High-School DxD Rias Senpai

Biggest thing I have to say is what's the source material? Is this based off of a screenshot, or is this a picture? Did you just vector Rias, or did you also do the background too? It looks like you've got some effects in there, what exactly did you do? What did you work with?

So I like what you've done with Rias, but when viewed at the maximum resolution the quality significantly decreases. Best advice I can offer with this, is to create a vector in a larger resolution and then downsize it for posting on a wallpaper. It offers a much better quality overall, where as with this it really points out the overall loss in quality when you go that large.

As for the background. There's a huge difference in the quality of the vector to the quality of the background itself and while the image is rather large, it's still rather jarring when you put it on a desktop for a background. Secondly, what is the background suppose to be of? It helps paint a picture for us if we know what's going on, but I can't really tell what the scene is suppose to be of. Is it of an office? Is she in front of a door? It's really hard to tell.

Biggest thing with composing a scene is you want to tell your audience a story. Let us know what you created, and why you created. I hope this information helps!

Honestly this wallpaper didn't look extraordinary when I first saw the thumbnail, but I decided to click it and check it out anyways. I ended up downloading the wall, mostly because of the vibrant colors of her hair and her eyes and vector-like quality. At first sight, I thought this was vectored, but when I zoomed in, there were simply too many errors and too much noise for this to be a vector, even a bad one. Regardless, it does say something that I thought this was a vector at first (if this is really a vector - sorry). I don't know what kind of source you worked from, but this isn't too shabby, and you don't pick up on any of the errors at my screen size anyways (1080p).

so I think it just look fine... better in a small size not so good at full size but well I downloaded anyway, i think I saw a texture like the one the bg has, but don't remember :) thanks for sharing

-btw love redhead girls hehe-

Hmn... from thumbnail view this wall looked quite nice, nice enough that I was prompted to take a closer look. However upon full view I was a bit disappointed to see things that made the wall lose quite a bit in quality and quite frankly made it seem rushed.

As Crimson said, it's nice to have a bit of story with any wall, it gives us as appreciators a way to put the wall in some kind of context, or perspective if you like. Now, on to the things that I really feel need to be improved upon;

Firstly I'll start with the little things, but changing these will make a huge difference to the look and quality of the wall.

-Blur... why? Just why use it so much? If you want to blend then use gradients, they are much nicer and look far cleaner.

-Blunt Lines... this may be a personal peeve of mine, but I know other artists here on the site share my loathing of them. A tapered line looks far more natural and clean than a bluntly ended line, especially when it comes to lineart for Hair!

Now onto the more major problems...

Your background is quite poor in quality, the blur is just overwhelming. Without the blur it may be easier to tell what the background is meant to be; I'm assuming that's a doorway back there? But honestly it really is quite poor in quality compared to what it could be. Sharper more defined lines would be a far better choice, with a slight gaussian blur to give a sense of depth. And whatever that shading is, try something else, it just makes the wall look dirty. A soft gradient would be a much smarter choice there, giving the wall a sense of lighting, and depth.

Now onto the Character herself...

Again, that damn blur is frustrating me to no end. You have a beautiful character that could quite literally shine in this wall, but you've gone and dulled her with blur. Especially when it comes to eyes, you should avoid blur unless it's to help with blending and even then it should be minimal. Gradients (again) are a wiser choice giving a cleaner and brighter look. Eyes especially benefit as they have more 'life' to them when they aren't bogged down with blur.

You've blurred your lines as well... In fact I'm finding it difficult to find something that you haven't blurred... Blurring of lines for certain areas can enhance a vector, depending on the amount of blurring you use and what the lines are for, (for example depicting a soft material / sheer material) but generally crisp lines are much better for a vector's overall quality. Trust me, I've made the blur mistake and learnt from it - http://www.animepaper.net/art/185372/shy-girl - In small view she looks awesome, but upon full viewing you realise she's way too blurry as was pointed out to me by my peers who have been vectoring far longer than I had.

So, your lines don't match up with the colouring, colouring spreads out from the lines which seems odd to me to be honest. You have colour missed spots in the hair, areas that should be red but are showing the background colour through them. This is a quality problem that should have been picked up before submission. Always use the 'Eagle Eye' on your work before submitting, go over every inch of your work with a bright garish layer behind it, something opposite to the colours you are using in your work. For your wall I'd use a fluorescent green for example, so if there are spots that should have colour but don't, you will be able to see them clearly.

Hair lines shouldn't be lighter than the main colour you are using, as a rule they should be a touch darker than your darkest shade, the shadow shade for example. Gradients on your lines will help with lightening the areas that have a brighter shade. Also, be careful of line overlaps and colour layering... you have the hair colour on the right hand side of her face totally overlapping her face line, it is non existent from her cheek upwards. Your colour layers should always be underneath the line layers. If it's at all helpful, I organise my layers in folders and in sections for each part of the vector I'm doing as I vector. Top folder will be hair lineart, or any hair accessories that are on the hair, working my way down, to accessories, clothing, skin being the last. Each folder has the lineart as the top layer, with the colour layers below that. This way you avoid overlaps that shouldn't be there. Just a tip if you want to use it, but I find it very helpful when you are working with multiple layers.

Ok, so what happened to doing lineart for her clothing? You have lineart for all of the rest of her, why not her clothes!? To be honest it looks pretty odd and jarring against the rest of the vector. If you are going to work with the lineless approach, it is generally done over the whole not just in one spot. Ditto for taking the lined approach to vectoring, you don't just miss the lines in one area.

I'm going to be very honest in saying that her clothing looks rather horrid, it's blocky and unattractive. If you had paid a little more attention to the details it would be a different story. The colouring is just odd, there is no real graduation from the bold navy blue to the grey, a colour choice I don't understand either, it just looks off. Again, gradients would have solved this issue for you, taking a slightly softer blue in the right shoulder and using radial gradient to shade inwards, would have achieved the lighting effect you were looking for.

But the thing that puzzles me most are the strange colouring edges that appear throughout your wall, almost as if the scan is still underneath it all and you've merely coloured over the top of it... odd. It detracts from the wall and gives it an unfinished and just overall poor quality.

I'm really sorry to have been so negative in regards to your work, but I have tried to give constructive advice as well, as I think you could improve greatly with a little extra work, but as it is this wall really does need a lot of improvement. Good luck on future works!

this wallpaper sure looks amazing :) keep up the good work and good luck in the feuture (sorry my eng sucks xD) ;)

Graet wall

gods

In this wall I think you should focus more on Rias rather than the background. For me close-up shots should be vectored and should be nice and clean.The lineart should be fix because the color of it seems lighter than the base color. The hair highlights should have some effects but the shadows are fine. And you should use a smaller size for this since it dont have so much detail elements in it.

Can I pile on and dump on this wall too? Do I have to have a mustache or the all seeing eye to do so?

My $0.02

pretty

good wall

aaaah, the Prez. I´m surprised by the simple, innocent pic you chose to work with, but it looks so nice and clean!

Rias looks beautiful

I love her facial expression,rias is so lovely and beautiful