Following on my latest obsession for Kazuya Minekura's work and having done Saiyuki for my first wall, it's time for Kubota and Tokito from Wild Adapter to get the well-deserved attention for my second wall.
The idea for the title 'Stray Cat' comes from the manga with Kubota picking up Tokito the 'stray cat' as pictured in this wall in their first introduction to each other. Also relates to Tokito's deformed right hand looking like a claw - read manga for more story :)
Here I wanted to create a 'noir movie'-like shot where it's kinda smelling dark and angsty - hence the cinematic widescreen borders and a touch of sepia for extra dramatic effect.
It's done in a comic/manga style because I love the original scan (courtesy of Bane Huntress) which is basically just a pic of the guys in pencil sketch - hence, crazy filtering abuse on the original alleyway stock photo to match the sketchy look.
The background was definitely the biggest challenge here. With minimal brushing involved, the background stockphoto is almost purely transformed using a mesh of complicated composites of various photoshop's basic filters, plus minor tweaks using Dodge, Burn and default brushes.
Massive thanks for people in Session Zero for your comments and suggestions, esp for the sepia idea, really appreciate everyone's help.
Enjoy - cheers! :)



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7 years, 3 months ago
Wow i love it, it really looks like a movie. The back is great this will be in my favs ;)
7 years, 3 months ago
I really like it! it's veeery goog! b(^^)
7 years, 3 months ago
I like it, I love the overlay
7 years, 3 months ago
Dark efect with the street is good wall ... i like the efect of the darkness street ... and good font ...downloading:) :) congratulation supermonchi
7 years, 3 months ago
You know how I feel about this wall.. Great job ^^
7 years, 3 months ago
Well here it is, finally! You know I dig your monochrome walls. =D Great work on the sketchy effect and lighting composition to give us a wall with such *character*. Kudos, and *faves*.
7 years, 3 months ago
What an excellent wall. I love the feeling from it. +fav
7 years, 3 months ago
Good job, really cool movie effect, nice wall!!!!
7 years, 3 months ago
Nice job on making everything fit together right down to the text! A very movie poster-ish look going on here, this one is going straight to my faves ^^.
7 years, 3 months ago
Oh wow, this Wall looks like it can fall in the classic category. You did some work on that alley way and its most defined. The dark contrast of it gives it a dark, yet myserious look which i like. I'd love to see more of your Walls. Keep it up! =)
7 years, 3 months ago
...gosh dude...all i can saw about this wall is WOW...just...:) :) WOW
7 years, 3 months ago
I really like the mood in this wallpaper, its lonesome, and dark.:) Very pretty work, great job!
7 years, 3 months ago
Nice, but i can't help but think it would look better is you redrew the alley instead of filterng and brush work.:) :) cool idea tho.:) :) Have a nice day!
7 years, 3 months ago
Beautiful wallpaper, i love it
7 years, 3 months ago
Nicely done...it looks so sweet and cool .<
7 years, 3 months ago
The dark effects are great, makes it feel like a movie. It's very artistic and definately a fav.
7 years, 3 months ago
Very nicely done, I really like the look of the allyway and the monocromatic approach you took. Great job on the text and texturing too. I'll have to add this one to my favorites.
7 years, 3 months ago
This is a very good wallpaper i have seen lots of good ones and this is one of the most powerful ones i have seen... the atmosphere is great and the font really matches the concept and it is not ruining the wallpaper. The brown tones make this wall look old, lonely and a little bit depressing but seeing him still standing on his feet makes the whole feeling full of hope. :) :) Yes a grat wall indeen and you got a fav from me coz it is really worth it.
7 years, 3 months ago
Awesome wallpaper. it has an amazing appearance. goood jobbb
7 years, 3 months ago
Wow, I'd say it's rather well done. Only things bothering me are the bars on the top and bottom, and the text. Otherwise, it's awesome. Great job on the background, and the atmosphere of the wall really shows. :):) :) +fav
7 years, 3 months ago
Awesomee!! i love walls that can make just a few colors look great. =D i've never seen this anime before, but this wall shows the mood and emotions really well. good job XD
7 years, 3 months ago
Yeaa!! It's submitted!! & allready aprooved!! Your Mineruka-sensei's walls are just smooth & touching!! Also very nice.. all of you walls have a sad expression, I think^^ The wall Reflections & Memoirs also have a sad feeling^^ The wall is awsome, great, sad, cool, beautiful, & very nice. The characters look very sad, especially the one on the chair. It looks like he's..*gasp!* DEAD. lol. Is he..? The sketch-style is very awsome, great, & cool. Matches well with the wall, & awsome idea. I rarely find theese type of walls... The shadowing is the best from this wall. & the colors also match the shadings. The font matches well with the wall^^ Awsome job, Monchi-puu!! I'll definately add this to my fvas!! Keep up the awsome work & hope to see another wall from you soon!!
7 years, 3 months ago
Like i said in the show off section of the forum..:) this one awesome wall keep the good work my friend
7 years, 3 months ago
:DDDD I love it! Very dark and angsty - the first thing I thought when I saw it was to do with a movie of some sort, with the colouring and widescreen borders. Great effect. The name fits; loads of work's been put into the alleyway - I actually thought it was part of he pic with Kabota and Tokito at first glance, lol :) :) Another fav
7 years, 3 months ago
I love the effects on this wallie! Makes it look incredibly nostalgic, definately managed to capture the noir-movie atmosphere :D GREAT JOB!
7 years, 3 months ago
I agree with meth.. everything is fantastic..altho the black bars need to go..but i like the rest.. good details and shading.. lookin foward to your next work..keep it up mang!..
7 years, 3 months ago
Excellent, excellent work . . . i just love the textures and the colors you have use . . . everything matches together really good . . . very artistic job. Thanks for sharing it. :D:) :) I hope to see more of you in the future. :D
7 years, 3 months ago
Quite impressive:) luv the texturing and style you created for this wallie:) gives it that Frank Miller/Sin City feel to it ;):) :) adding this one to my favs:) well done:) :) i wanna c more :)
7 years, 3 months ago
Holy <bleep:) :) This looks great ... I would love to see the original stockphoto and just take a peek on how you changed it into such a great piece of art ... :) :) Oo
7 years, 3 months ago
Wow, what an amazing wall!! It caught my eyes the moment I saw this.:) The ligthing...the texture...they created a very artistic feel.:) A very good wall!!
7 years, 3 months ago
I would really like it if it had more colors T_T besides that it really has a great mood.
7 years, 3 months ago
Wow:) nice nice:) the background look so cool:) :)
7 years, 3 months ago
o...awesome! I'm really loving the sketchy art style. I actually was keeping an eye on this in Session Zero, but I couldn't think of any way to improve it, so I didn't post. :) :) Well, Monchi (may I call you that?), you've done it again. Another stunning wall. I look forward to your next masterpiece. ^_^
7 years, 3 months ago
Hello there! XD i said this before and i'll say it again: lovely, lovely work.
7 years, 3 months ago
Wow....I rarely found wild adapter wallpaper...So I think this wallpaper means specal for me!! Thanks for sharing this wallpaper!! Umm...Eventhough I think this wallpaper looks little too dark...i think I still like this wallpaper!! I think dark always looks great with wild adapter which the characters always look mysterious.... Wow.....Nice wallpaper!! Good job!! Once again...thanks for sharing this wallpaper!! And, keep up your good work...just waiting for your next wallpapers...Especially if they are about Minekura-sensei master piece lol......I won;t miss to download them and leave comments on them!! See you!!
7 years, 3 months ago
love the dark city grunge atmosphere... kinda pulls me in... it makes me sad, in a good way...
7 years, 3 months ago
Ah... love this one :D The background looks terrific and... generally not a huge fan of the film strips look but it works so nicely here... you definitely got the film noir look done, and the text fits beautifully as well :) This one is a keeper, I think xD
7 years, 3 months ago
i really like how the lights work in the bg....the mood is great too. a wonderful piece of work
7 years, 3 months ago
Wow. The background and the image are completely melded together in this wall. O_O You also create this perfect atmosphere of desolation as well as tension. I love it! I think the text could do with a little work, because it sort of sticks out a little too much, disrupting te "flow" of the wall, but fantastic job! *Adds to faves* :)
7 years, 3 months ago
I like the effects that you used for this wallpaper, really adds to the film noir mood that you were going for.
7 years, 3 months ago
i like the dark, gloomy feel of the atmosphere. the background fades into shadows, nice touch there the text is simple, clean and stands out this wall rocks love the sepia colours great work here! thanks for sharing! i;m adding this to my favs!
7 years, 3 months ago
Tokito-neko! Kubo-chan! XD
I adore this wallpaper, not only for the Wild Adapter -ness, but for the lurvely film noir atmosphere it has.
7 years, 3 months ago
quite impressive wallpaper indeed, the dark feeling of Los Angeles alleyways it gives off (although not the anime itself) it radiates a sense of seclusion and desolation and very well done on the overall effects of the wallpaper. It is wonderful to view and addictive on the desktop. Wonderful wallpaper indeed. I always liked simple tones on the wallpaper, mostly colors just blind me, and this is easier to the eyes. Wonderful wallpaper.
7 years, 3 months ago
COOL!!
7 years, 2 months ago
I really like this. It's simple and straight forward, but perfectly matches Wild Adapter. Very smooth and nice, great job working with the series as well as the picture.
7 years, 2 months ago
Wow...love the sketch style, the atmosfear, the colors, scan and bg perfectly blended...maybe the text a bit smaller? +Fav ^^
7 years, 2 months ago
Excellent wall !!! I love the images in Black -n- White or greys range
7 years, 1 month ago
Lovely work here... it really captures the mood of the series, for fans and for newcomers alike. *belongs to the fan denomination herself ^_^* Anyway, yeah. The brownscale effect works for this. It's good, clean work and I'm looking forward to seeing more~
7 years, 1 week ago
Wonderful! Really like it. Great, great job ^^.. goes to favs 8->
6 years, 9 months ago
wow that ineed looks cool o_O
6 years, 9 months ago
whoa,,it looks real... i like the gloomy effects,too..
6 years, 9 months ago
The theme of the wall is cool. Very movie-ish, murderous, dark theme *thumbs up* The text looks really great. The font is just plain cool.
Fav.
6 years, 9 months ago
Wow, this is gorgeous. And what you did with the background is really impressive.
6 years, 9 months ago
woohooo!! that's so cool and very realitstic! it got movie touches on it!
6 years, 8 months ago
*joins in the frenzy...
whoa.... that's really good one. The biggest selling point of this WP are BG is well-blended into the WP theme and sephia colors adds the dramatic feel of the WP.
An Excellent job!
'nough said...
6 years, 8 months ago
I like it a lot. I love the color you used, it gives the melancholic feeling the I like :) Love the lighting too. The text could be smaller and in a different position though, cause it distracts the eyes from the characters :)
Other than that, it's really good (+fav)^^
Oh, and could you please tell me what you did with the photo?
6 years, 8 months ago
This is an amazing wall. I love how far you've brought it from the original image, and how well you've done it! I feel like I'm seeing the whole scene for the first time! I'm new here, so I apologize if I don't give you a helpful review, but I'm a huge fan of Wild Adapter and an equally large fan of Kazuya Minekura-sensei, and speaking as such, I'm enormously happy to have found this. Great work!
6 years, 8 months ago
the first time I saw this, I was like WOW.. the color was just simply amazing. It looks genuine, and it looks like everything just seems so..together. cool effects, everything's nice.. absolutely +fav :3
6 years, 8 months ago
OMG I love this! Although we don't see any of their faces, this is like THE moment in the manga where the 2 guys meet and their friendship starts off. And this wallpaper have completely captured the atmosphere of it all! Wonderful, love the dark and grungy feel I get from it.
6 years, 8 months ago
I like the Sadness in the picture, great, awesome. Cool. I love it
6 years, 8 months ago
Like it so much!
Hey, 'bout the title: Stray cat...it's so cool! Good job!
6 years, 8 months ago
I like the way this pic makes you think about all the people living in the slums. and you wonder what the standing man is doing...will kick the drunk or help him?
6 years, 7 months ago
Fantastic man....and this wall is so awesome! i love the colors, and then random splashes of shades and shapes and all the things in this wall make this that much more exciting... this is my fav of the day!!inspiring to get a look at walls like this, clean, original and effective. I think that you are a great wallpaper maker. This is a friggin' awesome wall~ Grunge and angle effect. Awesome! Gorgeous. The colors obviously match perfectly..perhaps a bit too perfectly? Also, am not a huge fan of text. But all in all a wonderful wall. the vector is amazing....keep on it..you are a really hero...
6 years, 7 months ago
Wow! Love this wall! I really like the feel to it and the dark colors
Very cool! A definate fav
6 years, 7 months ago
I seem to of not seen this wallpaper before. Hmm... well great job. I like it a lot. I will just fav. it.
6 years, 6 months ago
Nice Wall
6 years, 6 months ago
Tokito and Kubota!!! ^w^ I love this wallpaper!! It's cool and I love the background. Excelent job! I'm giving it a 2 thumbs up and an A++.This one is going straight into my favourites.Keep up the good job!Hope to see more of this in the future^-^
(p/s: I'm a fan of Kazuya-sensei too^w^)
6 years, 6 months ago
Awesome. Your way of transforming the alleyway pic into a manga-style pic totally worked, and the whole wallpaper comes together very nicely. The dark theme in this wallpaper is very clearly conveyed. Definitely gonna fav! XD
6 years, 6 months ago
i love wild adapter and this wallpaper is greate. I love it. <3 :*
6 years, 6 months ago
Wow Great wallpaper and i like the overall feel +Fav
6 years, 6 months ago
Really nice wall! it's now one of my favorites ^-^
6 years, 5 months ago
love the effects the color is great and the atmosphere is also very good created. it`s so sad and hopeless! good work!
6 years, 5 months ago
Excellent! Not wallpaper, but work of art!
6 years, 4 months ago
Really good looking wall, really like this dark style thingy good looking bg and coloring +fav for sure
6 years, 4 months ago
really a texture is very good....I like it!
6 years, 4 months ago
really cool
6 years, 4 months ago
good job there, keep up the good work.
6 years, 4 months ago
The darkness and mood of this wall really makes it fantastic. Of the darker walls I'd say this is one of the best. Great Job
+fave
6 years, 3 months ago
Beginning, supermonchi. Merely now it received this wallpaper. Thank you. Kubota and Tokitou which appear in WILD ADAPTER appear to also the student council executive committee which is another work. However, as for two works character is different completely. As for this wallpaper you think that it is the work where the is well found. The especially this background, with like the one scene of the encounter two to be enormous is impressive. The background had commented that it was big challenge, but you think that very it has been settled skillfully. The kind of feeling and foreboding of the encounter it can go out of use the alleyway reverse side with Tokitou where where Kubota for the first time remembers attachment were made to feel.
6 years, 3 months ago
I love the effects on this wallpaper! Makes it look incredibly nostalgic, definately managed to capture the noir-movie atmosphere.
6 years, 3 months ago
Ineed, very dark and creepy wallpaper. However not very far from the very truth.
6 years, 3 months ago
The whole composition of this wall is brilliant!!! The photo-manipulation is also extremely masterful and the mood that you set with this wall is conveyed with no confusion.
You have done an absolutely masterful job on this wall.
Awesome job!!! 5/5
6 years, 3 months ago
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6 years, 3 months ago
lov eit! i can really sense the mood right when i look at it! cool!!! +fav
6 years, 3 months ago
Looks perfectly awesome! I like the work you did on the initial stock photo!!! The darkness of the scene is good too! Awesome!
6 years, 2 months ago
It's the Saiyuki wallpaper. It's good idea. New look of the wallpaper. The wallpaper is very nice. Tokito is so cute. He is very pretty. Background color is very beautiful. It's perfect picture. Makoto had smart look. He look like the cool. The brown tone is feel. Color tone is good art. The background is very nice. I think I likes it. Thank you for sharing.
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6 years, 1 month ago
I like this alot. Wild Adapter is awesome and this wallpaper is...so great. :)
6 years, 2 weeks ago
Ohhh, awesome! I see this wallpaper on the front page rotation thing and I definitely had to check it out! I simply love the feeling of this wallpaper, dark and very angsty ^^ The sepia colour is a great idea, and the widescreen effect definitely looks good here. Great looking allyway, you did a great job making it match with the sketchy feel of the scan. I love Wild Adapter and it's great to finally see a well designed wallpaper of the series! Awesome work!
6 years, 1 week ago
cool
6 years, 1 week ago
This is a good one to have.
6 years, 3 days ago
Too late for a comment!! But its a great wall! Thanks for sharing! + fav!
5 years, 11 months ago
love those dark wallpapers... esp the ones that draws you in the longer you look at it...!
5 years, 11 months ago
Just...gorgeous @____@ I'm a huge fan of Minekura-sensei as well, and this really does justice to the scan. It's simple and muted, but all kinds of beautiful. Awesome job ^_^
5 years, 11 months ago
wow
how cool
i like this wallpaper so dark and cool^^
5 years, 10 months ago
You did and awesome work with the background, I love it! it really matches the scan.
5 years, 10 months ago
Cool)) I'm not a WA fan, but you wallpaper is amazing. It looks nothing special, but complete:)
5 years, 10 months ago
hehe. it's great. nice concept. it makes me think that it's a movie everytime i look on it.
I wish i could make one like this. |(n_n)|
5 years, 10 months ago
The background is excellent and the wall is very pretty :)
5 years, 10 months ago
It is bitter, and shape good picture. The picture of a dark shade and the alley shows atmosphere very well. The character is neatly processed to be suitable for this picture, and is also good. I thought that neatly settling in one direction was a point where this picture was the best.
5 years, 10 months ago
O_o wow..... the second i saw this wall, i feel in LOVE WITH IT!!!!! the dark tones really show how i feel
5 years, 9 months ago
Este si que esta bueno, solo espero tener suficientes papers con este comentario como para bajarmelo, jejeje.....je (._.); .
5 years, 9 months ago
this is an awesome wall!!!!! i love the fact of stray cat....but the reason i like it is cause it has so much black and dark colors!!!!!
hehe.... ^^
5 years, 9 months ago
I like the effects. It really does fit the scene.
5 years, 8 months ago
Wow, you did a really great job on this^^ At first I thought the whole thing was a scan until I read about the stock photo part. Really love the whole dark/angsty theme too.
5 years, 8 months ago
I like your Wild Adapter wallpaper because it is a sadness wallpaper. The tinting of brown colors are great.I like the sepia color. And the picture seems to be old. A good job !
5 years, 8 months ago
i think i already commented on ur wall but im not sure i like this wall soooooooo much
5 years, 8 months ago
A amazing wallpaper.
Thank you
5 years, 7 months ago
ohhh its very beautiful this colors and combinations that you used in this paper is perfect! great job! congratulations! xD
5 years, 7 months ago
Love the sketchy look of the alley. Got different grain direction, gives it depth.
5 years, 7 months ago
Woww!! I like this manga very much and I also like this wallpaper!! Great work...!! It isreally beautiful with the dark tone and nice style. I love it!
Thank you for your sharing! add +fav.
5 years, 6 months ago
I definitely see the effect matching your comments. Good work!
5 years, 5 months ago
8)E yo buddy i am a newcomer and i am a painter and i do pencil sketch as well.....and my dream is to create these kind of superb wallpapers....which u design in computers can u teach me some technique and can u suggest me some Software to do these things please........:)
5 years, 4 months ago
Very unique and dark theme i really like it Awesome wall
5 years, 4 months ago
Kazuya Minekura is the best. And this wall is really great.
5 years, 2 months ago
it's a very beautiful wallpaper. Good effects, nice style! I love the colours and the whole remains a lot the original manga which is so good.
4 years, 11 months ago
Excellent wallpaper , it looks great !
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4 years, 11 months ago
Awesome work. Fantastic grey and brown scale. Good balance of contrast and brightness. Good sharpen.
4 years, 11 months ago
stylish good job
4 years, 3 months ago
great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 years, 1 month ago
pretty dope style i like it thumbs up =)
3 years, 11 months ago
It's great, I love the road, I love the text, I love the whole thing. Really, very good.
3 years, 4 months ago
This is really great!!!!!!!!! It looks real good!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot XD
3 years, 4 months ago
I usually hate text in walls, but the font you've chosen here really matches the filth and grime of these back alleys. Thanks for showcasing this moment~
1 year, 6 months ago
i just love the manga, n in this wallpaper u really captured the essence of the moment, love the choice of colours u chose, he really seemed like a helpless stray, love it.