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Submitted 4 years, 7 months ago

Sekirei Minerva

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Minerva Sekirei Wallpaper

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`ze

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Best at full view :) This wall is actually has a bit of meaning... it's a tribute to music or more to the point the way music makes you feel.

Ok so Minerva was the Roman name of Greek goddess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, and the inventor of music .

The music side is what my wall focus' on. The band called Deftones did a song called Minerva, which is basically a tribute to music, this song was the inspiration for this wall. I knew I wanted to do a wall with this theme for a while, i just couldn't find the right scan. Untill I stumbled upon Sekirei gallery. The scan had to be a female and it had have music involved somehow. The scan didn't have anything musical in it, so i added a iPod looking thing, which worked so well because of the position of her hand, thus I solved my "music theme" problem with the scan. The background stumped me pretty bad. I spent hours trying different things. eventually got the clouds right, and the colours too. I had to get the right atmosphere... a kind of trippy feel to it. The kind of feeling you get when a your favourite song "consumes you". All this relied on the background plus i had to get it suit the vector. The text is a a bit lyrics from the Deftones song, [it's not some sentimental/polictal statement i'm trying to make. I just liked the lyics] I came so close to giving up on the whole thing, but i'm glad i didn't. I hope you like it as much as i do.

Ok, so tech

Vector 6hr Photoshop 8hr (all the trial versions)

SCAN

TEXTLESS VERSION

untill next time :)

ps - sorry to those guy's who want 4x3 size, I normally try my best to get a version of my wall for you. but couldn't do it this time. needed all the space. feel free to crop away though.

2nd ps - i don't know the characters of sekirei, coz i haven't watched it yet. but the GIRL IS MINERVA in the wall. thats whats it's got to do with music, she invented it!(for all those who are confused) :)

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$Chimasternmay

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Great wallpaper...like the tribute to music concept. and even better for having a Sekirei character. so kool

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~bluelion

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Sutset in the background is very natural. Blendings between colors are drawing fantastic harmony.

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~electricbunny

4 years, 7 months ago

 

i like the background colours and the birds. <3 the clouds blend in too. great job. i look forward to your next wallie! :D

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`akiranyo Astraea

4 years, 7 months ago

 

No problem, I always give a full view. And I can say that is really kewl. The used color and design style fits perfect with the character, and on overall I cannot detect any major flaws. Would be better a 1920x1200, together with a 4:3 version, but the current resolution is also pretty good. Deserves my favorite in full. +Fav

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~Isolde

4 years, 7 months ago

 

the outlines are a bit jagged-edged.. it could be cooler if it was smooth flowing....

but the bg is so awesome! it resembles art painted with water color, and it's so nice p(T_T)q

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`soft-meanie

4 years, 7 months ago

 

very nice bg' and the birds added to the beauty of the bg' the only problem (for me) is the jaggy lines' but still an amazing wall

btw, i really liked the ipod, it really looks real

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~kulu

4 years, 7 months ago

 

(c_c)#Ya oak wat can i say. As always the vector work is spot on (sssshhhhaaaaaating, nice touch des)( []-[])9 wat is really amazing to me personally, like me ya know , like wat i have noticed , is that your style is starting to come through in your vectors. ya boet im talking about the way you shaded the shadows onto the figure, it gives it that same feeling that you get from your pencil drawings (the ones that you shaded). as for the rest of the wall well...trippy? i think so #(c_c)# i always dig how one shade of colour blends with another, when it comes to sunsets. (yes ze i got that line from you) but its true, and you have done a good job of it. its not overly realistic, which works well with the rest of the wall. the combination of red yellow black and white works very beautifully i just wonder wat it would look like if you added a lens flare , just to trip things out alittle , but anyways if there was a park bench with a silhoette of two figures in the background, it would have been 100% but i guess youll just have to settle for 99.9999999999999999% ( Diabolic LOL) ( []-[])9

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$divStar

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Well.. I'll be honest: besides the iPod, which in my opinion suites the overall scene very little, I don't see any relation with music at all. But it doesn't make the wall worse or something. The wallpaper-background is great. I like the sunset, which indeed is quite natural, and the clouds. I also like the birds. The foreground is very clean, yet I even think this iPod and the earphones just don't suite her - but o well.. it's my own opinion :) nothing to worry much about.

Thank you for sharing this wallpaper. dS.

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~Womba

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Love the background

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~kaedesama

4 years, 7 months ago

 

i actually prefer the text version, normally i abhor text love what you did, ditch the ipod though, it ruins the mood

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~Calowyn

4 years, 7 months ago

 

like the concept, good job on the wall, it blends well, keep it up

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~LostJounin

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Very nice wallpaper. Loved the anime but you don't see to many walls for it around ^_^ The background is really well done and compliments the scan perfectly! ^_^

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~changeheart10

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I really love this wall. The background and the concept are great. But I also think that ipod and earphone are not suit her.

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$shellybear665

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Beautiful wallpaper! I love the colors in the background and the flight of birds around her. Nice work! Adding to my favorites.

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~belethgrod

4 years, 7 months ago

 

+fav

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`leviatan

4 years, 7 months ago

 

the perspective is amazing ( i think i will break my head if i tried to make one lol XD) o live the sunset and the black birds hehe its a nice detail^^ good work +fav

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~alansmithlover

4 years, 7 months ago

 

whaoo!!This is awesum indeed! :D I love the vector and the IPod uve added it looks awesum! the BG is awesumly awesum as well ... lemme sa this whole walli is awesum awesum x) rly it does!!! Keep up the gr8 work! :) +FAVIE+

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`darkliam

4 years, 7 months ago

 

now this is what u call a wall, it's like poetry in motion, definitely love it

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~Myeev

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I love her hair and how the background looks so pretty

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~DarkAliaz

4 years, 7 months ago

 

that's the most beautiful sky i've seen in a very long time. cheers for that xD.

the angle and vector along with that, the colours <3. its just bad luck with those anti-alias problems >.< but who cares this rocks =] you win my fav x]

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$sanzosgirl19

4 years, 7 months ago

 

OMG I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS WALL! It reminds me of my look, I have the same MP3 player and my hair is full of hair extensions just like hers! :D Other then the girl being perfect the whole wall is amazing at the same time, it's so flowing and I love your message you made a old goddess look hip and cool very 2008 her clothes are old traditional but her whole over all look combined with the beauty of the sky and detailing I'm so impressed and in love with this wall it's going right on my desktop! :D You did a amazing job, the theme is something everyone can relate to and I really admire your originality :) A+ and a fav

Sanzosgirl19

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°btimnz

4 years, 7 months ago

 

You have brought out to us another one of your magnificent walls ze..

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`halcyonTwilight

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Awesome wall, and the pastel-painted sky in the bg is beautiful. I've always wanted to make a music-inspired wall too, but I haven't been able to figure out how to. It look like you found the perfect way to do that, and do it scenically too to boot.

A couple critiques; The vector of Minerva is wayy too jaggedy on the edges. I don't know if you resized your vector or not, but if you did resize the vector before you merge it so it takes some of the jagged edges away. The other minor gripe I have is that I'd like to see more gradient and 'painting' on the vector, so it would better match the lighting and style of the bg.

Overall though, very solid work. +fav :)

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~TiGer

4 years, 7 months ago

 

omg! Music! Dude, im speachless..... U´r my hero, I in lovw with this wall ^^ !!

+FAV

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`verite

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I really love the way you colored everything, especially her hair, it really has a nice sunset color scheme going on, but it works in comparison to the stark black of the birds in the bg as well. The angled perspective makes it more dynamic and interesting as well, it's a really well thought out wall so it gets my fave :)

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$bwilhelm

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I honestly have never seen this anime before. I honestly don't feel the whole iPod theme with this wallpaper. The background I like and the dark contrast in the swarm of birds. The character scan is vectored I believe you said but it for some reason or another seems to suffer on the outline from the jagged edges disorder.

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~Enwyce

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I really like this wall. I just love the colors!

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°Irix

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I really like to did this scan in vector for my last wall... but you almost did a good job with the scan... (damn!P(>_<)) well... then i have to do another one... Thank so much for the great wall! XD

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~iMagnus

4 years, 7 months ago

 

hello,... hello very cool! ^^º

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~micka

4 years, 7 months ago

 

It's super awesome!!(~_~) I like the bg very much, the sky is sooo pretty.P(T_T) And the vector is amazing!!8)E

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~Yeshaih

4 years, 7 months ago

 

The colors are gorgeous, I like how you the character's hair colors match the colors of the sunset (which in awesome in it's own respect - someone above said it had a pastel sort of effect, I like that). I also really like the gradient on her face and her brown hair. Oh, and the silhouetted background looks cool - looks like a forest polymorphing into a flock of birds =)

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~Anime-Girl

4 years, 7 months ago

 

wow i rly love it :D +fav

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`dalarty

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Beautiful colors. I love the way you had the silhouette of the background contrast so strikingly against the sky and the girl. It's very beautifully done and your theme is cute~

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~Chikuso

4 years, 7 months ago

 

The sky behind her is beautiful. And I really like the name Minerva. o.O Odd.

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~Gunajodie

4 years, 7 months ago

 

I like the sky, beatifull one.

I like the birds and the vector!

NICE!

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$Taurec

4 years, 7 months ago

 

Glad you explained it .. because I seriously couldn't make the connection between music and this wallpaper. But eh.. she invented the flute, not music. So you might want to change that katana. :P

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~Valeria

4 years, 7 months ago

 

nicely done :) love the high contrast and the whole concept, /thumbs up and good work ;)

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~KirbyHeeHee

4 years, 7 months ago

 

i love the background !

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~bakawaltz

4 years, 6 months ago

 

I love the range of colors. c:

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~worapong1991

4 years, 6 months ago

 

she is nice

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~luna

4 years, 6 months ago

 

I really like Athena in Greek mythology 83

The scene and the colors are really pretty and the angle is cool! I like the idea; she's a Japanese Minerva, heh heh. But I think if she's just listening to the iPod, it doesn't really look like she's creating music. I also think that the moderness of the iPod doesn't really suit the overall mood of the wallpaper. Overall, though, I think this is a lovely wallpaper, so fav!

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~MissFrixx

4 years, 6 months ago

 

this one is good^^

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`Omnidevil

4 years, 6 months ago

 

Probably the best vector wall I seen in a while, love the colors here, so rich and beautiful.

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`PastorOfMuppets

4 years, 6 months ago

 

instant fav.love the perspective the colors the text the character everything.

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~OffbeatAdam

4 years, 5 months ago

 

This is awesome. The colors are great. The drawing is fantastic. The setting is incredible. I don't have anything more to say than that!

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~mehrunmastadons

4 years, 5 months ago

 

who is she.....??? interesting!!!

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~alitababe

4 years, 4 months ago

 

Ooo Looks brilliant! Great Wall.

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~KJeff

4 years, 4 months ago

 

ok, first of all, good work on this wall.

this is my first time to get a wall that is inclined to be used on my screen. so i guess your wall pulled me in to its creativeness.

i like the concept and how you eventually came up with the output.

by the way, i suggest you watch Sekirei, it's a pretty nice ecchi anime. though it's still on its first stage, i'm sure there would be a season 2 or continuation of the story.

great work on this wall, keep it up! fave from me, of course.

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$masataka-takayanagi

4 years, 2 months ago

 

I really love the colours in this wallpaper, and the background to the character is exceptional.

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~ICameForLuckyStar

3 years, 9 months ago

 

For a kinda perverted manga, you managed to make a wallpaper that is not perverted and way awesome! =D I really really like the theme of Minerva, and the Sekirei character you chose is actually very similar to the goddess, so good job. I also love the birds in the background, the sky, the added colors in her hair... Okay, I pretty much love the whole wallpaper. Great job again!

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°asivoria9

3 years, 8 months ago

 

I love the colors! Very good job! *fav*

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~MisaSasekage

2 years, 9 months ago

 

Is Minerva the name of the character, or is this an image you took of an existing character from Seikirei that you modified? I just recently got into the Seikirei series so that's why I'm asking. Does she have a full name? I think it looks really good, I like it.

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~Fuyuhaku

2 years, 8 months ago

 

Nice choice of colours. Especially the hair colour(s) go really well with the background. However, I have to admit that at first I did not notice the head phones at all... XD

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~halfbloodanthro

2 years, 2 months ago

 

Beautiful wallpaper! Love the colors.

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~Goodz

1 year, 11 months ago

 

like the concept XD thanks !

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~honesty

7 months, 1 minute ago

 

so beautiful it is ,i think it is very well,thank you

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~honesty

6 months, 4 weeks ago

 

this paper is very nice,with the bright in color,very beautiful,thank you

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