mrkvavle vs. Natsia :: The Big Easy

I haven't battled for quite some time now and am looking for some ps action.

RULES:
600x300
Rotation Allowed.
Must use element from previous volly.
No time limit, I'd prefer not to rush it but lets keep the volley's around a weeks time if at all possible.
# of returns = untill either of us runs out of breath.

I believe Natsia was thinking about a battle with me. So if she still wants to then I will battle her. If she can't or isnt intersted I'll take anyone interested in quality vs time.

Here is my serve:

http://www.jimkvavle.com/natsiabattle/volly.png

If natsia doesn't take you up on this I'd love to!

ok, great. If nats doesn't want to I'd love to battle you.

Good stuff :)

Well... Looks like I've pretty much been booted from this one anyway. Jeesh...

Not at all! You can save me an ass-wh00pin if you want!

C'mon Nats... you're up. :D

Why thank you.
I'll get on something when I get home later.
Stunning serve btw Mrk.

ok. ill be looking forward to it and thanks. :D

Let's get it on!!

Title changed.

mrkvavle,


That's an awesome photomanip, man. I love it:)

Lol. Shot for the title E. :thumbsup:

Oh, and I would appreciate any serious critiques. :-p

I wasnt gonna say anything, because it really isn't a big deal the way i see it, but then you went and asked for crits so I might as well.

I really like the galaxy-ish overlay, it looks great.

However, I dont think it should be overlayed above the girl's body as well as the tunnel. the reason being that if no stars are behind her it makes sense that she would be looking at them, like maybe they're off in the distance, but if she's covered in them just the same as everything else in the photo, the stars lose their position in the scene and become just a pretty overlay. Do I make sense?

Anyway, just nitpicking, great work.

Looking forward to your volley, Natsia.

Thanks i appreciating any nitpicking you can do. i agree that it looks out of place. what i was going for was that near the edges the tunnel was more transparent and that the stars that would have been behind her shining in the tunnel were shining through the transparent parti guess i just didnt do so well in the exectution of it, so thanks for pointing it out. Thanks for taking a look, your opinion means a lot.

oiii... Hope I don’t disappoint O.
The return is still quite rough, should be up by around Sunday or so Mk, so that should give you plenty of time to choke down a few Easter eggs or choke someone else on Easter eggs...
*MENTAL PICTURE*
I just grossed myself out.
EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6927/return6wi.jpg

Damnit.
Lost its depth.
I hate you .jpeg.

WOW Natsia, I love your last. Only comments I have is there is a strip of wierdness at the bottom of the image. I think her eye would look really nice if it was entirely green like the brightest part is now. If the white dots were made to look a bit more like stars or sparkles or maybe a color that would blend a bit better. Right now i'm not sure what the purpose of them is. One more the black line going from the star constilation over her temple, if that was blended back a bit I think it would help as well.

I love the composition, colors, the butterflies ( i've gotten into a butterfly phase myself, must be springtime), and the overall concept.

Great work guys...

Thanks Pea.
I have to agree with most of everything.
Fixing her up took longer than the rest of the image and she lost a lot of that pop when I blended her down.
I was thinking of using the lights from MK's last volley for "jewelry" but yeah, didn't quite work :p
I didnt even notice that big nasty line until you pointed it out.
Thanks for the crit hun :hug:

No problem. Sorry if there seemed to be alot of bad pointed out. I was being very nitpicky on this one. It is by far one of my favorites that you've done so far. Just pushing you harder lol.

very striking image natsia. i like the mystical style :thumbsup:

Thanks carly :hug:
Pea, you have to know that push it will be running through my head for the rest of the day now.

lol in light of getting in trouble for certain referrences yesterday, I won't comment on that ;)

Ill get on this one tonight. My HD got hosed so Ima have to reinstall ps now. Nice image btw. :thumbsup:

Thanks Mk.
Looking forward to your return.
Take as much time as you need.

Sorry for the delay, my entire system was hosed for a few days :rolleyes:
http://www.jimkvavle.com/natsiabattle/future.jpg

Oh cool return! I'll get working on something when I get home.
Nice one.

any crits or comments? :scared:

double post :scared:

Im not quite understanding your placement,
With the light comming from the door You sorta think the shadows on the lady should've been on the other side.
I do like the way you've integrated the staircase behind her, looks very cool, colours are kinky, blending is a bit flat though.
I dont really know what youre trying to bring across with this image (mainly from a perspective of not reading the text and looking at the images only)
The text and sun have given me a cool idea for a return though.
Overall, love the colours you've used :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Natsia

Im not quite understanding your placement,
With the light comming from the door You sorta think the shadows on the lady should've been on the other side.
I do like the way you've integrated the staircase behind her, looks very cool, colours are kinky, blending is a bit flat though.
I dont really know what youre trying to bring across with this image (mainly from a perspective of not reading the text and looking at the images only)
The text and sun have given me a cool idea for a return though.
Overall, love the colours you've used :thumbsup:

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well the "staircase" is actually sposed to be a futuristic city road.
the "sun" is sposed to be the planet earth blowing up by nuclear explosions.
i was trying to convey the choice we have with our future. we could either war between countries untill we blow ourselves up or we could be more peacefull and drastically advance technologically and in our societies. the door was just meant to symbolize our choice of the future we have.

did I sound like that much of a pratt with the crit? :p

i dont know what a pratt is :-p but i appreciated the crit

Best you dont learn the term then, its not very nice ;)

mrkv. perhaps you could have used the ruins instead of earth and futuristic skyscrapers instead of the road, for better comparison.

Quick progress update: I'll have a return up by monday MK. Just working with the illustration a bit. I still have no idea if it will fit into the pic, time will tell.

http://images6.theimagehosting.com/Fire.36a.jpg
Not too sure about this one.
C&C please.

Nice Nat, really nice. Clean, simple, elegant. Good work :).

nat im loving the image, you should work it into a 1280X1024 desktop wallpaper for me