Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:38:33 +0300 From: nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [Design-team] introductory email On 08/18/2009 10:43 PM, Charles Sutton wrote: > > My name is Charles Sutton. Hello and welcome! > By day I am a mild mannered intellectual property attorney. > I have been making art for about 12 years, and out of that I have been learning digital media for about three. I have mostly been interested in fine art, although I do all kinds of stuff ranging from minimalist abstractions to representational landscape and figurative drawings. I have a couple of print illustrative publication credits and a large number of juried shows I have been in. I am a former President of one non-profit art gallery and a former treasurer of another. I am a current co-chair of the annual California State Bar Association Bench and Bar Art Exhibition. Have you any works available online? > I have a little bit of experience at making small icons and quite a bit of experience making what one might call webcomic type material to go along with the minimalist abstraction experience that might come in handy in the area of wall papers or screensavers. If you are interested in icons, there is an ongoing effort in need of more help https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/ (the icons are made with Inkscape). I am personally curious about your webcomic, for a while I published one too, it was centered around Fedora: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/search/label/webcomic > I mostly work in the GIMP or traditional media, though I have Inkscape and Blender available to me as well as some proprietary stuff like TurboCAD, Photoshop Elements 3 and Painter Essentials. That's cool. > I think that's about it in a nutshell. I guess I can help some if esoteric legal issues come up like you recently seem to have discussed in the area of logos in wallpapers. While some legal help is useful, we ultimately follow the advice of the Fedora-legal and Red Hat lawyers, maybe this is an interesting place for you: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:40:38 +0300 From: nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [Design-team] introductory email On 08/20/2009 02:39 AM, Charles Sutton wrote: > > Well, here is the good, the bad, and the ugly for the last three years. (sort of an art blog) I am Arttorney on Conceptart.org. > http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72901 Nice! I think some of the stuff you have in there is really great, I liked things like some of your portraits and some textures (Victorian letterhead, cauldron...). -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

Thank you. I had expected that work where I take care to execute with good draftsmanship would be more valuable to this project than some of the experimental stuff or general "messing around" drawings. From what I've seen in the wiki about icons, standardization and cleanliness of presentation are the threshold norm. I think I will need to do some Inkscape tutorials to make sure I know what I am doing in vector. I'll go and look at your linked works when I get a chance. The work-a-day world is kind of intrusive at the moment. Cheers.