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Minitokyo » Culture & Entertainment Fora » The Sandbox  Beginner garbage XD

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Gimme tips which I know I need a lot of. OX
and how do I upload a pic

Got to ImageShack and go upload them there.
http://imageshack.us/
It really simple.

I'll go straight into it :) Apologies in advance for any harshness or straight forwardness :)

* Extraction issues. There are bits of white on their shoulders etc- you didn't clean them out properly. You will need to use an eraser (highly untrustworthy tool though) or learn the pentool to extract. The boots on the girl in the centre are lumpy >_> The hair needs to be cleaner too. THe extraction at the moment is okay but could be a lot better :) Kudos for no outer glow!

* The text- the font is pretty bad. Firstly, don't repeat text more than twice unless it's a poster like thing, and if you repeat, the copies of the text are at different transparencies (eg. big text 100% transparency, second line is at 50% transparency etc) - secondly, never put your writing downwards because letters have different heights and widths (that means they're not aligned very well :x). Even if you do every letter one by one and position them, it's rather uncomfortable to read downwards. I also suggest you google some websites to download some fonts to install on your computer- these fonts are too generic and boring. It looks like Times New Roman to me. :\

* Background- black tends to be boring. I learnt that from all sorts of wallpaper judges >_< And this looks like you paintbucketed a canvas default black, extracted and slapped on two girls and typed two headings. It's not really enough... you need to make some sort of background design- be it abstract with lots of GOOD filters (not random render clouds and that's it... there needs to be much more with filters), grunge (use of brushes- try downloading a few sets) or if you like scenics more, you'll have to find yourself a tutorial for the pentool, or get super good at manipulating stock photos (which is pretty hard I say :\)

OVERALL:

The composition is a bit all over the place. I think the girls could be placed a bit closer to each other, because at the moment I have to trail my eyes diagonally and split my attention between the two--- it's kinda confusing on the eyes and does not make for good composition. The background is empty too.

I think this wouldn't be a successful wallpaper because of the following reasons:

* poor extraction (they aren't all that clean)
* poor composition (you don't actually have a background)
* low effort (It looks like you used a total of 5 layers)

I already suggested some stuff somewhere in my post so I won't repeat over it again :) Hopefully it has given you some ideas on what direction you might want to head into- filters, brushes or vectoring (with the pentool).

:) Kudos for posting :D

Have to agree with Kuromisa on her/his critique of your work. You might want to check out a few tutorials on extraction and other things at www.good-tutorials.com
or maybe www.pixel2life.com

Kudos for being honest and I'm starting a new wall so I hope will be a "sucessful wall".

seriously, theres nothing going on in the wall. way too empty.

try to focus on one scan only rather than spread out the focus like that.
for the bg, try to stay away from the plain black or one colour bgs. try to do something abstract, usually abstract is easier for beginner wallers. then you can start moving on to more complex bg scenery.

well at least you posted this in the sandbox instead of uploading ^__^''
just concentrate on skills and youll get better ^^

I have triedto do what you told me to and came with this and tell me how to make it better before it's final. And I know the logo on the top right I need to make it darker.
http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zerowallxfinished2wj.jpg

The cammy one looks so plain..u just slapped two images of her on a black bg and her name....nothing else
the extraction needs work. and put more thought into the background.

The 2nd one looks pretty cool. the bg effect looks interesting...but i can't really see the image....
u should make it stands out a bit more >_< and download some better fonts!~
go here: http://www.1001fonts.com/

  • bluSake
  • Retired Moderator
  • 2y 49wk ago

NOTE: The Sandbox guidelines state that there should be one wall per thread, so I think Rikkabluhound's wall at least should be in a seperate thread.

As for FreakzillA's second wall, the effects are interesting, but here they overwhelm the chara. I think it would be interesting if you kept the sparkles to one region (for instance, just over the chara), and created an abstract, scenic vector bg with the pen tool, with a different texture for each region of the bg. For example, a mountain would have a splatter texture, while a plain would have a leather texture, etc. Not sure I'm being clear. ^_^'

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