Graphic Challenge Critiques (Two)

#Graphic_Challenge Two: Christmas Banner Critiques

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This thread is reserved for the Christmas Banner contest, where the designer team will be writing about the participant's artwork and doing what we can to help them improve. Feel free to respond to your feedback in this thread, but do be patient and respectful to the designers if we don't reply right away!

After all, we do have to critique a lot of different submissions, which is a lot of work, so please wait and don't worry if we haven't gotten to you, yet! We will get there!

Thank you!

Thank you! I hope I can continue to improve for next time. XD

You're welcome, @Bones!

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@MissPeachie

Graphic Challenge Critique

Forumotion Christmas Banner Contest @MissPeachie Challenge Completion Font & Text Legibility Color Choices Harmony Balance Movement Theme Intergration My Critique Your banner is gorgeous! However, the only problem with it is the fact that it doesn't match the theme. The gradient looks cut because the background is flat. When creating a modern banner, you should take note of the background too. The gradient has depth, and if you take a look at the whole theme of this forum, you would notice that it's flat and barely use gradient. In order to make a successful and effective banner, you would have to look at the design of the theme first. Matching the theme is an excellent and smart move, not only it match the expectations of the client but it connects with the theme as well. Instead of using 3D-like images for the design of your banner, I encourage you to use flat images. Flat is the new modern, and modern is what you want your banner to look like since you created it for a forum with a modern design. Favorite Features Your banner has a radial motion; from the center (which is the forum title), the attention is brought to the sees. The banner is pretty much balanced, because every side has the same amount of elements. I love the way you included what Forumotion offers and the three icons, this makes the banner of yours modern. The text is readable and simple, which is a nice feature of your banner. Keep it up! Recommended Improvements Try matching the theme of the forum you are making the banner for. Connect the banner with the theme so the banner won't be left out. If you're to make a modern banner, keep in mind that flat is the new modern. When you're using blue, avoid mixing it with red. Blue and red contrast with each other and hurts the viewers' eyes if mixed. The red text is barely readable on blue. If you zoom the screen, you'll notice that there' some black spots surrounding red on blue, causing it to appear blurry and hurt the eyes. This lessens the harmony of the graphics. All in all, the banner you submitted is really gorgeous. Though, you have to keep in mind that the banner has to blend in with the background and has to connect with the theme.

A Forumotion Graphic Challenge Critique

Graphic Challenge Critique

Forumotion Christmas Banner Contest @Rhino.Freak Challenge Completion Font & Text Legibility Color Choices Harmony Balance Movement Theme Integration My Critique Hey there--so happy to see a submission from you! Welcome to your first Challenge. Let's get started: You have some excellent theme integration going on here. You made some smart choices and made sure to get something on top of that blue, which is fantastic. It fits with the forum perfectly, your text is super clear and easy to read, great color choices, and overall excellent balance. Everything is well rounded out with just the right amount of decoration on both sides of your central text, so there's no focus being taken away from the forum's title while also giving it a bit of that winter feel. However, I did take a little away from your balance and your harmony. Your image really doesn't have any harmony, overall. Although they all fit well within the image as a whole, they don't blend well with each other and they all sort of sit about randomly with no focus or connection with the others, in any way. This makes the piece look a bit random and aloof. Still, the piece looks great, albeit mildly empty and spacious. I took a point from your balance for the same reason I took from the challenge completion category--your challenge image. It's the only part in this entire piece that is colored black, so it sticks out quite a lot and it doesn't really look like it belongs. It throws off your color balance and adds more focus to the challenge image than to some of your text, so it can be a little distracting. Additionally, the challenge image is just there, sitting about randomly, with no connection or blending into the rest of your banner, at all. There are so many ways to use a challenge image: An added pattern, a texture, a blending effect, and more. You don't just have to set it on there and leave it as it is. Check out the varied uses of the challenge image from other submissions and see if that inspires you more for future challenges. I know you can do better. The last thing that I marked on was your movement, which is quite low. This is due to the fact that your piece is still, motionless. There is no sense of movement or connection between your text or renders in any way, which goes back to having no real blend or harmony to your creation. I recommend connecting your renders together with a texture or a pattern that gives you some movement in the future. Still, you created a very beautiful banner. I would have liked to see more Christmas themes in it, but you kept it blue, kept to the theme ideals, and made it super easy to read with the simplistic style that we asked for, so that is really great work. You did a good job; thank you so much for participating in our Graphic Challenge! We hope to see your work in the future challenges. Favorite Features My favorite features are the really great transition into the forum's theme and the very beautiful snowflakes! Recommended Improvements Movement, Harmony, Added Features, & Challenge Image Use

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@Leah7 thanks for a review! I do understand all the points!

Hello! Will there be other critiques for us too?

Luffy wrote:Hello! Will there be other critiques for us too?

As I have stated, repeatedly: We will do everyone's, unless they specifically asked that we do not do one. Just read the challenge rules, please and thank you!

Graphic Challenge Critique

Forumotion Christmas Banner Contest @Paulostge Challenge Completion Font & Text Legibility Color Choices Harmony Balance Movement Theme Integration My Critique Woah, such a beautiful submission! I love the snow and Christmas feel. You chose a great set of icons to include in your image that fit the mood just perfectly and fit well on top of a blue background. This piece is decently balanced, with a good layout for the location of the icons to balance out the location of your text. The first thing I took away from is text: This is because of the stripe effect on your letters. Although the font is easy to read, the text stripes make it harder to read, especially due to the really vibrant red on top of that blue in the background--it clashes on the eyes. I understand why the stripes are there--it's really a nice, Xmas like effect and a great concept for originality, but I think a better color could have been used that didn't take away from your text's legibility. The second that I took away from was the theme integration. As you can see in the image above, it doesn't transition very well into the forum's theme or onto that top blue ribbon of the forum. When it comes it making a request for anyone, your very first priority should be to get it where it needs to be and that it fits there, as if it belongs. Your banner has some great blues--and you can keep the current background that you have while still having it go into the ribbon. For example, you could fade out the edges so that it "fades" into the ribbon or you could do something like I did in my submission, if you like kind of effect. The challenge image is perfectly decorative of the "Merry Christmas" text--very perfectly done. You've got some great snow effects going on for the support icons, which I'm so glad you kept, because it still helps to signify what the purpose of our forum is during the holidays in some way. Overall, this is a great start for your first submission and I think that with a little time and some more work, you can make even more beautiful creations! Thank you so much for participating in this contest--we hope to see you next time! Favorite Features The use of the challenge image in this banner is superb--I adore it! Plus, that snowman you chose is so cute. Wonderful work! Recommended Improvements Theme Integration & Text Effects

A Forumotion Graphic Challenge Critique

Thank you @Leah7 for your critique! I'll have that in mind! 

#ForumedicReview

Graphic Challenge Critique

Forumotion Christmas Banner Contest @atul22 Challenge Completion Font & Text Legibility Color Choices Harmony Balance Movement Theme Integration My Critique You have a very nice submission but it does not exactly fit with the forum theme. You banner is great, it includes the submission icon, has "Merry Christmas" in big easy to read text, and really shows the Christmas spirit. The elves are decorating the Christmas tree, Santa has thumbs up and I absolutely love the Christmas hat on top of the "C" in Christmas, it looks nice. One thing I don't like is the text is so big that it would be hard to fit anything behind it and with nothing behind it you have a big space in the center of the piece. The font is hard to read, try having thicker text and less skinny. I think removing the "&" and placing "Official Support Forum of Forumotion" on a different line like below or above, whatever you'd like just so that the reader/viewer can see the pause and that they are not together. The "Merry Christmas" text is good but it also doesn't really work well with the forum theme. You could have definitely chosen better colors to match the theme. The background and "Merry Christmas" text color doesn't really match the theme. The theme integration could be better as well. You want the background to match the blue ribbon banner of the support forum. and you want to colors to go with the white and blue theme well so the banner fits nicely. The balance and movement is good. There may be too much things going on though, but overall it looks good. Your banner is very nice, but another thing to think is "Will it blend in nicely with the forum as a whole? Will the colors match nicely?" Your submission is very good, just make sure to match it more with the whole forum theme. We hope that you submit another wonderful banner for a future contest and thanks for submitting and taking your time to submit your banner for this contest. Favorite Features The Santa hat on the "C" Recommended Improvements Theme Integration Font & Text Legibility Color Choices Use same style on all graphics

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Thanks for your feedback
I wanted to just go plain and easy on this and i feel less is more but i will be taking part in more of this sort of thing when i have time... As you know i work in and outside of this forum and have a really busy life.

And of news of little feet running around in 7minths time i will have even less time on my hands lol  ok maybe not running but lots of feeding times