Sense of Adventure?

[stcoder]

Okay, so my client asked me to put together a graphic for a webpage that was "Indiana Jones-ish".

I pulled a skull drawing off a dull human anatomy site and mixed it with a few jewels(poor imitations of the really nice looking ones posted by Gary Priester) and threw in a few gold coins. My client took a look at the results and liked the graphic but wanted me to add "a sense of adventure" to it.

The problem is that I have absolutely no idea what a "sense of adventure" looks like. Does anyone have any suggestions? I welcome any advice on how I can either improve the graphic as it is,
or mix in this elusive "adventure" element. I posted the Xar file titled "WebBackGrounds" in case anyone wants to experiment with it.

[stcoder]

Okay, so my client asked me to put together a graphic for a webpage that was "Indiana Jones-ish".

I pulled a skull drawing off a dull human anatomy site and mixed it with a few jewels(poor imitations of the really nice looking ones posted by Gary Priester) and threw in a few gold coins. My client took a look at the results and liked the graphic but wanted me to add "a sense of adventure" to it.

The problem is that I have absolutely no idea what a "sense of adventure" looks like. Does anyone have any suggestions? I welcome any advice on how I can either improve the graphic as it is,
or mix in this elusive "adventure" element. I posted the Xar file titled "WebBackGrounds" in case anyone wants to experiment with it.

[stcoder]

I tried to load the Xar file, but it was too big.
Sorry.

[Judi A]

In order to give a feeling of adventure you need something alive. How about adding a large spider or a snake coming out of the eye socket. You could suggest the presence of person discovering the skull by adding a burning candle.

[gdavidson]

What about a mysterious ancient map/scroll in the background and a compass too. Or even a coiled up whip - maybe too close to Indy though!

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Graeme

[stcoder]

Thanks! Excellent thoughts on the adventure graphics stuff. I'll be trying them out on the webpage... I need as many as I can get.

[dalel]

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[Ross Macintosh]

what the graphic is missing is "mood". I can imagine those jewels would look great against a very dark background. Perhaps a background could be used to give the jewels & skull some context. Such context could be a cave-like space. Does the website have a white background? If so, that makes things a wee bit harder ...

I've attached a quick study to see how a cave-like setting might add some context.

Regards, Ross

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[stcoder]

The cave screams adventure! How'd you do the flames?

[Ross Macintosh]

are an imported bitmap. I did say it was a quick study. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Regards, Ross

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