I wanted to make a wall for this holiday season, so i searched for an image and found this lovely scan of Okama art. The work is 80% illustrator ( the character, background and snow flakes)and 20% photoshop (for touch ups, glowing lights and halftones). The time spent is an entire day..most of it decidingthe elements and colours of the background and her clothes, since i wanted something that matches or looks like the Christmas colours.
Hope you all like it, and wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a happy holiday =D
P.S: i uploaded a modified version of the paper (blurried the ribbons).
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2 years, 4 months ago
This is very pretty. And it looks like a gift-wrapper too. LOL. If there ever was a gift-wrapper like this, I'd buy one. XD
The elements, even though they are scattered around, are well organized for me. The colors are very pretty too. Though, the flowing ribbon-like lines have jagged edges. It kinda ruins the wall. Perhaps blurring it a bit or re-tracing it would do the trick. ^^v Still, this is really a festive wall for me. <3
2 years, 4 months ago
Thank you for your feedback and glad that you liked the wallpaper. I agree, the ribbons appear jagged so i blurred them this time and hope it works :)
2 years, 4 months ago
I agree about the xmas wrapping paper look. :3 Very nice and festive. Colors are also nice muted like this instead of being super bright and in your face. XD The green ribbon shapes have distracting jagged edges though - if they were smoothed out, the wall would look higher quality like vectors should be.
2 years, 4 months ago
Glad that you liked it =D and happy to hear that you liked the colours. As for the ribbons i tried to smooth them by blurring them and hope that it works.
2 years, 4 months ago
That looks a bit better now. :) However I would suggest not resizing your wall into a 16:10 version, because it distorts her proportions and makes the wall appear squished. If you still have the psd/vectors, you can take her squished version out and put her back in normal proportions using your original vector. Generally wallers start with a large 16:10 wall and crop it to provide alternative resolutions. You don't want to resize the finished wall into a new aspect ratio because it causes heavy distortion that is not visually appealing.
2 years, 4 months ago
I agree with Nysha on this one. Stretching your wall together with the character is not a good idea. Not unless if you stretch the BG without stretching the character. XD
2 years, 4 months ago
The best Christmas wall I've seen on AP!
2 years, 4 months ago
If I had been home over Christmas I would have totally used this as my desktop. I really like the character and the background is really interesting to look at. Great work! :)