http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb461/...if?t=1292380794


Here is a picture that I actually made myself. Its a mixed media, Graphite, Charcoal, Pastel, and Acrylic Paint.

The picture was drawn from a reference picture, with a lot of different tweaks and improvements. I painted it for the house because we lacked some Christmas decor. Its on a 3'x1.4' piece of stretched duck canvas. It was taken with a digital camera and adjusted a little because of the darkness of the picture, so it looks a little more defined in real life. Plus the conversion to a GIF image really made it poorer quality.. Even the icons are grainy.

And I added some holiday cheer icons, as well, to the desktop.

Thanks for the opportunity!

Take care. Happy Holidays.



@CCPChris, I love that picture of the cat on the avatar, looking like a puma symbol. Lol. Looks just like my cat. fuzzy little thing.

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It was hand drawn but not from inspiration, because I looked at a reference picture. I cant think something up that good out of the blue. If only I could...

Awesome green_lemon GNOME? or is it KDE? I wonder why people dont use Ubuntu more. Im booting ubuntu, linux mint, and win 7.

Cool desktops guys! Everyone's is great.

But may I ask you a question TechnoG and iernk?

First off TechnoG, are you using Windows 7? If so where did you get that awesome Dock? if your using Linux, How are you using Photoshop? Wine?

And iernk and TechnoG how do you guys get that really cool linux style desktop apps that display your CPU usage, Time, Calender, playlists etc?

Heck, I never thought id day this but, windows version is beautiful compared to linux's desktop apps.

I'm eager to hear from you guys! Thats just what my PC is missing.

4 more days till Christmas!!!!! 5 more until Winner is chosen!!! Good Luck everyone!

Hello Ho Ho Everyone,


@iernk What exactly should I type in the search to find out how to do it?

@green_lemon Awesome recent entry, I was wonding if anyone was going to use Compiz Fusion.

@TechnoG cool drawing! the Rendering isnt poor, its just fine. +1 for hand drawing like I did.


To everyone who has posted, Good job! They have all been creative and unique in there own ways. I'm sure the judges are going to have a hard time deciding on who's they like the best!! I really like how a lot of you have extras set up on your desktops, Windows 7 is pretty awesome looking visually, I kind of looked for some themes and such, but there was so much junk to weave through I just stuck with a basic gray/orange gradient style.

I cant wait to find out who the winner is! Ive been checking this forum a lot. Im so glad I had the opportunity to enter my submission, It just so happened I discovered this forum just in time, when I was merely lurking for a good month or so. You all seem like a really nice, smart, great community. Im happy to have this chance, and I want to thank you all! This suspense, and excitement of checking this thread daily is bringing the child out of me, like when I was young, and I could feel Christmas creeping ever so slowly.

Happy Holidays once again, everybody! Take care!

Cody

@Green_lemon, Haha awesome 3D desktop. Lol How did you do that? And Really cool ubuntu one that iernk quoted, Really really smooth looking. Great on the eyes.

@iernk, I WANT THAT EXACT SETUP IN POST 72, YOUR SECOND ENTRY!!! That layout is just brilliant! Does it eat up memory like crazy?

@Balok HaHa that first one is so cool! lol real smart and unique.

Seems like a lot of things I never ever would of thought of, have been covered. Nice creativity guys! I wonder how creative it would get if the contest was longer. Cuz right now, I dont think I could think of anything that hasn't already been done in some way or another!

Take Care Folks! 1 more day until all the children stay up all night in anticipation to wake up to gifts of love! Cant wait to see the looks on there faces!