A Milestone Marker

[aluren]

Ok, Dejiko again, better in my opinion, suggestions please

[Gjallarhorn]

better than the other....perhaps enlarge the image a tiny bit, so that it seems less empty...test is kind of hard to see.....whats the file size? took about half a minute to load with high-speed internet....

[aluren]

Strange, size is 637kb, I did the suggested changes... any others?

[souichi tsujii]

The background is too busy, and the text is too opaque.

[aluren]

I made the text more transparent and made the background Dejiko more transparent, I also darkened the background... Nyo!

[_hades the wicked]

The text is too frickin huuuuuuge!
Plus the background doesn't fit with Dejiko at all...

[escaflownemoon]

I also agree the text is mega huge and it is too much drawing away attention from the character. I like the bg itself but it seems like it doesn't fit with the cute character.

[aluren]

What background would go with her do you think?

[_hades the wicked]

Something smoother and softer and cuter. Try using some soft yellow or green on it.

[aluren]

OK, pretty much a complete redesign, but I took your advice

[escaflownemoon]

now she needs a shadow..seems like she is floating. The colours look better now though.

[aluren]

Okay, gave her a shadow

[_hades the wicked]

Anyone can render clouds...

[aluren]

True, I'm working on the bg, I was more looking for approval of the colors...

Edit: OK I made a background... any suggestions?

- Nyo

[escaflownemoon]

yes I have one..it doesn't fit..you can put a scenery instead..somtimes abstract may not fit. Like the colours you have there are fine..you can add trees, a river bank that she may be sitting..etc.. you can have clouds but not rendered clouds alone.. keep trying you just need some pointers.

[aluren]

any tutorials on making a scenery? I've never done it before! Thanks for the help...

[escaflownemoon]

You can use stock photos of real forest, oceans,park etc..on the internet
put it as a separate layer and apply filters to it just to give feel and theme..balanced...

[_hades the wicked]

I'll give you one advice: do not simply throw lots of random filters to make a background... You have to feel what you're doing, you have to know what you're doing, over everything else.

[akachan]

I agree with dark
the bg it's totally nomatching but don't give up! Escaflownemoone gave u a perfect advice!
Mine is to change at all the font.when you use a font you should put a themed one.digicharat it's a cute-tech(?) anime, the font you've used it's a total dark one...it seems that she's waiting to kill someone ^^'' I mean don't mind, you can easily fix it, if u put a forest bg, you could move her to the right, increasing her size and move the text to the left(lower left) and ta-daan! you've got a beautiful work! good job!

[aluren]

Okay, I posted this here but it's totally different, the only common element is Dejiko... I did this because I think posting six threads in a week is OTT

[aluren]

Okay, I posted this here but it's totally different, the only common element is Dejiko... I did this because I think posting six threads in a week is OTT

[akachan]

the bg it's better, but when I saw this wall I saw everything except her.I mean, the focus of your wall seems to be the word "dejiiko", not her...when you make a wall, you have to know where focusing(generally on the chara, otherwise they won't be called "anime wallpapers ).ok?
ps:

Strange, size is 637kb

ehm... the wall must be lower than 300k,if your work is bigger, you should say it before someone opens it

[escaflownemoon]

true akachan. The bg is ok you got some idea...but yea I was way into looking at the bg huge tree and cg water..seems like she is going to be flooded by the rising river there hehe...I had to lookd for her like where is Waldo..

[aluren]

So how could I focus it more on her?

[escaflownemoon]

you can fade the bg...or choose somthing that would complement her.