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!
"I like this wallpaper. The color scheme is good, and the concept of the kinda retro, 1970-ish theme works well and plays more into Lupin considering when the anime was made. It was a good idea to fade the rainbow somewhat while over Lupin so that he is not obstructed as a vocal point and the rainbow maintains the course and helps continue to set the theme. Add in the good background and you have a good wallpaper here. Not enough for a +Fav, but enough for me to give you a nod of approval." View
Blue Night
1 year 5 months ago
"I think the main problem I have with this wallpaper is the background. The blurred and very faded background only makes the character look more like he was pasted onto the scene instead of incorporated into it. Maybe if the background was more prominent and standing out then I'd say it's a decent (decent as in OK) wallpaper, but the way it is now, I don't like it too much." View
The delinquents
1 year 5 months ago
"I do not like this wallpaper too much. I think it's too black, and the characters are not as well defined in this color, as compared to if you colored just them and left the background black. The text is also somewhat hard to read, and so with a combination of these two things, I do not like this wallpaper too much." View
Gurren Lagann Brigade
1 year 5 months ago
"The black outlining of smoke is a horrible idea. You need to put more into the wallpaper, as the characters are surrounded by way too much black. The wallpaper needs to show an image that invokes an emotion into the viewer and this fails to do that. You need to work on presenting more of the characters first, then add a background and then we can take it from there." View
Let's get freaky!
1 year 5 months ago
"I honestly don't like this wallpaper. I feel that it is just too cluttered, and there's too much going on in the scene. The colors run around all over the place for me, and that makes it more unappealing to look at. I think if it was simpled down a little bit instead of how crazy it is, it might work, but then that goes against what the original concept was. I just think that with the color and designs being inconsistent, the wallpaper becomes too cluttered and crazy to really enjoy looking at it, and so I must say, this is one that I do not find appealing." View
Team Sea Slug
1 year 5 months ago
"This is the wallpaper I've been waiting for. Now the background erks me a lot, because a simple white background is not pretty to look at, but the Sea Slug Team has been put together very well for your first wall, and for that it'll get my +Fav. Go Team Sea Slug and the Baka Rangers!" View
Vida
1 year 5 months ago
"A B+? Wow, I am surprised, because I think this is really really way way too simple. This is not what I want as a wallpaper, and surely I don't see how anyone can (no offense). I mean there's two things here, the vectored character and the brown. That's it. That's not that hard. If I learned to vector and then made walls like this I could collect papers and B+s all day. The point I'm trying to make is that the wallpaper is missing something, everything really. It's way to simple for me to call it a wallpaper. Simplicity is nice, like in say the wallpaper "SCAPE" but if I were making the vector I would have saved my time in making my background brown and would have just submitted the vector as a scan, because to me that's where it belongs. You have a great idea in wanting to be simple, but there's just way way way to much room you could have worked with here, and as this is now, I'm labeling it as a scan personally more than a wallpaper." View
Sorry.. no next time
1 year 5 months ago
"I actually really do not like this wallpaper. The sun being that strong and bright completely defeats the wallpaper, because it shifts the focal point onto it and not the character, which is a huge problem. There is a fight for the focal point and that is not something you want. Then there's the fact that for a scene in which you are trying to paint, the coloring is lacking. Red, Black, White, Brown, those are the colors I see used here, but a lot of the Black and almost all of the Brown are completely engulfed in the blurring brightness. A wallpaper shouldn't blur like this, and then the red I mentioned is hardly there because of the fact that it is blood, which is ok, but there's three colors ultimately trying to come onto the scene that are forced to fight with the sun. I can see where the concept is going, but ultimately it's overdone and the wallpaper looks atrocious because of it." View
Windows of Hope
1 year 5 months ago
"I don't think this is going to work for me, I particularly don't like this wallpaper. While I will give you credit for going out of your way and trying to make something original, there can be times when wallpapers are overly simplistic and here is one of the rare cases. The wallpaper just leaves too much out, and the windows and character are not complimented by the very expansive white border. It's just too incomplete to me, and I think that there was a lot of more space that you could have used in this that goes unjustly untouched. It's too simple and it's just not something I'd like to see as my desktop wallpaper. Good attempt in the end, but falls short." View
ichigo
1 year 5 months ago
"This is the definition of a good wallpaper. There's a good color scheme, a great layout, and original background, and just a great wallpaper all around. This is the kind of wallpapers I'd link into session zero for the newcomers and say: "Take some tips from this, because this is how you make a great wallpaper." Excellent work. It's not going to get my +Fav or download because it's Bleach, an anime I wish would die a horrible death, but that will not stop me from giving you the credit you deserve on it, great great job." View
Demon Eyes Kyo
1 year 5 months ago
"The pure black on the left is not going to work, especially when it blends out some of the samurai you have there. The lettering also looks too box-like, almost as if I can draw an even box around it and see where it was pasted into the scene, so the lettering will also need work. Did you vector the samurai? If not you might want to, and you should head over the the vectoring group to see the tutorials they have there." View
No Heros
1 year 5 months ago
"First off, it's spelled Heroes not Heros. Secondly, I'm surprised at the feedback because I think this wallpaper looks bad. Now let me qualify myself first, before I start a fanboy flame war. The wallpaper just has too much text stuffed in all the nooks and cranies, and I think this is something that really degrades from the wallpaper's style, because I put a wallpaper on my desktop to look out and not to read, so the fact that there is so much text all over the place makes it seem a little schizophrenic and cluttered. Third, the characters are shaded with two colors: black and white, and while there is nothing against using these too colors, they need to be used in moderation, for an entire wallpaper like this with it just makes the colors mesh into the point where they become incoherent and indistinguishable for me (i.e. where is snake's left side of his face?) Then I remember that this is a tablet sketch, which I give you full credit for, because for what you did it is amazing, but in bringing it over to photoshop and the other tools at your use, you shouldn't be afraid to add some color, especially if a lot of the shading is going to fight with the character outlines for supremacy like with snake's face, which tends to be the focal point, and when the focal point is confusing and displeasing to look at the wallpaper losses credibility. This is also where the words in the background fight with snake because a sketch with a load of words, which inevitably are covered up or at least cut off by his head essentially defeat the purpose of them. The words just take away from the sketch in that the sketch style and then the very acute lettering fight because of their differences like the French and English in the 15th century. So what am I trying to say in conclusion? Well to sum it all up I think the wallpaper is bad. The random blobs of shading which I presume to be blood, meshed with the shading and outlined characters in the two generic colors of black and white where the only diversity is in the tone of the black used make for something that seems like pencil meshed all across my screen in the end, which does not make something enjoyable for me to look at. I'm sure others will disagree and that's fine, but these are my takes on it. I commend you a lot for a great sketch, but the absence of color really defeats it as a wallpaper, because a color-less sketch is fine for something like Deviant Art, but on my desktop I do not particularly take a liking to it." View
Chun Li
1 year 5 months ago
"I'm surprised this passed, especially after I stated that it is lacking a background. Looking at white isn't really all that fun." View
Endless Beauty
1 year 5 months ago
"Well this wallpaper is amazing, enough said. You put a great amount of time into the wall and vector, and for that you deserve a +Fav. Overall the color scheme is great, and the butterfly scheme works to perfection, especially with the focal point on the character and his wings. You spent a lot of time on it, and you should be proud of your work, great job." View
untitled
1 year 5 months ago
"Well it's pretty well laid out and the concept is good, but the problem right now is the coloring. There's more colors than just blue, and quite frankly there's too much blue in the wall right now. Now having said that, if blue is the desired background color, then at least change the tone, because the character and background mesh too much. You need your character to stand out more, especially if she is the intended focal point of the wallpaper." View
Confront
1 year 6 months ago
"It's pretty good for your first wall and the amount of effort and hard work you put into it. You should be proud, good job." View
Team Memories
1 year 6 months ago
"Awesome wallpaper for the love of baseball. I never head of this series and now that I've seen this +Faved wall, I went over the BoxTorrents to pick it up. Gonna watch it after I find the courage to finish Aika (on ep 6/7) and find the time and guts to try and painfully finish Code Geass (ep 9/25). It's definately the next series I will start, probably followed by Kaleido Star. Anywho, the wallpaper, well it's nice and I love the old photo look. Now when I look at the original scan I can only agree on how it screams of the nostalgia used here. Good work, easily one to add to the collection and to make my next desktop when I get bored of looking at Bomb-ombs." View
Smile
1 year 6 months ago
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alyne
I am sorry i just know AP that did not allowed a 3D models animes on the gallery
No they do, but you can't just submit the image as the wall, that's all." View
Drunk
1 year 6 months ago
"Please stop trying to submit the 3D faces as wallpapers, they will not pass inspection, you're acting like you don't care, and I'm getting to the point where I'm going to act like someone who will use the report feature." View
Smile
1 year 6 months ago
"This will not pass inspection for a few reasons:
a. No signature
b. No Description
c. Scan Copy + Pasted Over Into Session Zero, making it unoriginal work
d. Quality is Terrible" View
1 year 6 months ago
"I believe this is a scan/picture I found. Please consider revising this as in its current state it is border-line violation." View
Lucy - A Mage With The Power Of Love
1 year 6 months ago
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Natsu
I couldn't upload the vector on ap because it was "not god enough". I made it my self, so if some one wants the vector ask me in my profile i will post it as a link there.
That's odd, I think this is great. I call for a petition to the admins of session zero to accept this, cause I thought you did a great job for your first wallpaper, especially after seeing some of the other crap in here. If anyone wants for me to add a name to the petition, pm me on my up and I'll write you down. In a week's time I'll send the list to the admins." View
DMC4
1 year 6 months ago
"You cannot just copy and baste characters onto a black background, add the game text logo, and call it a wallpaper. It will be rejected. Please consider going back to the drawing board, picking one character, vectoring him, and then adding in some matching toned scenery." View
Nerine take a shower.
1 year 6 months ago
"Mmmmmmmmmmm sexy. I look forward to the final version of this. Akria summed up what you need to do perfectly. Good luck." View
Confront
1 year 6 months ago
"This is MUCH better. Great background. You're only problem now is that the characters stand out too much. It looks too much like you just put in the background and then pasted the characters onto the scene when they need to be incorporated into the scene. Just make it look like one continuous scene and got yourself a good wallpaper." View
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Love Is Free
1 year 5 months ago
"I like this wallpaper. The color scheme is good, and the concept of the kinda retro, 1970-ish theme works well and plays more into Lupin considering when the anime was made. It was a good idea to fade the rainbow somewhat while over Lupin so that he is not obstructed as a vocal point and the rainbow maintains the course and helps continue to set the theme. Add in the good background and you have a good wallpaper here. Not enough for a +Fav, but enough for me to give you a nod of approval."View
Blue Night
1 year 5 months ago
"I think the main problem I have with this wallpaper is the background. The blurred and very faded background only makes the character look more like he was pasted onto the scene instead of incorporated into it. Maybe if the background was more prominent and standing out then I'd say it's a decent (decent as in OK) wallpaper, but the way it is now, I don't like it too much."View
The delinquents
1 year 5 months ago
"I do not like this wallpaper too much. I think it's too black, and the characters are not as well defined in this color, as compared to if you colored just them and left the background black. The text is also somewhat hard to read, and so with a combination of these two things, I do not like this wallpaper too much."View
Gurren Lagann Brigade
1 year 5 months ago
"The black outlining of smoke is a horrible idea. You need to put more into the wallpaper, as the characters are surrounded by way too much black. The wallpaper needs to show an image that invokes an emotion into the viewer and this fails to do that. You need to work on presenting more of the characters first, then add a background and then we can take it from there."View
Let's get freaky!
1 year 5 months ago
"I honestly don't like this wallpaper. I feel that it is just too cluttered, and there's too much going on in the scene. The colors run around all over the place for me, and that makes it more unappealing to look at. I think if it was simpled down a little bit instead of how crazy it is, it might work, but then that goes against what the original concept was. I just think that with the color and designs being inconsistent, the wallpaper becomes too cluttered and crazy to really enjoy looking at it, and so I must say, this is one that I do not find appealing."View
Team Sea Slug
1 year 5 months ago
"This is the wallpaper I've been waiting for. Now the background erks me a lot, because a simple white background is not pretty to look at, but the Sea Slug Team has been put together very well for your first wall, and for that it'll get my +Fav. Go Team Sea Slug and the Baka Rangers!"View
Vida
1 year 5 months ago
"A B+? Wow, I am surprised, because I think this is really really way way too simple. This is not what I want as a wallpaper, and surely I don't see how anyone can (no offense). I mean there's two things here, the vectored character and the brown. That's it. That's not that hard. If I learned to vector and then made walls like this I could collect papers and B+s all day. The point I'm trying to make is that the wallpaper is missing something, everything really. It's way to simple for me to call it a wallpaper. Simplicity is nice, like in say the wallpaper "SCAPE" but if I were making the vector I would have saved my time in making my background brown and would have just submitted the vector as a scan, because to me that's where it belongs. You have a great idea in wanting to be simple, but there's just way way way to much room you could have worked with here, and as this is now, I'm labeling it as a scan personally more than a wallpaper."View
Sorry.. no next time
1 year 5 months ago
"I actually really do not like this wallpaper. The sun being that strong and bright completely defeats the wallpaper, because it shifts the focal point onto it and not the character, which is a huge problem. There is a fight for the focal point and that is not something you want. Then there's the fact that for a scene in which you are trying to paint, the coloring is lacking. Red, Black, White, Brown, those are the colors I see used here, but a lot of the Black and almost all of the Brown are completely engulfed in the blurring brightness. A wallpaper shouldn't blur like this, and then the red I mentioned is hardly there because of the fact that it is blood, which is ok, but there's three colors ultimately trying to come onto the scene that are forced to fight with the sun. I can see where the concept is going, but ultimately it's overdone and the wallpaper looks atrocious because of it."View
Windows of Hope
1 year 5 months ago
"I don't think this is going to work for me, I particularly don't like this wallpaper. While I will give you credit for going out of your way and trying to make something original, there can be times when wallpapers are overly simplistic and here is one of the rare cases. The wallpaper just leaves too much out, and the windows and character are not complimented by the very expansive white border. It's just too incomplete to me, and I think that there was a lot of more space that you could have used in this that goes unjustly untouched. It's too simple and it's just not something I'd like to see as my desktop wallpaper. Good attempt in the end, but falls short."View
ichigo
1 year 5 months ago
"This is the definition of a good wallpaper. There's a good color scheme, a great layout, and original background, and just a great wallpaper all around. This is the kind of wallpapers I'd link into session zero for the newcomers and say: "Take some tips from this, because this is how you make a great wallpaper." Excellent work. It's not going to get my +Fav or download because it's Bleach, an anime I wish would die a horrible death, but that will not stop me from giving you the credit you deserve on it, great great job."View
Demon Eyes Kyo
1 year 5 months ago
"The pure black on the left is not going to work, especially when it blends out some of the samurai you have there. The lettering also looks too box-like, almost as if I can draw an even box around it and see where it was pasted into the scene, so the lettering will also need work. Did you vector the samurai? If not you might want to, and you should head over the the vectoring group to see the tutorials they have there."View
No Heros
1 year 5 months ago
"First off, it's spelled Heroes not Heros. Secondly, I'm surprised at the feedback because I think this wallpaper looks bad. Now let me qualify myself first, before I start a fanboy flame war. The wallpaper just has too much text stuffed in all the nooks and cranies, and I think this is something that really degrades from the wallpaper's style, because I put a wallpaper on my desktop to look out and not to read, so the fact that there is so much text all over the place makes it seem a little schizophrenic and cluttered. Third, the characters are shaded with two colors: black and white, and while there is nothing against using these too colors, they need to be used in moderation, for an entire wallpaper like this with it just makes the colors mesh into the point where they become incoherent and indistinguishable for me (i.e. where is snake's left side of his face?) Then I remember that this is a tablet sketch, which I give you full credit for, because for what you did it is amazing, but in bringing it over to photoshop and the other tools at your use, you shouldn't be afraid to add some color, especially if a lot of the shading is going to fight with the character outlines for supremacy like with snake's face, which tends to be the focal point, and when the focal point is confusing and displeasing to look at the wallpaper losses credibility. This is also where the words in the background fight with snake because a sketch with a load of words, which inevitably are covered up or at least cut off by his head essentially defeat the purpose of them. The words just take away from the sketch in that the sketch style and then the very acute lettering fight because of their differences like the French and English in the 15th century. So what am I trying to say in conclusion? Well to sum it all up I think the wallpaper is bad. The random blobs of shading which I presume to be blood, meshed with the shading and outlined characters in the two generic colors of black and white where the only diversity is in the tone of the black used make for something that seems like pencil meshed all across my screen in the end, which does not make something enjoyable for me to look at. I'm sure others will disagree and that's fine, but these are my takes on it. I commend you a lot for a great sketch, but the absence of color really defeats it as a wallpaper, because a color-less sketch is fine for something like Deviant Art, but on my desktop I do not particularly take a liking to it."View
Chun Li
1 year 5 months ago
"I'm surprised this passed, especially after I stated that it is lacking a background. Looking at white isn't really all that fun."View
Endless Beauty
1 year 5 months ago
"Well this wallpaper is amazing, enough said. You put a great amount of time into the wall and vector, and for that you deserve a +Fav. Overall the color scheme is great, and the butterfly scheme works to perfection, especially with the focal point on the character and his wings. You spent a lot of time on it, and you should be proud of your work, great job."View
untitled
1 year 5 months ago
"Well it's pretty well laid out and the concept is good, but the problem right now is the coloring. There's more colors than just blue, and quite frankly there's too much blue in the wall right now. Now having said that, if blue is the desired background color, then at least change the tone, because the character and background mesh too much. You need your character to stand out more, especially if she is the intended focal point of the wallpaper."View
Confront
1 year 6 months ago
"It's pretty good for your first wall and the amount of effort and hard work you put into it. You should be proud, good job."View
Team Memories
1 year 6 months ago
"Awesome wallpaper for the love of baseball. I never head of this series and now that I've seen this +Faved wall, I went over the BoxTorrents to pick it up. Gonna watch it after I find the courage to finish Aika (on ep 6/7) and find the time and guts to try and painfully finish Code Geass (ep 9/25). It's definately the next series I will start, probably followed by Kaleido Star. Anywho, the wallpaper, well it's nice and I love the old photo look. Now when I look at the original scan I can only agree on how it screams of the nostalgia used here. Good work, easily one to add to the collection and to make my next desktop when I get bored of looking at Bomb-ombs."View
Smile
1 year 6 months ago
"No they do, but you can't just submit the image as the wall, that's all."
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Drunk
1 year 6 months ago
"Please stop trying to submit the 3D faces as wallpapers, they will not pass inspection, you're acting like you don't care, and I'm getting to the point where I'm going to act like someone who will use the report feature."View
Smile
1 year 6 months ago
"This will not pass inspection for a few reasons:a. No signature
b. No Description
c. Scan Copy + Pasted Over Into Session Zero, making it unoriginal work
d. Quality is Terrible"
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1 year 6 months ago
"I believe this is a scan/picture I found. Please consider revising this as in its current state it is border-line violation."View
Lucy - A Mage With The Power Of Love
1 year 6 months ago
"That's odd, I think this is great. I call for a petition to the admins of session zero to accept this, cause I thought you did a great job for your first wallpaper, especially after seeing some of the other crap in here. If anyone wants for me to add a name to the petition, pm me on my up and I'll write you down. In a week's time I'll send the list to the admins."
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DMC4
1 year 6 months ago
"You cannot just copy and baste characters onto a black background, add the game text logo, and call it a wallpaper. It will be rejected. Please consider going back to the drawing board, picking one character, vectoring him, and then adding in some matching toned scenery."View
Nerine take a shower.
1 year 6 months ago
"Mmmmmmmmmmm sexy. I look forward to the final version of this. Akria summed up what you need to do perfectly. Good luck."View
Confront
1 year 6 months ago
"This is MUCH better. Great background. You're only problem now is that the characters stand out too much. It looks too much like you just put in the background and then pasted the characters onto the scene when they need to be incorporated into the scene. Just make it look like one continuous scene and got yourself a good wallpaper."View