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Fly... by °Phill  3 weeks 2 hours  ago

Fly... by °Phill 3 weeks 2 hours ago

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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.

While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.

ShoutBox

~uufhd 35 seconds ago
Amy + Sam = lotsa huggles but Amy - Sam = No huggles D:

~amerie1994 2 minutes ago
*Pokes Sam* Amy + Sam = Huggles

~uufhd 4 minutes ago
Weeeh amy !! :D *huggles tightly but not too tightly* its great to see yuu! n_n

$InSaNiTy 5 minutes ago
)_)_)

~amerie1994 6 minutes ago
*Jumps on Sam* I saw your comment and i missed you too

~uufhd 7 minutes ago
Eh!! o_O what have i missed...sorry i got distracted, i was making an account

$InSaNiTy 8 minutes ago
I want to go home...

~TheFlameAlchemist 8 minutes ago
Same with me =S. Bye.

~iroveashe 9 minutes ago
I don't promise anything Dx Byez~

$InSaNiTy 9 minutes ago
Doesnt school start in sept

Tenken-the-2nd's Comments

Air Funk

3 months 2 days ago

"So creative, stylish, outstanding!
Color sellection, composition/decoration, text.
Really eye-catchy, really attractive.

Congratulations!"

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Patterned Beauty

3 months 2 days ago

"Oh god, really a great work here!
This wallpaper is so smooth and tender... So clean and pleasant!
Creamy, light colorscheme. Composition (SUPERB character placement), text.
Vector - very accurate, clean, skilled - as always! P(T_T) emoticon
The only thing I'd change here is the shinning seen in her eyes. I think it doesn't have the same clean, clear, smooth feeling the rest has.
Then, I can also say that if the color of the eyelashes was lighter (eg, brown), the face would look nicer - imo again.
Hehe, would totally fave it if the eye shinning were different...


Anyway, it's a very, very good, effective and adorable wallpaper.
My congratulations! :3"

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Yet another Jojo-ful descendant.

3 months 3 days ago

"Very, totally nice design! Creative, stylish, appelative.
Well, i could say the grainy texture looks a little blurry and the vector, a little pixelated...
Other than that, it's great, stunning!
Composition, lightning effects, color light-spots, spatlers, text... Really enjoyed the look of this wallpaper. So very unique!

(n_n)-b emoticon"

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Talk no More

3 months 3 days ago

"I like this wallpaper.
It's clean, it's pleasant.
The vector is very agreable to my eyes, so accurate and skilled! :D
Also, the tittle - smothly correlated whith the boy pose.

I imagine it's hard to imagine a composition with this character (totally secondary, btw). However, the composition, imo, doesn't make much sense to me - unless I didn't get the idea/intention... :)
I mean, what does have the rainbow and the brown stick (*feeling stupid* don´t know how to name it! help?) to do with the boy and the idea suggested by his pose...? I didn't sense the match.

Anyway, it's a unique, inspiring wall of the awesome series Mushishi is.
(You should see the rest of the chapters! I bet you won't regret. At least, I didn't, it's one of my favourite shows, after Monster).

:)

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Rainy Day

3 months 4 days ago

"Oh my, really lovely work here!
Congratulations for the clean, so very pleasant and accurate vectors. I loved the pattern you aplied in her dress (much better than the original dull green-squares one).
The background... So fresh, lovely, clean and effective...
Beautiful simplicity for the win!

Congratulations!...


My new favourite. ;3"

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Enma's Room.

3 months 4 days ago

"Really stunning work here.
Loved the accuracy, perfection of your vectors... You took 30 minutes for "drawing" Ai only?! Sounds unreal! My god... .(-c-). emoticon
Loved the colors very much.
Won't talk about creativty/originality of the composition because you just followed the scan, but you may be sure you are an awsome vectorer/waller.

My new favourite for sure!"

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Pretense

3 months 1 week ago

"Yahoo! You finally uploaded this wallpaper at AP!
I thought you had forgotten about it... (XD) emoticon
Well, I just love the creative design of this wallpaper... So fancy and effective!
Totally loved the colorscheme as well. The external outlining in the characters also worked very nicely.

My new favourite for sure! ♥
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welcome.

3 months 2 weeks ago

"You can't image the much I am in love with your super wallpaper...
Je[*imagine eight e's* - the "improved legibility"]us!
Stunning. Creative. Hyper creative! Pleasant, very attractive. Stylish and very skilled.
Concept/innovation. Colorscheme. The super-ultra-awesome text design and placement. Tittle.
Composition. Vector. Irreverence.
For me, it's an SS+. :P One of the very best wallpapers of JS I have ever seen (and not only!).

My new ultra-favourite...
Congratulations... So many. p(T_T)q emoticon"

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Portrait of a Monster

3 months 2 weeks ago

"When I first saw the tumbnail in the main page... Stayed like... "electrized"!! =D
Angel-Zakuro-san had decided to make a wallpaper with that precious scan... |(n_n)| emoticon
Well... Thank you very, very much for taking the "challenge"... I'm really glad!
I thank you also for linking back my wallpaper as well! That's so sweet of you! :3

Ok, let's talk about "A Monster's Portrait".
New "commenting system" i have just invented: (XD) emoticon

- Feeling/essence: A
I really liked the way you reflected Johan's soul in your wallaper. It does have essence!
That's the most important, so, my congratulations on that! :3

- Idea/creativity: B+
I liked the idea of a photo to ilustrate a portrait. I liked the idea of sad, dark textures all over the area we saw. Loved how you made Johan appear "entire" in a diagonally oriented frame left in a dead ambient.
Much more creative than mine, by the way. :)

- Execution/composition: C-
In spite of coherent, we have a dull colorscheme here.
The almost unanimated, empty feeling really pleases me, but some more graphical intensity would make this wallpaper more captivating and eye-catching, I think.
The use of resources is ok, but I feel like it's missing more substance, more intensity, again - color, shadows...
Johan's face completing is fine, you made a good job, I limited myself in maintaining the crop Johan already had in the scan... However, his face is not symmetrical, and that hurts the wallpaper.

- Text: C+
Loved the tittle very much! Very elegant!!
Also, it's placement.
I disapprove, however, the font used. Too bouncy and usual. An adult handwriten-like font would strike here, IMHO.


Sorry if i sounded too boring, again... :D
But I think this wallpaper has/had potential to jump higher!


If you didn't realise...
I am going to take your Johan with me, to my favourites gallery. (~_~) emoticon I had to. :D



And...
Yay for the only two wallpapers of this wonderful characters at AP! #.(n_n) emoticon

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Survival of the Fittest

3 months 2 weeks ago

"Thank you for my new desktop! :3
Tottaly loved your shinny, accurate, clean, skilled vector. Awesome effect of dust.
The same goes to the contrast between the character's figure and the background - really a notion of "distance": the "fittest"... By the way, loved the way you entitled your wallpaper.
A very captivating wallpaper, with a very balanced composition and a great colorscheme.

I take my hat out for you, as it is usually said. :)
Def. a fave!
Congratulations...



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<3

3 months 2 weeks ago

"Your girls are the sweetest things ever...
Well, you know your art is stunning. ;)
And so does this wallpaper. So captivating, tender, so friendly, so... softly intense...
Loved the textures in the girl's shirt. Loved the contrast established between lively, warm colors and those more cold. Also, the idea - simple things taste better. p(T_T)q emoticon You couldn't find a better tittle...
As a suggestion, maybe a little richer background could result in a better feeling to the composition - my eyes were thinking about some orange tones. But nothing serious. :P
I also would use another font, not that slim, unrouded one...

"< 3" is my new favourite, for sure!
Make more asap, please... |(n_n)| emoticon



PS - Yahoo! My comment turned a B into an A-! ;3"

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Night of Mystery

3 months 2 weeks ago

"
Balanced composition; the wallpaper works. The sky is very pretty.
However, I think it's not clear where Arcueid is getting reflected... A mere surface? Or some water...? If you give the clear idea of the water, it would look more realistic and coherent, IMO.


IMPORTANT NOTE:
You probably are new to AP, but crediting issues aren't difficult to figure out.
Give the credit to °VampirePrincessYuuki for the vector, specially because it is the star of your wallpaper... And you have already been warned once!
It's nothing to do with me, but you surely can imagine how irritating is to see our hardwork being used for people that don't obbey the deal - credit if used!... "

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The Spell

3 months 2 weeks ago

"Oh, what a stylish, outstanding wallpaper we have here...!
Very unique. The defying, irreverent composition. Then, the text, so very properly placed and designed.
Very interesting work!"

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A Rose Revolution.

3 months 2 weeks ago

"Really a good job here...!
The vector... The vector is TOP great!
I imagine how hard was to vector an image like this one... But you did it perfectly, I dare say. p(T_T)q emoticon (And it's one of the most "expensive" of the gallery! haha!)
The colorscheme is very pleasant as well. The composition is simple, but it works and looks pretty, indeed.
I liked the tittle as well! ;}
Now about some less good points... I suppose this section may annoy you a little, but I believe that knowing about the two sides of the coin is still the best option... At least, I speak for myself. ;)
It's about the textures you used - I'm not saying they are bad, but I would rather prefer another way of texturizing - or even no textures at all. I mean, your vector is so clean, so greatly coloured and accurate, and the textures turn it off a little... Besides, in the legs area there are a high and, at my eyes, unnecessary and too notorious amount of textures.
Finally, I must say a strong magenta element at the right bottom looks totally very well, it balances and "fills" the composition. However, it needed, IMO, to be a something like a defined element - a flower petal, or something "more revolucionary" (less typical). :D

As I say sometimes when I like a wallpaper but completely love the vector: I would like to see another wallpaper with this same vector.!

Hope my comments aren't boring and too long...


Will be waiting for your next wallpaper. (~_~) emoticon
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My Neighbor Genma

3 months 2 weeks ago

"I've been using this awesome wallpaper for a week. I owe you some words!
Indeed. I really loved this work...
First, the "graphical execucion" - very well made vectors (loved the diferent coloured outlines), stunning colouring. Then, the composition - minimalistic, very effective and pleasant. Finally, the idea/crossover...
So funny, so cute, so skilled...

Surely a favourite!




EDIT: Yahoo! My comment/fave turned the "A-" to an "A"! ihiih :D"

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Princess of the Moon

3 months 3 weeks ago

"Hi there!

I would:
» Erase the mirror of teh character, it's very usual and something dull;
» Get rid of all the elements placed at the left side (unnecessary elements), except the main text and the roses.

Other than that, it's brilliant, loved the colors and all the effects!
Hope to see this 1 in the main gallery! :3"

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Once more with feeling - Strike a pose

3 months 3 weeks ago

"Whooa! That's what I call a wonderful, skilled wallpaper!
The vector is awesomely done... The colorscheme is elegant, very pleasant - and suits the charcter very well.
Really nice composition, I enjoyed the brushes and textures used (though I would let the blue flowers as a entire piece - I mean, I wouldn't cut any of them).

Well... My new favourite.

Shinny work! P(T_T) emoticon"

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Angel Dust

4 months 1 week ago

"Oh my, you finished the vector and made a wallpaper so quickly! I'm surprised!
It's so pleasant and pretty.
The vector is very well done, very accurate and skilled. Really!! I wish I could vectoring like you! (;_;) emoticon And thinking that's only your third one... Amazing... I specially like her wings. A suggestion? Maybe making all the outlines in different colours (like you made in the wings) could bring a even better result, more delicate and able to blend better in a wallpaper.
That's always so great to realise about a "before" and "after" - I mean, how to turn a problematic scan in a beautiful wallpapper.
The background suits her very well. Simple, yet effective - the girl need an "angelic" scene, where she could be the "queen"...
Clouds (specially at the bottom zone) and moon - loved them. The aesthetics of the text - is really nice, it easily caught my attention - hmm, I give extreme importance to a correct, pleasant text beauty and blending in a wallpaper... ;) I liked the color scheme as well.
However, I think the use of the star brushes (and some of the clouds) could be better (more detailed stars? More well distributed?). And I think the girl has too many shinning points over her (more than in the background)... But that's all. The global view is totally pleasant at my eyes.

Some deviation now...
If a work obtains wide visibility, it certainly means it's good - at least, for a wide range of tastes/opinions.
Personal satisfaction. And it shall attends, at least partially, to the "acception" a work gets from the "public" - that's what being an artist means...
So, I understand your "worryings" pretty well, I felt - and feel! - the same way.
One have to grow and take our time in doing so, if one really thinks achieving something (really) matters, that's the point. So annoying, we all already know it... :S
However, we must to give our best to ourselves, in the first place. And that is what will make us more satisfied. And I felt you are happy with this result, that's great. And also, there will always be people who admire your work, what justifies the effort spent on it... :)
Waiting for a big acception it's not the healtiest way of dealing with this, I'd say, in spite of thinking in a very close way...

Anyway, why didn't this wallpaper achieve a big amount of popularity...?
Hmmm, let's see if I can help in this... Quite unknown character and mainly, not top original/outstanding composition, I guess. -__-"
I ask myself this (about mine walls) often, as well...



Really a great job.
I sense potential in you. I do want to see more! And more vectors, as well.
I'm sure you can make top-works! |(n_n)| emoticon

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The Butterfly Lady

4 months 1 week ago

"Very, very nice, pretty, pleasant wallpaper!
I loved everything, amazing composition. The colorscheme, the text, the paper textures...
The only thing I am not too found of is the quality of the image itself - I mean, the scan is a bit blurried, and I can detect some pixelated areas.
Other than that, it's lovely. ;)"

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Whisper of the wind

4 months 1 week ago

"Indeed, these artworks are stunning.
And your vector, stunning as well - so very accurate, clean, skilled... I'm amazed! I wish I could make a vector with 50% of the quality you shown here some day...
I love the composition, the colors. Hehe, and I DO love her reddish eyes. :P
Love the title as well, in spite of a more good-looking, delicate, worked text area would sound even greater.

Great work!
My congratulations."

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Hello?

4 months 2 weeks ago

"You surely are one those persons I would like to have as my slave.
I'll put you walling for me for days...
Really awesome wallpaper. Concept/meaning, composition, text (again), vector, colouring of this last one... I'm amazed.

Congratulations... So many!"

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A Good Day

4 months 2 weeks ago

"Very sweet, tender and distressing (hope the word exists).
Nice minimalistic, simple, clean composition: the empty space goes very well with the "watercolorish" painting.
That's a good advice. Enjoying everything...
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Sailor Moon Shadow

4 months 3 weeks ago

"Very nice creative concept, very attractive wallpaper.

Some little tips:
I agree that the black for the "Sailor Moon" is a bad choice... Try anything lighter.
Besides, I'd decrease the size of your signature - maybe, the color, ob«nce again.
Lastly, remmember that a desktop usually shows a bottom bar, wich means the feet of girls would not be seen, it's such a waste! So, positionating the figures a little above may be a good idea...

Good luck!"

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Such stuff as dreams are made of

4 months 4 weeks ago

"Stunning, skilled, artistic.
Loved everything. Colorscheme, the smooth touch, the stylization - no eyes, fusion between kimono and floor...
Very pleasant, excelent result.

Totally a fave.
Congratulations!"

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The Edge

4 months 4 weeks ago

"Oh my god... So VERY stylish, irreverent, sophisticated, sexy wallpaper!!
Uhhh!
Awsome composition, love the character placement, the text, the smooth texture in the background... And the vector, so skilled, so great! The monochromatic colorscheme was very well applied, IMO.
The tumbnail is really cool, but so does the wallpaper itself! Yay!

Very good job.
A favourite, for sure!
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