Hi! Here are my submissions for the contest.

There are 2 variants:

One, with some penguins:

5K: Here

and another one, without the penguins:

5K: Here
I uploaded the wallpapers also on OpenDesktop here, included with the source SVG file.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Hope you like it!!

I love these. Easily my favourite ones.

The only thing I don't like too much, is the water on the bottom left, I'm not a big fan of the strong contrast between triangles there.

Penguins are just so cute.

This is quite lovely, and very faithful to the current geometric aesthetic. However I find the area near glow where the ice meets the water to be a almost eyeball-searingly bright. I think that might benefit from being reduced in visual intensity a bit. Also it's rather monochromatic. I think one more contrasting color used as an accent would really set this off.

Great work. I agree with what the previous posters said

So, I added more contrast between the ice and the ocean making the water a lot darker, and removed the glow on the ice.
There weren't many colors I could add, apart from blue, the arctic itself is a bit monochromatic.
Anyway, here it is:

5k
Without the penguins:

5k

I hope this is better

Stunning! And yet, maybe a bit *too* stunning. I think it might benefit from having the color saturation reduced just a little bit. Not a lot, just a bit.

Maybe like this?:

Comparison:

Yes, exactly!

Just uploading the full size wallpapers of the last post

(click for the full size)

Thank you very much! Do you think you could make one last version with a less bright color for the dark blue water area? It still feels like it stands out a bit much. Maybe take inspiration from the shade of blue uses for the water in the original version.

ngraham wrote:Thank you very much! Do you think you could make one last version with a less bright color for the dark blue water area? It still feels like it stands out a bit much. Maybe take inspiration from the shade of blue uses for the water in the original version.

Agreed, I think the water looked somewhat better in the first version.

It's not too late! Wanna make another version with reduced water brightness?

Yes, here it is

Thank you very much!

The panel of judges has decided to do a quick second round with our favorites, and I have congratulations to offer: Ice Cold (the non-penguin version) has been chosen as a finalist! In the next 2 days, we would like to help you polish up your wallpaper, and to that effect we have some detailed feedback:

- Make the water still softer and less attention-getting, closer to how it looked in the original.
- Adjust the geometry so that when it's on the lock screen, the clock is entirely over a relatively simple area by moving this boundary a bit: https://i.imgur.com/6PEtdvd.png