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!
Okay well to start off with your image/scan is to dark for the background. Try ro lighten it up or darken your background. Also your clouds seem to real for your image. I would suggest vectoring them so your wall has a better feel. Also the shadows around lelouch are a bit mush. They could make people's eyes hurt. Well I hope this helps.
Don't know how to lighten the vector? While holding CTRL and use the mouse and click on the vector layer. That should create a marquee looking thing around it. Create a new layer on top of it and fill it with white. Set the white to soft light. Use SELECT>Deselect to get rid of the marquee. OR you can just use the lighting options under FILTER>RENDER>LIGHTING
Are the clouds stock? Because Tris already did 75% of this wallpaper's work if you did nothing else but slap stocks in the BG. Coming from a person that whores stocks, I will tell you that in order to make it look like you've made some effort to try and work on the composition. Put a better horizon. And the font for the text looks too playful-ish for the intended mood. I didn't even read it - it was too distracting.
Feathers - they suck. They're too bright for the rest of the wall. They need shadowing. They don't vary in size and are just duplicated and flipped? Looks more like flying pieces of Kleenex Tissues rather than feathers in that case.
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Far from finished still trying to find time to do anything to it.
this is just the bone concept far from anything, Just getting Ideas from people
The background can be changed so the lighting suits the character
Go to filter render lighting effects or something like that. point the light so its going down from the top left corner. do the same with the character. make the light strong enough so we can see most of the background and put the text above the lighting.
Actually, this is one case where I almost totally disagree with the majority of the comments. I liked the theme, it's perfectly appropriate for the character. I also like the lighting; the character should be dark as the setting sun is behind him. The "shadow" around Lelouch is also perfectly appropriate as it gives us the sensation that he is, well, falling. I'm especially finicky about added text to wallpapers like this but even I think that the words chosen are alright. The only beef I would have with this are the feathers. They are too bold and I'm not quite certain why they are present. The only thing I can think of is that they are meant to suggest by reference that Lelouch is like the winged Icarus who plummeted to his death after flying too close to the sun but if that is the case I think the metaphor conflicts a bit with the character and other elements in the image. Because the feathers add some confusion I think they should be removed.
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Are the clouds stock? Because Tris already did 75% of this wallpaper's work if you did nothing else but slap stocks in the BG. Coming from a person that whores stocks, I will tell you that in order to make it look like you've made some effort to try and work on the composition. Put a better horizon. And the font for the text looks too playful-ish for the intended mood. I didn't even read it - it was too distracting.
Feathers - they suck. They're too bright for the rest of the wall. They need shadowing. They don't vary in size and are just duplicated and flipped? Looks more like flying pieces of Kleenex Tissues rather than feathers in that case.
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Far from finished still trying to find time to do anything to it.
this is just the bone concept far from anything, Just getting Ideas from people
http://www.animepaper.net/groups/newa/
Go to filter render lighting effects or something like that. point the light so its going down from the top left corner. do the same with the character. make the light strong enough so we can see most of the background and put the text above the lighting.
and the character is too dark that doesnt blend with the BG