Leiji Matsumoto Composing a Constellation

Hello people of AP. Some of you may recognize who I am either by this wallpaper or my username. DEV IS HERE!!! DX

I made this wallpaper about 4 days ago. I think I'll just copy/paste the description I wrote in MT. I'm feeling lazy right now... :/

As you can see, I'm mixing my two favorite passions together into a single creation: my profound love for music; and my extreme interest in astronomy. I had this idea that it'd be neat to compose a song for each constellation, thought I imagine that it'd be quite time consuming. I'd do it, but I can't really write any songs. So when I came across the image of the guitar playing woman, and the celestial-like images on Matsumoto's Moe page, I realized my idea could come to fruition!

Although the color scheme of the original image is pretty solid, I wanted something different. I've been reading Changelings by Anne McCaffrey, and there's this young female character who's father is half-Inuit, half-Irish, while her mother is half-Navajo, half-Irish. They described her hair color as being dark brown with orange highlights. I imagined a pretty combinations of colors while reading, so I decided to incorporate it in my wallpaper. From there, I decided her skin should be tanned, seeing how the woman could be part-Native American. I thought she'd look good in a dark red wine blouse, with turquoise jewellery (a lot of the Native Americans in my area wear tons of turquoise). And as you can see, I stuck with that over-all color scheme, because I find it lovely... though I am a desert brat, so I find desert shrubbery appealing.

For the constellation, I just found a photograph of space. Simple, no? I tinted it purple-ish because the black was way to dark, and put a strain on the viewer's eyes. And it matches, so HA.

The textures are primarily from Bashcorpo and Google search engine. They're pretty basic, and as you can probably tell, I haven't used any home-made textures (that's probably because I mainly create techno/cyberpunk textures).

While I was working on it, I was listening to a lot of Nightwish, and they definitely had an impact on its creation. The main song that I would attribute to it's development would be "White Night Fantasy". It has a very peaceful and content atmosphere to it - something I felt was appropriate to the wallpaper.

Enjoy, folks. ^^