Hello kiru...
you wrote into UA guestbook, that you want comments on your wallpaper, so here I am! Interesting concept of your wallpaper... the textures look good on it. What I don't like that much are the blue hearts. They stand out so much and make the wallie (in my point of view) look a bit kitschy... Maybe it would have been better to leave them out... or another color... or some other signs? I am not sure...
I hope this was of any help to you! XD
merged: 08-03-2007 ~ 11:15pm
Quote by k1ruxDD thankiesss regenbogeeen <3 me likes that kind of comment~ I missed critiques on MT's wallpaper comments these days >___< anyway, i have update the wall, remove that blue hearts xD mind to take another look and make some more suggestions? xDDD
pssh once again, thanks a lot for the critiques <3
Hello again,
I really agree with you, when I put my first wallpaper online here on Minitokyo which was quite a while ago... *lol* almost everybody also wrote a critique and the comments were much longer as well. Okay... my first wallpapers really were a lot worse than the ones now... but still... they are far from being perfect. And most people just write "ohhhh nice"... "I like it" etc. I mean... thanks a lot, I am happy that they like them but I miss some honest criticism. That's one of the reasons why I took part in that arete ii competition. The judges don't know who's submitting and they are offical judges so they all write critiques... XD Thinking back I really improved a lot due to people giving me this and that advice. When I started here I really only knew a few things about Photoshop. Misa for example told me to use the pen tool... before i had never heard of it. *lol*
So... when I write honest critique on my comments I don't mean it in a bad way... just a help actually. And I am very open and eager to get critiques on my stuff too.
Okay, now about the new version of the wallpaper! I do like it more, you know I didn't like the blue too much. Well if you wanted to work more on it you could try to make the umbrella look more interesting? But I guess it will be difficult since the clothes of the girl have no special pattern, then the umbrella would really stand out a lot. You know I am always obsessed with the color combination of red, white and black (I guess you can tell from my avatar and userpage... *lol*)... but I think it would have worked well on your wallpaper too! However that may be too much of a change...
So yeah, if you still feel like working on the wallpaper I would start on thinking about what to do with the character and her umbrella. Your wallpaper lives of the red and yellow contrast... and the right part is mostly just yellow with thin lines and not much contrast anymore. Maybe you could avoid the umbrella pattern problem if you found one element of the girl to give red color? Have you tried that? Then the right side would show more of this interesting red yellow contrast too. Maybe the inside of the dress (that is not the coat) and her hair? I am not sure though... just telling you stuff that I would try. When I make wallpapers most of the time is being spent on trying around... and so many "solutions" get deleted again... *lol* However this is the way that leads me to more ideas... just a bit time consuming...
I hope this has been of any help to you! If you feel like working on the wallpaper more, make sure to tell me when it is
updated...
But you know... one can always continue to work on something... improve again and again... so it's important how
you feel about it and to listen to that feeling! :) I already like the new version a lot better, it looks good! :D
