Today a song came on in my playlist by the Beatles called "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and I immediately thought to myself that seeing a guitar "weeping", or crying, would be a pretty cool picture to see. So, just for fun, I want to see an image of a guitar crying. I'm not getting anything out of this, so I'm just offering $20 to get this picture done. I'll choose the best image I see from this contest submissions (if I really do see one I like). This should be a fun little project to do. To make it look cool, don't have the guitar in a room, or somewhere normal. Here are my ideas that you can expand on: have a cool background for it, or just a plain black background. Have some water streaming from the guitar hole (I forgot what that hole is called on the guitar) and have there be a little puddle where all the water drops to on the "floor". Here is a VERY lame attempt at this (please don't make it as bad as this). I couldn't even figure out how to make the water stream from the guitar: http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4682/guitarnewma6.jpg I took the guitar image from stock xchng. Please try to use your creativity with this! I really want to see an image like this. If I really see something I like, I might go ahead and put it on a T-shirt for myself. Thanks!
Hmm, looks pretty good, but it doesn't really like "natural" crying if you know what I mean. Looks like you just kinda pasted a bunch of similar looking bubbles together. Perhaps work on this aspect? Anyone else want to take a crack at this?
As long as I see a picture I really, really like This is just for fun, just so I can have the picture, so I don't necessarily need it by a certain time.
Wow, good entries so far! OMGitsMogo: glad to hear you like the Beatles! While I can see that the face blends well with the guitar, I don't really think the face fits the image. I think this type of picture would look better if it looked natural, just a guitar with water running down. The water drops look very nice and natural though! retzseo: Wow, that looks VERY, very good!! I love how the black thing on the bottom (forgot what it's called) has a sad look. The water drop is perfect too! I would think this is exactly what I wanted if you added a few more drops running down, and make a puddle of water where the water runs down to. It would be cool also if you use the effect that OMGitsMogo used to make the water look like its dripping from the bottom of the guitar. That would make the picture a killer! Also, if I choose this picture as a winner, would you be able to give me a higher quality picture than shown here? The shadow looks great, too! EDIT: By the way, what's on the neck of the guitar? Seems like there are 3 large stickers there... are they supposed to be there?
Yes mitcharr, guitar is a drawing and it is in photoshop vector format. Glad my designer friends liked the effort.
here's a high res version but resized to fit the boards the original file is 1050 x 1600pixels @daveyboy & meamrussion - thanks
crowquill: I can see you put in a LOT of effort into drawing this guitar! However, like I said to OMGitsMogo, I'm going more for a natural guitar look, and not a cartoonish look. Using a picture of a real guitar would have been a lot better! Also, guitars don't have eyes, so it doesn't look as real. However, if I were to give out prizes for giving the most effort, you would stand a great chance. retzseo: This newly updated image has both (mostly) improvements and degradation. What I like a lot better is the look of the guitar. It's a lot brighter and seems newer and more clear. The puddle and tears here are exactly what I was looking for! There are a couple of things I'd like to see different though: can you take off the glare from the top of the guitar and the neck? When I first saw it, it looked like there was frost on the guitar. And, one last thing is that I liked the shape of the hole in your first one better. This one seems a bit too bent. The other one still seemed natural, yet still looked like crying. Thanks! Also retzseo, can you make the dpi 120? Thanks everyone, and I'm looking forward to more submissions!
Hey, I apologize for not replying in such a long time. I was on vacation most of this past week, and I didn't have access to internet. I'll let this run on for another 24 hours from now. Right now, retzseo is in first place and will win if no more submissions are received. Thanks!
Ugh, I forgot about this. Sorry! Yes, you are the winner! What's your paypal email? Please PM it to me. Thanks, and sorry for missing this thread again.