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Relaxation by °Tens  44 minutes  ago

Relaxation by °Tens 44 minutes ago

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As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!

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$thewarangel 44 minutes ago
Ha ha ha now I'n super anoying on the next level next ima grunt a strain for 15 whole minutes! until veins pop out and my my hair glows yellow like i was a part of some nuclear fall out

~Mysticmom2 48 minutes ago
Oh no! Not Bankai!

$thewarangel 54 minutes ago
BANKAI!!!

~Mysticmom2 56 minutes ago
Hey guys!

$hacklerl 1 hour 3 minutes ago
Well, you know what they say...Sometimes the best place to hide things is in plain sight.

$rabbitking 1 hour 7 minutes ago
People talking in shoutbox about things that should be in private

~Roxie-Rae 1 hour 13 minutes ago
How so rabbit?

$rabbitking 1 hour 22 minutes ago
Interesting shoutbox tonight

~baconcheeseburger 1 hour 29 minutes ago
Okay well I'm going to get off here. good night hun!

~Roxie-Rae 1 hour 30 minutes ago
Ok i'll check it in a sec, gotta put my son to bed.

First try on making a Wall

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For quite a long time, i have found i quite beautiful Scan of Belldandy from AMS, but didn't found the wallpaper for that. So... i decided to make my one Wally out of the Scan, and tried to recolor the parts, that were totally fucked up.. And here is teh Result.

Here it is

I didnt to much on it, i just rotate that, cuz i think it was a Poster, then smoothing and sharping, and recolored the parts that were totally messend up.

And plz guys.. Dont look to closely! There a some parts, that i totally messend up...

Ps: I think you saw that my English is not that perfect.. Sry about that too..
Ps2: Who ever scanned that one.. i think i hate you now :/

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`gat
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3 years 7 months ago
Lets see, the background is a litle too plain. Also, the shadow is going all around her body, it makes her look like she is floating. Erase some of it in places where her hair is, and other places, that are on the ground. :)

Keichi


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So.. I edited the image (and the Link in the First post), and removed some of the Shadows..

And about the BG.. I like the plan ones, cuz it dosent make it look to Overloaded.

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θblu3angl
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3 years 7 months ago
Quality needs some upgrading,
extraction needs work because som places are really unsmooth
C: nice start

Keichi


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Hmm.. With "unsmooth" you mean the loop, or? Because i didn't see any ofther parts Oo

And.. i updated the link again.. Next time i should check the link, cuz the image was a outdated version <.<

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θblu3angl
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3 years 7 months ago
I mean likt on her shirt

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^Saa-chan
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3 years 7 months ago
I spot some jagged lines on her purple shirt, lower right hand corner

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And the next one

Here i sharped the shirt a bit more, and the Hair. And tried to let some of the Colors look a bit better.

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`chibicrystal
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3 years 7 months ago
You should keep the other versions on here so new people that come and look at it will have a reference. upload in the same place you are making your new posts, not at the top of the page.

but, on to the wall. i would say the extraction still needs work.

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you really are going to have to do something with the bg, it won't get accepted like that. besides, the color is not very flattering to her. it's bad enough that's not really her hair color but the beige bg makes her look even more washed out. you really could do anything with this wall. it's a great perspective and there's tons of neat stuff you could do with this.

ummm, i think i'll wait to talk about the text until i see a different bg.

good start though, at least the scan looks nice and clean ;)

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Mkay.. missspellend the rules.. sry ^^"

1) About the Hair Color.. Yeah.. its new and something other then the orginal, but i think its suits her well too.

and 2) about the BG.. I totally didn't have any ideas right now, what for a BG i should make..

It can be that you have right, when you say "you really could do anything with this wall." but, im a newb on this stuff. So it's hard for me to imagine, stuff like BGs that suits to the positions of Characters.

So.. can you give some tips for the Start?

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3 years 7 months ago
So.. What about the as BG?

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`hamstersanonymous
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3 years 7 months ago
Major extraction issues, which I suggest you tackle before moving on to doing the background. Circled in red below:
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Don't leave any light bits remaining outside of the image outlines. I'm also not too keen about the buzzy effect you have around the outside of the scan in some places - circled in blue - because that looks gritty and seems like some extraction leftovers interfering with the background.

I also notice that only some of the shadow is present - only some of the hair and one arm has got shadows. Also, the flat colored shadow doesn't look convincing against the gradient background, and detaches the scan from the background instead. I suggest you remove all the shadows entirely, then use a drop shadow off the scan to get the right effect.

Cheers. ^^

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Removed all the Stuff that you circled in red and blue, and maked the BG new..
And i cleaned some other parts, that you didn't found.

And this time, i post the Wall, with and without the BG, so that anybody can see, if there are extraction issues left, on the scan.

With BG:
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Without BG:
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And about the Shadow.. i will see what i can do, when the cleaning is complety finished. Cuz i don't know yet, how to do Shadowing with Gimp.

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`hamstersanonymous
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Yes, I didn't circle everything. You managed to clean up most of it though.

I'm not looking cery closely, but I can spot where you missed some places where shadow should have been removed (green) and there are still places where little specks remain (red) - and the part where the ribbon nears the skirt looks like still attached with the background gray color, but I'm not sure:
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So.. remmoved the last specks (i hope..)

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And about the ribbon.. yeah.. thats quite complicated, cuz the shirt was (and is) my main Problem on the Scan. Just look for your self

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and you see what i mean. I just have really no idea, what i should make with the ribbon. So i just tried my best, and re-colored it some how..