On Tuesday 17 February 2004 05:28, Mark A. Miller wrote: > I like friends who can draw. > > -- > Mark Miller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (512) 796-3592
Okay, this is the logo for our Anime track. (If we haven't got an Anime page yet, we need to put up an anime page just so we have something to display this logo on. It's very good. :) That said, I don't think I want it as the logo for the entire con. Not this one graphic, I mean. Quite possibly another try by the same artist would qualify, though. My main objection to making it the logo for the entire convention is... Well, nothing major, a bunch of subtle things, really. For one thing, the penguin should probably be facing the camera, right now he looks like an accessory. (Which, to the anime track, he is.) Okay, backing up: This graphic isn't really a logo per se -- it's too complicated to be genericized (Troy's old logo concerns; how would this look like flattened to black and white and scaled down to 1/5 its original size?) Now if the _character_ was going to become our linucon mascot, then I'd want to see two or three other poses in different situations before committing. In this particular picture, there are no other SF, gaming, or computer elements. Or, for that matter, any computer anything. Perhaps she could be dressed in a recognizable SF costume (Star Trek is instantly and widely recognizable, Babylon 5 uniforms less so. Maybe a Cute Shoulder Dragon (tm) would qualify...) If I could do requests I'd have the girl and the Penguin sitting across from each other at a small table (could be a full sized table with chairs, or it could be sitting cross legged at a coffee table...) The girl would have a laptop and be obviously DM'ing, the Penguin would be dressed in a wizard's outfit (robe, pointy hat, maybe a nice bright blue color with stars and moons and such), and the penguin would have miniatures and a character sheet and pencils and such, and probably be rolling dice. Maybe if the scene demanded multiple players, the BSD Daemon and FSF Gnu could be playing too... Then again you don't have to try to stuff too much in a single picture. There is a distinct advantage to having a cute female mascot/logo/avatar for the event, though. You can dress her in different outfits for each page (gaming, computer, etc), and that in and of itself would appeal to the masquerade people... If we had a few reference designs, we could even ask Howard Taylor to draw her in a Tagon's Toughs uniform for our guest page... :) This artist, however, is very good. Would they be willing to do more? If she's going to be our mascot, the character will need a name. (If it's Linucon, the obvious phonetic one would be "Lina", but then there's a problematic "u"... Hmmm...) Rob
