I think your most recent version looks great, Zieria, and I like the idea of putting some text in the gap at the top. Will you put some sort of border between them, too? You could use that white space to insert a nice bit of decoration, if you liked. Whatever the case, it's coming along beautifully!
Min - looks good to me! Dragon's hair stands out nicely, and I think the trees look good - separate from the ruins, but not too disjointed, as the blurred versions were.
[act]sigh[/act] Well, I've come up with a draft for my entry, though I'm really not sure about it. Please keep in mind that
it's still rough. Basically, it's an attempt to draw Elspeth in the INES complex (Chapter 30 of TSK). The stripes across the middle are supposed to be scenes from the Beforetime. I'm not sure if it's obscure to everyone except me :P, but the whole thing is supposed to represent the way her conversation with INES allows Elspeth to catch glimpses of the Beforetime, which in a way still haunts the halls of the complex. Yeah, I'm a poet now. x_X
I wanted to combine drawing with photoshopping, so I illustrated Elspeth and inserted her into a photo Min kindly supplied me with, but I'm not sure if she still looks too out-of-place against the backdrop (Elspeth-less version
here, if you want to compare).
I intend to trim the white from the edges around Elspeth, get rid of the orange whatever-it-is in the middle of the picture (under the stairs), and perhaps fiddle with some effects on the stripes. But I was also wondering if Elspeth is too far to the side? I want it to look as if she has her hand against the wall, but I'm worried she might be too off-centre.
I was also considering letting the stripes pass
over her and lowering their opacity so that she showed through, but I felt she was still too obscured when I tried that, so I eventually put them in front of her, which I hope doesn't look too strange?
She doesn't look too big, does she?
The original was too large, so I had to resize it, but I'm still not sure whether she's kind of disproportionate to those stairs. :-/
Anyway, I'll stop throwing my anxieties at everyone. Any thoughts people can offer would be much appreciated, though.