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Thanks, I like it too! I think when the plane arrived I decided to make the whole picture.

Love that chubby plane!            

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Do you work as freelancer for mobile game designing?

Yeah, I had it's logo in my mind while drawing, not EMI or Epic. I remember spinning Zodiaks vinyl when I was a kid!

oh that's great :D

lust liek those old MELODIYA logos on soviet vynils hahaa.. the 4a version is perfect!

I added a logo in lower half of picture for balance - it must look like any record company logo, here it is: http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/p/i/pinwizz/Travel_4a.png And here is logo variant which I scrapped becaurse it maybe looks not too clear (what do you think?): http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/p/i/pinwizz/Travel_4.png

I really like the whole piece, especially with the updates.

My suggestion would be to move the picture+font a bit lower, to center tham a bit.

as of now the picture is centered, and the font is right above it, which results in a composition shifted upwards.

I see, but it goes quite well with music and retro idea. I think I should give some example (it's nearly one megabyte) : http://skill.ru/images/2006/04/29/130644.mp3

Yeah, I think that lighter sky looks better, thanks to BlackDragon for primer. >>shift drastically I pixel in MSPaint, print on monochrome LaserJet, so it will be useful only when/if I'll order printing of the booklet.

I like the new font, but doesn't really go with the theme. I say redo your old ones.

Oh, that's way better (http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/p/i/pinwizz/Travel_3.png) The lighter sky is better looking. Bear in mind when you print on paper that these colors will all shift drastically.

FYI: pixel as RGB save as CMYK to test print colors then back to RGB till its what you like.

Aha, looking critically, I see that especially R looks bad. I try to make it look like 70's album. I have moog album look in my mind, but it can be misleading, I think (like when you take CD with interesting look that makes you suppose that it is some kind of music but it turns out something different and actually distracts from appeal), caurse only one track sounds like moog album music. And I need to make all fonts all by myself. So here another version - is it looks better/same/worse to you? http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/p/i/pinwizz/Travel_3.png

Thanks! It illustrates your poin clear. There was a question - what should be lighter - sea or sky. Lighter sky makes outlines of all what floats in the sky look clearer better. This cover should be relaxing for the eye. Lighter sky needs, hovever, lighter frame. I decided not to make pic so bright, so I took darker tone and seems that it's working - frame is the same not intensive color and balloon not sems so dark. I made it's tongue smaller to articulate that it's tongue, not teeth, and this changed version is here: http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/p/i/pinwizz/Travel_3.png

For a music CD the colors seem OK to me, especially the music styles mentioned. My crit is the font, its awful. Letters are just not balanced at all. Check out 'fonts for flash' and other pixel fonts for better ideas, some free ones in the links section.

Here is what I did:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p203/blackdragon_photo_bucket/Travel-1.png

Thanks for comment, this picture was a lot of work! Can I ask you to recolor some areas so I could see your vision? There's practically no ditherng, so it will be pretty quick.

I like this a lot, especially the plane, but bad color choices make this peice look bad.