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!
Finally, it's done. this is my latest wallpaper. I've setted up a challenge for myself with this wall. I choosed a scan that needs some fixing and I'm trying a mix of styles for the bg, for the second time. (the first time was kinda...a failure XP) so this is also a experiment wallpaper...kinda...
This is the original scan I used. First I've fixed the missing parts, but this step was useless...wasted my time=/..cause I realised the quality was just crap. so I traced it, after that I did cg on my own. the scan wasn't detailed enough and the missing parts are kinda annoying, so it was kinda imagination work. I tried to make the wings and the gun looks smoother and shiny. The gun and the wings where airbrushed and I used the burn and the dodge tool for the tones and stuff. I only vectored the body of chise, so that would look flat, so it will make the gun and the wing looks better. the work on this scan was painful.
The bg is a mix of grunge, some little techy and abstract look. this is acutally the first real grungy wallpaper I've made. I made the grunge brushes myself, it's just 2. the buildings and the big wing looking thing are made with the pentool. I've used 2 textures in this wallpaper.
I want to create a sad dark tone wallpaper, I think I kinda reached my goal.
I want to thank:
Tama-Neko for the textures (got from Da!) and the last eye check.
Shinn: for suggestion to fix the scan(actually wasted my time...but...it was fun, lol)
The people who supported me.
Ow btw...the green big wing thingy looks like having white edges, I cleaned it up. The white stuff you see now, are created by the grunge brushes on the back.
EDIT:
I slightly added some texture to chise, like people said.
I fixed the weird leg thing. I didn't saw it first and the scan doesn't show that part.
Eh, not bad! I like the cityscape, but from the thumbnail I thought she was in a forest :P Those big grey spikes look a lot like knife blades and those three diagonal ones pointing to the topleft look like they're translucent or something. Is that intentional? Also the cleanness of the vectoring makes Chise stand out a lot from the textured background. The art styles are different, so maybe she should have been lightly textured too to help blend the whole thing together.
Hey man I like it. There's just one thing that keeps bugging me and that's the one spot on the buildings where there's no grunge brush-work really it's kinda just like an open viewing hole or something. I dno if that's supposed to be there or not but yea. Anyways, really good job on the vectoring and all that jazz. See ya around
It looks even more beautiful when full-viewed! Excellent job vectoring the scan; the wings and the green gun looks great, even 3-D-like. The dark background with the blue building thingies and the texture gives the wallpaper a great grungy effect and goes well with scan itself as well. A work well done. Good job, MC! You've overcome the challenge with great results ^_^
Its a great wall, the only beef i have with this is how the knife looking things that are behind her kinda overlap with a weird shadow. other than that its great!
Woww! this is really a very great wallpaper! the background is very detailed drawn. i like the wings and the guns.
and i like the atmosphere constructed.
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the colours don't agree with my tummy too much :( maybe it's just me? but i'd prefer it if there was a different selection of colours. great job on tracing chise's "thingies" (the green and the silver one) XD i also think that the blue things behind her (supposedly buildings) would look better ask spikes.
My only problem is how 'clean' the vector is, texture wise. Just give it the same texture the backround has, or something a little lighter maybe. But yeah, great wallpaper, you've improved a ton.
I wub the textures and the scence looks awesome
but the girl doesn't actually look like she's kneeling on anything,
does't cast any shadow that i can see but the color and everything
else looks great n_n
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Nice job for the vectoring of the scan... the wings and the gun that surround the character has show a great effect of the wall! the dark background and the blue building thingies is just great! and the texture supplies some grungy effect on it... the whole wall have shown some 3-D effect on it... anyway, nice works for this wall!
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It's so weird to see a sad girl with a BIG gun o_O I need to see that anime >_>
Nice textures, I love those the most.
Just noticed, something is wrong with her leg >_>
Unlike these people lol i think the texture is a bit overwhelming or distracting
like brom said the main image is too clean for the BG, but i guess i would call this abstract all in all it's a good wall
excellent work on cleaning the image :D propz hehe
tho one more thing =o what is she kneeling on? she looks like she's floating...
anyhoo keep the good work up :D
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Ahh very good vectoring there :> thought you could have given her the same grunge texture as the whole wallpaper herself because she stands out too much for my tatstes like..she's beeing an attention whore XD
Fantastic job really really well done work. The background and everything fits really well. Typical Saikano aswell. B-e-a-utiful :P this makes me wanna watch Saikano now... maybe after FMA :)
The cleanup job you did really is sublime! Fantastical :D
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Geez, when you showed me the clean up of the scan, I thought that was impressive in itself --- this background is a definite bonus. Awesome texture/abstract/grunge work; it all seems to fit together. Hard to tell what's going on though. XD
And it may just be a personal opinion, but I think it would have looked better as a while if you just went with grunge on the objects instead of abstract as the abstract looks a bit off on the buildings/ground.
Still, you best work yet, MC. ^_^ Do continue to challenge yourself.
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This is the original scan I used. First I've fixed the missing parts, but this step was useless...wasted my time=/..cause I realised the quality was just crap. so I traced it, after that I did cg on my own. the scan wasn't detailed enough and the missing parts are kinda annoying, so it was kinda imagination work. I tried to make the wings and the gun looks smoother and shiny. The gun and the wings where airbrushed and I used the burn and the dodge tool for the tones and stuff. I only vectored the body of chise, so that would look flat, so it will make the gun and the wing looks better. the work on this scan was painful.
The bg is a mix of grunge, some little techy and abstract look. this is acutally the first real grungy wallpaper I've made. I made the grunge brushes myself, it's just 2. the buildings and the big wing looking thing are made with the pentool. I've used 2 textures in this wallpaper.
I want to create a sad dark tone wallpaper, I think I kinda reached my goal.
I want to thank:
Tama-Neko for the textures (got from Da!) and the last eye check.
Shinn: for suggestion to fix the scan(actually wasted my time...but...it was fun, lol)
The people who supported me.
Useless faqs:
Layers: scan= 80+ wallpaper= 59
Time: scan= 1 month wallpaper= 3 days
Ow btw...the green big wing thingy looks like having white edges, I cleaned it up. The white stuff you see now, are created by the grunge brushes on the back.
More resolutions coming at: suki-sanctuary
Enjoy~!
EDIT:
I slightly added some texture to chise, like people said.
I fixed the weird leg thing. I didn't saw it first and the scan doesn't show that part.
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and i like the atmosphere constructed.
the colours don't agree with my tummy too much :( maybe it's just me? but i'd prefer it if there was a different selection of colours. great job on tracing chise's "thingies" (the green and the silver one) XD i also think that the blue things behind her (supposedly buildings) would look better ask spikes.
but the girl doesn't actually look like she's kneeling on anything,
does't cast any shadow that i can see but the color and everything
else looks great n_n
Nice textures, I love those the most.
Just noticed, something is wrong with her leg >_>
like brom said the main image is too clean for the BG, but i guess i would call this abstract all in all it's a good wall
excellent work on cleaning the image :D propz hehe
tho one more thing =o what is she kneeling on? she looks like she's floating...
anyhoo keep the good work up :D
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The cleanup job you did really is sublime! Fantastical :D
And it may just be a personal opinion, but I think it would have looked better as a while if you just went with grunge on the objects instead of abstract as the abstract looks a bit off on the buildings/ground.
Still, you best work yet, MC. ^_^ Do continue to challenge yourself.