Make sure you take a look at this one on their actual website to enjoy the full effect. It is beautiful! Makes me want to go on a vacation, somewhere warm and magical.
UPDATE: Jannis has redesigned the header and it looks even better, I wrote about it here.
Source: Jannis-Gerlinger.de
When I was amazed in the colors of the Solia main page, I did some research and found the artist behind it. It was Hannah Malcolm and she specialized on website layouts, illustrations and pixel art. But her reputation is not the cause of my awe. It is the catchy design of her website.
I found this butterfly sitting on her website. The brown is in contrast with the dark background and each space in the butterfly’s wings is filled with light purple. This combination of purple and brown really reminds me of Solia’s image. But then again, this artist have never failed to amaze me.
Here is another image that played with lights. It reminds me a lot of computer games but it captures an idea of freedom and creativity. I really liked how the colors ranged from dark to light across the image and I liked how the woman is immersed in it. I think this is one of those wallpapers which will blow me away when I opened my computer.
Source: http://blog.sevenedge.be/2008/08/04/wallpapers-experimenten-natuur-achtergronden-widescreen/
Ever wondered why anime forum sites get a lot of loyal users? Design may play a huge factor. I really liked how a particular website called solia Online played with colors.
Observing its header, it can be seen that the drawings are good. However, what I noticed is the intelligent use of color gradients. See how the color purple radiates into white and pink while it fades to bluish purple and how the brown clothes of the skin color of the character complements the background.
I also like the overlapping images below. Look at how the blue and red contrasts each other. Their artist may have known her colors quite well.
I think out of all the images in avatar forum websites, Solia Online is the most visually appealing so far.
Source: http://www.soliaonline.com/
I just heard GraphicRiver just launched … the website is a marketplace that provides a way for you to buy graphics, layered Photoshop files, vector graphics, icons and more. This is a great service for web designers, don’t have to spend a bunch of time trying to design things from scratch, now you can get something that already looks good and customize it a bit in Photoshop or Illustrator and it is yours.
The other cool part of GraphicRiver is if you are an artist you can actually sell your own art here and get paid about 40% to 70% of whatever it sells for.
I’m going to check it out.
Source: GraphicRiver.net
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