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!
You know when you want to do two things at the same time but accedentally mixing them up? I just wanted to drink my cellphone and put my cup of tea to my ear -_-"
Well...not much to say really...is my first time ever making one...Is Arucard from Hellsing, as he soon looks to your eyes with that wicked smile...as he smells your fear, about to see you scream as he pulls the trigger and tastes the first drop of your blood...>.<
(GIMP Tools...Tiipografi, Segoe UI Bold Italic, RED COLOR, Hiting and forzar...Airbruch,pincel,paint brush after ajusting the sides and the position of where the tex was writen...color of image darken a lil...so on and so forth)
I recommend that you work on the font in terms of composition and maybe the style (ie not something plain like Arial). Also, try to vary the size a bit more, you've done some of that but I think you can do better! x3 I think you could also try to blend it differently, ie multiplying the or overlaying the text, in order for it to look more artistic. You could also rotate or scale down Alucard a bit more; from here it looks like the text is a bit cramped into a corner.
I recommend we stop giving this wallpaper way more credit than it deserves. You need to do a really better job in making a wallpaper. Remember that they paint scenes, not characters. The focal point is complimented by nothing, since the background is horribly simple, and text looks ugly, and well the character looks like I cut out the page from the manga and used SchoolGlue to put it on. To me, I look at this and I say: Open Photoshop, Outline Alucard, Cut-Out Outline, Copy Cut-Out Image, Open MS Paint, Paint Background All Black, Draw Two Rectangles, Paint Rectangles White, Paste Cut-Out Image, Make Text Box, Select Font, Select Color, Type First Two Lines, Tab Twice, Type Third Line, Add Effect to Text Box, Select Blood, BAM Wallpaper done. My point in all of that? It's way too simple. You can do a hell of a lot more with this, so that's what I'd suggest.
The text is pretty bold and not interesting at all. You should check out www.dafont.com for better ones.
The blood around the text could be extended to the background and should be more blood like and less like red paint brush. Try to use the regular brushes in gimp but combine them to get the nice look of blood splatter. If you can't get the effect you want, you can do your own shapes of blood from other picture (section, makes everything in red and copy-past it in your wall)
You should clean the coat of Alucard a lot cause we can see the crosses of the scan...
About the scan you also have a little problem with the extraction... There is white outlines all over the character but on some parts it's bigger than on others. You need to get the same thickness of outline everywhere. Or you need to remove all the white outlines on the hair and the hat... :-s
Note that using a black and white background simple is pretty hard. Especially when the character you use is in dark grey scale. If I were you I would use a really dark red background with some pattern or design and maybe use also the white stripe on the side? Don't know...
Last little detail. Your wall is in a really small resolution. Don't hesitate to make the wall bigger to fit more desktop ^_^
Hehe ,cool looks evil..
Ya ,few things to change though..
the resolution, it can be better..
The text, go for something a bit bigger and with more character..you know?
and maybe add some bright blood brushes by the text?
Keep it up!!
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Well...not much to say really...is my first time ever making one...Is Arucard from Hellsing, as he soon looks to your eyes with that wicked smile...as he smells your fear, about to see you scream as he pulls the trigger and tastes the first drop of your blood...>.<
(GIMP Tools...Tiipografi, Segoe UI Bold Italic, RED COLOR, Hiting and forzar...Airbruch,pincel,paint brush after ajusting the sides and the position of where the tex was writen...color of image darken a lil...so on and so forth)
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but other than that it looks
great
i lov Arucard ;P
But keep the good work sister
i know you can do it a whole lot better
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Nicely done ^_^
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The blood around the text could be extended to the background and should be more blood like and less like red paint brush. Try to use the regular brushes in gimp but combine them to get the nice look of blood splatter. If you can't get the effect you want, you can do your own shapes of blood from other picture (section, makes everything in red and copy-past it in your wall)
You should clean the coat of Alucard a lot cause we can see the crosses of the scan...
About the scan you also have a little problem with the extraction... There is white outlines all over the character but on some parts it's bigger than on others. You need to get the same thickness of outline everywhere. Or you need to remove all the white outlines on the hair and the hat... :-s
Note that using a black and white background simple is pretty hard. Especially when the character you use is in dark grey scale. If I were you I would use a really dark red background with some pattern or design and maybe use also the white stripe on the side? Don't know...
Last little detail. Your wall is in a really small resolution. Don't hesitate to make the wall bigger to fit more desktop ^_^
Anyway it's a nice start...
And good luck for the rest of the wall! :)
Or not...
:D
I forgot to say : don't forget to add your sign on this wall :)
Or not...
:D
Ya ,few things to change though..
the resolution, it can be better..
The text, go for something a bit bigger and with more character..you know?
and maybe add some bright blood brushes by the text?
Keep it up!!
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