fine. 5 from me
wow
not only does the artwork look awesome but a four edge pull, wow.Keep up the good work, 5
Dig the tile
While the text is a bit distracting, the colors underneath are blended very well. I dig it