Here's the story: several weeks ago, I though it'd be neat to "anime"-ize high and mighty color's pride album cover...i vectored and repainted and spent like eight hours on it...then I gave up on it and the battleground walls got posted. and i was like "great, so the album cover theme is no longer the least bit original -_-" ... i don't know what I was thinking when i went back and tried to finish the thing. =/

Here's what I am asking: I hit a block on repainting the water...and still make it look like water. does anybody have any ideas on how to do that? anything at all...and don't tell me to check out tris's tutorial list because I went through it already.

I know there are still details to fix (some of the clouds, editing necks etc.) about the rest of it and I have yet to blend parts of the wall...just needed some help with the stupid water =__= so here is my rough work. SZ's been quite these days and viewers have been ignoring my other post...so I hope this one doesn't go down drowned.

Haha wow awesome concept. ^.^ it looks really good so far. nicely done. =P

For the water...would it be at all possible to find a photo of water, and vector that? Just a random idea, I don't actually know if it'll work...XD good luck though!

Thanks for liking it so far...at least I didn't work on my longest lasting project for everyone to hate it then. =) yeah, I looked into vectoring stock...nothing's all that "simple" in water pics...way too much detail to vector properly (remember, i'm a newcomer to vectoring just as I've only started to wall!), just like the current water--too many details-- =__= even if it's less blurry.

Maybe you should make the trees more real like, other than just plain black. It's just a suggestion^^

Very nice idea, but in my opinion you have made the characters head quite detailed and the bodies not as detailed
when i look at it the heads and the bodies dont seem to blend together smoothly. just my opinion <_<
+1 for you, for time and effort - great concept and it looks very promising

Nice wall! This promises to be great after completion. The people above are right. The trees need to be a bit more real. The vectoring on the front characters (Raksu and Kira) is a bit sharp. Soften it a bit. The water needs some work too IMHO..

WhOAAA (sorry I've been absent from AP for a few days btws -_-).
Wow this is teh SECKS! O.O so good!
Here are the things I think yee should do:

- LEAVE the trees black =/ I like them that way
- uhh...I know that High and Mighty Color album has text like that, but I don't think it looks good on your wall =/ I'd leave it w/o text.
- Vector the heads as well because you can tell they aren't vectored which makes them look out of place .__.
- Vector the bg/add stock? =/ it doesn't look goord like zat.
- As for the water...just try using a stock image. if it doesn't look good play around with it or TRY to vector it.

but like, oh em gee, you did such a good job...that must have taken a lot of hard work and effort...and it's so detailed too. Like Kira's scarf...whoa o_o
BTW Athrun looks so kool XDD

XD Needs work, but I'm definitely lovin' the concept.

Hmm... the easiest way to make water is to vector random ripple outlines, and just shadow the blue a little deeper in the inside of the ripplies [does that make sense? 'Cuz if it doesn't, it's understandable -_-;;]. If you want to go for reflections of the characters, just make little pools of darkness around the ripples.

Migawd, my explanation is horrible o.x;; Argh, I wish I could draw it out for you [ twitches]

XD I love the idea... Try and follow what all the others are saying, and it should turn out well. Everyone stole all my suggestions DX;;

Hi great idea...again. You just keep serving up hot new walls lol. Anyway, the main problem is that the heads look like they just got glued onto the bodies. Either tone down the detail on the heads or put more detail onto the bodies. I think the water should just be a deeper shade of blue like aplastictree said. I've got no clue how to do reflections. There is a gap in between kira and lacus there really needs to be something there too. Oh and the font on the wall needs to be different.

Nice one,
only some parts need some better blending. try to give the boathguys the same sharpness as the boat ore the other way around. now its clearly visible that they are put down there. Furthermore that leg on the left could use some feather to make it more in the wather instead of this cut off thing like. The concept is nice. try to fix the parts and then ya got a good job
Good luck

@ shikonxx: the trees were originally that way so i didn't want to destroy hi&mi color's album's original design.

@linkite: i know...that's one problem with the "boat people" lol... it's quite hard to add detail when there previous was none and i vectored what is here now from actual people so @~1@ and come to think of it, in the show, their "everyday" clothes are not that detailed anyway.

@infinityrulz: what do you mean by softening the vectors of kira and lacus? blur them a bit? and yeah, the whole point of me posting this was to get an idea of how to fix the water ^^;

@inuspal: I repainted the bg already for it to look like that ;_; don't tell me that was all for nothing? here is the original pic for comparison purposes. don't make me REDO the bg...T-T

@aplastictree: haha, i know it needs work--it's not finished yet, now is it? ok...i'll try out your idea from what I understand from it, but i'm gonna use red, like the way it is in the original look.

@nelleah: alrighty then ^^

@deku-fairy: you think my ideas are good? aw, thanks. but i'm not sure how to tone down the details on their heads...i mean i can't just take out the highlights or the shadows of their hair...can I? =/

@beckor: yeah, i know i need to better blend parts...just needed some way to do the water *sigh* and i didn't finish lunamaria's leg because i couldn't work on the water.

thank you guys so much... I shall attempt to face the challenge of vectoring stock water T_T kira and lacus were hard enough but somehow I'd rather redraw their bodies again than the water.

Hey I think if you lighten their necks just a bit then it would look better. Just find someway to make the necks the transition between their head and their bodies. Oh and I'd put less detail on athrun's shirt the three different colors on it looks odd compared to everyone elses shirts. And for the space in between Lacus and Kira all that's needed is like the other side of the boat or something.

Sorry, i have been diving back into "business" now that summer has ended for me. it might take me longer to improve my walls, but PLEASE don't let that stop you from coming back to see stuff. I apologize that i haven't been able to experiment with water and therefore the feathering of luna's leg, beckor, and the reflections have yet to be done as well. as to the font, I find that it MUST be a bit on the large and blocky side lest i change even more stuff to help the text fit in =/ currently, i'm trying out a different font for "faith" but I'm not so sure it works. i did fix necks a bit and added the other side of the boat to that originally blank side in between kira and lacus. this is it. anyway, i just thought i'd keep this thread posted since i'm not allowed to come back and do a second post if it's on the same wallpaper =/ and i don't want to finish on my own without you wonderful guys in SZ ^^

Until you start working on the water there isn't too much to say... Try and just dye the water you've got now dark blue just so you've done something with it. The Lettering for faith would go better with the wall I believe...just make the other words in the same lettering. Oh and make the faith, Faith...capitals. Shinn, Athrun, and Cagalli's heads still looks a bit funny although they do look a lot better. I would try to lighten up the line between their heads and neck so the cut of isn't as obvious...or make th line slightly thinner. Athrun's hand is the only hand that looks funny...do you hate him...well being as he's my favourite person ever, it bugs me. And now that I think about it he looks a bit slouchy. You could try and just have his hand/arm extending behind Kira and put a little bit of sky between his arm and body to make him look a little less squashed into one place. :P
Lol sorry if I sound like I'm being mean and picky...
Anyway I love your Walling skills and this wall keep up the good work!