A wallpaper I started a while ago.
I always semm to have problems trying to blend the scan with the background.
Any ideas/suggestions? :)

He kinda looks odd stood on the only bit of grass like that - like he's riding a flying lump grass ^^;

You could tweak some of the colours to help him blend more - it's sunset and that tend to has a funny effect on colours.

I don't really like the grainy look. It would work in a more grungy wallpaper, but not with this one I feel. There seems to be a more natural sort of feel or it and you can't really make the wallpaper grainy with this predominant theme.

Nice sunset picture. It looks like a really nice render, although I'm not sure that the way the water just ends at the horizon is particularly effective. You probably need to make it look more like a waterfall by adding some movement to the water or something.

As trismugistus said, the grass really doesn't work. For one thing, the mountainside doesn't look particularly grassy. Try fitting him into the background by, say, placing him so that he looks like he's walking by the lakeside or something. You'll need to scale the scan down or scale the render up, whichever is possible and looks best.

I don't like the way he's only occupying a very small area of the wallpaper. A lot of his right side is cut off at the edge of the wallpaper. He is also a little bit too bright considering that he's standing in a position which would put him in the shadow of the sunset in the background. On the plus side, the scan is well extracted and of good quality.

Perhaps some text might not go amiss on the left hand side. Maybe a poem or something would better fill the space.

And don't forget your sig at the bottom, otherwise the wallpaper will be rejected from the AP gallery straight away.

And you are the winner of my 20,000th paper! w00t!

Good luck with fixing this wallpaper up. It has potential and I love the render in the background! Ganbatte!

It's a nice render you got there. I think you should tweak with the textures instead of just slapping on one specific.
There should also be a foreground where he's standing, instead of going the easy way and use the ps grass brush.
Make him stand on a cliff or something similiar. Also I don't like the waterfall idea. It looks flat. Change the position on the sky so it looks realistic with an horizon.

I wouldn't mind seeing more of the scan (unless that's all there was...) and some text would definitely look good over on the left side.

i actually don't mind the graininess but maybe just tone it down on the bg. hehe, i also agree with the others about the grass. mainly cuz it's the only grass on the wall, you don't have it anywhere else so it makes it stand out even more.

i have no idea what you could do about the waterfall...but there's some dark smudges (clouds?) on the light part of the sky (near buddies head and on the left side of the sun). might look better to get rid of it.

this will definitely be a sweet wallpaper once you tweak it abit.

It looks nice.. . the grass is really distracting..-__- maybe extend the grass a little bit to the left.. and change the color to a brownish and lil greenish color... the texture is also distracting.. i dont know.. it just doesnt look good... maybe put some text on your wallp. coz the left side of your wallp. is really empty.. well. good luck!..
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I just think the background needs to be more distinct, it looks like your skipping detail by blurring it and thats never good.

If you made the background yourself then you shouldn't use a filter on it, because it makes it look bad. If you didn't make the background yourself then you can't submit that wallpaper until you make your own background.

Thnx for the comments ppl, I'll try my best. First of all, the background was rendered with Terragen [I hope that not against the rules] and the sky is that of the render and an ovelayed picture I took a few months ago.
The rest of Kiba is covered by another character and I'm not good at all at drawing.....
The grass is indeed just an easy solution....I used to have him standing somewhere until I render a rock or something to have him standing there.

anywayz, keep posting your tips.....I need all the help I can get :)