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Fly... by °Phill  3 weeks 14 hours  ago

Fly... by °Phill 3 weeks 14 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

$motogp 23 minutes ago
Must learn Php and MyQL

~Tech 29 minutes ago
Shouting hi to everyone in AP

$motogp 1 hour 21 minutes ago
Hey Bantam can i ask you something

Bantam 1 hour 22 minutes ago
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~Tachibana-Kun 1 hour 31 minutes ago
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$motogp 1 hour 36 minutes ago
Hello

~54a3 1 hour 37 minutes ago
Hi

$motogp 1 hour 46 minutes ago
Eh thats the 2nd time you posted that

~Tachibana-Kun 1 hour 50 minutes ago
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$motogp 2 hours 1 minute ago
Yo

Astrologica's Comments

Bleach - Kurosaki Ichigo

1 year 9 months ago

"The 3d bubbles don't bother me but... I don't really like that you have so many different pictures of ichigo. Just a focal one (in your case, the vector) is ok. ^^"
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What if life were more like anime :D

1 year 9 months ago

"If life was like anime we'd have weird eyes, 90% of the world's population would be girls...and... the wind would blow our hair even if we're inside a building. ^^U"
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who is from spain or is a Spanish speaker?

1 year 9 months ago

"I speak spanish but I'm from Chile. The tiny and unkown south-american country that no one knows anything about XD"
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for the barrel wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"Cool vector... I could feel your suffering when I saw her hair.
But I noticed you made some coloring mistakes on her shoulders (too inside or too outside the line) the most notorious one is to her right."

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Bleach - Bounto, Kariya and Yoshino Wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"I kind of have a problem with this because it looks like two completely independant pictures en they don't quite like... merge with each other.
I was thinking it'd be cool if you could twist it into a confrontation between the characters but looking at where they're looking I don't how could you make it... Yoshino is kinda looking at the screen... you could have she as the main figure of the wall, and make Kariya a little to the back, like chasing her, or fighting with her firey creature.. whose name I forgot. It shouldn't be that hard to make, you could vector a screenshot and add lots of fire storm against whatever-power-Kariya-has... I dunno.
Hope that idea helps... O_o

Oh, and about the text, I'm enemy of all text so I can't help you there. You could find some firey text tutorials out there instead of just finding a cool font... "

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Sundown Delight

1 year 9 months ago

"Um, there's still some extraction problems... specially on Archer's hair and a bit on his arm, which looks a bit jagged (also, what's on his hand? o.o)
Also, the curtains, and a bit on Rin's hair on the corners.
I believe the birds could be dark instead of white. When you see birds against the sunset they don't shine on white, but hey, it's art, whatever looks cool counts XD"

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Vectoring a stock

1 year 9 months ago

"That tutorial pretty sums everything... I have some other ideas for coloring though... but it's mostly for pictures that don't have solid colors (which might not be the style you want) and you need a good control of the mouse.
After selecting a part you want to color with the pen tool (feather 0), I use the brush tool to color and add the shades, separating on the different layers I feel necessary.
If you want to vector a big image with many details, I also recomend you to put some order creating folders. For example, for my current vector, I have a folder named "dog", inside theres "outline" and "color", inside of "color" there's "tongue","teeth", etc...
Hope that helps... ^^U"

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FMA wallpaper.

1 year 9 months ago

"Oh, it's looking good... you can fix Ed's eyes by placing another layer between him and the bricks I guess, and then coloring with white the parts you feel necessary.
Also, you might want to try fixing the Al scan, specially on the hair. Probably vectoring the outline and filling the path with black on a layer behind it?
If you want to keep them leaning on the wall, I guess you could apply some shadowing to make it look like they're not "pasted there"... I'd personally prefer a version with the characters like this, so keep at it =D"

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Artistic Career?

1 year 9 months ago

"Well, most of us must have a huge loves for art. But I wonder how many of us actually consider it as a career. I, for example, was afraid to take this path, mainly for one reason: Fear
I was scared of hating my job, and therefore, arts... I don't want to end hating that.
I was scared because there's not really many ways for an artist to survive... at least here. I need my money, my internet, my games...and my cookies.
Haha, such a coward. So, in the end, I decided to go for the business/economy branch, which is something I currently look with neutral eyes, so I can't love or hate...
So, how many of you are pursuing an artistic career? I'd love to hear it. ^^

ps. This is my first "general thread" here. I hope it's an acceptable topic... >_<"

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What do you do during long days at home?

1 year 9 months ago

"Oh, I always have a "I have free time" plan. If it's not an anime I've recently downloaded, it's a game, or a book, drawing or photoshop. I enjoy long days alone... sometimes I take a long bath and play "the sea monster"... or, make some sugary experiment in the kitchen... heheheh..."
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FMA wallpaper.

1 year 9 months ago

"Now I have an existencial conflict. o.o
I like the first, but I'd like the FMA logo to be part of the wall as well. The circles could just a little touches, I think... maybe, I'm not sure. ^^U"

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FMA wallpaper.

1 year 9 months ago

"Yeah, make the circles graffiti. I like the logo in the background better, now that you brought it to the front looks weird. "
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My october drawings

1 year 9 months ago

"Uh, I made plenty of little drawings on my pad during this month. I actually like most of it, unlike last month's...
Hope you like them~
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Fate Stay Night wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"I believe you should extract is again... I'm not sure on the left side, but I can see a white line on the right side along all of her... must be the black background, I guess you could fix only that side. And to the left, some hairs have red tones that probably belonged to the otiginal scan? they must die...

I have no comments on the text because I have something against text on walls so my opinion on that subject doesn't count XD"

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Classic games............

1 year 9 months ago

"Bubble Bobble. The cutest classic game ever. I played it again yesterday.
Also, Lemmings. I love that game as well. You have fun when you win, and when you loose as well, making the little things explode like fireworks >=)"

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So, what's your weirdest dream?

1 year 9 months ago

"Oh, dreams. I remember my dreams like 80% of the time, so I have many. But my favourite has to be when cute and small and pink toy dogs arrived in UFOs at my school and tried to destroy it with bazzokas that looked like water guns. It was awesome.

In most of my dreams I visit the same places, I believe it's weird. For example, I have my house, which is different from my real house, it's more like a mansion. I've been to the second floor and the basement, and there's cool stuff there.
And everything seems to be located on a same world full of islands. Sometimes I visit them to run specific errands which I don't exactly remember right now... ^^U"

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FMA wallpaper.

1 year 9 months ago

"You can find some graffiti tutorials at good-tutorials
Maybe you can find another way to make the stuff on the corners to look like graffiti, because currently ithe don't...
You could even write "Fullmetal Alchemist" with graffiti style ^^
I really like where this wall is going... but I'd rather have the characters leaning on the wall that being part of it... just my opinion."

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My try, to get out of ban

1 year 9 months ago

"Um, I don't really like the next, specifically the colors. Then again, I hate text on walls even if they're used correctly. You can always find cool text tutorials out there in case you like text ^^
I like the geometric figures but some (most) of them look like they were resized from small to big and look jagged.
Also, the blue background feels a bit plain, and it would be even more plain when you remove the jagged lines, so could think of making maybe different figures or other elements.
Hope that helps..."

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Ichigo Mashimaro Wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"Aww, I liked this new one... T.T (the layers for the old tree are still there though, if everyone dislikes the chocolate version I can switch back)
I want to make it about candy, after all...
Well, I'm just adding another version. I managed to fix the parts of the tree I considered weird.
It's hosted on photoboucket because imageshack insists on refreshing the page instead of uploading O_o
click me, I'm an evil photobucket link

Now I'll stop bugging for a while now. =P"

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My pen drawings (original characters)

1 year 9 months ago

"Thanks everyone for your comments. I'll probably post more by the end of next weel. ^^
I went through a phased where I hated these buy with the new ones I'm starting to love them again."

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Ichigo Mashimaro Wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"But I want it to be pink... that's kinda the point of the wall T_T
I remade the tree and moved some things. Also I made it look like the moon is hanging from somewhere.
And eliminated the glow. Ana's face was grey because at the begining I decided to have a dark theme and darkened the whole vector (since Ana's so pale, she ended looking grey), but at the end I thought light tones could be nicer and different from normal halloween walls...
oh, and I put candy-looking test (which probably should be eliminated)
because we know Halloween is about the candy... now the bats and the moon are made of strawberry candy as well.
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I thought of eliminating the yellow candy, I made version like that but for some reason, imageshack doesn't let me upload... it just refreshes the page without doing anything

The reason why I insist on the tree to the left it's because my icons are there...
maybe I shouldn't think of my own desktop so much when making walls >_>
But I'd like to know a way to make the tree look like it doesn't end withing the margins of the canvas... it looks so weird on the upper and lower edges "

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Ichigo Mashimaro Wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"I halted the Haruhi RPG vector I was doing to make a Halloween wallpaper before Halloween ends, and this is what I came up with, I wondered if it's good enough for this place (probably it isn't)
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Please tell me how to improve it (but not too much time-consuming stuff because I have tests and need to study and I won't have time to finish it before Halloweed XD)

I vectored and edited this screenshot from the opening, some stuff is pen-tool'd by me and others are brushes.
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Bye bye and thanks for the comments. Haruhi vector will resume after I'm done with my tests for this week =)

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My pen drawings (original characters)

1 year 10 months ago

"Since I doodle so much on my notebooks I decided to buy a 10x12,8 cms pad to draw. Here's some of my work on it
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And I have more, but I'm too lazy to take a picture and upload them... and I'm afraid to show some here because I know I messed so much with perspective and that I shouldn't use a pen because when I make a mistake It's an even bigger mess... >_<"

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SOS Brigade Vector (RPG Style)

1 year 10 months ago

"Well, the background is empty because there's no background yet, of course. I'm currently interested in suggestions for the vector and especially Mikuru, since I'd like to change her pose but I just can't figure it out. For example, are those her knees below her arms? O_o
And I don't understand the washed out colors thing... it looks good to me... must be because I'm following the original scan colors... I guess I'll remember to play with saturation when it's finished, thanks for that."

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SOS Brigade Vector (RPG Style)

1 year 10 months ago

"So, someone at MT told me I should post this here because Session Zero is more active than the Sandbox XD
(thanks elledies) ^^
And so I did.
I've been vectoring -this scan- (please don't kill me if linking like this is against the rules) and I came to an existential doubt.
It's Mikuru (dressed as witch)
I don't like her pose that much. I thought of giving her a broom or something because she just doesn't make sense there. This is where I'd like some opinions. Am I the only one who thinks she just looks too weird?
Here's my progress. I already colored her but there's still time... ^^U
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Everything's being done in Photoshop and the coloring is pen tool with gradients and some brushes for details.
And after the vector is complete I guess I'll think of something for the background... I'm working very slowly on this anyways. >_<
And of course any other kind of suggestion is welcome "

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