A wallpaper by `Tens
Submitted 2 years, 6 months ago

Hiiro no Kakera Dark Horizon

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Dark Horizon Hiiro no Kakera Wallpaper
  • Revision 1

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  • Revision 2

    • 2/191632

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`Tens

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Happy Birthday @Kitten! (again) <3

I don't really do these walls since I am a slowpoke and I need inspiration to even complete a wall. But... Kitten is special and decided to do one. Did this wall for you! :D

The reason I named it 'Dark Horizon' is because I imagined a place with complete darkness with no natural lighting from the sky. I just wanted to make a simple wall. Nothing super amazing. The vector was slowly done in 4-5 days (could of been 1 if I could actually just sit down). The wall has been in progress for about 3 weeks of mainly experimenting. OMFG THE BACKGROUND. That's where I spent 95%+ of my time on. Progress chart doesn't include all the variations I went through. You can see where I was about to give up ;_;. I never played with a wall so much before.

My initial vision was to just have the character fade into a black background. But I found that was too plain and I suck at typography so I couldn't use that to fill space. I went on a sketching spree for a few weeks and decided on the current background. It's suppose to be aged pillars but they look more like gnarled tree trunks since they're roughly painted and warped. Mist was added to the ground to give it a more mysterious feeling. It wasn't super detailed like the clouds in my progress because it would stick out too much.The background was blurred to help give it some distance, blend, and shift focus. Light source isn't in a defined place with a gradient/ray. I wanted to do it so bad because it would make the wall feel more complete. Unfortunately, I couldn't nail it and just scraped.

[Insert wall of text explaining all the lightings and techniques I went through and none of them work since my character was shaded based on having a pure black background void of any light, hope, and made of the nightmares of little children and I didn't feel like going through a whole mess of vector layers to change some of their colors.] takes a breather

The background suffers A LOT from gradient banding. I minimized it as much as I can. In PS it's fine but messes up turning into a JPEG. Nothing I can do about it. The PNG version looks fine.

Let me know if the wall is too bright/dark/saturated because my new monitor is bright as hell and the coloring is different. The whites are literally pure white. I know this is far from being completely refined. I want to work on it more but I am just so exhausted. Edits may come later if I feel like it.

R.I.P. my old monitor that gave out while working on the wall and delayed the wall's completion.

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`Nysha

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Omai a bishie from you! 8D Nice and smooth like usual, and wow all those bg attempts! @.@ You're right the dust on the png version looks much better. Actually I think lots of the black is nice and mysterious - so probably a larger vignette on the pillars, and more foreground dust. :3

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°BlackRock

2 years, 6 months ago

 

I believe that the smoothness of the character vector can't let you notice any flaws in the wallpaper. The feeling is just superb and the colors chosen are quite something. I must say that I love all your works, so everything looks just fine to me Keep it up and hope you find a better monitor ^_^

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`Tina18

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Ohai surprise bishie xD I really like the colors and the hair looks nice. Pffft rainbow ftw. I like v8 from all those with darker mood and the light from above, yenno looks nice in the thumbnail at least.

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~ngakyuklim

2 years, 6 months ago

 

wow. all ur wallpapers are awesome! :D

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~alenas

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Bishie! O:

Wow, this certainly looks a bit different from your usual style - it's more...I dunno, soft? XD

Anyway, I really like the choice of BG - all the others looked awesome, too but somehow, this one fits the best. And I LOL'd at the rainbow version, haha. Although I agree with Nysha that the green tones in one of the versions looks yummy, too. I also love the green flying things around him, very spiffy. XD

Nice job on this, I'm sure Kit will love it! :D

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~Rissa-chi

2 years, 6 months ago

 

love the dark atmosphere (and bishie). and the light actually doesn't bother it XD nice and smooth vector as well :D the rainbow ver. is actually kinda funny xD +fav

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°trofikabinet

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Came here just to express my love again <33 + fav

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`Horseradish Memento Mori

2 years, 6 months ago

 

This is LO-OOOOOOOOOVE~ At first glance, I thought it was Dark from DNAngel. LOL. Anyway, the colors and shadows are really smooth and clean. <3333 Love those glowing lights too.

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~Susi-chan

2 years, 6 months ago

 

I prefer this version a lot, the soft light adds better feeling to the wp. Thumbs up!

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Bantam Anime Seagull

2 years, 6 months ago

 

You did such a good job with the character that even the backgroundless version looks good @_@

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`Aladdin 古いを尊重

2 years, 6 months ago

 

I can't guess what is the thing that makes me love this wallpaper so much... Love it, download it, comment it and FAV it... flawless victory Tens! Thumbs up ^^

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`Cilou

2 years, 6 months ago

 

This wall is just gorgeous! This simple BG stand the character out, colors are well chosen, and composition is just amazing. Thanks for sharing! As in MT, Fav!

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^Vampluva Future type Person

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Wow, I love it! I appreciate also all the work you put into it to get things right, it can be so hard at times to get just the right feeling for your wall. So kudos, I think you've done a terrific job!

How did you get the glowing dust effect? It looks great!!

Fav.

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`FiiFO

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Zomg bishie <3 really nice detailed vector and choice of background. +fav

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`srsng

2 years, 6 months ago

 

At first I thought it was a DNangel wallpaper coz he looked like Dark

so it's a Hiiro no Kakera eh? nice one This is a surprise since you usually nailed a shoujo wall. I like those glowing thingy

deserves a fav

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`Valuna

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Due to a massive use of effects, there's a horrible gradiation when it goes to pure black in the background. Also, is one of the pillars supposed to be a bit off with the rest?

Either way, way to go cook-kun, first bishie from you xD

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`Kitten

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Awww...all the pain you went through for little o'l me <3 That's one sexy bishie, couldn't ask for more. He's in a dark and isolated place as well, this is way too similar to the dreams I have XD

I really like all the BG concepts I saw, they were very nice for the scene but this one is great cause it gives out the dark & lonley feeling. Though the little lights give some hope :3 Your vectoring is simply flawless, yummy smoothness on the hair. Thanks for the gift! <33 It was worth waking up early for :D

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~traxex87

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Nice wall with well crafted vector.

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~hirata

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Wow, he is a beautiful and hot bishi!!! The vectoring is gorgeous and I simply like this warm colour combination.

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`Fran

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Lol, I'm not gonna repeat what everybody said already. Awesome wall is awesome.

As Nysha and alenas, I'm totally digging the green light version

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`yago-san

2 years, 6 months ago

 

The vexel is completely awesome, love the colors and the softness, and the dark bg suits kinda well :D

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°Stereoman

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Pretty _ +fav

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~akira-chan

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Ñamm bishie bishie (8) xD I prefer this version :D because the effects are amazing and i love the colors :D the trace is really good ^^ thanks for the share

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~Medi

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Somehow he seems so.. warm? Maybe it's the smoothness and a good choice of colors :) nice nevertheless, /fav

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~Sweety8587

2 years, 6 months ago

 

YAY another bishie wallpaper for my collection XD

I dont see any problems in the colorings (too dark or too light or anything) and i love the mysterious like pillars in the back. Nothing too catchy that they distract you from the character and yet not blank enough that you go "hey this feels too empty!"

well done :D

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°saiyagok

2 years, 6 months ago

 

I just love how it is... simple, but complete in the whole of sense, just that make it wonderful ; ) thanks for share it +

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~kagamivia

2 years, 6 months ago

 

They're both great walls but I do like the second version. I like the silhouette of the pilar in the background and the dust effect that you did.

Both of it are very nice, clean and clear. So, great work on both. <3

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`Yamaro

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Nice! Love the softness of the vector. Great job!

favinnn~~

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°pyrotechnic

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Wow your walls are always amazing! The painted feel I cannot get over. Awesomecakes! 8D +fav

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`Gideon

2 years, 6 months ago

 

I would like to request the rainbow version please. My eyeballs enjoy a challenge. XD

The vectoring is fantastic, and I do enjoy the version with the background. It adds some visual interest for me. (The other is nice, but I like some meat to most walls that go on my desktop XD) I agree with Nysha though, adding more dust would be a nice touch. Good job. :D

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~8sky8

2 years, 6 months ago

 

waaaaaaaaaah i laughed really hard when i saw "rainbow all the way" XDXD that was crazy +fav of course >‿<ˇ

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`yukina-rei

2 years, 6 months ago

 

The vector is so smooth and lovely, it makes me think of a top quality CG...the colours and everything just meshes together so nicely, I'm putting this as my desktop right away!! :D

P.S: I love the mist <3

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°Youngster

2 years, 6 months ago

 

Perfect paper to match the season, FAV

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`Xyrick

2 years, 6 months ago

 

i really thought that this was a DN angel wall.. very smooth and awesome!

+fav

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~luna

2 years, 6 months ago

 

How wonderful that you have made us fangirls a bishie wallpaper!! I love how it's mostly black but doesn't really look plain! It's nice and mysterious. Composition-wise, I would have preferred his face be higher up, but it's not too big a deal, haha. Fav!

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~Gizel4

2 years, 6 months ago

 

I'm not too familiar with the technical aspect of vectoring or even constructing a wallpaper but I really do appreciate the effort/work that was put into making this. The unique approach to your vector/coloring is very creative and the atmosphere provided complements the character superbly. Thanks for sharing all those different variations of the wallpaper, it's really appreciated!

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*Chiba-Michiyo

2 years, 6 months ago

 

When I saw this I immediately set it in my desktop!! It was love at 1st sight! xDD I always love your smooth coloring it looks just amazing! Definitely FAV!!!! >D

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~yukimura6593

2 years, 6 months ago

 

His hair is fanstatic and he is cool.

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~mangamaniac999

2 years, 5 months ago

 

Fantastic job!

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~Hakuchii

2 years, 5 months ago

 

Mhhhh very nice bishie QI like the light effects of the bg ver much, you did a great job in all these weeks :D

Keep it up!

+Fav!!

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~SnXX

2 years, 4 months ago

 

Wow..awsome and hot^^ This one is trully perfect! Love the choice you made for the bg

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~rukakaz

1 year, 8 months ago

 

Absolutely loving the simplicity of this. Beautiful wall!

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~vinland

1 year, 3 months ago

 

wow perfectly done love the black background because it suits with the characters intention :P nicely done :D

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~xXEvilAngelXx

11 months, 3 weeks ago

 

This walll is very elegant, congratulations

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