Todays ffffound: After the Earthquake

This was extremely hard. I have to give a huge amount of props to the original designer speedyjvw. Once I figured out how to actually build the thing, the hardest part was picking colors that didn’t look ugly or poorly matched.

The biggest lessons I learned this time are that Illustrator’s system of handling gradient colors sucks. I’m still using the peasant's Illustrator, CS3. I can’t be bothered to jump through the flaming hoops of CS4 activation. However if they improved the damn color picker, I might have to.

Anyways, this was a rabbit’s hole and it took me nearly an hour just to come up with someone that didn’t look like it was done in KidPix.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Original Creator’s Flickr page
ffffound page