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!
Yes, it's my first true OAA wall and almost everything is really created by me. The exception are the stars and the bamboo.
I drew the picture of the girl some time ago and decided to wall it even if I didn't follow the pic exactly.
I needed to add a few more jewels then, so I made the earring and the clip. Yup, and I have always wanted to paint such dragons, here are their sketches:
I admit the shoulder looks weird so don't bother saying so and there are some disproportions as well but be patient with me, it's my first time, ha ha.
And it's also my very first green themed wall. I don't know what did I have against green:))
Total Time: one week
Normal Layers: many
Vector Layers: even more
Sorry, but this wall works only as widescreen.
Well, hope you like it at least a little bit and see ya.
S.
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Wow well first let me just say everything on this wall looks lovely but I would have to say the hair is th most impressive like fine silk or the thin strong thread of a spiders web. Like a true water God I would say she looks leaping from the water into the cold night air, her dragons springing from her body to collect souls to complete the ice of her soul.
The original drawing is just lovely in every way not only do you have talent with computer related art but with a pencil and paper to. The vectoring the layers every bit of work you can see right in front of you when you look deep into the wallpapers artistic soul.
Once again you have not only impressed me but captured my heart an drawn it into your work so I may see the beauty.
This is just like "Cold Rage" in the fact that the wallpaper is essentially two colors. The focal point is clearly the girl, which is fine, but she is all the more ruined by the fact that, since the wallpaper is very bland color-wise, other things in the wallpaper, like the moon and the dragons only blend into the character and not compliment her by detailing the background, thus adding a confusing function to your focal point, causing it to become less attractive. The problem is that since they mesh the scene that is trying to be depicted is ruined on the bases that everything becomes one free flowing object that is placed on a rather bland background instead of one well defined focal point place into a scene that helps compliment her complexion, and thus advance the quality of the wallpaper. You should not fear color, because the lack of it has now ruined two consecutive wallpapers. I'll give you more credit on this one, since you added, or attempted to add, more into the background scenery and therefore tried to draw more emotion from the viewer, but all the meshing of the black and white only ruins this attempt. "Cold Rage" was extremely bland and insipid thanks to it's lack of anything except the character and it's lack of color. This is now bland and insipid because of just it's lack of color. I'll credit you for moving one step forward, but point out that you need to move one more. Could have been a lot better in the end, and essentially the on word that describes the wallpaper is: "potential" as in this had the potential to be decent, but is not.
Well this wallpaper caught my attention at first sight, i mean is awesome the way you worked on this and the details like the earrings they look very good on her and the clip over the hair too.
fav thing of this wallpaper
--the hair looks awesome!
--the make up i mean ( you dont forget anything hehehe ) is very cool and detallist.
my only critic is why just widescreen .()# but anyway i will fav it goes right to my desktop even if its widescreen !
a really awesome work to be proud!
+FAV
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When I saw it I knew it was yours because of the mood
^^ the hair is what amazes me the most! it does look like silk
and the dragon looks great
I must say it's a very well done selena-chan
very well done!!
Awesome and my first impression is WOW !
You have great talence, love the way you colour her hair, so silky, and how you drew the dragons. Keep up the good work!
I'm so happy I saw this OAA wallpaper, Selenna-san ^.^ The part I love the most is the hair - it looks so detailed and beautiful, and you certainly have a distinct style in vectoring which makes you stand out among other wallers. The only minor problem with the hair is that you might make it longer and change the shape a little so that it doesn't seem that she's using some sort of hair gel, and the shape of the mouth is a little weird too ^_^ I appreciate the hair clip and earring, they add a nice touch to the hair, but they might work nicer if they are more shiny and detailed. Still, it works all right as it is now =) Also, I love the dragons, and I think you did a great job vectoring them. The lines and petals you added behind them also gives a nice feeling of movement. Great use of the bamboo and stars brushes too~ However, the moon, window (some wood grain will be nice) and wall lack details when compared to the rest of the wallpaper, otherwise this wallpaper will look better than it already is ;)
Personally, I think you did the best you could choosing the colors to put into this wallpaper. The colors are soothing and pleasant to look at. I don't think that it's 'bland' either *glares at a particular comment* because it suits the mood, scene and composition of this particular wallpaper. Also, I'm sure your future wallpapers with color, if you do make any, will look as good as this one~
I really like the dragons!they are really small and unique(cause most dragon i see is big...really big)
one think can be improve is the expression of the girl,i think it can be better cause it don't really make fell live at all(this is what i think...not sure of the others)
well overall i think you are really good!!u can do better^^
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I can say just wow. maybe it has tons of miss in drawing but for first time it unbelievablly good)
hey i have a tiny ask for you can you explain how you draw a hair it really interesting for me)))
Commenting again now on second revision. Well the more greenish background helps make the character stand out more and helps place the moon as strictly a background item, so now with this new revision I actually kinda like the wallpaper somewhat. Placement of everything is good, although that was never a problem, and overall the focal point of the character is now clearly defined. Everything now kind of falls into place nicely and nothing fights over placement or attention from the viewer anymore so I must say now upon the second revision this wallpapers pretty decent. Good job.
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I drew the picture of the girl some time ago and decided to wall it even if I didn't follow the pic exactly.
I needed to add a few more jewels then, so I made the earring and the clip. Yup, and I have always wanted to paint such dragons, here are their sketches:
I admit the shoulder looks weird so don't bother saying so and there are some disproportions as well but be patient with me, it's my first time, ha ha.
And it's also my very first green themed wall. I don't know what did I have against green:))
Total Time: one week
Normal Layers: many
Vector Layers: even more
Sorry, but this wall works only as widescreen.
Well, hope you like it at least a little bit and see ya.
S.
PS.: For my dear friends - read my journal, please
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The original drawing is just lovely in every way not only do you have talent with computer related art but with a pencil and paper to. The vectoring the layers every bit of work you can see right in front of you when you look deep into the wallpapers artistic soul.
Once again you have not only impressed me but captured my heart an drawn it into your work so I may see the beauty.
A+ and a fav my dear
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fav thing of this wallpaper
--the hair looks awesome!
--the make up i mean ( you dont forget anything hehehe ) is very cool and detallist.
my only critic is why just widescreen .()# but anyway i will fav it goes right to my desktop even if its widescreen !
a really awesome work to be proud!
+FAV
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^^ the hair is what amazes me the most! it does look like silk
and the dragon looks great
I must say it's a very well done selena-chan
very well done!!
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The colore is very well for this wall ...
Good work ...
Awesome and my first impression is WOW
You have great talence, love the way you colour her hair, so silky, and how you drew the dragons. Keep up the good work!
+fav for greater justice!
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Personally, I think you did the best you could choosing the colors to put into this wallpaper. The colors are soothing and pleasant to look at. I don't think that it's 'bland' either *glares at a particular comment* because it suits the mood, scene and composition of this particular wallpaper. Also, I'm sure your future wallpapers with color, if you do make any, will look as good as this one~
I love you >_< I mean, your wallpapers xD +faves
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one think can be improve is the expression of the girl,i think it can be better cause it don't really make fell live at all(this is what i think...not sure of the others)
well overall i think you are really good!!u can do better^^
hey i have a tiny ask for you can you explain how you draw a hair it really interesting for me)))
this is absolutely goregous and interesting drawing. dragons are so cute, and girl is lovely too. splendid colors and vectoring.
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