Nurarihyon no Mago Parade

The manga volume covers depict the Hyakkiyako. ^^ I thought that this was very clever + there aren't enough Nurarihyon walls out there, so this is the first three covers collected. Nurarihyon no mago is an awesome, awesome manga series by Shiibashi Hiroshi that's supposed to be getting an anime this year, I hear. Beautiful art, fight scenes that make me cackle madly, and all around cool factor -- I recommend it for anyone who enjoys Japanese folk legends, supernatural stuff, or just a solid shounen.

So... Simple, simple. Motivated entirely by my desire to see these characters on my desktop.

To those who are infinitely more talented at background design than I am and possibly interested, here is the compiled image I made: NurarihyonCovers1-3vector

Original scans: Volume 1Volume 2Volume 3

Vectoring the background youkai would have killed me. Sorry.

I'd say... three days start to finish?

ETA: I have a question! I'm looking at this thing now on the lab computer (a Mac), and all the colours are gone. *m* It's all parchment yellows and greens on my laptop, but I see nothing but black and white on this screen. Can you see the colours? Should I make a high contrast version?

Edit 2: Alright. There should be colour on normal monitors now.

Edit... lots: Due to popular demand, I re-drew the background. It's verging on cluttered now, but I like the greater detail on the trees. Thoughts?

Edit even more: Added 1920x1200 res. Stupid me decided to rasterize the background while I was working, so I had to do some reconstruction when pixellation attacked. 1920x1080 still looks best. :P

Edit again: Sorry, decided that I didn't like Rikuo's hair. Last time, I swear! (Oops. Sorry, been screwing up the resolution. Didn't actually change anything in the revisions past the second.)