Ar Tonelico Halloween Time!

I wish you'd be a bit more descriptive with your wallpapers. Like the source material you did, if you incorporated any brushes, the source of the moon in the background, etc. It makes it much easier for us to comment, to understand what you did and more importantly it gives us an insight as to what you did. Plus, sharing is caring. It'll allow others to work with the materials if they like them as well.

So, with that aside I think this is by far your most successful piece to date. It's got a nice balance to it and it doesn't have that same empty feeling some of your previous pieces did. This has more atmosphere to it and the end result is the emptiness gives a deeper feeling. I really like what you did with the scan. It's such a perfect piece to work with, and the fact that you simply applied some simple filtering effects to it really gives it that extra oomph. It's got this perfect mood to it while still retaining the greatness the scan had. Not everything needs to be vectored or painted, and this is a perfect example of that.

I also really like the use of bats, but at the same time I'm not too sure how I feel about them either. It's very much a like and dislike upon how they look. Some of them I really like, and for some of them they've got this weird look to them that sort of throws me off, but I think you've got a good balance of them and they also help give a nice sense of not only atmosphere to the piece, but sort of seals the deal with the Halloween theme.

Of course, the orange is what I love the most. You've got the perfect tone of it. I can't express enough how great it looks and the swirl effect was nicely applied without looking cheap or cheesy. You sort of get this impression of a fog lightly covering the piece and it's just perfect. I can't express that enough how much I love that.

As I stated before, this is by far your strongest piece to date. Perhaps some reworking with the bats might help it even more, but otherwise it's a welcomed seasonal piece and your strongest work to date.

How cute, even though I don't like orange colors that much I do like Halloween a lot, pumpkins and stuff, but whom wouldn't so, nice job, now, if you were to add a nicer moon with more glow, brighter and make the background even darker and with stars, and the bats with glowing red eyes and maybe even glowing red borders (subtle however) you'd have a much better background that would fit any desktop way better, give it a try if you get it!... ^_^