cool, I usually only have a looksy around here and the vector site as those are the parts of design that I focus on.

I have a plus account. It’s definitely worth it. And I’m definitely not getting paid to write this.

You have to realise that the site can’t be run by itself you know. The more the support, the better the tutorials.

wow i was just expressing how i felt about the site and i was defineatly not paid to do this !!

could u two guys show some of your awsome work?

or maybe u should start doing some tuts to show your skills here…

“this looks pretty flat” means nothing.

4 things:

1 — I have a link to my work, you don’t.

2 — “this looks pretty flat” means exactly what it says. The outcome to my eyes, looks fairly 2D even though there are 3D elements in the design. Maybe it’s just the angle that we’re seeing it from… I don’t know.

3 — I was not insulting the writer of the tutorial, the tutorial itself, or the final image. I was only making a statement that it looks 2D. In a way, this is constructive criticism, because it tells the artist, how he can perhaps, improve on this current design to make it pop out from the page a bit more. I actually quite like the design.

4 — I write tutorials, just not for this site.

lol at AEVION’s #1

“1 — I have a link to my work, you don’t.”

that was a priceless response. It should also be pointed out that AEVION also has a Gravatar and Garik doesn’t. Not that gravatars yield any greater qualification for critiquing. Just shows they care enough about having a more complete online presence.

I’d have to say that both aMs and AEVION were respectful in their responses. Keep in mind the tut is for a workflow and a design aesthetic just not techniques, so any constructive criticism of the outcome is valid based on the goal of tutorial.

Overall I’d have to say that I like the aesthetic. The only part that is distracting to me is the abrupt change of direction at the top of that “flow” coming out of the bottle. Maybe taper the bottom of said “flow” a little more as well so the motion and the form of the “flow” are more in line with something bursting out of the bottle and then flowing to the left.

Not too sure about the product label around the tiger either. The second label wouldn’t be necessary if the original bottle was larger. Over all though I think it looks like it would be a great tut, especially when everyone remembers that you can tailor the tutorials to suit your eye and style. Results aren’t set in stone.

Thanks for the defense mate! Ha, I remember when we had a little debate on this site a while back, but I’m glad that we’ve, more or less, come to see things eye to eye.

I’m glad you liked my response… that little muppet needs to back off and stfu!

garik it’s not about us wirting tutorial or making awesome work, we make a standard critique based on each ones point of view. I know when I like something when I see it. I always try to find some arguments why I like or don’t like a design.

As I said, this illustration is flat for me, no depth at all. Colors are fine, but the overall composition lacks something.

I also cannot understand how the client (I mean TIGER) allowed him to make this bottle so small and put it on out of the main focus.

From my experience I never met a client that actually likes something like this. It’s alwyas like “please expose the main product more” etc.
So this design, as “Creating Product Advertisements” is useless, because what you’re advertising is completely not readable.

Although I’m sure it has some nice techniques in it.

you guys should also take into account that he is 15…. don’t judge him to hard.

Also I would be interested to see how many of you got your tuts published on here as a plus tutorial?… that is if you got any published on here at all. You can Leave the names of them on a comment because Id love to take a look:)

@john mark:

I would think that you would be more pissed off with someone like asdf (his comment is right below.

He offered no constructive criticism, and was rude to the author, and yet… nobody even says a word. Looks like your priorities are a bit off attacking us then eh?