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#1 2008-05-16 3:27 am
Help me pick
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Sorry for the crosspost - I posted in pro shop and got no response, this might be better here
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I've hired an artist I know to come up with some designs related to Eve and and the Serpent that caused the downfall of man.
The specification I gave was square aspect ration, line drawing.
These are the three samples she has returned, which are not finished products:
Image 1:
Image 2:
Image 3:
I'm leaning towards #2 myself - I really like it, especially the eyes. Only issue is the snake is magically floating. It looks like part of it is on her shoulder, maybe it just needs a small branch for the tail.
I'd like some other opinions though.
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
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#2 2008-05-16 4:28 am
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I'd say the second one as well.
"After all, it's not that awful, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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#3 2008-05-16 7:08 am
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What are these for? A logo of some sort? None of them really jump out at me, really. If it is for a logo, it needs to be much simpler.
"I'd rather be told, 'Have a nice day.' by someone who doesn't mean it, than 'F*** you!' by someone who does." - Lewis Black
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#4 2008-05-16 7:39 am
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T-Shirt and Snake Bags.
When I start going to reptile shows as a vendor to offload my offspring - I'm hoping to be able to cover the table cost by selling shirts and snake bags that have an added benefit of advertising who I am.
Kind of like the snake bags I currently use advertise Midwestern Tongs (they make and sell and snake sticks)
Snake bags are the big one - I'll need them anyway for transporting juvenile/adult snakes, the quality ones retail for $5.00 a pop and the cheap ones are junk - but the quality ones cost less than the cheap ones in material, and they aren't hard to make (basically decent muslin and a machine capable of stitching muslin).
So - if I can pay for the table cost with things like snake bags etc. then I can be less picky on the price of the animal. I can sell the common ones inexpensively w/o worrying about making back table cost and I can refuse to budge on the price of high end snakes knowing that if I take 'em home because only low-ballers were looking for them at that show, the table was still paid for.
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
-- Steve Taylor
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#6 2008-05-16 8:35 am
- sturner
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Simplfy #2.
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#8 2008-05-16 9:51 am
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notJames wrote:
I would choose number 1, only have a woman's hand holding the apple while the snake wraps around it.
I like that idea the best.
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#9 2008-05-16 12:22 pm
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#2 or #3. #2 is cool because the snake seems to be whispering in her ear.
Side note: I've noticed that the Bible says "fruit of the tree of knowledge," be never says "apple." I wonder where that came from?
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#10 2008-05-16 12:51 pm
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Some say that it's a pun or mistranslation of Latin - "malus" is apple and "malum" is evil. This guy has a long-winded theory, too.
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#11 2008-05-16 1:28 pm
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See, the problem is in letting the laity have access to the book. They just can't read.
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#12 2008-05-16 1:56 pm
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#1,flipped L - R, but have a bite taken out of the apple, at about the 2:00 o'clock position, and a leaf on the stem over the bite.
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#13 2008-05-16 4:15 pm
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Pithecanthropus wrote:
#2 or #3. #2 is cool because the snake seems to be whispering in her ear.
Side note: I've noticed that the Bible says "fruit of the tree of knowledge," be never says "apple." I wonder where that came from?
Apple is only tradition in western culture, if I'm not mistaken - at least historically, it was depicted as a pomegranate in some traditional Jewish art.
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#14 2008-05-16 11:01 pm
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I vote 3.
Alright, now, who wants to be transistorized?
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#15 2008-05-17 12:04 pm
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you could give Eve #3, Eve #2's eyes.
and do you need that twig coming in from the left on #3?
If it needs balance, bring Eve's hair around to frame it in?
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#16 2008-05-17 12:55 pm
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Could you use a detail from some old master painting?
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#17 2008-05-17 2:27 pm
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I like 2 and 3.
2 kinda grabs the eye, I like that.
3 kinda has almost a kind of stained glass or art deco feel
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#18 2008-05-19 1:47 am
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DukeofNuke wrote:
#1,flipped L - R, but have a bite taken out of the apple, at about the 2:00 o'clock position, and a leaf on the stem over the bite.
lol.
I like #3. It's got that great lead glass window design.
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#19 2008-05-19 3:48 am
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Metacell wrote:
DukeofNuke wrote:
#1,flipped L - R, but have a bite taken out of the apple, at about the 2:00 o'clock position, and a leaf on the stem over the bite.
lol.
I suppose it needs rainbow colors too.
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
-- Steve Taylor
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#21 2008-05-19 10:29 pm
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Metacell wrote:
Ha...I can see a whole line of Christian hippy products.
Been done already - in the 60s - the whole "Jesus Freak" movement.
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
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#22 2008-05-20 10:21 am
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just my humble opine.....
but if you actually paid for that quality of artwork.....
you was robbed.
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