Fail Whale illustration
I have recently got a new Wacom graphics tablet and thought I would try it out with a quirky theme. Being an avid Twitter fan I thought it would be a fun theme to work with. The image is a homage to Yiying Lu‘s famous Fail Whale (below) used by Twitter when there is an overload or error.
The full size image, which can be downloaded by clicking the preview below, has a resolution of 1920x1200.
Mac OS X - Go to System Preferences>Desktop & drag the desktop image onto the image of the screen.
Windows - Right click on the image & choose ‘set as wallpaper’.
iPhone - The smaller iPhone version can be downloaded by clicking here.
The 1280x800 version is also available here.
This was not intended to be a serious project, just something I made in my spare time and thought I would share after seeing how popular this whale image has become.
I look forward to your comments :^)
On a related topic my Twitter account is http://twitter.com/dache and I would love to connect with readers of the dacheboard through other mediums.
15 comments on this entry so far
nice colouring :D
it is now my background
cpr, on August 15th, 2008
Wow, love it. What program did you use to make this?
Henry, on August 15th, 2008
this is absolutely gorgeous! i love it!
(replaces desktop from romeo & juliet)
old: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/809c49ce3b91cfd996763994b1381076.png
new: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/45c036c1e0911140e456329e3fdfde88.png
karli, on August 15th, 2008
Awesome wallpaper. :) Great work!
Andrew Ryno, on August 16th, 2008
awesome - well done!
Grant, on August 17th, 2008
great work!!:)i need to buy my own wacom too.lol:)seeing further more work of you in the future using your wacom.
NaldzGraphics, on August 18th, 2008
I love, it’s my new wallpaper on linux :)
(maybe post how to set it as a wallpaper on linux too :p )
Altin, on August 22nd, 2008
I love it! Abandon the logo-making (which you also rock at) and become a full time artist!
Altin: wouldn’t it depend on distro & KDE/gnome?
Richard Lyon, on August 22nd, 2008
Wow, that is great! I would also love to find out what program you used to make this. Photoshop, Painter, etc ?
Great work !
Matt, on August 24th, 2008
Amazing! :-)
Robin Raszka, on August 27th, 2008
Thanks to you all for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed it and I intend to continue with more of these side projects. To Henry and Matt’s questions, I used Photoshop CS3, have a try - it is great to experiment with.
David Pache, on August 29th, 2008
I love it!
very clever, I’m a design student badly wanting a wacom.
Rebecca, on September 3rd, 2008
I absolutey love it, what a very creative idea. great job david!
its now my wallpaper
Sean, on September 26th, 2008
I like the illustration, artistic!
Mark, on September 27th, 2008
Thanks guys!
David Pache, on October 28th, 2008