Oranges are red if you look closely
A very, very slight shift on the colour wheel, I assure you. This was confirmed via my various eyedropping tools in Illustrator. Of course, I am babbling bullshit here, but basically, the reference picture I took for a little new T-shirt design turned out to have odd lighting, to say the least. The shirt design was originally to have been on plain white, but I realised the Web 2.0 gloss didn’t exactly pop when placed against such contrast pure. Besides, red kind of fits Chinese New Year, which served as the inspiration for this design, anyway.
Perhaps this would be a sign of things to come. (For Illustrator junkies, contrary to what you may think, I didn’t use any 3D plugins of any sort to render the orange on the right. It’s really amazing what you can do with gradients without relying on computer algorithms to render depth and substance. Almost scary, in fact, when you look at things that come out from places like these.
Anyway, as an extended treat for myself, I’ve cooked up two wallpapers, intentionally kept simplified to allow for extensive customization, as to your own individual needs. I believe they are of a large enough resolution for most of your desktops.
The Dragon design which I did earlier, as I had originally intended it to be before deciding to keep the wings and the dragon head separate:
And the new Orange design, though in a palette more complementary than Asian-themed. I prefer cool colours as compared to warmer tones. Do with it as you see fit for your own desktops. You do know how to use the Magic Wand tool, right?
Indeed, the urge to order one of my own designs for the approaching festivities becomes more difficult to withhold. Maybe if more people bought my goddamn designs, then I’d have enough profits to purchase one of my own designs.
Hint, hint.
Anyway, Vista is only a couple of days away, and the wait is just about killing me. I can’t wait for it to be released, because it marks the start of the rig race, one in which I do believe will involve me finally getting a brand-new workstation for my vindictive pleasures. And of course, I’ll finally be able to play GRAW the way it was meant to be played; the memories of going 15 FPS at 320 x 240 still lingers, and haunts my nightmares.
EDIT: I just realised that the table in my Oranges wallpaper isn’t anti-aliased. I apologize; usually I work with bare pixels, and those require a lot of auto-smoothing algorithms in Photoshop to be turned off. The problem is, I always forgot to turn them back on when I’m working on normal stuff.
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