I spent some time this Christmas to create a new cover pic for my Blog, as one of the first steps in increasing the quality of my blog. I just finished it and wanted to show it to you all and ask for your opinions!
To see a larger version you can click here for large version or ofcourse just visit my blog page itself although depending on the resolution some of the pic may be cut off if you view it that way. I think I managed to get the format in such a way that it looks pleasing to most resolutions.
My old cover pic was kind of thrown together, with some HODL memes and a Crypto-Khaleesi but I always liked the Roy Lichtenstein artwork that I use for my profile pic (I added a āæ to it), so I decided to go with that theme for my new cover pic as well.
Roy Lichtenstein is a pretty famous artist, and his comic-esque art is pretty cool but unfortunately he didn't make too many usable pictures so I had to sneak in some non-Lichtenstein ones as well. Going with a comic-layout was a no-brainer, although I failed a couple of times before I managed to get it half right. I love the way the expression of the people in the pictures, combined with the text bubble, really allows fantasy to run wild, and coupled with some of my favorite crypto's it makes for a pretty amusing whole I think.
The only downside I found is that the current Steemit color layout really doesn't work well with many color schemes. When I look at my profile page I do feel the whole looks a bit bright, busy and perhaps distracting. I'm curious to know if you all feel the same, so please tell me! After staring at this image and working on it for hours, I've lost my ability to view it objectively! Help me out here! š
One thing I would like to do in the center, where Steemit overlays the text, is to create a little 'Pop!' popart effect like this:
But I think it's going to be impossible to make it look nice. The font on Steemit cannot be adjusted and so you're stuck with white regular font, which is going to look ugly on an expressive popart 'explosion' like the picture above.
Anyway, curious to know what you all think about it!
Merry Christmas everybody!
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