LegendaryN8

I think you did well with it thematically overall.

On the positive side, I like how it sort of has a crisp look (pointing particularly to the starry sky).

I personally however would have added some more detail on the moon so that you could see it in a more 3-D sense, and I realize the difficulty that imposes, but if you can try to make the craters as crisp as the sky looks it would really bring out the "wow" factor in the image.

baka-neko64

For the moon comment...yeah...I'll be a bit more specific. What blu3angl wants (I think) is for you to take the moon and either do a horizontal flip (edit>flip hortizontal) or rotate the moon counter-clockwise some so that the pink part is facing closer toward D instead of away. The results would probably come out better if you redo just the shadow part...but only if you haven't merged all the layers together. That's about it for the position. I sure where the moon is now is okay.

Honestly...the part that I really agreed on the most is the color. Probably more red than purple...and thus probably changing the color of the sword aura.

And as for the lines...it just looked like the brush that you used got cut off a bit on the end. That's all. If you smudged it outwards a bit, I'm sure that it looks fine.

And I do hope that you use the blue color advice! It would blend the scan in better with the background. So that the jewel doesn't stick out as much...seeing that it is definitely not the focal point of the wallpaper.

But if you do have any problems with the star field...you could always ask. SZ will always be there for you! (at least most of the time ^_^)

baka-neko64

Nice results! ^_^ But I see that you didn't use the sky tut...oh well...the one you have now is fine. I still see a fews lines still! I'm sorry for the detail picking but...yeah...I'm just like that... here's the screenshot again ( here)

You can see them if you look carefully...it's probably easier on a bigger shot.

Another thing though...I don't really like the color of the sky...purple just...I don't know...it just doesn't fit for me. I think you should play the sky off of the jewel thing on D's neck...the lighter blue set at Color I think would look nice...your choice though. And I agree with the moon comment that blu3angl gave...but the moon does look a lot nicer though. Good job with that! ^_^

And the hat looks better too! ^_~

You are doing a great job so far! Keep up the good work!

syzygy

First thing I noticed when I saw this: It's really really dull and boring. The colors need to be livelier and brighter.

Second, the stock of D looks like it was hand drawn and painted. The background and the effects on the other hand do not, which makes the stock look out of place.

The effects need to be cleaned up. I know exactly the way you're making those wavy-light things on the sword, but you just basically made a single one and duplicated it over and over. I can see the parts where the wave met the end of the image and it left a giant cutoff line on many of the duplicates, that will need cleaning up. They also don't blend well with the sword as they are really dull looking. The moon or planet or whatever doesn't really look right either, I can't really put my finger on it but it just seems blurry and too apparent.

The text placement is nice, maybe move it a bit to the left, closer to D. Otherwise, try to do something more with it because at the moment it seems too simple.

I hope these comments helped you out and good luck on your next wallpaper. =)