New forum challenge: Jan / Feb 2010

[Rosie]

Ooopsy - sorry for the late posting of this challenge, hopefully you're all eager to get stuck into a new one by now!

Okay, the challenge is this:
Create a Photoshop design based upon the theme 'The toy box'. Your deadline is 12th February 2010. best of luck!

[danielletaylor]

ooohhh creepy clowns!!!!!

[Rosie]

Magic toys that come out at night!

[revjessecuster]

oooh ideas mwahahahaha

[Saz]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like toys and playtime

My little ponyyyy all skinny and bony.... lives in a stableeee drinking black laaableeee.....

That will be lost on many of you....

[revjessecuster]

we always sung about applejack taking a cr......!

[Simon Skellon]

Lots of possibilities here Rosie, maybe Pandora's box for children? too scary! lol (i always wanted to use this evil little face on the forum!)

[Rosie]

Oh dear - not much of a response to this challenge...entries pleeease!
Some inspiration:
Toy story-type characters
Puppets
Toy collages
Illustrations
Your fave childhood toys

[Saz]

Oh dear lord I completely forgots!! (I've been a little excitable, just quit my job and moving to newwwwww shiny place where they do design and stuffs, yay!)

I'm unlikely to get a chance this weekend, but if I remember then I'm straight on it on Monday night!!!

[revjessecuster]

dang i forgot to - will work on this tonight!

[revjessecuster]

secret life of toys

[Vitruvius]

Hi there, I'm new to this forum. I bought the magazine this month for the first time ever because I've recently being teaching myself photoshop. I was intrigued by the forum challenge so I thought i'd give it a wirl simply for the experience and to help me improve my skills. I'd love some feedback from some of the forum members that would be greatly appreciated. Here is my submission...

thetoybox.jpg (223.81 KiB) Viewed 308 times

It's nice to meet you all and I'm looking forward to speaking to you all in the near future.

[Saz]

Nice entries! Rev, the robot looks so happy for a machine Waving away heheh like the pencils too.. needs crayons!!

Vitruvius - hello! Nice to meet you, good entry there, albeit a bit scary and jokeresque!! Nice bit of 'shopping there, the only suggestion I'd have is to maybe add a bit of a blur or something to the wind up key in her back just because it's a little sharper than the rest of the image, and (this is more a personal thing than a Photoshop suggestion!) I'd move the key down so it was more in her back than her neck

Yay tho! New person! Hope you pick up some good tips - the forum challenge is a good place to practise !

[Vitruvius]

Nice entries! Rev, the robot looks so happy for a machine Waving away heheh like the pencils too.. needs crayons!!

Vitruvius - hello! Nice to meet you, good entry there, albeit a bit scary and jokeresque!! Nice bit of 'shopping there, the only suggestion I'd have is to maybe add a bit of a blur or something to the wind up key in her back just because it's a little sharper than the rest of the image, and (this is more a personal thing than a Photoshop suggestion!) I'd move the key down so it was more in her back than her neck

Yay tho! New person! Hope you pick up some good tips - the forum challenge is a good place to practise !

Nice to meet you Saz and thanks for the tips. Am I able to work on my piece and repost it?

[Saz]

Yep - course you are! (well, I don't have the final say so, but I'm sure they won't mind!) You could enter more than one piece too, again... I'm going on the fact they're a nice bunch and doubt they'd object