Totally agree with 8. as my favorite among the alternatives. The position of the text creates tension and an odd balance with the negative space on the right, but the text itself stands out without being intrusive.
Yes, you pegged exactly why it works the best. Sometimes (a lot of times) it's hard for me to see what's best until I live with them a little bit, see them side by side here (trying to see them side by side on my desktop doesn't seem to be quite the same); or better yet, show them to my fabulous beta-Muse velvetwhip (which I didn't do here obviously).
The fact that the text goes "down" and is partly illegible in 8 is the point isn't it? Very meta - but I'm still learning to get comfortable with using text/fonts in that way, as decorative elements, and not insisting everything be entirely legible.
My eyes are drawn to the pillar of light shining down on Buffy, all Chosen-like.
I can never pay our dear girl enough honor and respect; she gets so little in canon (and, sadly, fandom).
Just between you me and the fencepost - I wish I remembered how I got that column of light to occur, although I know it meant lots of glow and light filters and working with the inherent qualities of triangle texture. And of course, "ambrotype" (dark sepia) filters.
I NEED to write things down when I work, but by the time I think to do so I'm another ten steps ahead. It's like how I cook but don't write down recipes because that would just slow me down (and then I can't remember!)
I'm really pleased with 1 & 2 - I made #5 for slayerstillness in February and liked it so much I made the banners afterwards. I'm not as fond of 13 but I posted it because I learned from kikimay that the ones I call "failures" may be the very ones someone else truly loves, so I'm glad you like it. I've done better work with that image from Nightmares - I LOVE that image, it's so much fun to play with and works in all sorts of contexts.
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Date: 2015-06-05 06:40 pm (UTC)Totally agree with 8. as my favorite among the alternatives. The position of the text creates tension and an odd balance with the negative space on the right, but the text itself stands out without being intrusive.
Yes, you pegged exactly why it works the best. Sometimes (a lot of times) it's hard for me to see what's best until I live with them a little bit, see them side by side here (trying to see them side by side on my desktop doesn't seem to be quite the same); or better yet, show them to my fabulous beta-Muse
The fact that the text goes "down" and is partly illegible in 8 is the point isn't it? Very meta - but I'm still learning to get comfortable with using text/fonts in that way, as decorative elements, and not insisting everything be entirely legible.
My eyes are drawn to the pillar of light shining down on Buffy, all Chosen-like.
I can never pay our dear girl enough honor and respect; she gets so little in canon (and, sadly, fandom).
Just between you me and the fencepost - I wish I remembered how I got that column of light to occur, although I know it meant lots of glow and light filters and working with the inherent qualities of triangle texture. And of course, "ambrotype" (dark sepia) filters.
I NEED to write things down when I work, but by the time I think to do so I'm another ten steps ahead. It's like how I cook but don't write down recipes because that would just slow me down (and then I can't remember!)
I'm really pleased with 1 & 2 - I made #5 for slayerstillness in February and liked it so much I made the banners afterwards. I'm not as fond of 13 but I posted it because I learned from kikimay that the ones I call "failures" may be the very ones someone else truly loves, so I'm glad you like it. I've done better work with that image from Nightmares - I LOVE that image, it's so much fun to play with and works in all sorts of contexts.