I had some trouble with the next item on the Replacement Prize list, which PapaKrok requested for winning Character Contest 51. It was "spooky graveyard background", and this is what I came up with (now in Background-Standard):
Part of the problem is, if you get too complicated then the two-color limit really hits you hard. So I settled on doing something more abstract that hopefully will serve as a good backdrop for adding in other spooky bits to create the exact scene you want.
Update: Here's the Replacement Prize list:
Woot! Nice work!!
Between creepy graveyard and new snake mouths, I feel compelled to recreate the scene with Voldemort at the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Cool items.
@Jeff: Does that mean you’re done with adding items? i.e. are we getting the aforementioned but oft sidetracked engine rewrite? Not that I don’t absolutely love the new items, but I almost went mad the other day when the third item locked up on me and I had to try shifting everything to the front to hide it. 😉
Assuming we finish up with this list, will you be posting the next few items that people wanted? I still feel it would be really awesome to have a wheelchair and a bunch of the other things that didn’t score high on the list.
I am kind of hoping that when you say “PotO half-mask”, you mean this kind with the lower cheek/jaw portion:
http://www.merlinsltd.com/WebRoot/StoreLGB/Shops/62030553/490D/AC1B/F920/F694/06EC/7F00/0001/DF18/mask_Phantom-of-the-Opera.jpg
Because without that it is the quarter mask version, and I need two of the half-masks to make a full one suitable for my next big character design. None of the current masks give me the open mouth section. I suppose I could cobble one together with insignias to act as the lower portion, maybe. Two triangles on the sides. Or even a square, skin-colored and masked to the chin, behind the mouth. That may work…
And I really like the new graveyard, but I can see why you would have been frustrated with it from a creator/design standpoint.
Jake, no, I’m done with the Replacement Prizes unless some future contest winner says they want the next item on the list or whatnot.
Worf, I had intended to convert all the male-only items to have female counterparts, but I’m rethinking that. I agree, the bugs are getting to be so irritating that they need to be squashed.
Well Jeff, you’ve pretty successfully obsoleted my graveyard recipe now. 🙂 Really well done!
Can I suggest making this sectional so that the tree can be used elsewhere, like a logo perhaps?
Awesome! The Spooky graveyard background! Thank you and thank PapaKrok.
Gonna have some fun with this one.