Yea... as I said in the title, first time here, dunno really what I'm doing, so here goes...

Got bored, opened photoshop, started doing random stuff and got an idea, led to a wallpaper-esque... thing.

Personally, I'm finding a lot of things wrong with it, mostly because I was kinda-ish going for a simplistic (minimalistic for you diction peoples out there) look, but obviously, I've failed miserably :P

Either way, enough talk, yadeyah.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/RubyKirby/yukiwp1600x1200AP.jpg
[edit: (wow, it's huge on the forums, w/e hotlink time)]

Yea... on my pb you can find the other ones that are saved as .png (just because I like it better, despite its hugemongous size), and those ones say arkay as the creator, instead of rubykirby, simply because I normally have that as my username, but apparently it's been taken... >_> (sound it out, ar-kay (r-k), and shorten my name to just the first letters of both seperate words (ruby kirby -> r-k) :P Yea... story of my life.)

Either way (wow, I use that phrase alot), I don't know exactly how I should be doing this, but hope this meets your guys' standards.

PS: brushes used:
ka05 splatter: http://ka05.deviantart.com/art/Splatter-Brushes-31656209
floral2 (my lack of adobe illustrator burns...): http://hawksmont.deviantart.com/art/Floral-brushes-II-56219521

[Edit again: Oh yea, can anyone tell me if the signature is apparent enough? (bottom left corner in white if it's too faint, which prob means that I should make it more noticable)]

I would say your type is a bit unorganized and loses legiblity due to opacity.
There are too many types, and some don't suit for its content.
(EX - only being emotionless... it sounds like a more clean font, AKA Futura etc to me vs the sans-type you have there.
However, that may not be an issue because lots of what I consider not so top typography in wallpapers that is approved. I guess my teachers drilled a lot of weird letter crap into me in design school =)

the subdued violets, blues, and yellows work together, and the brushing is well-integrated with the image, IMO.

Lol, thanks :P
Yea, a lot of the people I asked for c/c before coming here commented on the typo/text (though most just related to the content rather than the actual combination with the sig :P)
But then again, my stubbornness prevented me from taking out those lines, because this design was based around those lines (rather than the stock itself. Yea, I'm weird like that).
Either way, it's pretty late, I'll probably make another version with toned down text or more fitting fonts later :P
PS: Do you have any ideas of which ones would be better to take out/change? Other than what was stated in your post of course :P (because I realize that there are alot)

Thanks :D

Well defintely emphaise "melancholy of suzumiya haruhi" with a thicker font.

My suggestion would just to go with modern ones for most of them. (Century Gothic, etc)
use a slightly grungier fonts for the quotes you feel that are more "emo" and such.

Here is my favorite font resource site:
http://www.dafont.com/

I guarantee you won't run out of fonts! =P

O.O like whats kinds of overlays?
Twas going for a cleaner look, but i dunno what I ended up doing to make it so weird and messy.
Sigh, either way, any big changes I should make before trying to get it accepted to the actual gallery? :P

Edit: Oh god, just realized, never redid the text.

Will post up version later... after I do it.

Updated version with changed text and not much else >_>: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/RubyKirby/YUKIWP1600x1200LAP.jpg

edit: whoops, sorry about double post

There are too many types

quantbits

Although there are three typefaces, because of the similar style between some Times New Roman and Prestige/courier is it?, it looks like there are only two, some kind of script and times new roman. I was taught that two is the the general rule of thumb when designing, so try to keep that in mind, but In this instance I don't think it necessarily matters.

Aside from this, its a very decent wallpaper[I hate saying 'wall']. The image looks very well cut out, unless its a vector, in which case its a good vector! :]I'm not so sure it needs quite so many elements in the background but it could just be me! I think submit it, and you'll get a decent rating. Someones had some previous design experience ;]

Good job!

Yea, it's times and new courier :P Good eye!

Either way, yea, as I (think) I said in the first post, I felt that there might have been a little too much in the background (lack of minimalism :P). But yea, seems like there are a whole bunch of rules/guidelines for art that I have no clue about.
Whoops.
But yea, I'll probably clean some of it out again sometime today (maybe).

Just a heads up as to which one you guys think is better (Yea... they're kinda hidden because I use Photobucket instead of imageshack).

Pesonally, I'm more fond of the 'orginal' version. With the text smaller my eye drifts more towards the image. It has a very calm and laid back feel to it. I like it. For randomness.. this was a good random. An for simplistic.. it does have that simple feel to it, yet its complete.. or so it seems to me and my eyes. *^^*heh

Good job... Depending on what your real goal is.. I can't see much else to do.

::Angel-chan::

What I was told was you usually can use two different types that you intend to stand out. Other types you blend into the background... well blend. doesn't matter =)

Typically, I'm not fond of a serif (Times) and sans serif(Century gothic or whatever you've got there). Call it from my design biase for consistency.

But everyone else seems to like it, so I think it should be okay. ^_^