Second wallpaper, & FIRST VECTOR:D

1 year 9 months ago

"Nice fixes, but I don't think adding the teddy was a great idea. Whether or not you keep the clock is a simple matter of your preference, but I do think translucent curtains were better. With the outdoors scene, now I think you could afford to lose those dead trees; either that or use some brushwork and turn them into trees of thick foliage. You just don't get dead trees in summer D: "
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Full Metal Panic! Tessa Desktop ~ Updated!

1 year 9 months ago

"Nice touches. Go for it with the window frame :P And your fish will look more like they're in the deep water if you desaturate them slightly; some more so than others. The more desaturated they look, the further away they will look. I'd build up the shoal or add some more further off, making them much smaller and maybe just silhouettes with a bit of Gaussian blur applied."
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Shakugan no Shana Wall (Closed!)

1 year 9 months ago

"I second the first version as better and more appropriate. The reflection suggests water on the floor but you shouldn't have overlapped the feet; either move it down or mask it out with a gradient more. I'd also lower the contrast or opacity so the black of the reflection isn't so strong.

As for filling the rest of the wall, how about filling in some sort of extended scenery? More bamboo, or a forest or or mountain range, mist, birds, that sort of thing. If you created the bamboo from scratch I have to say I love the way it's turned out; I'm sure you could continue in that style and flesh out the setting of the wall a little more."
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Welcome to the NHK! wall

1 year 9 months ago

"I think it would look instantly more interesting and like the random musings of Misaki if the text and pie chart weren't aligned quite so perfectly with the lines on the paper :P How about trying a more handwriting or script-like font? You could add a subtle page curl effect to the sticky note and a slight gloss to the photograph for that little extra realism. I'm not too sure about the heavy grain effect on the photo; at first I thought it was meant to be rain. Just have a go with those few tweaks and see how it turns out."
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New artist needs help

1 year 9 months ago

"Try adding trees, a school building, dark heavy rainclouds? The 'difference clouds' effect is a little obvious and your rain looks like a standard filter as well. Have a look at some other walls with rain for reference; such as nat's FMA one with Ed fighting Scar."
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Two walls, please choose which is better..

1 year 9 months ago

"Brighter is better. But you've overdone the smart blur! This would have been a nice candidate for vectoring. And what is that giant white light in the wall? I can tell you now if all you did was slap some text on this it's a rejection asking to happen."
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[wallpaper]another chen shu fen wall

1 year 9 months ago

"Simple but nice. How about moving the girl a bit left and adding some of that hanging foliage on the right side of her as well? The spray of mist around her looks a bit on the speckled pixelated side."
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Second wallpaper, & FIRST VECTOR:D

1 year 9 months ago

"I think you want something about halfway between the two versions of shadow on the girl. Definite but not strong shadowing would work nicely considering the rest of the lighting.

I think in general shadows are the problem with this wall; the one on the small square table is far too horizontal considering the position of the sun. I would have made it almost 60 or 70 degrees from the horizontal.

The picture frame and book on the circular table should have longer shadows while the one you've added to the table itself just looks like a drop shadow, making the table appear flat and to 'float' in front of a flat surface rather than seem integrated into the scene. In fact there seems to this drop shadow effect around your small square stool as well that needs to be erased. Add a vertical strip of shading down the left hand side of the vase to make it look more rounded. The upper portion of the stem needs to be in shadow and there shouldn't be any around the outline of the table's shape, especially on any right-facing edges! Similarly, there is a drop shadow under your curtains - there shouldn't be any on the inside edge where the curtain overlaps glass.

You also probably need to create some sort of curtain pole. Curtains aren't normally pinned to the wall itself. I don't think there's much else wrong with the wall; I can see you've worked a lot on creating the various elements of the scene. So keep it up! Just think about maybe a more realistic wooden floor and changing the sky; early fresh mornings are typically with blue skies; red is more to do with sunsets. You could always play with some interesting colour gradients and see what you can come up with for the sky."
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Hard drives

1 year 9 months ago

"True, but now no need to worry at all. There are lots of completely portable apps that will run off removable storage; I don't see any reason why they wouldn't work on a HDD as well as the USB flash drives they were designed for. You can run a whole Linux OS off a USB flash drive these days D:

Coming back to the original topic, I'd recommend building your own external :D Get an enclosure and standard hard drive of your choosing, assemble and go. Cheaper and more versatile than getting a ready-made one. I'm using a LaCie 250GB USB but I'm going to make my own when it comes to needing an upgrade."
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Full Metal Panic! Tessa Desktop ~ Updated!

1 year 9 months ago

"What is she doing underwater? Since she's right on the edge of the screen, I thought maybe she could be walking down the corridor of the sub with the deep sea seen through a window. Instead of having that 'zoom layer' effect it could be a reflection in the glass if you downsize it and place it right, adding a very subtle blur. Then have a go at working in some sort of techno window frame so it looks like she's inside the sub against a large window; like a ledge across the width of the wall about level with her elbows. You could try to flesh out the underwater scene with some fish or some sort of undersea terrain as well."
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I'm new and I have caps.

1 year 9 months ago

"The first one would be a good basis for a wall. I'd suggest resizing Shinji so he's smaller relative to the hand, then you could also fit in Unit-01's face staring out as well for added impact. It'll look cool if the only light source is the low purple light so Shinji remains in silhouette, maybe with a bit of a halo around his edge. You shouldn't need to include Misato or Professor Akagi.

The second one; try adding the underground pyramid of NERV HQ and its lake, then add a reflection of Rei's or Shinji's face in the glass of the window beside the hand. Good luck ;P"
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Is this any good? [Update]

1 year 9 months ago

"To make grass, you just need to create a few custom brushes that look like blades of grass and go nuts. Work in multiple layers with moderately high flow, gentle size and rotation dynamics strength, colour dynamics OFF; use a different hue for each layer or lock transparency once done and fill with a vertical gradient. You could work a few light layers of grass into your foliage you already have, but reduce that scratchy effect you've applied and try to use much more muted bluish tones rather than deep green. Moonlight is the major light source, not sunlight so greens look more blue-grey in these conditions.

Your sky is overloaded but the second effort was much better. The colours are alright but the stars are way too dense. Get rid of a lot of them and use a layer mask to fade them out towards the lower sky. The bright cluster near the princess' head looks out of place, as does the shooting star. I'm not sure the nebulous space wind belongs either. With the planet, you have committed a major sin of planet creation! It lacks that distant look it needs because the upper right is black. Make it smaller and create a layer mask. Hide all and then use a big soft brush to reveal that lower left cresent with the glow. Then make sure in the circle of space that WOULD be occupied by the whole planet, there are no stars in the sky. This will look natural if there are few stars in the sky in the first place.

Good luck :0"
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Need help with this FLCL paper

1 year 9 months ago

"The first link seems to be the best one right now. But you should try and borrow all your hues from the original artwork to maintain some visual continuity; once you've done that then you can perform adjustments as you see fit rather than just eyeballing and choosing blue shades you like. Horizontally flip some of the grass layers so it looks more natural and try to get rid of those loose leaves here and there. The bubble effect in the background of the sky looks very blocky like it was enlarged way too much; you could probably recreate that crisply with vector shapes. And I'm not sure what the sharingan in the sun is for O_o"
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Need help with this FLCL paper

1 year 9 months ago

"Seems extremely confused. You've used two different images of Naota in one wall; looks very amateurish. The monochrome doesn't help in this respect either. You should choose which image you want to base a wall on and run with it :P Either an abstract sunburst sort of thing with the one of him standing there with his guitar, or a cartoonish cute wall with grass and stuff with him sitting with Canti. If you like both images you can always save one for another project."
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Ready to Submit?

1 year 9 months ago

"The extraction doesn't look too bad to me; must be the colours of background you've used. With the idea of 'walking in heaven' a sky blue background would be more appropriate. I can see a hint of a rainbow, that could be made a bit more vibrant and you can volumise the clouds, work in some softly blurred mist and maybe a planet or some stars faintly hinted in the upper part of the sky. You should selectively adjust the colours of the girl's dress to a more blue hue to fit with a cerulean sky as well. The leaves painted all over the place seem a bit too abstract; with the texture in the background I almost thought it was supposed to be a forest with a mountain backdrop until I looked more closely :P"
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Tsubasa Chronicle Wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"With the fat black border, I'm unsure. If you scanned it yourself, you can easily make the image fill the whole canvas at high resolutions, then colour, add textures and text as you please."
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My first wallpaper ever! (in development)

1 year 9 months ago

"I'm pretty sure the girl is a Tony Taka artwork. Looks like it from the style... anyway if you're going to keep the white glow around her, you need a bright sun in the sky behind. It'd have to be low in the sky, but then the sky should be dusky and there'd be stronger shadows on her. The alternative is to remove the glow but put a sun in the sky anyway. For the butterfly to look like a proper tattoo it shouldn't be glowing and there should be a slight translucency to it. You could also very slightly warp it to look like it's wrapped around a 3D arm. You could use the spherize filter limited to one axis to achieve this."
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Jigohu shoujo wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"The signature should just say your name as the maker of the wall. You can also add a date or year, credit the original artist or creator of the anime and insert your website address too. Just make it discreet!"
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I want some opinions!

1 year 9 months ago

"Not too bad, but clean up the edge of the sunflower and maybe add in a rim of beach on the bottom or bottom-left corner. Add some deeper blue to the sea towards the distance to add a feeling of depth and your horizon should be more of a smooth straight line with some blur on it. The text would look better if it was over the horizon line or over the sea on the left or right side of the wall rather than in the corner."
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Cowboy Bebop Wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"Nice vectoring, although I'm really not sure if the setting works with Bebop. Guess I'll have to see the finished product to decide for sure. I liked the slightly darker sky you had in the original versions but I hope you'll work in a low or distant sun or something similar, then maybe play with streams of light playing through the cloudy mist and a halo around Spike and Vicious where the light catches them. Don't forget to finish shading off the low wall; be generous with the shadows to build that impression of 3D beams of wood. Could the butterflies be brighter and maybe have a few flying around more loosely? Right now they all seem to be hanging within the confines of the building. I also think you can afford to be more bold with the typography; don't just hide it within the artwork :P"
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Jigohu shoujo wallpaper

1 year 9 months ago

"The lineart is on the chunky side and her eyes lack depth. The colouring seems flat; try using very subtle gradients or some brushwork to round things out. Your canvas background looks like it was made using a handful of filters; you could try using custom brushes and textures off any free stock site like texturewarehouse or mayang's textures to make a more interesting one. Lastly, play with blend modes to make the blood look like it's splattered on the texture rather than superimposed over it."
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Changing resolution of an image.

1 year 9 months ago

"Depending on the quality of the source image in the first place, if you play clever with the smart blur and sharpen edges/unsharp mask filters you can get a visually acceptable result for a desktop. Apply each filter you use on a duplicated layer of the original once upsized; try going along the general pattern of a smart blurred bottom layer with sharpened ones on top with low opacity. Of course, you could always try requesting a higher resolution from the creator ;P"
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