OKAY... so I've made another Edward Elric wallpaper for the millionth time and I'm proud of this one. I spent about four weeks vectoring Ed and another week making the bg. I know its not the best and I can work on the lines because I'm still earning how to vector. So please tell me how I can improve it. THANKS!



OH YEAH! here's the original pic of Edward:

Well teh vector looks good. but i think teh bg is very dull maybe have a spiral teh green and a blue or a darker green instead. if you wanna stay with your original bg at least ad some more color like some different shades of green. please comment on my walls as well

Nice vector...You should make your back ground more lively...Give the lines some effects...XD And Maybe some borders...

Your vectoring is good, better than mines anyways

I also agree that you should put more in the bg, because it looks a bit plain. Its looking good though

Niice vector, but I agree with everyone else, you should make you wall more exciting! Maybe some cool swirly designs or something like that. Just play around with it ;)

I'm going to point all the parts of the vector I don't like.



I'm sorry to say it, but it looks like your vector needs more work. I strongly suggest you use shapes instead of strokes, for example, on his hair. It's not that shapes are oh-so-superior, but it certainly helps at some parts when you need pointy ends. Then again, if you're using illustrator, there's an option to fix this more quickly, and that would mean yayness for you.
Also, I pointed that some lines look a bit "broken" I don't know how this happened, the only solution I can think of is to make that line again.
Also, don't be afraid of having a line over the other, that's what layers are for, make each line on a different layer so you can delete the excess afterwards (at least that's what I do). Like when his hair meets his chin, it just doesn't look good, for example.

As for the background, I think I'll wait to see if you make a better vector first, good luck =D

Astrologica

I'm going to point all the parts of the vector I don't like.



I'm sorry to say it, but it looks like your vector needs more work. I strongly suggest you use shapes instead of strokes, for example, on his hair. It's not that shapes are oh-so-superior, but it certainly helps at some parts when you need pointy ends. Then again, if you're using illustrator, there's an option to fix this more quickly, and that would mean yayness for you.
Also, I pointed that some lines look a bit "broken" I don't know how this happened, the only solution I can think of is to make that line again.
Also, don't be afraid of having a line over the other, that's what layers are for, make each line on a different layer so you can delete the excess afterwards (at least that's what I do). Like when his hair meets his chin, it just doesn't look good, for example.

As for the background, I think I'll wait to see if you make a better vector first, good luck =D

That's probably one of the most helpful comments I have ever gotten, and thanks for circling the parts I need to work on I'll try my best and I have to get my hands on illustrator THANKS!

O...K...lol, so I only did the bg and I'm going to start working on fixing the vector, but from what I see the link is broken on what I have to fix so I'll try to remember by memory... sorry. But here's the one with the hopefully better bg, I was only playing around with it, so I don't know if I'll keep it or not. Tell me what you think.



I saw that his hair looks a bit pixely(?) and I don't know why it looks like that... its probably when it optimized or somwthing, if uyou know the answer behing my confusion please tell me. THANKS!

The bg doesn't seem to have much relavance, but you have such little space to work with its difficult. It looks ok though I'd try to think of something else. Right now there are few things in your vector that need fixing.

You've done a good job but here are a few things I'd like to point out. Your lines seem to be rather rough and need to be smoothed out. They're a bit bumpy it is most noticable in his hair. To fix that you need to reduce the amount nodes you are using. Right now I can see where your extra nodes are. So go through and try take out as many as you can to get better, smoother curves.
Also all your outlines are the same width except for one. The spike above his left eye, the line is noticably thiner.
I'm not sure what is going on with his eye brows but they don't look part of the picture. They're very blurry and the colours don't match up.

I hope I haven't discouraged you at all. But keeping working on it and it'll turn out great. Until next time!

Hey no don't worry it takes a lot to discourage me, but thanks for the concern. Yeah, I do admit the vector does need work and I'm going to start working on it soon, but i have school right now so I might take a while. Thanks, you're a lot of help!