Part 1: New doodle for a new doodling site. Overdraw.net is the site and it’s going to be everything Doodledraw should have been. Guaranteed good art on this thing — and no crap! My first doodle can be found here.

Part 2: Calling all graphic artists…

I was over my mom’s house, setting up AOL on her computer and I went to this site. Upon loading, I found myself almost in tears when I saw all the graphics on here look more like finger paintings because of the compression. I can’t stand to see compressed, distorted graphics. What confuses me is I don’t see it like that on my computer. I see perfectly sharp images. That little header graphic at the top of the page, the thin, grey gradient with “cozbaldwin v.7″ is as clean and smooth of a transition into white as you can get, but her computer showed it as 5 or 6 blatent shades of grey. I won’t even begin to go into how my precious doodles looked.

So first: Who out there sees the gradient more like blobs of grey?

Second: Why is it happening? Is it just AOL’s browser that compresses the image more? Why do I not see it?

Finally: How can I avoid this!? I feel like a moron thinking my page looks nice and clean and then I learn it looks like a pile of poop on everyone else’s computer?

Please help me understand. I’m starting to think maybe .gif is the way to go?

UPDATE: I changed most of the doodles to gifs as well as the “outlook not so good” graphic and the “gradient header” as well. Please tell me if it makes a difference.