As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!
I just love halibel too much.
scraped the last one i was doing of her and vectored the image from the manga myself this time (only my 3rd time vectoring an image). Her face gave me the most trouble i think. scan
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I like the simplicity of the wall and the blue color version fits her character a little better I believe. Still, I think her face looks kind of off. That's most likely because of the limited amount of good pics there are of her.
Though I do believe you've done a good job nonetheless. It's not often you see a simple wallpaper concept that really works.
I love Halibel. Need more Halibel.
While I have to say I liked how you did the glow on the text, it gave it a eerie horror effect. My only problem was the image itself, or lack of quality. In my opinion you should have waited for a Anime Scan, seems like a waste to use such a good idea and background on an inferior scan like this. Either way though interesting and good idea.
I think the outlines of her could have been a bit more neat, but it is still just your 3rd vector, so you can improve in the future.
Also, I think there should have been more shading on her, like her hair so it'll have more dimension to it.
It looks too obvious that it was from a scan and that you just colored it in.
However, the background is absolutely gorgeous!
Nice use of textures and blending.
The glow around the text is also very clean.
Overall, nice job :)
Have you try to put her in smaller size, give darkness more hollow feeling, or put her on the right above small size, it can gives people different results/ inspirations