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Relaxation by °Tens  1 day 44 minutes  ago

Relaxation by °Tens 1 day 44 minutes ago

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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!

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~Mysticmom2 20 minutes ago
Lol sure. You can call me michelle.

~Loleta 23 minutes ago
Good, thank you Mysticmom2. .....Um...Mysticmom2, is it okay for me to call you a nick name?

~Mysticmom2 32 minutes ago
No problem. How are you tonight Loleta?

`Sakiera 36 minutes ago
*shakes head* If I stop now it'll never get finished, plus I'm so close to completion (I think)

~Loleta 36 minutes ago
Hi there Mysticmom2 :). I didn't know that you said hi when had I posted my previous comment, sorry ;). Sakiera. I guess it's really harder than it looks huh(?). Well, take a little break from the wallpaper for now. Unless it's for a contest.

`Sakiera 45 minutes ago
Any background can cause me to pull my hair out, but this one is kind of scenic

~Loleta 47 minutes ago
WWhat type of background?

~Mysticmom2 50 minutes ago
Hey guys.

`Sakiera 56 minutes ago
They can just be arduous to work on, plus I fail when it comes to backgrounds and it's taking a toll on my Bleach wall...

~Loleta 59 minutes ago
Sakiera, you really are strugeling with those wallpapers of yours, arent you (Sorry if I sound ...annoying or anything).

MTL's Comments

Is life complete without porn?

2 years 11 months ago

"I answer (B) No."
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How did you get your screen name

2 years 11 months ago

"I usually go by the name MTL, but im slowly starting to use my gamer name more, which is FULMTL
the name is mostly used in FPS games i play. ive been using it about 2 years, i think i might start using it as my design alias...
FULMTL idea didnt come from Full metal alchemist, but full metal panic and or full metal jacket [old movie]"

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What do you wish for 2007

2 years 11 months ago

"I wish for movie preview makers to stop using that annoying movie voice guy..same voice applies to radio ads
speaking of radio ads, i wish that "Worlds Biggest Engagement Ring Store" commercial would stop playing every 10 min, or i will burn that bitch down"

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rejected

2 years 11 months ago

"Err i think the text should either be white or gray...
i dont really know what im looking at in the top center there...and the gray thing on the left
probably need to adjust the levels in the image on the right because her sleeves are too white, there needs to be more darker shades maybe"

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Why Did this Naruto Paper get rejected?

2 years 11 months ago

"I sometimes think that if youve never got a wallpaper accepted, they dont know what you are capable of and maybe think you ripped someones work for the bg...unless you can prove you made the tech bg then i guess i dont know....
but letterbox wp's arent that good of a layout
composition isnt that interesting...perhaps put him in front of the yingyang and center it
the txt has got to go"

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First wallpaper:IRON MAN

3 years 3 hours ago

"Usually i would say "no" to metallic text, but now is a good time to whip out them photoshop actions and style effects. photoshop comes with some metallic style settings already. you should apply them, but i wouldnt just leave em black and white, or that familiar gold/blue chrome thing...just add some red overlay to the text maybe
the jet looks too..realistic i suppose...if you tightened up the level adjustment settings or higher contrast, you would get bolder whites/blacks on the jet which would make it match more with the way iron man is drawn/inked"

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Need Help with Wall

3 years 3 hours ago

"The vertical black line reminds me of the cover poster for the last Italian Job movie..but i just did a search on the movie..and looks like im wrong...BUT the movie poster does have a really nice text layout which you could imitate http://www.italianjobmovie.com/flash/index.html"
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My first WP for AP

3 years 1 week ago

"To tell yah the truth, it would get rejected
but to save you from losing paper, dont submit

one thing that usually doesnt work out well is ghosting, which is "enlarging a picture and lowering the opacity" esp if its the same picture. a different picture would look better in most cases...
and if a big head takes up most of the canvas, it doesnt leave much room to get creative
the border that is applied on the smaller picture to me seems like a way to avoid extracting pictures, and doesnt look interesting"

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My Storm Of Death :P

3 years 1 week ago

" i think you need to adjust the levels on that cloud layer because i can still see some cloud..it should be more solid/bolder streaks..."o darker darks, brighter brights" is what my art teacher would say"
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weiss kreuz (remake) n_nu

3 years 1 week ago

"Try to make a wallpaper without text...in another one of your posts, the text looks the same....when you can make walls without text itll look better"
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naruto wall

3 years 1 week ago

"Dont lose hope. Eat these leaves I picked up off the floor.
why?
"

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well this is my fifth try

3 years 1 week ago

"Looks like she is on a swing of some sort..but wheres the other chain on the left? maybe want to highlight them more
also since her clothes are blue add a new fill layer of blue set to soft light 50% to kinda blend it all in...or you could do brown to make it afternoonish
the background kinda has too many filters applied to it and it kinda looks like a oatmeal raisin cookie
the light brown cloud on her rear and legs is kinda odd"

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samurai champloo..

3 years 1 week ago

"The repeated brushes that are the same pixel size in each splat is kinda bad looking"
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ragnarok,from a manga.wallpaper

3 years 1 week ago

"Dont make big head wps...they freak people out, esp with that confused look
how bout just use the color it should be"

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Noir Wallpaper

3 years 1 week ago

"Its not very exciting to look at...thus kind of a boring composition
the pic of mirelle is really bad looking...i dunno maybe make it match the background to make it like pop art>? that would take alot of recoloring/redrawing...but might not look good in the end
like what ive been doing recently is putting a little bit of tilt in my pictures to make them more interesting to look at
see how her hair flies upward? you could tilt the entire frame a little clickwise
and also since theres alot of black in here, you could make her picture almost shilouette by painting most of the mid and dark tones only leaving the highlights the normal color"

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What can be improved?

3 years 1 week ago

"You should go back and sharpen some of your background parts..
and the guy on the right is too blurry...remove the duplicate layer that you put him in, or set it to soft light
yeah and get rid of the guy on the left"

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Worth submitting?

3 years 1 week ago

"That guy looks confused in that picture, i dont really know why you like it...it is a boring pose and facial expression to go along with a boring composition
maybe instead of having them face each other, it might be better to have them back to back and use something as the line that seperates them"

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Bleach Wallpaper

3 years 1 week ago

"Looks like you used free transform to enlarge/resize the image? that isnt really a good idea because it blurs the pixels...unless it was on purpose
background is pretty dark for the light colored clothes that she is wearin"

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FLCL wall, want opinion

3 years 1 week ago

"You need to work on the composition some...from what you have, i would flip those circles horizontally and move em to the right. along with the letters
if you were to add something in the top right corner in its current state, it would really throw off the uhh layout
maybe even rotate the circles horizontally becuase its odd that they just go downward ;/
dont even worry bout text until you are almost done"

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what do you think of this wallpaper?

3 years 2 months ago

"I have no idea what this is.looks like 80's anime?
anyways, its all just a big blur, esp that...scropion
the font choice is bad
whats up with the random light blue diagonal lines?
are those red and blue ellipse shaped thing galaxies?...might want to try and uhh make your own instead of using someone elses and then using blending modes"

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1st wallpaper EVER (updated 9/22/06)

3 years 2 months ago

"Your text looks like it belongs on the bottom of a video game cutscene...They set us up the bomb.
possibly if the characters were larger to where the head and torso touched the top and bottom..that would be better...cuz atm it looks like a half eaten gingerbread cookie"

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Wall ideas flowing

3 years 2 months ago

"Err i would delete this thread and post again when you have done more because to me this looks like nothing but 3 layers = funky bg+scan+ugly text

please dont use that font in the finish work, because it doesnt look good in any situation
the scan, tho neatly extracted, could use some clean up beacuse of the grainyness...you could try messing with low level/setting surface blur, it should take the grain right out"

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mgs2 wall update

3 years 2 months ago

"I would say put a thick black gradient on both sides ..or black side bars to make it seem more vertial...
then squish all the text closter together towards the middle

your text is barley readable because its so.uhh thin...how bout a bold font
wouldnt it be better to call it...
METAL
G E A R

the text used in The Rock poser is super bold...the font used on the names characters in your pic is, as i said before, bareley readable"

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how doyou properly "clean" pictures in wallpaper standards?

3 years 2 months ago

"*randomly googles "photoshop quickmask"
http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/knockout.asp?knockout=quickmask
http://www.graphicmentor.com/tutorials/quickmask/index.php
i use quickmask all the time when extracting scans. the advantage of quickmask i think is the easy ability to add or remove a selction and switch between selection and edit mode
if you dont have photoshop i really dont know what other alternatives you could use"

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j-rap?

3 years 2 months ago

"Nitro Microphone Underground is so far the best japanese rappers i have heard...tho they havent made much new stuff ina while ;/

other old faves are
Kick The Can Crew
MOVE > youve probably heard their Initial D stuff"

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