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UA3 - Pre-performance Jitters.

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Here we have a third (and final [most likely]) entry to the Underappreciated Group's third wallpaper contest. Key the Metal Idol has less than 10 entries in it.

I vectored the Piano from another Key image (look at the source site for the "Pinching Cheeks" vector I did and you'll see the piano image source there) And that took a long time and then I vectored the Pinching Cheeks image and that took longer. But when I had them I could easily throw together the BG (made up of a few staffs from some Ah My Goddess sheet music I found...) The BG is supposed to represent how... you know when someone suddenly goes off-key while playing or the music just goes wrong? Well that's what the music is supposed to be... The idea is Key's practicing (I know she doesn't play the piano, but I didn't want to focus a wall on the guy that WAS playing this piano) before a performance and she's got a case of the nerves, so her friend comes along to help her loosen up XD

[edit] I've updated... cleaned up the staffs, added another layer with some transparency to add more interest over the piano..., darkened the piano a bit... yeah...

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Comments

  1. Teryon Jul 18, 2005

    Awww. Very touching. Of course, like usual, nice vectoring work. I like the background, does give that 'music error' feel too it. For some reason tho the piano stands out too much..not because its in the front, no..just like its brighter and sharper than the rest. Otherwise, nothin else to say besides decent job ;)

    Gotta stop sayin great job or nobody`ll ever get inspired to do better, right?

  2. RahX101 Jul 18, 2005

    so you made a wall out of your vectors. thats something i never do. XD anywho just want to add that i notice some of the musical notes are very jittery and the piano needs a little bit of work. its not really uniform on the top near where the keys would be, and some of the strings just dont line up. im kind of picky when it comes to verctoring so excuse me if i sound like im bashing. >_< nice job though. =]

  3. kuroimisa Retired Moderator Jul 18, 2005

    oh wow, your vectoring lines have gotten a whole lot better and I know pronounce you a pro! *slaps blue ribbon on Terra-chan's shoulder*

    Hmm... the piano indeed still has a few rugged lines, and I think in the future it'd be a good idea to stroke all your vectors with a similar thickness :) The characters are done in pencil or a 1pixel brush, and the piano was done with about 2... but nevertheless it's good :D

    With the big purple notes, perhaps a cutout filter or something should fix up the lines and make em not as pixelated :)

    Excellent work!! :D

  4. walkure245 Jul 18, 2005

    Great job on that piano and how the two girls are placed strategically in the bg. It turned out really nice. I like the bg but I would've love to see a classroom-like bg. However, it still good this way as well. Really nicely done.

  5. lordshea Jul 20, 2005

    wow another great work u have there nice combination of the pictures thx for sharing :) :) :)

  6. himan Jul 22, 2005

    nice work. i like the piano the most it really would be nice if the background was of a room or somethin like that. any way keep up the good work :)

  7. Tirdaelyn Jul 23, 2005

    The piano is very nicely done. This is a great wallpaper. The image fits in so perfectly. You did an amazing job. :)

  8. EvoIIICE9A Jul 25, 2005

    goooooooooo rip her cheeks off mwahahahahaha i mean fits well with the background and its really trippy with the musical notes

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