Yet another face of Mars

[ffutures]

Suddenly remembered I have a mosaic tool in one of my graphics programs which let me quickly add a hint of an underlying block structure to the version I thought I'd finished late last night - quite pleased with this one, but let me know what you think.


Before



After




I've already printed and laminated the "before" picture for Dragonmeet, which is a little annoying, but which would be better for the actual game, bearing in mind it may be reduced to a fraction of a page?

Later - forgot to say that the program that had the mosaic tool was Microsoft PictureIt! Photo 7, which used to be part of the Microsoft Works bundle, I think. It has some nice easy-to-use effects I occasionally find very useful, and Works often turns up bundled with computers or very cheaply elsewhere.

Comments

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

The "After" makes it far clearer that this is a built shape, rather than something more supernatural. I think that will work at any size where the foreground figures are clear.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think so too. OK, so that's the version I'll go with.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Definitely the second. I agree with what history_monk said.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Yep, definitely like the second.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

A post with 4 replies is in the top 25? Oy....

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Enjoy your 15 minutes Marcus. It's so fleeting. You'd be even more popular if had put kittens in the picture. :-)

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Yah, that's got it! Flipping the head round so that the shadows agree just feels so much better, and the brickwork puts some scale into it.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking more large stone blocks than bricks, but it does look a lot better. Thanks for all the feedback.