Habits die hard, much less bad habits. so the last time i had a dual project going on...same with this time. but for different reasons. this time, i made a second wall while my other one is already in SZ because NOBODY bothered to visit after a while T-T. anyhow, i did all of this two days ago when i got bored and my internet problem started.
Anyway, I wanted to do my first experimentation with a tabletop layout kinda theme so I thought I'll first do a picture frame thing... turns out? no scan of the character I was looking for. had to enlarge and vector(?) a screenshot of Mayu (the girl). then, feeling lazy about drawing a frame, i enlarged and vectored(?) another screenshot of Shinn (the guy...duh) it was so bland so i thought I'll put Shinn there in person. how when the perspective is of a desk? silly...i'll put his hands there of course.
still blank. so I went screenshot shopping...again. found the stone/shell thingy stellar gave to shinn in a jar so I extracted and redid the whole jar, editing out shinn's entire hand. Sorry if the cellphone looks like it's about to tip over because that was the only shot of it I could find where shinn's hand wasn't covering most of it. (apology extended to luna/lunaXshinn fans, nothing of lunamaria's is here)
arranged a couple more "photos" in the bg, played around with lighting and shadows, added a touch of "shininess" to the top two photos (yes, it does look weird) and some tears (they don't look too good).
then came the hardest part: the title. I don't need anyone to tell me because I know: it sucks big time. somebody tell me: fix it or remove it.
I have bored you enough.
Layers: few, in the 20s
Time: seven hours (I lost two and half hours of work when my computer froze and had to redo it all...i need to learn to stop and save as often as i can)
i hope to see more than three people comment on this post...

It's a bit dark but if you ignore that : great job!

Hhhhmmmlet me see....
well...the fonts there doesn't look good...yOu should avoid making the text gradient because it doesn't really good in the eyes..then your scan is a little bit blurry...so try fixi'n that..then the scan on the right side at hte back of shin..it needs some cleaning...then I think you need to change the font,something lkk more romantic fonts...I'm sure you can find a lot at da fonts.com...then I suggets that your font should not that big...it really cuaght my attention and not in the wall...well..good luck on that!

Yeah kinda dark =P
You drew the hand and o/ stuff? WOW..(if you did)
Um.yeah the font is kinda distracting
The cellphone just looks wrong ><
awesome glass =P

Clean up that screenshot? beneath shin's photo and the jar? well...i wanted it blurred actually... and not clean as opposed to the shots i wanted the focus on. and as to a blurred scan? o.o which one? because I recolored every single thing that's supposed to be the foreground...if you mean something like the outline of mayu's hair, then it's meant to be just a bit indistinct or else her cleanness stands out way too much against the blurred look of her bg. too dark? no prob. I will fix that. and yes, I have made up my mind--I will delete text altogether. hope that corner doesn't end up looking awfully empty.

My recent efforts have met with little response as opposed to the two topics i posted with regards to the two walls i had submitted, which both got accepted...i wonder why? is this one really that bad? =/ i think it doesn't look submission-worthy. have i lost some of my touch? *doubting everything*

Awh this wall is adorable and so sad =(
Don't worry about it sometimes people on SZ will ignore some topics when they feel like it, it's no biggy.
Ok onto the wall---->

- Mayu's eye color is wierd. In one eye it's more saturated than the other. And also don't make the eyes blurry-keep them sharp. So you have to fix Mayu's eyes by re-vectoring them >.O

- The cellphone shape is odd too. If you notice at the bottom of the phone, it's all a straight line. The part you flib shouldn't align with it so evenly.

- If i'm not mistaken Shinn's tears are on the pictures. Now the problem is they don't really look like tears. It's like some of it is sharp and some is blurry. Also make the tears a little bigger and add maybe 2 more drops to make it more noticable?


That's all for now. Good luck.

Excellent vector work!

but the perspectives are bothering me. mayu's perspective is not lining up with the photo perspective...its kinda like the photo paper is tilted, but the character is not.

Hofodomo: really? not tilted? because i free transformed it so it'd tilt...and compared to the original screenshot, it is tilted. I'm frustrated *pulls on hair*
>_< why does my ideas always end up better than what they lead me to produce? why oh why? and inuspal, i'll go fix those things...

I think it's great!!

updatetweaked things according to inuspal's sugs...and i also fixed the glass jar. there was a mistake that nobody noticed and since i had vectored it tilted, my perspective was off. then i was looking at it and it was bothering me to no end so i fixed the lines a bit. kk tell me what else i need to do!

Ahh the eyes are much better now.
Shinn's tears look way better too..but what I'd do is add maybe 2 on Mayu's picture (it looks like he cried from one eye only XD).

On the glass jar you didn't add a bottom. you know, the part where it sits on-there should be a line there (it's like an oval shape). I don't have PS open right now to show you an example sorry XP

Uhm that's it I guess ^.^

Inuspal: that was exactly what i was thinking--shinn crying from one eye...but i couldn't make up my mind about how to do the tears on Mayu's picture...because it's tilted and wouldn't water roll? iunno...me going to try anyhow. and there actually were liney stuff for the jar bottom...o_o they disappeared?

more tweaks i think the tears now look funny =/ comments plz...and is there anything more to fix/add/take away?

I know AP has been having some problems...but I'd like a reply from someone ^^;