This is my first attempt at a wallpaper, and ive only been using photoshop for a few months, mainly makin sigs and avatars. i know this is kinda simple, but yeah... i kinda like how it turned out, wanted it to make it look like sand was blowing around him... tell me what you guys think

I know some people may think it's a little bit plain or left out too much blank on the left.

But really, I just like the way it is. The character is really clear, the bg texture and sand effect works great and fit the theme.

I'm getting tired to see every wall fill out its every corner, Come'n I know it's a design but first it's a wallpaper. leaving out some space for you icons is nothing wrong. XD

for your first wall, it's really good work and keep it up..

Hmmm well it seems like you used a brush to create that sand effect around Gaara, hmm i think the sand effect needs to look more cloud like.
The extraction of Gaara might need a bit more work and don't put a glow effect like that around him. It makes the extraction stand out, and you want to make it more blend in with the background.

Also the texture brush dont use the same texture brush in the background to often, it shows vary different brushes to make the background look better. Your background looks a bit empty to the left so you need something to fill it up, because i think in this wallpaper using only Gaara is a bit too empty.

Hope :) you can work on it more and like to see futher progress.

Thanks for the input :) the reason its over in the corner and its kinda blank on the other side is cause i use win2k -_- and i wanted my desktop icons to blend in cause of that background color >.> and now i think ill work on it a little more, thanks again!