Wow, that's gorgeous. I really like it.

Personally I think you should give the snail (only the snail, not the shell) a bit more colour to make it stand out more. Right now I get the impression that the shell is the most important thing in the piece, and that the snail is just part of the background scene.

Looks real good.=)

What programm are you using?
You could easely found unwanted colors in photoshop if you shoose save for the web option and on pallete  (left side) pick a color and click on transparent icon on a bottom. Picked color will becom transparent. Control that process with you own palette pickler on the image.

Blueberry_pie: It's supposed to be that way :) Hard to explain what I thought of when making this piece, but the colours stay the way they are. S/he (they have two sexes, right?) is really happy about their shell being so outstanding.

tomster: it hasn't failed me before.

Edited by Mirre - 01 September 2006 at 9:40am

Beautiful. I'm with pie about a dash of more color.

I think this is gorgeous. The only crit I have is that I would like to see the body of the snail stand out more. Not necessarily with colour, but maybe by adding some highlights or lightening up your colours on the snail? after the shell and the wordbubble, the thing that jumps out at me next is the mushroom, because it is paler than the rest of the background, while the body of the snail seems to really blend right in. Even a small change would make it pop a bit more.

i'd say give it some contrasting tints

like making the surroundings in a murky green and brown palette, and the snail pink and blue

and no pink background, just transparency

The middle version is definitely the best.  You can count on this being on my favorites list when its uploaded.  Not to rush you, please take your time tweaking it to perfection.

I like it as well. You've definately gor an awesome eye for greyscale. :)

I love this piece and it really won't fail no matter what you do. I wonder if the latest version would be better served if the shell glowed onto the mushroom and leaves with the coloring of the snail as if the shall was lit from the inside. A soft glow?
ps. I too have a faved reserved for this

I like the grey myself, but I too would like to know your reason.  I'd also like to see how jal's idea would look.

Thanks for the crits guys! Since you asked me so nicely I'll try to explain, but I warned you that it would sound silly!

oh yea, the glow looks great. With your explanation for the colors the glow makes more sense too. 

What kind of trivial homogenised monoculture are we living in if we can't even express our deepest, most serious thoughts and feelings without the fear of people finding them silly and laughing at them? Mirre, I think that in this case, you are in fact the 'spark of colour' just for making this conceptual piece and talking about it. I think it's great. The glow on the surrounding surfaces are excellent. Technically and conceptually this is marvellous, I'm adding it to my favourites straight away when you add it to the gallery!!

It's great to know the meaning behind art. The glow looks great. I think the snail's body could do with a touch of secondary light on it too, even if it's just its head.