Auzara’s Banner

Auzara over at Chick GM wanted to update her banner. This was greatly intimidating to me because I thought she had a cute banner that went well with the title. What could I possibly do to update it? That was the constant thought in my head.

First thing I did was to fire up the Model Viewer, and I started taking various shots of Egbert in various positions. It sounds kinkier than it actually was. I ended up with about twenty images of him. (This is why I usually don’t use Model Viewer for people; I take too many pictures.) After shrinking a good majority of the images and trying them out in the banner, I finally settled on three.

I wanted to keep the basic layout that Auzara had, which was an Egbert on either side of the banner. Side views worked best for these. However, that little Egbert that I ended up placing in the center just demanded his place in her banner. I just kept thinking that Auzara is a GM and needs to keep a watchful eye on everything in her guild, and that particular Egbert is watching everything!

For contrast, I added shadows under all the Egberts and gave them the slightest hint of an outer glow. I did the same for the font; that way it would have some depth and stand out from the background a little more. Hopefully Auzara will be pleased with the end result.