Well, I've been working on and off on this wallpaper for two weeks now and I've finally hit a dead end on where to go with it. As of right now, I've got two different versions of the wallpaper, but I think I'm leaning towards one of the two style designs. Here's what I've got so far:



I really don't know where else to go with this. I mean, the entire wallpaper design was hand-drawn by me and it's a vector design taht I've been making entirely from scratch, so I really need some help in where to take this.

Any preferences and / or suggestions are more than welcome!

Hmm I definitely like the second version more. Maybe you should make outlines of that speakerbox, and some text in the white stripes would be nice...Nothing more to say, hmm vector seems to have jagged lines, you should fix them cause right now it seems as the biggest problem.
That´s everything from me, wait for another more skillful opinions.
Good Luck!

The strokes are a little bit thick and unsmooth I guess. if you you are applying brush to strokes, make the Brush Width smaller..

second version works much better though...

Am I just repreating what Spirit are saying? 0_0

As spirit say you should work on the vector, the lines are jagged and i see alot of JPEG artifacting, probably from resizing.


~ed9e

Alright...

I deleted my previous work from imageshack and uploaded a more current version of what I've got so far.



You've really got to let me know what you think here. It's going in as a project tomorrow for a graphic design course, but I'm still planning on submitting it here at AP, so I need some feedback as to any changes / work that need done before I submit.

In case it matters, there was no original scan that I used. Everything here is hand-designed either on paper or drawn directly in Illustrator via my wonderful USB pen tablet.

I don't mean to be overly harsh, but are you sure the art is of the acceptable quality for the gallery? The hips look a little disproportionate, and the shadow by the lip seems a little odd.

Nanuk

I don't mean to be overly harsh, but are you sure the art is of the acceptable quality for the gallery? The hips look a little disproportionate, and the shadow by the lip seems a little odd

That's the response I get a lot from people, but I think it has to do with one major thing - it's an odd position. She's standing at an angle and her shoulders are angled down towards her guitar, so that makes some things look out of whack if you don't see it that way. Otherwise, she's just a big-chested anime chick without hips and guysihly broad shoulders.

The other thing is that this is a wallpaper done entirely from pen sketches. In other words - I had to clean them up and vector them from just white blobs with outlines. It doesn't exactly come out to perfect, but you're looking at a good 40 hours worth o work there, if not more. I don't know for sure. I don't keep track.


I'm not trying to sound defensive or aggrivated about anything. I'm just trying to get some feedback as to how to make some last minute changes to bump up the quality.

Here i am...
O_o wow, you took a lot of time on that...i'll give you credit. ^^
her position is a little off, but maybe you can get you original picture and try fixing it. or get the scan on your computer, and try cut her waist and down, and fix her position (if that's even possible...)
sorry, i never really did these things, so it quite hard too...
i really love how you did the lettering and the background (like i said before)~!!

I made some changes here and re-uploaded the image to my Imageshack.

These are the changes I've made over the last few days:
-Trimmed back her waist
-Lowered her shirt line ((and waist))
-Rounded off the forward shoulder
-Added some under-the-hair shading
-Made the white chord and amp consistent and even in their outlines
-Removed a lot of the .jpeg artifacting that I had last time ((it was because I accidentaly ran it through 2 filters))

Here's the updated image:



Once again, all comments and suggestions are much appreciated. I've already submitted this as an advertisement for a contest outside of AP, but I would like to submit it here also, so I need all the suggestions one wallpaper can take!

Thanks!