Saturday 23 June 2012

Creative Tuesdays - Blog or Icon button

The Creative Tuesdays challenge this week was a real teaser, to come up with a blog or icon button.  Now I already have my birdie button, which is not very old, and which I love.

To me, for a blog button to work it has to be quite distinctive, showing the character of the artist and with colour that will stand out, and more importantly still be recognisable when shown in a tiny size.

After a lot of thought about my style and name, I must admit I came up with another bird.  As my style is quite controlled with strong lines, I painted the bird as normal but added the flowers in a random fashion using my fingertips to paint them and with a less controlled line around them, as in my blog header. What do you think?

Not quite content with the above, and as I seem to be doing a lot of black doodles recently, I did another one purely using lines.  I painted a random background in acrylic inks and then doodled over the top with a black sharpie.


It would be useful to get some opinions on these, if you wish, as to whether they are examples of my style.

Mr T, please do use whichever one you wish in your montage.  It will be really interesting to see what others have done this week, check out Mr T's blog at any time.

11 comments:

  1. I love them both...the first one makes me smile, the second..**sigh..awwwww***

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  2. Yes, I remembered that your little avatar is fairly new...and I love it just as it is! Both of the new ones reflect you, too!

    Hard decision...I guess that's why we only have one! lol. I do like the last one, though...and it conveys the name of your blog very well!

    Your little birds are adorable...I love their plump little bodies!

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  3. Oh I love your little blue bird and his friend the little orange snail :-)

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  4. I love th other one too, the bird is my favourite though

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  5. hi Linda,love the bird,it is in your style but i would keep it all straight and controlled or.... all loose.you know what i try to mean :)hugs,ildi

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  6. Nice, I like the blue variation and the snail atop the flowers is really neat as well. Very cool. Thanks

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  7. Hi Linda, of the two my favourite is the bird. very pretty flowers and the small little snail.

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  8. I love both of them but feel that the first on, to your well put points in the 2nd paragraph, works better at a small icon size. I like how you updated the already new icon. Both the one used now and the thumbprint one works very well. Maybe use both and let people chose? GREAT job, Linda! TY.

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  9. cute buttons Linda, I particularly like the first one!

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  10. It's fun to see you create another birdie version! Just so sweet and playful!

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  11. TY Linda, I had alot of pressure on myself, being a graphic designer myself, specializing in logos previously. I'm glad you like it. TY for posting. I'm thinking of adding each person's to the side bar who plays along regularly here.

    So, which one of the birds ones woudl you want me to use when I do that? I so love them both. Maybe I have a pref for the thumbprint version as it reminds me of your CT entry. :)

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