Re: [eigen] Owl sketch

[Benoît Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One additional note if I may :)

The top-left owl looks really _too_ silly :) I means it reminds me of Homer 
Simpson. I think that it could be corrected by reducing the dissymmetry 
between the two eyes. My fault really: I have been pointing to the TuxFactory 
icons as examples, and they do have that dyssymmetry. But I think that your 
idea with the hat-hanging-on-the-ear is _so good_ that it's no longer needed 
to make the eyes that dissymmetric, it's already funny enough without that.

Again, huge thanks!

Benoit


On Sunday 30 March 2008 20:15:23 David Benjamin wrote:
> Attached more sketches, we could mix and match the bits of the various
> owls. (e.g. I think the book works better than the chalk under his
> left wing.)
>
> (Apologies for the incredibly bad "scan"... I do not have easy access
> to a scanner at the moment, so I used a camera for this (and the
> previous). My wonderful picture-taking skills also cut off some text,
> so some of it was rewritten with the GIMP by a left-handed person
> using a mouse right-handed. :-D)
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Benoît Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  1) Your owl looks quite old/serious, I wonder what could be done to make
> > it look younger. Maybe it's the shape of the head, with the eyes very
> > near the feathers that delimit the bottom of the head, which (remotely)
> > evocates flappy cheeks/eyebags. Maybe you could also experiment with an
> > open beak, as if it were shouting "eureka!!" or "it feels good to be a
> > fluffy owl" enthusiastically.
>
> Are the new faces better?
>
> >  2) About the readability of the identity matrix, especially at smaller
> > sizes, I'd suggest reducing the number of 1's. Probably 4 are enough.
>
> Yes, that seems to work better.
>
> >  3) About the professor hat on the stick, I wonder if that will still be
> >  understandable at smaller sizes. The hat's ribbon on the head might also
> > be harder to understand at smaller sizes.
>
> Hrm, maybe. Scaling the sketch down, it's still mostly visible, but it
> might be somewhat unclear. It also protrudes a lot, which would make
> the owl smaller on 135x135, which might not be so great.
>
> >  4) Maybe (I know I'm pushing it) it's worth experimenting without the
> > hat and stick, instead rasing the right wing in a professorly way ?
>
> Is the upper-left "professorly"? (Ignore the hat on his ear. I
> couldn't resist. :-D) I'm not really sure how one raises an arm/wing
> professorly.

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