Elfen Lied Lucy

that's a cute wallie! :D

Very nice. Elfen is one of my new favs. Fantastic image, wouldn't change a thing. :)

Ooo, nice scenery you used. Lucy looks so sad. She seems to fit with the bg so well, as if she's actually there. +fav

The lucy scanlation is jus fantastic!! Where did u get it? i feel the words on the bottom left makes it abit awkard... maybe u should remove it or make it smaller plus make the scan more crisp will improve it overall... IMO ^.^

If you want to improve on your walling techniques, the best way is to do a background that is truly your own. By trial and error, only then can you get an actual feel of making a wallpaper and from that experience, improve on the overall quality of your future wallpapers. That is my recommendation.

Why? It is because using a real-life photo for a background doesn't need much of a second thought. Just pick a nice fitting background, put on an extracted character and you have a wallpaper. In some forums, this would be called a "slapped-on" wallpaper or instant wallpaper (just like instant noodles, add in hot water and it's ready to go).

Another thing is that there is nothing to comment about the wallpaper. The reason why there is a wallpaper section in anime forums is for people to learn how to make better wallpapers by receiving critiques and reviews. That is my opinion of wallpapers to its strictest sense.

Anyway, I'll still comment on the character itself (since that is the only thing commentable) and I think it's well extracted with some minor improvements still needed. Another thing is that the character is too blurred. If you want to go for a blurred look, my advice would be to create a duplicate layer of Lucy and then apply some gaussian blur (I always use either 2.5 or 5.0 for the value). Next, fade the gaussian blur by maybe 50% or so and then reduce opacity to your preference.

Anyhow, I do hope you can come up with a wallpaper which you can truly (and proudly) call your own. Who knows, maybe you will make a name for yourself among the walling community (and also anime wallpaper collectors) like Nat, Bantam, LSE, Sir Boingalot, Andrea, Red, Redxxii and many others.

Since I'm such an Elfen Lied whore, my judgement may be biased. Oh well...

First of all, I think the image extraction of the foreground character is done VERY well. Care to provide me with the scans? I'm thinking of making an EL wallpaper, too. Come to think of it, how about you just give me the extracted PSD image? Puwwweeeease?

Still, I don't really like superimposing an anime character on a "real world" scene, and vice-versa. As the post above mine pointed out, it looks just like you slapped the foregrouund against the background, and voila -- instant wallpaper. Still, I don't like the merging of the two worlds, and would prefer anime subjects confined to its own realm.

Lucy looks evil and sad......:stupid: I knew that. Maybe you should make her look like she is blending with the background otherwise this is nice!

Lucy looks like sad when she listen the music. I find that the background is not appropriate but it's my choice

it blend in well but it just feels weird to have a realistic bg for anime character, the colors are just too different. but it blends in quite well.

Ah, very nice. I loved Elfen Lied and I like the image you created. Looks somehow sad - but well done ^^.

lucy looks sad but she's so pretty! but the background is not appropriate like mouaadiib said. But i find this wallpaper very good !

background ish pretty good just ish 2 realistic 4 my liking but overall u made it bend very well wif the scan

one of the best wallpaper of elfen lied ,i ever seen before ,thanks for sharing,nice colors and a ood resolution

I love Elfen lied !!!

That scenery looks awesome. This is very nice wallpaper

She looks so sad! But besides that, it's a pretty wallpaper. I really love the background scenery. Where is it from?

~Sayurihime~

This wallpaper is awesome but. I think an anime background would have been better. But anyway that's really creative and this is what a Good wallpaper need!. Keep Up the good work!!!

Looks great! Love RL backgrounds mixed anime characters, it looks weird yet very interesting. Great Work!

I like it thanks

Very nice. I haven't seen the scan that's from but i like the wallpaper a lot. thanks for posting.

I haven't seen Elfen Lied yet... but I've been really interested in it! The art looks fantastic! ^^;; The wallpaper is very beautiful, absolutely realistic... very amazing work you've done there.

I think this is a fantastic fusion of real-life and anime. It looks like her face is creating the very climate of the background. Fantastic job.

wow!!!! thats a very very cool wall youve made there!!! i love it!!! real backround+anime character = success!!!!!

nana looks like nyuu except she has nana's hair.

I love elfen lied but this wall doesnt seem to fit the series very well.

i am a fan of elfen lied and lucy/nyu especially i love this scan of lucy she is perfect on the background is amazing i like it great job nice wallpaper

very well done Lucy is so cool

What a realistic background I like it, its cool.

Nice scenery, very nice wallpaper.

nice job

Wow! Beautiful! :neko: Well done! :inu:

ELFENLIED!!!! sweet mama,i love that pic. Where did you get it from_LOL

i like how u used a real photo. it seems to fit for me.

im liking this wall =D

very good blending

blending background with lucy->a very nice wallpaper

nice background :D I like it ^-^

I like the background where is it from? realy nice job a bit plain but nice..

That is a really nice looking wallpaper.

Pretty good, a evil killer smiling. Great real background.

Very beautiful!! I'll set it as my wall

Great. No Problems, really awesome

Lucy Rulz

pure clear kind beautiful.... some things that makes elfen lied look like an innocent cute anime <3 *lol*

i loved the background image of japanese gardens (or am i wrong?) is so simple but lovely..

i find this wallpaper bad

sO cUte <3 she tOtaL bLends in the backgrOund..aLthOugh the cOLor Of the character is pretty much Of everything..its stiLL cute and pretty <3

A Very nice and emotional wallpaper. (keep op the good work)...

You made a very nice job with this paper O.o

An excellent wall ; nice job !

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Awesome background. Great work indeed!

A suitable real-life-background for this Anime. It´s a good choice, I really like it...