This one is my firstly wallpaper
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Why the sad smiley ??
It's great (or so I think...).

Although, maybe (if you know how to do that...and have the patience for it) her head in the background would look better if you could vector it. It doesn't seem too complicated since there is only one color and the borders are very well defined.

Just my opinion...

Exactly, why the sad smiley? it's not horrible! come on, it's pretty good. the design and concept are both pretty solid. well, the head in the bg needs some work because some of the lines are not good. (smooth is the way to go since everything else that you put in there is smooth.) the part where the green loops through the bg-girl-head's hair, there's an edge that's not perfect. it is a bit jagged right now so smooth that out. the colors need better coordination, especially the green. play around with other combinations a bit. and i don't think i spotted a sig saying "darkdragon3" =P well, the main colored scan does have a different coloring style than just crisp clean flatness, but i don't suppose that matters too much right now. so get back to work on it! and hope to see you back with an update. xD

Ok, and now?
Recommendations, Thank you!
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I guess you didn't read my post? the bg girl looks much better now. just read every part other than that one in my previous post to see my other comments. =D

Like asa01 said, the girl in the background looks much better !

Mmmh...just an idea but...wouldn't it look better if we could see her mouth in the background ? It should be easy to place the black "rays" in the background differently to make the mouth show through them.
(or maybe it was intentional to hide her mouth ?...if so I take back my comment)

Also, the flashy colors are fine with me but you shouldn't trust me for this.

The bright green really distracts from the whole picture, it's hard not to look at it.

I really like the bright green! I think it's a great color scheme, but Mellykill is right, it makes the scan less important... BUT, all you gotta do is make the scan more stylish! Clean it up, fix the coloring, make it more cartoonish and vectored. Get rid of the shading on the skin, make all one color.

Other Suggestions:

1. Your composition is a little off... move everything to the left a little bit.
1a. The big version of her in black, is poorly placed... either move it more behind her, or get rid of it. OR, make it green too, and have it made out of the green designs.
2. More BUTTERFLIES!
2a. Or just make the big black version of her, a big black butterfly!
3. The cross bandaid on the girl's big version's cheek sucks... do it better or get rid of it.


OR: 4. Ignore everything I just said and maybe just get rid any picture or silhouette in the background at all! Use the green snakey lines to fill the negative space... have them looping behind and around the black sun beams... I think that might look REALLY COOL!

I think everything (at least the girl) needs to be moved to the left a bit if you want the girl as the main focus. Right now my eyes keep switching from right to left like they're trying to decide where the picture is focused on. You want to focus to be obvious in any composition you do.

I also think that the vines going around the bars and such is really cool. I think maybe you should do that a bit more? But try not to over do it either.

Hope I helped some.

Yeah... I'm pretty much in agreement with ichigoxkiss... I think he said what I said but more clearly.

The composition is off because it is like a see-saw back and forth beween the silhouette and the girl. Between left and right. The way to fix that is get rid of one of them (the silhouette), or move them closer together so they are overlapping. The girl is also hugging the right side of the image a little too closely, so moving her a little bit towards the center wouldn't hurt -- she should be at about one third line of the width of the image (rule of thirds).

So once you get rid of the silhouette, or move it, you are going to have all this negative space on the left side to fill... that's where the green lines come in... They are really cool, and looping them around the sunbeams is a great idea... so have fun with that. I hope that clears up my suggestions above...

The rest are just alternative ideas that might be fun to try: like changing the silhouhette to a butterfly, or making the silhouette out of the green lines, etc. Whatever you decide to do, the composition suggestions still apply.

Gambate!!

Get that green away, it dosnt fit in...try using orange instead of purpel to put the mood /contract more up
thats around what i can say, i'm usualy not good in giving recommendation usualy(or deep ones, where i say much, i mostly just take the rough things)