this is my 2nd wall..
Disgaea : Hour of Darkness
still newbie here.


click for the wall, below..
CLICK HERE'

anyway..
the wall show their desire to battle.
i called the title "Let's Battle!"
all the chara inside is separated'
the main chara is Laharl, Etna and Flonne (the middle kid & two girls beside him)
the others is Lord Laharl Guardian..
ex: Thief, Healer, Archer, Ninja, Prinny(Penguin), Sinner, Heavy Knight, Kunoichi,
Magician, Warrior and Witch.

i waste my time a lot while combining all the scan together + cleaning & extraction,
and.. i do the BG by brushing the cloud and edit it with a bit of shadow including
opacity minimalism..
the sky i do it using gradient tool' and..
the grass i do it using brush tool with color alteration..

i know it's very simple.. but..
i've got no idea else until that'


well.. like usual'
need all your best direction..


jya'

regards, sen~

Well i think you have used too many character for the wall... but if you like it that way, it's up to you ^_^
I would get rid of some of the characters and focus on improoving the extraction of the ones that i left on the wall.. cause i can see some remaining white stuff.. and some jagged edges too..
Also you need to work some more on that grass...
Here is a tutorial that might help you
http://ningen.nattoli.net/tutorials/grass
goodluck!
kisses...

I think the number of characters that you put on this wallpaper is fine. It kind of look cool. the only thing that you did wrong with the characters is that you OVER-cleaned them. THat caused some details of the scans to become jagged.
i know you know how to clean the scan but i'm going to tell you how i clean mine.. (with different options)

- the first thing to do is to extract the scan (which you have done already)
- then duplicate it. click the duplicated layer, then go to filters(i think) >noise> median. (set it on 3 or 4)
-then change the blending option of the layer to Soft light or OVerlay
-change the opacity to whatever you want. just dont make it too bright and try to avoid jagginess on the details of the scan.
-(you can see some extra stuff that you dont want on the edges/outlines of the scan right?? )
-then, before merging the duplicated layer and the original layer (this is what you didn't do), hold the CTRL button and click on the original layer.. dont deselect it.. now. click the duplicated layer. then go to select>inverse .. and then click delete.. now you are ready to merge the two layers.

now the grass.. the grass looks weird with everything coz its the most realistic looking piece on the wallpaper. It would look better if it was vectored.. If you dont know how to vector, you'll find a tutorial on it on Deviantart.com

the sky looks fine but some of it kinda look messed up. This part could also be vectored.

good luck!

first of all, thanks for the comment' (clarings & jrpjonako)
that's true.. my scan didn't extracted and cleaned well'
so.. i think i fixed it already, using jrpjyonako tutor above'
very appreciate for your help'

click below for session zero gallery'
click here
if didn't worked.. (sometimes AP turns out an error)

click below, this is where i upload in imageshack
click here


now, is the extraction gone well?
i change one chara from it'
it's sinner, i change it to gunner'
(cause the way sinner stand didn't fit the land)
about the grass'
i try to make it simpler'
just using gradient tool in it' (to make it more cartoon feature)
i don't know if it's right..

the cloud'
i try to fix the kinda look messed up part'

what do you thing?

jya'

regards, sen~

anyhow' thanks for all your comments'

click below for session zero gallery'
click here
if didn't worked.. (sometimes AP turns out an error)

click below, this is where i upload in imageshack
click here

Yuki~
the grass i intentionally using gradient to it' so that it match the sky'
(the darker sky begin from the right side, so i make the same way for the grass)

logon55~
about the grass behind and infront the scan'
i make the grass not just infront the scan, but the land also higher than the scan'
so it shows like they came from under to top'

anyway, about the other same critics..

about the extraction'
jrpjnoyako~
you said the scan is okay but it looks too bright'
so i minimize the saturation of all scan..
and i think i get rid of the white stuff of the outline of some chara already..

about the grass'
i don't really understand what vector is..

so.. i cut off the blur grass before'
and draw this one myself.. using lasso tool~
also blur it just a bit so that it don't look too stiff..

from all above, i still don't know am i doing the right way..


well, what do you thing?
ready to submit? or it even get worser~

jya~

regards, sen

thanks for all the critics given.

click below for session zero gallery'
click here
if didn't worked.. (sometimes AP turns out an error)

click below, this is where i upload in imageshack
click here

check my old walls below


anyway..
jrpjnoyako~
i've increase the saturation for the middle chara..
not that much but, i can see the changes already..
(very please to hear that it's ready to submit.)

Yuki~
about the grass, i remake them using other tools(magnetic lasso tool)
and minimize the blurry stuff..
(vectoring, not quite understand it yet.. still learning)
and the chara, i check all parts of it, and try to reduce the white stuff..
i afraid i miss some of the part.. sometimes i could have mistaken~

Enders~
i don't quite understand bout' the texture..
but, about the grass i manage the details already..

still don't know if it's worked out or not..


how is it? do it get worser?

jya'

regards, sen

any AP members willing to help criticizing.
continue to website below.

click here

arigato

jya~

regards, sen