Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-679780-20151116005246/@comment-679780-20151202204011

Slug-Drones wrote: I tried your background, Mystic. Its very cute and festive but I think the snowflakes are too large. The shape and the color looks a bit harsh. If you could make them smaller and use a color thats slightly more dull than white, it would look softer. Go ahead and adjust it if you have the time because I think your idea is looking really good. Hm... Critism noted.

I did made a previous snowflake design which was softer but it didn't really look like a snowflake. Plus if the snowflakes were any smaller then the hexagon shape wouldn't support Sonic's head. (SOnic's lower quill is almost outside the snowflake.) The heads still sycronised with the original blue heads on the default background. I like to believe that the snowflakes being large can be a good thing as it gives the background more of a Christmas wrapping paper like feel.

As for a duller colour, I prefer to keep it white for Christmas reasons. I could do the webcolour of snow (#FFFAFA) but that isn't any less white. Making it a darker shade would make it less snow like.

While the original idea was a wrapping paper like background, the red boarders with the white articles and the background reminded me a lot like candy canes. Yes I am aware how bright it is but at the same time I find it rather festive. And the snowflake design is rather cartoony in a nostalgia sense to relate to it well.

Dihedral shapes are rather difficult.