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 -_-"
@`akiranyo: for VD #4 it's monochrome scans right ? I wonder if it would be good idea to accept vector of monochrome scan not submited on AP. What do you think ?
One full year since my last submission. Awesome. I might do this annually. For those who know me, I'm still alive but now got hitched with a hottie and had been coping with the change from being a lazy freeloader to a committed soulmate. As for this wall, I have no particular aim. Made it out of boredom (as I always do) and I just post for the sake of posting.
Old school FTW!!! BG design seriously brings back nostalgia to the old days of LSE's AnimeBGX and Red Lee's MixedMedia. Don't see people pulling that kind of BG anymore. Maybe one day I should try Red's grunge style. Always loved her grunge walls.
Image seems to be in need of some cleaning up. Scan grain can be seen on Deedlit's dress. I think the images need some sharpening as well since their faces have that blurry effect.
SFX is classic but needs some cleaning up as well. The light ring FX has that anti-aliasing effect (due to resizing?) and some of the other design elements are kinda jaggy. For the jagginess, I'd just maybe use the pen tool to smoothen out the edges. As for the anti-aliasing effect of the ring, maybe re-creating it on a larger canvas and then downsizing it would do the trick (that's how I do for my lightwave effects). Maybe apply some gaussian blur on the zoom FX as well to remove the grainy stuff.
Not really into heavy pink even during my early walling days. A softer shade of pink or some alternative soft colors might be a better option.
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Lol the background kind of reminds me of Five Gum, berry-flavored ^^;
but I like it! :D
Those two look very sweet!
The scan could have been a bit more clean and less bright; sorta hurts my eyes when seeing bright against bright ^^;
This is an old style and I haven't seen them in awhile.
Guess it kinda died out -_-;
Anyway, great job! Can't wait to see another one next year :D
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Image seems to be in need of some cleaning up. Scan grain can be seen on Deedlit's dress. I think the images need some sharpening as well since their faces have that blurry effect.
SFX is classic but needs some cleaning up as well. The light ring FX has that anti-aliasing effect (due to resizing?) and some of the other design elements are kinda jaggy. For the jagginess, I'd just maybe use the pen tool to smoothen out the edges. As for the anti-aliasing effect of the ring, maybe re-creating it on a larger canvas and then downsizing it would do the trick (that's how I do for my lightwave effects). Maybe apply some gaussian blur on the zoom FX as well to remove the grainy stuff.
Not really into heavy pink even during my early walling days. A softer shade of pink or some alternative soft colors might be a better option.
but I like it! :D
Those two look very sweet!
The scan could have been a bit more clean and less bright; sorta hurts my eyes when seeing bright against bright ^^;
This is an old style and I haven't seen them in awhile.
Guess it kinda died out -_-;
Anyway, great job! Can't wait to see another one next year :D