What do you think ? Good bad , ugly , maybe change some stuff ? Oppiniouns .

Nice start :) .

the scan is looking good in there , but remove the motion blur!or add effects on it to make it look better .

the blue background might need fixing too , its kinda plain with only one color and the normal text with no title!.

keep fixing it , im sure it will look great :) .

I think this is a really cool idea for a wallpaper. I like the character placement and the extraction looks pretty clean too. The colours are also good.

There aren't really very many area's which I think need work... I really love the textures you've used on the wave like sections they look really cool.

One thing that does bug me alot though is the blur on the board and the shadow under the character. They need a little bit of work, esspecially on the blurring. At the moment to me it looks a bit strange and tacked on. Remember if you are blurring the end of the board then you need to blur the hand that's sticking out too. It'll look more natural that way.

As for the shadow the brown/gray really doesn't fit. I would suggest maybe trying to layer blend it in or going for a colour like a darkish blue which will fit with the colours in the rest of the wallpaper. Oh and remember the light source too! At the moment it looks like it's in the wrong place in relation to where the shadows of the character are. You need too keep that in mind when you add shadows to anything ^^

Lastly the text needs some work. It feels like an after thought and doesn't really fit with the rest. Choose a different font or try to incorperate it into the background more. It could look quite cool near the wave type things curveing over as if it's part of the white border. You could even put a texture in it like those wave bits.

Good luck with the changes ^^ You've got an awesome wallpaper in the making!

Thanks for the replies , i love this kind of critiqe . But i do have one question about the shadows could you clarify it . Well i changed some stuff around , i removed the white boarder , and i think it looks better this way . Also i added some haze at the bottom , looks good ? Should i remove it ? Also the changed the text . I couldnt find one that was really curvey without it bieng too odd . And well i took your suggestion and put the text over the waves . Keep the comments comming .

Hello,

Oh I like your concept idea. Hmm...now this can turn into a really fun wallpaper. Hmm...lets see.

- I like your fan thing with the patterns. It creates very nice eye movement. A gradient overlayed or blended with soft light starting from the bottom with black to add more darker color and use white on the other side to sort of blare it out. Creates more color basically since it seems flat.

- I just thought of something that would be really cool if its done right. Make some sort of light source from above with rays coming down. Hmm...its difficult to explain it but thats basically the best I can say. XD Gomen.

- Some sort of saturn ring coming around the fan and in front of "whats his name" however its like an ethereal light. Not just a solid shape of color. This creates more eye movement around the main subject basically.

Ok I seem to be getting carried away with myself XD. Anyhow I hope you find any of my suggestions helpful.

Have a nice day.

Thanks for the comments , i like the idea of the gradient . Well i have two versions .



I think concept one will work better though , since the shadwows will work better with that .

I like the first verison

First one then ? Is it ready to submit , maybe something neesd to be added ?

Hello,

The first one with the gradient making it darker on top is great. What I meant with the gradient thing is to use it on your patterns you have. You know those patterns that are green, blue and red. Thats what I meant XD. However you adjustment is very nice. Hmm...I'd add more detail before I submitted this but if you want to its up to you. Catch you later.

Have a nice day.

Okay , i made some changes and added some stuff . Thanks for the replies .

LOl at the pattern in the waves. XD haha really nice concept though. Renton's definitely got too much blue...mess with the levels for him. But other than that, it looks really good. nice job!

And to add to what azn said, the waves have rounded tips due to stroke but the shadows are pointy ;P attention to detail animepixel! as to the rest of the wall, there's nothing wrong with it but, it's missing something, like a dash of...a certain flair...something that makes the wall sparkle, not necessarily literally. it's just lacking that touch of detail that will top off your wall and make people go wow.

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and to add to what azn said, the waves have rounded tips due to stroke but the shadows are pointy ;P attention to detail animepixel! as to the rest of the wall, there's nothing wrong with it but, it's missing something, like a dash of...a certain flair...something that makes the wall sparkle, not necessarily literally. it's just lacking that touch of detail that will top off your wall and make people go wow.

Yea , ive been trying to find and put something to make it sparkel . I just cant figure it out . Thanks for pointing ou the waves . Better go chnage that.

It's definatly looking alot better now then when I last saw it. The gradient and shadows on the waves look really good.

As for an explanation on what I meant by the shadow under the character. The way you had it before you removed it made it look like the light was coming from the top left hand carner of the wall where as the shading on the character suggests it coming from the top right. I'm not sure if that makes any sense so I hope you don't mind but I drew over your wallpaper to show you what I meant!

The arrows show the light source and of course the big red blob shows where the shadow should roughly be.



As you can also probably see I wrote "Eurereka 7" on it. I figured it would be easier then trying to explain where I think you should try the text Oo;; I dunno why but I think it could look quite cool in white in that position so that it looks like it's growing out of the white border. Of course only try it, if it looks bad feel free to hit me on the head and call me a baka!

I'm not really sure what to suggest in regards to giving the wallpaper more sparkle but maybe adding the shadow might help.

I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner and I hope my bad sketch helps. Oh and also good luck! Feel free to give me a nudge whenever you need more help ^^

Wow. This looks a lot better since I last saw it. Just a couple notes for you to consider and in the future as well. When working with shadow unless it is the sun or light that is projected like the sun shadows will be much softer with any other kind of light. When I see this wallpaper I don't think the light source is anything from the sun so naturally I feel the shadows to "sharp". Soften them up a bit. The fall shadow of the character isn't to shabby an idea. Another note is why not spark up your scan a little more. Say a duplicate layer with gaussion blur and blended with either overlay or softlight and some opacity adjustments. It'd give it a nice "POP" to the wallpaper. Don't over do it if you decide to do so. Keep up the good work too ;). Hope to see more promising wallpapers from you in the future. Until then.

Have a nice day.