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Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 2 weeks ago

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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!

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:3CloudGer 4 minutes ago
PS is a vector tool considering that you produce a vector, but photoshop rasterizes it into px so rescaling isn't possible =( so basically it's a vexel tool

~NosVII 7 minutes ago
Imo you should start a topic about this and see what others think. I partially agree with you mouton, but imo PS is also a vector tool (although not a real one)

~punchclockhero 9 minutes ago
Ace attorney

*moutonzare 41 minutes ago
I think a vector is something fully scalable from the source file (ie: svg, ai and so on) without lose on quality. Painting using vector mask is nice and all but not really vector from my point of view. But I am perhaps a little extremist on this subject.

~NosVII 41 minutes ago
Good morning ppl

`akiranyo 51 minutes ago
Hard to say Mouton, you are a better expert as me. Btw very evil: http://joecartoon.atom.com/cartoons/141-james_brain

`Ali3n 52 minutes ago
Who's Steve and and Allan?

*moutonzare 53 minutes ago
@`akiranyo: What's the limit for something to be a vector ? "It's fully scalable from source file so it's a vector!", "It's a vector, I used vector to do it!" or "Look, the pinky finger is vectored so it's a vector!" I think VD rules should more explicit.

Bantam 58 minutes ago
Hi steve

`akiranyo 1 hour 3 minutes ago
Hi Allan.

What do u think of nudity in Wallpapers??

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~colossusofshadow
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Ecchi is always used to differentiate between walls which contains partial nudity or complete nudity. and it is mostly girls with loose clothes or no tops. so what do you think of this nudity factor in walls. is it acceptable? is it fine to have these kind of walls or is it not. this question especially applies to girl.

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`Omnidevil
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Nothing is sacred anymore
You are one among many
Sex sells
The many drowns out the one
Your opinion does not matter, nor does anyone else who objects
As long as women continue to be sexualized,
this will be the trend.


There is certainly nothing sacred about ecchi being used in wallpapers, it is a genre, like all genres of films, music, there are some that remains much to be approved or dissapproved of, and be so that, we continue to shun them, even when they have been integrated.

The same thing can be said for racial relations, there are some places in the world that continues to shun chinese or black people, there are some that continue to be highly religious, and then when it comes to policies and social norms, it is never stated.

Ecchi was never stated to be wrong, only people who find it offensive calls it wrong, it is accepted among the host of wallers.

I am sure Nat can agree with a good ecchi wall, which takes significant effort on her part to make, I can agree as it takes significant inspiration, or attention to detail to make, you may disagree because the first thing you see is the semi naked girl, and thus, your mind stops processing information beyond its beauty.

An example:
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What I show here is two walls, one has a simple theme, and the other an elaborate bohemian grunge style that appeals to the artistic type.

Both are things that I like.

When people ask me why I wall ecchi, I reply simply as I love it, I cannot deny my love for the sexual connotation or innuendo placed for my attention. I am attracted to it, I cannot say I don't like it (otherwise I am tsundere, and that is bad).

I can come out from a author circle and say the first wall I walled because the ecchi here is so downtoned, it might as well be clean, there is nothing I see here that is not outright screaming "sex sex sex" to the audience, I see innocence, fun, and sexy cause the two girls are enjoying. From a fan of the series, I see two lovers sharing a moment together, enjoying music, as my feeling, I find that really sweet, very cute to wall, and that deserves my attention.

As for the second, a simple butt showing outrageous nudity one would cross and frown on, but the moment you look at my intense detail, my way of presenting a game that I feel for, both at the notion of hating and loving the game prompted me to wall the scan. The fact there is a lovely scan to use that is a bonus.

I walled it with such an artistic impression that what would be if in the old days when al fresco art was done by the Da Vincis and Masters, I envisioned in a way my capabilities allow me to wall it so illustriously that it would be a sin to stare at the butt and not seep in anything else.

Of course, I can't stop the general crowd from appreciating beyond the obvious.

I can only deliver my piece, in hopes the rare and the keen eyed will see beyond the obvious theme, and then read the comment to understand my view, where I came from, why I wanted to make it and how I did it.

We are all the same you and I,

we just have different names.

(viral marketing of my walls intended.)

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~lildevil8200
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Personally i don't think there's anything wrong with an ecchi wall..like omni said sex sells...i do however think there should be more to a wall than simple nudity or partial nudity though.. i want to see the artistic quality.. i love most of omni's walls and i greatly admire the amount of work and thought that goes into them.. the result isn't something that is simply sexy..it's art.. and that makes all the difference to me

$Kuro
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Nudity can be tasteful, provided that it's not gratuitous and tacky. If a girl is topless and just posing flashily, I consider it tasteless.

If a girl is topless, yet doing something other than that, such as laying down and posing in an artistic manner, I would think it's more suitable, as it's not trying to tell you "Look at me, I'm naked" but rather "Look at what I'm thinking of."

Good example of tasteful nudity is renaissance artwork.

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~Longbow
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Everyone here has pretty much said it, it has to be more than just nudity, at least have some kind of design or thought put into it, whether it be artistic detail, or whether it feels nostalgic to the artist, or meaningful in some other way. I don't mind ecchi at all, I just don't use it as my wallpaper because I've found others that I liked and it's difficult, for me at least, to change to a different wallpaper when I already like the one I'm using.

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~Fawna
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1 year 3 weeks ago
I personally don't care. People have their personal preferences and if they don't like a certain thing, they should not make rude comments. Nudity is not always about sex. Plenty of people use nudity to make a statement and I feel that eechi walls are the same as any other walls--if they aren't well done or good art, then they aren't good walls, same as other walls.

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~shinjix7
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1 year 3 weeks ago
It doesn't really matters to me... if you like it you like it. depends on who you are and what you like... I'm not question this question... I'm just giving my opinion...

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~woopeeallan
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Get what you get get what you want. it all just boils down to that. just don't be like those people who try to impose certain ideas to other people just because you don't deem it good bad or whatever you think. that is why there is free speech. if you can't voice out your idea then what is the use. just don't equate free speech with imposing ideas to other people. just tell them your idea then let them decide if they want to accept it or not but never ever impose an idea that may be certainly harmful to anothers thinking. just don't let it reach to a mob rule :D. for example i like chocolate but you don't like chocolate, you impose to me that chocolate is bad etc etc... i will literally get mad. but if you tell me just the bad stuff of chocolate i may consider it as part or addition to my ideas. just tell them what you think do not literally impose

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`puppychow16
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1 year 3 weeks ago
We need more ecchi walls with guys. This way those who oppose ecchi wallpapers with girls can shut up about females being seen as objects of sex. Everyone should be naked in a wallpaper. EVERYONE...

~gokachu
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1 year 3 weeks ago
If walls were to have completely naked girls, then that wouldnt be ecchi
I love ecchi.as long as the girl were to be turned around or somewhat barely covered up, i think it would be ok. but if she had something like a string bikini, that would be another thing. so it would be fine as long as the good parts aren't showing. and what others are saying, don't just have a wall with just a girl and a blank background, make it colorful, or make it so we can see the beauty of it. in short, yeah i think its ok.

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~altopowa
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Well showing naked girls or in the rare case of guys has nothing to do with the idea of sex, human body is something 100% natural(most cases) and there is nothing wrong with showing them but it is censored by the society, we grew up knowing that being naked in public is bad but its not necessarily bad, we have been taught that it is bad and we would feel that it is bad anyways because of the way the society and our mind are accustomed to. I think that wallpapers are art, an expression of an idea the mind of the creator has and it can only be done in the way the creator sees it, art shouldn't be censored for that very reason, if the artist can't make it as he/she imagines it's not art anymore.

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$animext
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Well, considering the content of paintings over the last 400 years or so, its no big surprise that nudity is still being used as a focal point of art. That being said, I have not come across anything wallpaper wise that jumps out at me with more than "omg boobies!"

I think people should try looking at renaissance paintings for inspiration.

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~SailorDove
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1 year 3 weeks ago

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Ecchi is always used to differentiate between walls which contains partial nudity or complete nudity. and it is mostly girls with loose clothes or no tops. so what do you think of this nudity factor in walls. is it acceptable? is it fine to have these kind of walls or is it not. this question especially applies to girl.


To answer your question frankly. Partial & complete nudity of both genders bothers me. I don't really care for either. Not because of I think I'm some sort of superior moral or philosophical person. But because it makes me feel uncomfortable and those images invoke lustful desires. Lust is a selfish perversion of love. (I could elaborate so much more, but for the sake of keeping on topic have refrained. If you wish to discuss this thought further, please feel free to pm me.)

I firmly believe in Free Speech, even for those I disagree with. But I expect and deserve not to be labeled "closed minded", "prude" or marginalized because of my views on this and other matters. Live and let live.

On the artistic part of the debate, just because a nude or "ecchi" type of piece of artwork was created during the Renaissance or by some great artist does not give it a "holy" or "sacred" privilege. History has shown that people don't change as a whole and human nature is still as broken as it was then. Censorship isn't right. But discretion should be practiced and respected.

Thank you for asking our opinion and reading mine.

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`Omnidevil
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puppychow16
We need more ecchi walls with guys. This way those who oppose ecchi wallpapers with girls can shut up about females being seen as objects of sex. Everyone should be naked in a wallpaper. EVERYONE...


when I do this, people say bad things about me.

And this site removed my Jun wall once.
lol.

That said, nudity will remain the most natural art theme I came across.
I mean, come to think of it, art started off as drawing beauty into a canvas, I believe beauty in a canvas first originated from adding human figures into canvases.

If you picture the mind of a mid-renaissance artist, or a very older one, what would you think? Do you dress up a vase in a T-shirt to make it beautiful? No, at the time, nakedness was probably the next best thing.

The first gladiators and olympians are naked, they compete naked, men to men, etc. The first women in the rural (i mean seriously rural) were naked in the house, they don't do wear much, especially since there is a need for cloth for the children.

The first gladiators fought naked, did they have sexual thoughts about their opponents? Did the women or men staring at two vicious warriors killing each other naked considered it sexual?

There are many things associated with the lack of clothing, in art especially. Sexualization just so happens to be the most popular.

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~TheMajor
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1 year 3 weeks ago
Well nudity has its limits. There is always a tasteful and a gratuitous end to things. And no doubt everybody has their own opinion of where it falls on the scale. But that aside, I think that as long as it is tastefully done and does not qualify as porn then it is ok. Ecchi does not rally bother me and I think that is because I am comfortable with who I am. Usually people who have a problem with ecchi and nudity are unhappy with their bodies and jealous of the bodies they see that are beautiful and worshiped by others. Mostly women have this problem because they do not want to work for that body they think that if they want it that they can have it and they should not have to do anything to get it let alone maintain it.


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