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What Exactly Is Pink? by °dalarty  1 week 5 days  ago

What Exactly Is Pink? by °dalarty 1 week 5 days ago

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Not too much for me to say about this wallpaper that hasn't already been said: Dalarty has provided a descriptive walk through all the way from the concept idea, to its execution and ultimately its fruition. And you can really see how that careful planning paid off. But it just goes to show, good ideas take time---and a whole lot of patience!

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~XXAnime-AngelXX 21 minutes ago
Hey

~namine14 3 hours 1 minute ago
Woot,go Kingdom Hearts~!

~runashi 4 hours 41 minutes ago
Konbanwa^^

~Utopianite 4 hours 44 minutes ago
@_@

~akiko-yue 5 hours 12 minutes ago
Yes pretty cure 5

^Dias 5 hours 28 minutes ago
Woh... HIP. Shake those hips baby. Okies. Gotta stop now.

$motogp 5 hours 30 minutes ago
Good thanks =)

~hikachin 5 hours 31 minutes ago
Hai, moto... ^^ im fine... u?

$motogp 5 hours 34 minutes ago
Yo hickaa =D how ru

^Dias 5 hours 34 minutes ago
Macross Frontier is hip. 'Nuff said. YACK DECULTURE!!!

Original fanart Allen Walker wallpaper

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~BlackFeatherz29
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1 year 4 months ago
This is my first wallpaper that I made in awhile, so my skills are mighty rusty. But this is a fanart of Allen Walker from D. Gray-Man that I drew myself on Corel Painter Essentials with no image references. Do you know any way to make this paper better?

Click on the thumbnail to make it full-sized.

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#619815 Quote Report Edited by ~BlackFeatherz29 1 year 4 months ago

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~BlackFeatherz29
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1 year 4 months ago
...anybody gonna reply? Anyone at all? Because I really don't want to get another 100 papers taken off.

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~Tens
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1 year 4 months ago
The wallpaper needs more to it.

If you look at other wallpapers you will notice that most of them (if not all) have a character with a background behind the character. This wallpaper is just like taking a scan, modifying the dimensions to wallpaper, and then posting it.

What I can suggest is that if you drew the character from shoulders up, show the shoulders. You need to crop down the image so he maybe only takes up 50-75% of the wallpaper and not 100%. Wallpapers are artwork and need to have a design or concept. All I see in your wallpaper is just a crying face. It needs to have a background.

That is all I can suggest for now. Wallpapers that are basically only an image of a character's head is a no-no.

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`asa01
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1 year 4 months ago
I would critique this for you, but as you admit to this being your own fan art, then really, i have only one thing to tell you:


FAQ >> Wallpapers
Wallpapers made from your own fan art should be posted in the Artist's Alley section of the forum.


AP does not accept fan art into its wallpaper galleries, unless it is by a highly skilled and widely recognized artist (in which case the wall would be submitted to the category under the artist's name, rather than the series). please read the FAQ if you want some more information about that.

but in any case, this is only really fitting for the artist's alley and will be rejected from the galleries. sorry about that, but that's how the rules are set out.

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~BlackFeatherz29
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1 year 4 months ago
I understand perfectly that this is NOT supposed to be in the D. Gray-Man category.

And thank you for the tips on the char. The original drawing is basically just the face, and it's enormous, so I just put it on like that. I will attempt to redraw his neck and torso, so thank you for the advice.