Not too much for me to say about this wallpaper that hasn't already been said: Dalarty has provided a descriptive walk through all the way from the concept idea, to its execution and ultimately its fruition. And you can really see how that careful planning paid off. But it just goes to show, good ideas take time---and a whole lot of patience!
Featuring Alex Row from Last Exile, one of my favorite series. Textures and brushes all found deviantart.
this is my first real foray into creating elements myself so any suggestions that you all may have would be very much appreciated... everyone gave me such great comments and suggestions on Between Awake and Dreaming that it has really helped me for future projects. You guys are awesome thank you.
Y'know I think the only thing I would really say is that it feels a little unbalanced. Icon space is great, but everything here is on the right with just clouds on the left (and it's a big area), so I'd try tweaking things a little to reduce the effect. Maybe it would be as simple as moving the text over the clouds?
Other little tweaks would be that the grass could do with more depth - it just looks like one striaght row of grass which seems a little odd. If you reduce the brush size and put some more on layers behind it'll have a litle more depth. Also, there appears to be a slight vertical raster effect on the ship which looks a little out of place, but that might be my monitor :/.
This is really pretty but I agree with the person above. It seems a bit unbalanced. Maybe it would help if you placed the ship in the background to the left of the character. Just a suggestion. ^.^ I really like the text on the bottom too btw, it adds a nice touch to the wallpaper. ^__^
Last Exile is such a great anime, and Alex is one of my fave charas ever as well. This wall is beautiful really, the only thing is I think the image of the Silvana shouldn't beplaced directly behind Alex, it needs to be placed just a little more to the left of the wall. Prolly resized to make it seem like it's a bit more in the distance? THe text you used is perfect and so is the placement of it. Again though it's a beautiful Last Exile wall, that's nicely done, great job!
Last Exile is such an underrrated anime. It was really good and deep.
Anyway, to the wallpaper! You've done an amazing job with the clouds and the mixing of the ship with it as well. The word font seems to flow perfectly with the background.
Though, as already mentioned, it seems a bit unbalanced with everything on the right side and nothing but clouds on the left.
1) the ground, too linear, make it ...look like a real cliff? =P and i doubt a cliff has that much grass...
2) the ship being closer can make a more dramatic effect, and it also, as others said, make more balance..
3) nice clouds and such...but a monotone wall (like...dark yellow and brown such colours with texture?) would make it look better imo
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Oo i dont see many wallies from last exile.. but the series was actually one of my favorite ^^ I think this wallpaper is a tiny bit unbalanced because the right side is really busy and there isnt anything to contrast it on the left.. only an empty sky the boat effect in the sky is cool though and i think the ground he is standing on looks a tiny bit weird and flat =O the scan was really nicely extracted and i think your concept is good.. just the balance is not there ^O^
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Cool wallpaper. overall it looks really nice. i don't know if you were trying to go for dark or bright. but the clouds are nicely placed with the ship and the foreground grass and character. i don't know about the ground though. it looks kind of out of place because of the texture. nice touch adding the text. good job.
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this is my first real foray into creating elements myself so any suggestions that you all may have would be very much appreciated... everyone gave me such great comments and suggestions on Between Awake and Dreaming that it has really helped me for future projects. You guys are awesome thank you.
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Other little tweaks would be that the grass could do with more depth - it just looks like one striaght row of grass which seems a little odd. If you reduce the brush size and put some more on layers behind it'll have a litle more depth. Also, there appears to be a slight vertical raster effect on the ship which looks a little out of place, but that might be my monitor :/.
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Anyway, to the wallpaper! You've done an amazing job with the clouds and the mixing of the ship with it as well. The word font seems to flow perfectly with the background.
Though, as already mentioned, it seems a bit unbalanced with everything on the right side and nothing but clouds on the left.
Still, irregardless, a very nice wall!
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I'm adding it to my favs.
but i think these can be some improvements too!
1) the ground, too linear, make it ...look like a real cliff? =P and i doubt a cliff has that much grass...
2) the ship being closer can make a more dramatic effect, and it also, as others said, make more balance..
3) nice clouds and such...but a monotone wall (like...dark yellow and brown such colours with texture?) would make it look better imo
=D fav+~
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but its a good stuff, Alex rox, anyway its well done.