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Fly... by °Phill  2 months 1 week  ago

Fly... by °Phill 2 months 1 week ago

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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.

While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.

ShoutBox

`Omnidevil 11 minutes ago
I want to give Bern some papers. to burn

~Youngster 13 minutes ago
Lolz @ Crimson

~CrimsonCyanide 20 minutes ago
Oh! BURRN!

`Bernouli 56 minutes ago
Yup, deal with it.

~3dmc 58 minutes ago
Stupid wallpaper scans cost paper

`Bernouli 1 hour 5 minutes ago
Karinka, no.

~amerie1994 1 hour 6 minutes ago
You'll Be The Prince and I'll be the Princess, baby just say yes

~IloveKarinka 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Are people allowed to give other people papers?

`Omnidevil 1 hour 40 minutes ago
Bleh, next update on journal will include aforementioned sisters playing with feces. (not)

~Youngster 1 hour 42 minutes ago
^_^

FLCL Black and White

~Dcalado
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Anime Kensei [AK]
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2 years 6 months ago
Wel this is my second wallpaper with a scan of FLCL:
http://img324.imageshack.us/my.php?image=flclblacandwhite6oy.jpg

I think the scan is ver good and i tried to make the background fit in the scan.
I still feel something is missing here but i dont know what ....

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θblu3angl
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2 years 6 months ago
Extraction is well
but the lines in the background are tooo jagged and need to be smoother
i suggest a vector because right now the art filter does not match with the scan
and because of that, it looks like he's just on the bg and not on it
maybe you should have your sig just a bit smaller and different color
bg is too blurred for another
and it is simple
maybe something inthe water, like a boat or something
then maybe somebirds
but have some more clouds texture
C: good luck^^

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~TheSquid
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BOW TO THE EGO !!! Humility is for lo
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Posts: 360
2 years 6 months ago
Yeah you sig is really harsh,

it kicked my dog and beat up my grandmother.

good wall keep up the good work man ^_^

~Dcalado
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Anime Kensei [AK]
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2 years 6 months ago
Yes the character doesnt look like it belongs to the bg but using vectors wouldn't leave it abstract?

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θblu3angl
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2 years 6 months ago
Well, the character has that crispy clean sharp feeling
but the background looked like you used too much filter on it
that's why it doesn't blend very well
and vectoring it won't make it look too abstract
if you do it right and ...you really don't know unlesss you try sooo
C: good luck trying^^

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~Rukawa11
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Don't give me a damn!
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2 years 6 months ago
Hmmm...I think your problem there is the BG...you better work on that and don't blur it much because it really doesn't good...
and the other thing is your sig,the problem there is your sig is to big and the fonts is not siut to your wall...I suggest you use the font style tahoma and the font size is 9,I think it will look nice and other thing don't use that kind of color just choose between black and white....
Mmm...the character there is nice so you don't need to change it or why don't you put some color so it would be nicer...hehe...
so good luck to that wall...

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~StLonginus
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Mendokuse~
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2 years 6 months ago
Its really nice, but you can see a little bit of the original Manga lines on the bottom of the bass and betwen her an the bass. in both sides of the neck. Besides, it would be nice if you can lose the shadow efect that is used in Manga and leave just 1 color tone instead of that.

The BG is too blurry. And simple. If you can, get a better one or clean this one. And use another font for the sig. I dont think is a good idea to put the name of the char on your sig either. By the way, haruhara Haruko is a female.

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~Dcalado
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Anime Kensei [AK]
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2 years 6 months ago
Well i did some changes:
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/5632/flclblackandwhite35aq.jpg

The sig is much more smaller.
I always keep the original ones unchanged for mistakes like this but the prob is
i have to acentuate the edges or it will look like that the character doesnt belong to the bg.
Only now ive read the advice about making the shadow normal, how could i do that?

And thanks for all the comments you've done so far ^^

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~TheSisterPrincess
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2 years 6 months ago
I think your character need to be smaller (it is too big), just make it more propotional
And put some shadows because your character it looks floating

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θblu3angl
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2 years 6 months ago
The lines of the rail on top is jagged
to make a shadow,
what i do is creat a new layer then put the new lighting in and adjust the opacity
i can see the shadow being on the floor, ...but..
since there is no floor,
that'll be kinda hard
because the light seems like it's from behind
maybe you should get rid of the little dots on him for shadow
and input solid colors instead because i think that will make him more "into"
the bg
C:

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~Derka
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...and my mitts.
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2 years 6 months ago
I agree with the others on the jagged lines, they should be cleaner. I don't see her blending very well with that background, unless you want her to purposely stand out. It totally doesn't look like she's sitting on the rail, more like she's just in front of it. You should also try doing your own screentones, it'll look better.

Yumei


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2 years 6 months ago
Removing the screen tones used in the manga and replacing them with your own softer tones would definitely improve the image. A lot of what's making the image look so off is the fact that the character is almost as big as the area she's sitting in, so to make it proportional you should size her down a bit.. and to make her look like she's sitting on the rail more, maybe place her a tiny bit further back on it? Even just making her proportional to the rest of the picture out of all of the rest of the suggestions would help a ton.

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`hamstersanonymous
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2 years 6 months ago
The photomanip bg doesn't work well with the scan as is, it's still too realistic, and any further filtering would probably just make it more jagged or blurry. You could repaint the scan to fit the background, but then you'll have a wallpaper in grayscale; not very intersting unless it's done with some specific artistic intent.

Might be more interesting to vector the background outlines and do it in manga tones also, for a completely manga look. You could throw in some groovy patterns as well.

Yumei's got a point about the proportions, too.

Good luck!