Hi, I'm pretty much brand new to Anime Paper, but I already like so much of the work here. I love Wolf's Rain, and made a wallpaper for a friend of mine. I've made a few wallpapers and layouts for xanga for my friends and myself before, but I was wondering if my work is any good. I'm not sure if I'll be making many more walls any time soon, but I like this one and am curious as to what others think of it.

Anywho, here it is, I guess it could be titled "The Flower Maiden":

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/manateegirl22/WRChezabg.jpg

Well, please let me know what you think, what could make it better, etc. Another thing to keep in mind, I learned everything I know about Photoshop by just playing around with it, so my skills are fairly limited. Any suggestions on how to improve in that area would be appreciated as well. Thanks!

It's good but it would be perfect if:

-Your character wasn't so blurry. And I am saying this to everyone! Never blur your character if it's not neccesary. And you have overdone it here a little.
- Well... these particular swirl brushes are not good for wallpapers. Maybe you should try using some abstract ones.
- And this is just my opinion, I don't really like the font that you're using.

I believe if you did all that it would be great. ^^

Okey. Well, the picture of the girl with the purple hair is really blurry when you look at her at wallpaper size. I think you should try to like clean the scan a little bit and make it less blurry. If your trying to like tranparent the picture, try to fix the blurs first and then do like overlay or hard light or whatever until you think it's the way you like it. The background it nice. But on the bottom, it seems like there are still tiny spots and it looks like you painted it with the palette brush...or however you spelled that...And I know you didn't unless you did then nevermind. The wallpaper seems a little dark too. Ummm...that's all I can think of. Uhhh...Yup, nuthin else. Try to wait what others think too you know. But hope that wasn't confusing.

Thank you for your comments.

I agree that the image was very blurry. I had originally intended to make it fade into the background, and never fixed it, so I did.

Someone messaged me and suggested I feather around her so she doesn't look so much like a floating head. It came out very nicely in my opinion.

I also tried to fix the spots at the bottom, where I had taken the flowers image, duplicated and flipped one so it was the same on both sides and tried to make it look like one image.

I redid some of the distortions and scratches over the whole thing as well, but I like my swirls, as well as my font. If you honestly think it looks terrible and have any suggestions, let me know. I did find some other brushes, but I didn't think they fit.

So, here's what I've done after some editing. No huge changes, just a few little things to make it look nicer. Let me know what you think and anything else I need to change. Thanks!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/manateegirl22/WRChezabg2.jpg

Well, okay. If you like it as it is and therefore are not willing to make any changes, then why did you even bother to post it here.

I'm willing to make changes. I changed the things that seemed common to the comments I recieved and what I noticed myself. I was going to wait and see if others also thought the swirl and font should be changed, or if you commented again, and then try a new style for that.

Mh the head is cut off at the chin . thats totally out of bounds for a wall and it will NEVER be aproved this way. it also looks just weird with the head being cut off at the neck. maybe its the wrong scan for this.