New techno wall~Karo-chan

[Hautalken]

This is my newest wall. I wanted some tecno sort of look and no red-yellow. So I used blue and lots of techno brushes I had lying there. I don't know about the script brushes in the middle though. But if I reove them, it would look too empty and if I use some other brush, it would look like too much.

what do you guys think?

[LavaBug]

I think it has a little too many different patterns going on, what makes it look unorganised (but maybe that's what you where going for)
also the small character seems rather lost in the picture, with no fixed point or something that connects it with the rest of the image.
And I dont know about your monitor. but with mine, the contrast/brightness is way to high, and part of the character is being 'swallowed' by the white spot behind it.

[MuZ0NaZ]

Lavabug is right. Character looks much less interesting than the background. Focus seems to be on the center of the wallpaper, but the composition doesn't seem to be really coherent.
Take your time doing wallpapers, don't rush 'em so much - take breaks between work.

[salar]

I like the combination of colors u used(blue has always been my fav color)....and yep about that extract i guess its not suitable and when i trid it on my desktop the center looks abit too bright...also MuZ0NaZ mentioned st that's an important point...u dont have to rush so much.focus ur mind on one work and then take a break..being hasty isnt good and ur mind needs some rest.

[Hautalken]

Truth is i don't really rush. i don't know about that though. i'm usually relaxed when i do my walls. its just that there's too much in my head all at once. im brimming to the tip with ideas. i just want totry em all out before i lose them.

anyway, *sighs* i'll re-do this one later and then we'll see. give me some time though.

[Hautalken]

New and improved version of the previous one. I had to discard the previous one. I put the extract in the middle and brushes to the side. Removed most of the contrast and all of the abstract brushes. how is it now?

[Mira Kaiba]

Cool I like the second version of the wall much better than the first. The focus is better and more centered on the extract character, and the effects are not so encompassing now. I really like the color and pattern mixture, and I love the background in general! The effects are awesome. Great wall! ^^

[KuroTan]

Call me picky, but I'm having a little problem with the character you used. Not that's it's wrong or anything like that; only that for a techno themed wall, she's too puni as a focus, if you get my drift. Maybe use someone sharper or more defined?

Character aside, well done on the bg. Colour scheme's unified too so good job on that as well.

[Animousflavista]

I like the background but the character doesnt seems to fit in..

[Hautalken]

character doesn't fit huh? if you haven't noticed, the wall says "techno cute" so obviously i'd have to use a puny, cute, chibi sorta adorable extract. now i can't change the extract coz it'll take away the meaning of the whole thing.

[Cantelope]

It's hard to use techno brushes to theme a wallpaper purely because of the size of the canvas. Techno brushes really only shine in small-scale work, like small banners and signatures where the generally puny brushes shine brightest, giving that feel of extra fine details (e.g. lines and circles placed tastefully here and there). If you're aiming for a technologically themed wallpaper, then the script brushes you have going on don't work with the wallpaper at all. Although, you mentioned earlier removing them makes the whole space feel empty, which falls back to the fallacy of trying to make a wallpaper with techno brushes as its focus.

A quick fix would be changing the stock to a bigger image, but since you don't want to, I suggest minimizing the background. There's too much going on with the bg in my opinion. It's too fluid. Techno is about being linear and simplistic.

Refer to:
http://customize.org/thumbnails/large/5257.jpg
http://69.90.174.246/photos/display_pic_with_logo/57902/57902,1155792744,4.jpg
http://www.samplemagic.com/Assets/images/wallpapers/SM_TransmissionX_Wide_Wallpaper.jpg

One of them isn't a wallpaper, I know, and none are masterpieces for sure, but notice how the background doesn't comprise of many elements. You should focus primarily on enhancing the stock. There are ways to cope with empty space in images tastefully.

[Hautalken]

Wow! thanks for the superb advice. next time i want any, i'll be running to you Ch33zyph33r (if you don't mind). by the way, i like all the 3's in your username. its cute. my fav number actually.