A wallpaper by ~Shryne
Submitted 3 years, 10 months ago

Rurouni Kenshin Searching for My Path

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Searching for My Path Rurouni Kenshin Wallpaper

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~Shryne

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Hi again!

Here is my second wall after a really long absence. Rurouni Kenshin is one of my favourite anime and I decided to wall Sojiro because in my opinion he is an awesome character who is largely overlooked in favour of Kenshin and his pals. As far as I know, there aren’t any walls of him yet on AP =/ The context of this paper is Sojiro becoming a wanderer in search of his own truth after the death of Shishio and his duel with Kenshin.

For this wall, I tried out some basic digital painting with my mouse which I think turned out okay. The vector itself took me a lot more time than my first one though. The original scan can be found here: http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Rurouni-Kenshin/item5723/

Hope you guys like it ^^ Comments and favs are much appreciated of course.

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$gloomfox

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Okay, I like this one. On a more personal level then many others I have seen before. We are not looking at a sexy anime girl. Instead you picked a character that from the picture, is expressing control, responsibility and a fighting spirit. The background you use is very subtle the use of snow is a good choice from the series, and due to the overall theme of walking a path (or searching for it) in the middle of a cold storm. -much like the world we live in at times-

The vector is well done. You add lighting that would actually occur from snow and the sun. Even the method you use streaking the snow path due to snow storm vision shows an attention to detail.

Also on a completely unrelated note, if that picture on your avatar is you, you're beautiful. Cheers *

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~hiyorisarugaki

3 years, 10 months ago

 

I like it. Soujiro is a great character and his pose is cool. The vector is well done and you added lights, which gives it a good final effect. Congratulations =)

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~Ciello

3 years, 10 months ago

 

I totally agree with the dudes who commented above me. Soujiro was made to look like one of Shishio's croonies, they should've given him a part in the OVAs. O~O And your wallpaper is very well done-- I like the soft directional lighting that you put on him, it really enunciates the text in the wallpaper. However I think you could make it more realistic by adding some more blurry snow in the right hand corner or in front of Soujiro to add more depth and to make up for the absence of snow falling on his shoulder and head. This can be overlooked though. :)

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~utams

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Fantastic vector but it seems a little let down by the lack of background, the snow is there but there is no depth or shadow despite him looking like he's walking somewhere! Great vector again though!

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~bluesnow

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Ohhhh~ its very infrequent to find a soujirou wallpaper ^.^ Very clean. Kinda of plain, but cute. Keep up the good work.

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~xbabyblueangelwingsx

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Idk this anime/ manga, but its simple and cute^^

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$MadDrRob

3 years, 10 months ago

 

This is just a great wall... The its simple yet it grabs you, I couldn't help but check it out and its awesome.

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~Pinao

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Yay, something for my res. <3

I love the concept and the style. Simple scenes like this always make the best walls to me. :) The background is simple but nice, and the text is well done too, although I think a textless version would look nice also. I like the vector's colors, and the shading on the shadowed areas looks great. I also like how you made up an entirely different background than the one on the scan.

The lines look stroked to me; it would look much better if you traced them manually. Some parts, like around the hair appear to be aliasing. Not sure why, but that can probably be easily corrected if you used Photoshop. There's a bit on the lower right side of his garment that should have color, but doesn't. There's also a line on the bottom of the vector that's kind of distracting, although it wouldn't show up if you have your taskbar on the bottom.

Overall, I think it looks good, but I think you could make it look even better. :)

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`Cilou

3 years, 10 months ago

 

Empty... but nice!

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~koin4444

3 years, 1 month ago

 

I love soujiro, and the theme this wallpaper has goes excellently with him =D

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~dobbyrick

3 years, 3 weeks ago

 

haha, the words suit the character.

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~kenshinALJ

2 years, 9 months ago

 

Soujiro is one of my favorite Rurouni Kenshin characters, along with Hajime Saito. The phrase "searching for my path" definately goes with what Soujiro goes through in the series, but I guess that's why you wrote them in the first place right :P Also, interesting background. It looks kind of like the second anime opening. Kudos.

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~DynamesSniper

2 years, 4 months ago

 

Love the coloring

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~tonomakoto

2 years, 3 weeks ago

 

The snow is beautiful. Because Soujirou is the most favorite character, this wallpaper is glad. Thank you.

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