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Relaxation by °Tens  1 day 9 hours  ago

Relaxation by °Tens 1 day 9 hours ago

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As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!

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~NosVII 5 minutes ago
Lf Inkscape coloring/gradient tutorial ;) Nearing the end of the lineart :D

*moutonzare 6 minutes ago
Hi Nailu & Mysticmom2 ^^

~Mysticmom2 10 minutes ago
Hey guys!

~Nailu 13 minutes ago
Hiya

~ala21ddin21 14 minutes ago
The Inkscape invasion XD

*moutonzare 22 minutes ago
Inkscape will take over the world!

`akiranyo 1 hour 18 minutes ago
I have a few vectors in PS still, and wanna finish them.

~NosVII 1 hour 20 minutes ago
Aki, are you going to use inkscape aswell?

`akiranyo 1 hour 40 minutes ago
Hahaha. I hate that site. A bunch of anonymous people who think that can do anything what they want.

~NosVII 1 hour 46 minutes ago
Q: Why do people use 4chan? I watched it once, but I nearly turned blind.

What do you think? Improvement?

~Dae81
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2 years 8 months ago
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So this is my second try at a wallpaper for AP. My first I kind of gave up on for now, but I will go back to Deathnote eventually. Anyway here's my second attempt and I think this is much better. I started with better scans, one of which I got right here at AP and the other one is from a screen capture from Bleachsp.com. Everything else other than Yoruichi and her cat form was made by me and I want to know if you all think the background and the text are all working. I would love more constructive criticism and I know you guys are great for that! Thanks for a great site by the way!

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~Diobrando
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2 years 8 months ago
OHHHHHHH!really good !
But you should clean yoruichi, she's a little grany, the cat version should be cleaned too.
I love the style anyway!Continue!I'll wait the result with haste!;)

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`clarings
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BORED of seing walls based on painted faces
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2 years 8 months ago
First of all you need to read the FAQ cause the size of your wallpaper does not meet the requirement for AP gallery..
Secondly... next time you better put the link to your wallpaper instead of placing the entire thing here..

About the wall... the composition is not good... the background is not so interesting and the colors are not looking so well.. i think that you should redo the hole backgorund.. and not fill the entire background with shapes.. cause it looks as randomly made.. try to put more focus on the characters.
besides there is too many text going on..
Also you need to clean the scans.
hope this helps you...
goodluck!
kisses...

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°pvc24
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Drift
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Posts: 15
2 years 8 months ago
Very pretty

How advice
I'll change the color yellow by a more dark.
only this.

Greetings!
Saludos!

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!--Green-Day--
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lol, been alive 4 atleast 6 moths^^
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2 years 8 months ago
Well, the bg is a little boring like mayb add a little something to it or make it a little darker would be good
also it would help if you change the font and work on the characters a little bit
good luck with your wall! ^^

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~Raith206
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2 years 8 months ago
I have a little problem with the type. On the top you have this really dark background and on the bottom it is light. The type on the top pops out at you and on the bottom the type is more part of the background and not as noticeable. Either make the type on the top or the bottom darker, in order to make it look better. If you do it will look more balance.

~Dae81
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2 years 8 months ago

clarings

first of all you need to read the FAQ cause the size of your wallpaper does not meet the requirement for AP gallery..
Secondly... next time you better put the link to your wallpaper instead of placing the entire thing here..

About the wall... the composition is not good... the background is not so interesting and the colors are not looking so well.. i think that you should redo the hole backgorund.. and not fill the entire background with shapes.. cause it looks as randomly made.. try to put more focus on the characters.
besides there is too many text going on..
Also you need to clean the scans.
hope this helps you...
goodluck!
kisses...



Okay I am really not trying to argue with you I just want a little more feedback on your comment. With the colors, I realize that not everyone will like the choice but if you look at the two scans in the wall you will see that the purple on top comes from the highlights in Yoruichi's hair and the yellow-ish color comes from cat Yoruichi's eyes. I don't know if this is "justification" for my choice but I thought it might count for something. Also the shapes are not random, they are actually the butterfly from the technique used by Soi Fong. I do agree that there probably is too much text, I can work on that, and I will also work harder on cleaning the scans, but what do you think of the background knowing where I got the ideas?

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`clarings
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2 years 8 months ago
Ok.. anyway you need to redo it... (sorry) ... cause you made a 800*600 version.. and that is not meeting AP requierments.. and if you stretch it... it will look blurry... anyway you can try and see what i mean..
After doing that.. then we can start talking about composition.. but now it doesn't make sence because of its size, it won't get accepted
I you have any questions just ask me ^_^ and sorry if i sounded a bit hard on you.. it wasen't my intention..
kisses...

~Dae81
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2 years 8 months ago
Okay here is a link to the wall with some changes made. I listened and changed some of the colors and I think I cleaned up the scans a lot better this time. Let me know what you think about the scans, oh and I figured out why the wall was coming out too small. I was hosting the image through photobucket and they have a size limit on their images so it resized the wall when I uploaded. Now I am using image shack so it will be 1600 x 1200. I worked on the bg and I like how it turned out, but tell me what you think.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3664/mybleachwall005mn2.jpg

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`clarings
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2 years 8 months ago
Hi there...
well i see!... now we are talking lol...
Ok you have some extraction issues there.. on the girl.. I can see some white stuff that shouldn't be there... so zoom closely like 400-500% and extract some more around...
about the background... well it's still not good enough... i will come a leave you a comment later cause i'm a bit asleep right now.. sorry lol... but you can strat fixing that extraction (for background you don't need to cover the hole wall... it's better to add less things in a tidy way putting focus con the two characters that you have there)
goodluck!
kisses..

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~MythDrannor
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2 years 8 months ago
Yourichi the cat still has some grainy problems, if you can't "clean it" you may have to go in and physically "help" the scan. If your not good at that sort of manual work I suggest get a better scan or collaborate with someone. It's just that the background is sort of vibrant but the cat isin't. The black is sort of gray, the whiskers aren't noticable, and the eyes are dull.

I might also suggest making the band between the two yourichi's much smaller, if you want it to be sort of a slash between the two personalities, mabye even make it zigzag or something.