pretty! XD Love the purple background and the swirls ^^ Very nice. I also like how the girl kinda glows XD Good job ^^
Artist Comment
You are a strange bird
You sang so sweet then you flew away
You are a weird flame
You made me warm till I got burnt
Strange Bird - Anita Lipnicka & John Porter
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Yes, you are looking at my first wallpaper in life XD Please comment. I will gladly hear constructive criticism and tips on what and how to improve. Also please bear with the possible major mistakes, but I am still learning how to work in Photoshop and how to create walls.
Before I start talking about the wall itself, let me thank Keltosh for his enormous help on this wall (I have been bugging and pestering him with stupid noob questions on "how/what do i do/what does it mean" and frequently asking for step-by-step explanations). So thanks again Keltosh :]
I also thank Rikimaru-jp and Dufoe and Papy for their help and words of encouragment. :D Guys you are wonderful ^^
Now back to the wall. While starting I had some concept in mind of what I want to create... well it did not turn out, as I lack skills. So this wall, lacks in originality, is simple, with stars and wings and so on... basic really. But I put my best in it.
The scan choice was really easy, I did not want to make a wall with an ecchi scan, there are already too many of them. I wanted to use artwork by an artist whose work I really value and respect. Thus I choose Chen Shu Fen's scan that I found at Anime Paper. That scan was a hell to extract, esp. hair. I want you to know that it is also my first scan ever to extract. At first I did it using Shinta's tutorial with the polygonal lasso as a tool for the job. It did not look well, thus Keltosh taught me (once again thanks) using pen tool ^^ (As you see I am really a complete noob at it) and I later improved its quality following Shinta's tut. Then I created starry background following Greg Martin's tutorial. Then I searched through Deviant and found really good brushes - Galaxies by Sunira with which I created the nebula. What followed was my playing with stars and swirl brushes and later creating wings (also done accoring to Shinta's tutorial). Added sig and the title. And voila. My first wall ever is done XP.
Time: around 32 hours
Layers: 24
Program: Photoshop CS2
So comments and criticism welcomed :]
EDIT
As usual, I knew what I wanted to say but could not just phrase it properly. I first created that nebula background. As
you all can see, the colors are very bright and intensive (is that a proper word???:/). Thus the sole scan looked pretty
plain on the bg. I thought about the way to balance the color contrast between the scan and the bg, thus I thought about
making the wings. They did they work. But it was not enough to balance it all. The whole wall just lacked smth. Thus I
played with the swirl brushes and imho without them the whole bg looks unfinished.
EDIT2
About the scan extraction - actually I made in 3 times ;P First using the polygonal lasso, second (after Keltosh's
tips) with pen tool (but as a complete noob I made a mistake and merged the layers - time to laugh - so I had to start
over again). lol XD
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Comments
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Leaf Sep 28, 2005
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Wslasher Sep 29, 2005
nice scan sis!
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OracleAngel Retired Moderator Sep 30, 2005
Nice job on your first wall.... if i would critique i would say to make her opacity lavel fade a bit so she blends on the wall, I would personally take off the spiral borders and just leave it as it is. but nonetheless good job on the first! :P
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tailai Sep 30, 2005
this wall is very nice.
she is look like aya matsuura.
i like these wall. thank you for sharing and submission to me. -
minimouzo Oct 10, 2005
i would like to stay as objective as i can and it isn't easy because you are a great friend.
So, i'm really happy to see you put so much your heart in creating your wallpaper. It seems your first goal is to make the viewers have a strong feeling intentionnaly put by you in the wallpaper. I think that is a rare quality and that makes you in my eyes more an artist than only a waller. Regarding the theme and the emotions i think you did a really amazing job. Even if technically there are some little problems, the message is clear in the image ^_^ So congratulations, you really achieved something great that not eveery waller can do. I see often emotionnaly plain wallpapers but they can be technically good. that's why i was tempted to say wallpapering is not really art. But with walls like yours i think it is art.Technically, i suppose the main problem is in the extraction. It's maybe that thing that makes think the contrast between the colors is too big. Because when i do abstraction of the grey border around the girl and that i imagine her a part of the nebula, it seems natural. I haven't anything against the wings ; they are in harmony with the rest and even with the black curves. And for me the idea of the black curves is really great. What bug me is rather the design of the sky ; the way the stars look sometimes the same. But except that i think it's really something good :)
You achieved something great and mt is better with wallpapers like yours, full of emotion. You had a message to make us see through your wall and it is so rare to see ^_^
i hope you will do others
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kuclo Oct 27, 2005
wow ! sugoi ,well gomen ne jasmin ,i 'm late , i like so much your wallpaper ,i think you put much effort and worth ,a beautiful character ,nice work in the extraction and shine effects , the wings are good too , well there is not much to say ,congratulations , and keep it making you got talent , to be the first it's not bad ,not at all .
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markjo Oct 30, 2005
A really good first try. What I like about the wallpaper is the background, the colours of it and the way the character is brighter than the bg. It adds this sort of 'angelic feeling' to the image (a bird?!?). On the other hand I get the feeling that the wings are too small for the character.
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vinicius73 Mute Member Nov 14, 2005
I liked the photo! The face of it is pretty!
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fredsmart Dec 04, 2005
VERY VERY NICE GOOD WORK I LIKE IT KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK Adding this one to my favourits and down loading to my pictures
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leo1908 Mar 13, 2006
I like your background! Nice color ^^
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