Summer Fest Theme Design Submissions

I thought people might like a place to discuss their theme submissions and receive feedback.
If this already exists, please share the link below.

Share your theme submissions, comment constructive criticism or praise, but please be kind. :D

Here are mine:

Pineapple Aeridini


Summer Tanager Aurleon
reworked


FroYo Bulbori


Painted Bunting Draeyl


Deep Forest Faelora


Watermelon Ferrikki


Kestrel Griffi


Fiery Seas Kelpari


Mint Tea Lighira
reworked


Toasted Marshmallow Luffox
reworked


Flamingo Float Lunemara


Beach Ball Lupora


Hot Balloon Morkko


Rainbow Sprinkles Nephini


Soap Bubble Ny'vene


Solar Flare Nytekrie


Poison Dart Frog Puffadore
redone


Thing 1 Qitari


Little Mischief (Rose) Ryori
mild rework on colours
not sure if I like the name with or without "Rose" but the design is based on the Little Mischief Rose


Coral Reef Sylvorpa


Strawberry Vulnyx


Cherry Blossom Zolnixi

lh/ g/ This is a "hoo boy" moment for me, let's get this unpacked.

Some general advice that applies to the entire board:

1. Reference Images! Lot's and lots of reference images. Overall most of your designs have maybe 3-7 different colors, some of them repeating more than four times. As an example here, if you look up a pineapple on Google you'll find that there's a lot more than just one shade of green or yellow on it. A time old trick I learned from my design mentor on here is to take a reference image and work with it instead of just looking at it.

2. Your names are a little too on the nose. Nothing wrong about that, and this is a bit more personal style, but try putting some variation on your names. Word Association sites and Thesaurus are your friends. Again with the Pineapple Aeri, try instead maybe "Pineapple Slice" or "Pineapple Plant". It adds a bit more depth into the theme. You can also go more eccentric for some, get creative with names! I do like the Fiery Sea Kelpari's name!

3. Addressing the biggest elephant in this room for all of of the designs, there's a lot of repeating colors here. It get's boring looking at the same greens or blues or even pinks all the time. Try to put some variation between colors. Make them darker, duller, brighter, put contrast between shades and tones. Not everything has to be a super saturated orange or blue all the time. A good neutral color will help balance everything out.

As an example I decided to rework your Pineapple Aeridini

Old vs New


Reference


Notice how the image of this pineapple is way more bright and less saturated, the lighter "green" colors lean more desaturated yellow in the light while the shades are more green. The husk is way more brown than people give it credit for as well. Brown as the neutral color, with lighter yellows and darker greens. The design looks less monotone and repetitive and utilizes different shades and colors from the spectrum. Don't Limit yourself to just one area of the color wheel!

Lastly of course you can find inspiration anywhere. Sometimes I use abstract wallpapers to make themes! Stretch your horizons!

I hope you found this helpful, don't be afraid to DM me if you want advice on designs though I may not get to all of them at once.

- Crow

P.s. you can use my pineapple redesign for inspiration, but not as your own entry thanks youuu/lh /g

I think this is an agree to disagree type of situation.

I went more saturated and bright because that felt more summery to me, but I appreciate your feedback.
Thank you. :D

((I did, however go through and try to use colours that aren't overused for each species, and the general advice makes sense broadly. I use reference photos, as well.))

I would agree that although bright colors are, well, summer-y, making all of them very bright makes the colors contrast a bit too much. Perhaps bring some base colors to more neutral, softer colors? However, do all you feel is cool. Your style is pretty shiny haha.

Here's some designs that I slapped on last-minute hohoho. Please don't mention the last two, because, well..yeah. xD Criticism and name suggestions would be..awesome!

Icy Lemonade Ferrikki




Cockcrow Beach Ny'vene



Mystic Dawn/Strawberry Mint Puffadore




Simple Orange Ryori




Aurora's Savior Nephini




Jellyfish Summer Lighira




Red Bellflower Lupora



Beachy Tide Aeridini




Sundaze Blaze Bulbori



Breezy Delight Lunemara

Typicalannamarie i think your colour choices are amazing i can defiently see some that i would be striving to get my hands on if they get chosen they remind me of lot of summer thing i've seen like beach towels and sand toys or popsicles with their bright colours and they look amazing; i adore you Soap bubble Ny'vene pallets they look gorgoues

Eternalsilver i've seen your designs! ironically i'm right under you on the contest fourm so i was seeing them every time i went to edit my post to add a new design when i finished one, and i've got to be honest every time i had to stop and just admire Faelora and Ferrikki pallets they are just so gorgoues i think the colours just mix together and just give me such a boost looking at them, and your Ny'vene pallet is also beautiful.

as for names perhaps something Sunrise and flower like for your Griffi, it's likely not to work but the name "yatch/beach party' entered my mind as soon as i looked at your lightra, the bright colours on the darker blue background remind me of images of parties and with the dark blue background remind me of an event with a water background simiarly with your qitari you could use soemthing like Ocean Dawn or the like with the mix of orange over blue like a sunrise on water

i've spend almost every summer of my life visitng relatives in a small town so other then going to the lake nearby i didn't go places a lot so most of my designs are water based or flower/plant based, but i love desining things and had fun creating colour pallets without having them be too similar for the summers themed, i also didn't have an easy time with the names and think about half of them are pretty basic so if anyone has any suggestions i'd love to hear them

Marigold Aeridini


Water balloon Aurleon


Lilac Bulbori


Forest Creek Draeyl


Ancient Forest Faelora


Warm Sunset Ferrikki


[i[bDogbane leaf beetle Griffi


Sunflower kelpari


Scavenged Sea Glass Lightra


Monarch butterfly Luffox


Pink lemonade Lunemara


Bonfire Lupora


Strawberry Slushy/Overgrown Strawberry Morrkko
Unsure of the name but its defiently cold Treat or wild strawberry themed


Smore nephini


Beach Ball Nyvene


Ocean shipwreck Nytekrie


Fire Starter Puffadore


Fruit punch Qitari


Fudge-sicle Ryori


Lake algae Sulvorpa


Mint Chocolate Chip Vulnyx


Coral Reef Zolnixi

I love your Rikki and your Ryori!!

The Neph is nice, as well!

I get what you mean about the base colours.
People seem to either love or hate the saturation with little in between (but that makes it kinda fun ;-D ).

Thankyou, I have to agree with you the palettes look a whole lot better after adjusting the colours and the redid aerdini looks gorgeous all of your tips and idea are very useful so Ill probably be going back over some of my designs Im not content with espically my aerdini, it was the first one Id made and Id not bothered to look at any references and just sort of tried to make the yellows look good together lol, so Ive have to mess around and see if I can find a better mix with colours that Im more content with, thankyou (^-^)