Offical Personal Badge Request Thread

[Jonathan Christophé]

Alright, I'm glad to see the Lavalon will finaly be getting back to some type of order. As such, I will once again be creating personal badges. However, this time, I will be setting some guidelines:

1.) Colors will be limited to a pallet of 13 tinctures, consisting of 5 colors, 2 metals, and 6 stains:

Colors: Red, Blue, Green, Purple, and Black
Metals: Gold (Yellow), and Silver (White)
Stains: Brown, Sky Blue, Ash Grey, Rose, Mulberry, and Orange


(I will probibly be changing the pink color to something more... rosy then creamy.)

The use of colors will follow basic heraldic rules, basicly no colors on colors, metals on metals, etc. This rule is usually respected, but is broken occasionaly when warranted. "Stains" are not considered colors or metals, and should be used sparingly with regard to artistic merit.


2.) The use of animals and symbols is limited to the ability of the artist. In my creations, animals and symbols are portrayed as solid shapes without detailed textures (like eyes and other features), in solid colors, or with a basic pattern such as stripes. Some animals are impossible to draw correctly in this style, such as cardinals.


3.) The current standard size for all badge avatars is 80 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. These dimensions must be specified when setting your custom avatar on this message board, or they will be all squished up and weird looking.


4.) A citizen may request another badge design if wanted. However, citizens still without a badge design will have precedence on the sign-up list.


5.) Every badge design made by myself will be stored on my photobucket account at img.photobucket.com/albums/v35/woodstock20000/Lavalon/Badges/, under the citizens last name, followed by a number if that person has more then one design. E.g. /I'mACitizen.gif, /WooI'veGot2.gif. However, badges must be hosted on the user's own personal webspace, since I don't want my account being lock for a month for going over. I will be talking to Matt on having them hosted on Lavalon's space in the future.


And remember, when requesting a badge, please throw any and all ideas you have at me. Be descriptive! I may not be able to use every element, but the more things you add, the better your design can be:

This is a good thing to give me:

"Could I have something like a green field with yellow stripes and maybe sometype of nice flower on it, in either blue or maybe red or pink? Or maybe even something with a lion or a unicorn in gold?"


Give me this, and I will be forced to hurt you. Yes, I will reach my hand through the internet and smack you like a idiot:

"Um, yea id like somthing c00l with a monky."


Okay? Okay!


The Offical List of People who are waiting for a Badge Design:

(None)


The Offical List of People who would like a New Design:

(None)

[Jonathan Christophé]

Updates since the big Lavalon Crash:

1. Tasneem, I've been unable to design a badge for you, because cardinals are suprising hard to draw correctly without looking like some deranged weapon. I'll need you throw a few more ideas at me.


2. Matt, I finished your badge a while ago, but didn't have a chance to tell you. I had two different color patterns that worked, so you have your choice:




Nate: I forgot to write down what you wanted, and now I can't remember. I know you wanted alot of dark colors (blue, green, purple, black), and as mention above, that clashes with the color on color rule. I can pull a few things to make some of it work, but I will need at least 2 or 3 contrasting colors from the Metals and Stains group.


And also, if you haven't noticed, I now have my badge design up:



It has great symbolical significance to me. See if you can guess the meaning. (Hint: The plant is a broom plant, but in latin, it takes on a more familure meaning.)

[Xon]

Once again, great job. I like the badge with blue.

The other one reminds me too much of the emblems of the conquistadoras, who I don't particularly like because of their harmful rather than helpful actions towards the native people of the Americas.

[neem]

Ah, no cardinal, eh? Well... how about a turtle (green of course!) And a blue background. Or light blue. Is it bad that I was thinking of saying "Yeah, I want something cool with a monkey? It's really hard to think of things! I feel so stupid cause everyone else has cool things!

Oh! And you know you have that border around that's yellow and black... well, can mine be black and... red maybe? or light blue? Man, am I confused!

Ok, how about this. Green turtle, in a box within a box. The inside box would be.... white I guess, cause that works for the whole no color on color thing, right? And then there's another box, and it's the blueish color. And then you have the border of black and blue. Make sense? Wow, does that even look halfway decent? Probably not...

I'm really bad at thinking of stuff... So, I'll leave most of the decisions up to you!

[neem]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiittttttttt. Ok, let's see if you can put the logo of the St. Louis Cardinals in it.



Something like that? If you can put that in, then you could forget about the turtle... Or if I'm just crazy, you can do whatever you want

[admin]

Ok... Perhaps it could include elements of the Shepard family crest?



And then somehow incorporate a linden tree leaf graphic and a stream (for Lindstrom):



i hope thats not too vague or too demanding. as for details and background colors, ill leave it up to you to bring it all together.

[Jonathan Christophé]

Don't worry Tasneem, I'm mostly worried about people being terrible with spelling, and then asking for things that are hard for me to do, like drawing monkeys. I know none of us are too bad right now, but if we ever get a flood of new users, I want to be proactive.

It is hard to get used to the color metal stain rules, but don't worry too much about it, I can usualy figure something out no matter what you give me. The the rule on giving me stuff is more quantity then quality.

Okay, back to work. I'll see what I can get!

[neem]

So no monkeys...

Haha, I'm fine with that. But you know, monkeys are awesome!

Also, if I do spell things wrong, which doesn't happen to often unless I'm typing too fast, someone should tell me!!! I learned this the hard way when I got 20 points off on a chemistry--that's right chemistry--test when I kept spelling repulsion wrong. Even though, I was really tired when I was writing that, isn't that just pathetic?

Anyways, I trust you to make something awesome

[Jonathan Christophé]

Okay, I had one slight problem, in the slight fact that I forgot to look up a turtle pattern for tasneem, so I'm going to do that today!

But untill then, I hope she'll like this:



Oh, and Tas, can you write down your last name for me? The file name needs to be changed, and well, I can't spell it for the life of me.


And for Nate:



That weird comma pattern is something I've hadn't mentioned before. It's not a color, a metal, or a stain! Its..... a fur. Yes, a fur, called ermine. It's that stuff you see lining royal capes and crowns.

It's actualy a little black weasel that turns white durring winter, except for the tip of it's tail. The fur is hung in layers, and the black tail is what those little black things represent.

[timjr]

That weird comma pattern is something I've hadn't mentioned before. It's not a color, a metal, or a stain! Its..... a fur. Yes, a fur, called ermine. It's that stuff you see lining royal capes and crowns.

It's actualy a little black weasel that turns white durring winter, except for the tip of it's tail. The fur is hung in layers, and the black tail is what those little black things represent.

Something I never knew, but now feel smarter knowing. I wonder how many ermine tail tips it took to make Queen Elizabeth's robe...hmmm...

[neem]

JonChristophe said:

Oh, and Tas, can you write down your last name for me? The file name needs to be changed, and well, I can't spell it for the life of me.

Tasneem Chowdhury. Most people can't spell or pronounce my first or last name. Therefore, most people at my new school call me neem.


And the personal badge thing looks cool!!! You can forget about the turtle

[neem]

Ok, I have teeny tiny request. Could you make the "s" in the badge be light blue instead of dark blue?


Oh, and after your finished with that, coudl you tell me how to host it on my Photo Bucket account?

[admin]

awesome! i wasnt expecting two!! now i dont know which one to use!! lol. ill just alternate them.

thanks a bunch!!

[Jonathan Christophé]

Okay, finaly got that turtle made:



Isn't cute?


If I remember correctly, I orginaly made the S in the first design light blue, but I changed it to dark because it clashes realy badly with the bright red.

Now, as for photobucket, I am realy, realy terrible at explaining how things work over the internet.

Their message board has a sticky on how to host a picture, I hope it has everything you might need:
forums.photobucket.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5


I love my job. Making cute turtles is cool.

[neem]

COOL! Now, I can switch on and off!