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4 months, 1 day ago
since this is a close up wallpaper here are my advices.
2.not sure what style you're going for, but usually extreme details work very well, also ones with thin and coloured lines with some pattern overlays, and if you like thick outlines: something like this http://www.animepaper.net/art/251555/summer-fun works really well, I guess that means no blur just plain and simple vectoring going for the clean look.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
this is definitely eye catching with the colour scheme!! though I recommend linking your sources next time ^^
some advices would be:
the wall is much too gray for my taste I suggest upping the contrast and brightness and make it more blinding and eye grabbing
the white borders around the characters are fuzzy at some points, I guess this is due to the uneven extracting. this could be fixed by actually manually making the outline with a pen tool instead of just using stroke.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
love the tone and atmosphere in this ~this is probably one of those cases where the scan is clean enough that vetoring isn't needed. O: I would really like to see what the original was like, do you have a link to that? and also - this..is..definitely wishful thinking on my side - but I have a feeling this'd look amazing if you extend..her surrounding area...to..like..10x the vastness than it is right now ;u; I just think it would look pretty epic lol.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
this is really adorable!! and the think lined vectoring is definitely working to your advantage on the cuteness side! though with the clean and crisp vectoring I would really love to see a textureless version! I think it would work better than textured ^^
4 months, 2 weeks ago
this is really cute! and I definitely love the simplistic approach you chose and the design of this (:
but I feel like the gradient in the background is off-setting the balance & peacefulness of the piece, I think it would look better if the whole background was the same colour as on the right side along with a simple patterned background (eg. polka dots) and really subtle textures or no textures at all. and also I prefer the colour & shape of the moon in version 1, the wiggly border of the moon on version 2 creates too much of a chaotic feeling ^^
4 months, 3 weeks ago
cute wall~ I like the idea with the silhouettes~ I think this would work better if the girl's in the third column instead of the fourth though, then it would give the piece a better sense of balance. and making the silhouettes more visible than they're now would help take away the emptyness (:
I really love what you did with the background the contrast and colours are great! but the character himself looks a little low in quality, I'm not sure what you did, but I feel like there has been too much filtering put on him, since I can see the fringed edges and some grain in the lines. I think it would make much more impact if the lines on the character+horse were more clear and clean and stand out from the background. as for traveling between worlds, an idea might be to lay down some blur and glow at the portal that he's coming out from.
I really like the composition and colours in this, the background is definitely well put together and I absolutely adore it. but I have some suggestions for the painting. My first impression of it is that it's messy, everywhere but the area around the eyes are quite messy. speaking of that I really like the expression in the eyes. anyways, I think it would have helped to have some sort of line work going on on the character or at least have darker shadows around where the lines should have been to give more definition. right now we can distinguish one thing from another because they're different colours, but different sections of one part is not distinguished enough, like the fingers,the shadows are not strong enough to give them the sharp edge. and we have the same problem with the hair, its shape is defined by the shape of the base colour rather than the shades themselves, I guess other than drawing it strand by strand in different colours it would help to overlay darker shadows in specific areas on a new layer. and lastly his clothing, I think i get the idea that you wanted them to just kind of have the pattern of the background and I really like the idea, but since you chose to have this piece lineless the t-shirt kind of blends in too much, especially around where the arm is coming out, it almost seem like the arm came out of nowhere, again, I suggest darker shadows around where the t-shirt and arm connect, it doesn't have to be a big area, a fine line would do as well, kind of like the creases you have going on around the armpit, I like how that part looks~
oh and I noticed that at some points in the hair it seems like the storkes were going out of your original base layer and at around his shoulders it seems like you were afraid to make the shadow strokes longer/closer to the edge. I'm not sure what program you use, but using clipping masks and opacity lock can help keep everything within the base layer.
4 months, 3 weeks ago
you definitely got an original idea going on there! I'm very surprised at what I found clicking on this since from the preview the graphite texture seemed like a whole lot of noise -u-;; I envy your patience writing those texts///
5 months, 3 days ago
thank you for the feedback ^^ I'm really glad you liked it :D
xD I do think the "magical dust" is kind of stiff and out of place too OTL I just couldn't bring myself to take it away because it's such a pretty texture /shot//
I like what you've done with the background in that it feels more involved with the character than the screen shot and creates more movement. but I can't help but feel that the hair seems to have gotten much flatter shape wise or maybe it's the whole head, but to me the anatomy there doesn't feel right, I'm not sure if it's due to the highlights on the hair though. In terms of the highlights there, the screenshots does a much better job of reflecting the light properly with the shine whereas yours seems to have much flatter values as if he's underwater. On the topic of highlights, the ones on the sweater are obviously influenced by the lights around the character, but other than the borders of the sweater they should also conform to the shape of the folds on the sweater like the shadows do, otherwise they will look too stiff. In addition, since the outlines are on the thick side it would help if the highlights were overlayed on top of the outlines as well, because realistically there won't be such a boundary. Also, it's perfectly fine to leave his left hand and legs in one shade, but it would look much better if the lines of those were in a slightly darker colour, because right now those two parts seems like part of the line rather that part of the character himself. Probably because the rest of the character is made up of filling + lines whereas the legs and arms are just lines. and Lastly I think it would look really good if you extended the screens deeper into the tunnel even if it's just copy and paste, the abrupt stop there seems unnatural given the context (:
5 months, 5 days ago
LOL me fast? OTL;;; I swear it takes me about 5x the time of some alsdkfjakslf artists on dA to produce much less than what they can >.< still trying to work on my speed --/// though I do know where to start since I noticed that over half of my time is spend on line arting >.<
xD alenas said the same thing to me!!! about the scan xD OTL that would've been such a nice reference for just...everything Q-Q
and yes (: it's the same character, I've had the design for ...probably a year and a half but I did just name him Nil at the time I finished the last wall xD as for the story..nope >.< it's more like a character I drew on a whim with characteristics I like (red hair :'D)
5 months, 5 days ago
hmm you could also try extending it on both sides O: since the background is pretty much just the pattern it'd be easy to duplicate C:
5 months, 5 days ago
feel free to crop it yourself C: it's in a quite large resolution! I thought about evening sky but that would give a more tranquil feeling to the piece where as I wanted to have the contrast between bright sunny skies versus the darkness in the room (:
5 months, 2 weeks ago
ahh >///< thank you!! I think I have an idea of which anime you're talking about the girl has her hair in braids right ;; ahh I didn't put to heaven in the title because well..this started out as me wanting to draw stairs and paper flying around, the to heaven was just that the word stairway reminded me of a drama I heard of a few years back called stairway to heaven :P
I'm so glad you liked this and happy new years (:
5 months, 2 weeks ago
w< must fave your delicious painting here too <3
5 months, 2 weeks ago
thanks for the badge xD I can't believe you're still here!! I guess now it'd be Happy [almost] New Years~!!
6 months, 6 days ago
quick sketch, read the description :/
6 months, 2 weeks ago
I honestly like the first and third revision the best ^^ Just because it looks much more original than just having the colour scheme of the scan. Well that, and because the revision 4 reminds me of : http://www.animepaper.net/art/90089/lenchanteuseI guess if the 4th version came to be because of the lack of variety in colour in the previous versions it would have been better to use a complimentary colour on the shadows instead of going with the scan colours >.< sorry the resemblance in the 2 walls just really bothers me.
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Pretty wall :D I think the bokeh might be a little too defined for the amount of smoke present though. what textures are you using?
7 months, 1 week ago
w this is amazing~I love the clean and colourful vectoring! and the creativity in this is awesome too! I daresay this is my favourite wall from you! The expression on asuna's mouth irks me though, I just can't tell if she's smiling/smirking/or expressionless x.x But other than that I absolutely love this. The detail in the background, weapons and clothing are astonishing! goes back to staring at it
7 months, 1 week ago
do you mean the hair by any chance? since her "dress" is pretty much dark gray with a blue tint O:
7 months, 2 weeks ago
I kind of understand how one would be proud of their finished product after all the hard work that has been put into it and the frustration from hearing flaws that you simply can't see because of that pride. but just come down and look at some points.
o.o I don't know why you're having trouble finding holes. it's the dark gray circles in the middle of https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24856237/screenshot_315.jpg with fuzzy stuff around the lines --> jaggedness
right in the center of the image , 3 of them, big holes on kirito's shoulder plates. it's not holes in your colouring but holes on the armour plate.
as for https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24856237/screenshot_314.jpgcompare it with the original that you vectored off, or even a picture of an ear and I think you would understand the colour/line difference there
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
hey~the ap tool bar at the top indicates that i have two messages, but there's nothing when I open my inbox. do you know why that might be?