Merlin picspam...

[roh_wyn]

I did these (highly amateur) picspams for a challenge at merlin_land. Because I didn't read the rules properly (ha! big surprise there), I ended up only entering the two below *facepalm*

Kind of fun to do, but this is the last time I spend this much time messing around with pictures, lol.








ETA: It just struck me that some of these might make decent icons. Hmm.

Comments

[mai-shiranui.livejournal.com]

Ah! I see. It seems like a fun challenge.

We don't really have a lot of graphic challenges. Ours are a lot more writing based (that's what it seems like to me at times, I could be completely wrong!).

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we tend to have more writing challenges, because I think we have more writers than artists at hoodland anyway.

I'm also noticing that the average age of participants at merlin_land is way lower, and while I'm not suggesting that has any relevance at all, I wonder if the average 19-year old in fandom isn't better at most graphic manipulations than someone like me, lol.

[mai-shiranui.livejournal.com]

*snort* That could be one of the reasons. Photoshop is pretty much obligatory for kids these days and unless you're in the graphics industry, I think that people that are not in high-school anymore don't really use it at all.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

That's true. I've sort of trained myself to use Photoshop, but my skills are pretty rudimentary. I can crop pictures and slap some text on them and that's pretty much it, lol.

I also think some people are just more visually inclined, and I'm not one of those people. I like words, but pictures leave me mystified. *shrugs*