Title: Sparklin' Beauties | Series: Sailor Moon
Characters (Layers): Setsuna (15), Hotaru (15), Haruka (14), Michiru (21), Chibi (17), Usagi (28), Ami (16), Makoto (14), Rei (13), Minako (17)
Layers Total: 170 Charas + 40 Eyes/Extras + 5 Bg = 215 Total
I've been working on this vector for awhile now. Although the characters were simple enough, the whole made the vector both time consuming and annoying. >.<;; But I pulled through it even though it took awhile. I knew I wanted to vector it as soon as I saw the scans uploaded. The downfall and slight discouragement was that Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune didn't have dresses... and it was too obvious to leave alone. Using different dresses as models (link/listed at end) I drew my own dresses and shadowed them myself. Honestly this is the first time I've ever added in my own stuff or put shadow on anything so I'm a little uncomfortable with it .__. but it was necessary sigh
I started and worked from Minako down, made a circle, and ended on Chibi and Usagi. Well technically I did the eyes last, buuuuuut, yeah... lol! The eyes turned out to be my favorite part, it was fun workin' on the colors and stuff. I dunno why, but I always tend to pay the most attention to the eyes in any anime. These eyes had enough detail to them to make me happy. ^-^
The moon was taken from the original scan and NOT vectored. Instead I pushed the colors around the peps in front of the moon so that the old, not vectored characters wouldn't be seen or get in my way. Then I went and add/removed noise and basically smoothed the moon over.
The background behind I actually made BEFORE I had completely finished my vector. Well I started it, did the last touch ups on the background once the vector had been complete and put on top of it. Used a cloud brush with some stars and sparklies for the background on top of a ligth blue to dark blue coloring. Pretty simple, huh? xD Added the vector, added the moon, then went about changing the lightening and working on that. The wallpaper part technically only took about half an hour (spread over 3 cuz I was forced to raid and work on the wallie in between pulls). The vector I did over a spread amount of time but I think it took a good few weeks. I'd have to check for exact day I started on the vector.
I'm too tired to go into more detail... I considered making more than one version with different colors for the dresses (like the original and lighters and so on) but I didn't... maybe later... oh well... haha... bed is calling me now <3
Vectored in Paint Shop Pro 8 | Original Scan (Left Side) | Original Scan (Right Side) | Pluto (Setsuna)'s Dress Model | Uranus (Haruka)'s Dress Model | Neptune (Michiru)'s Dress Model | Brushes from free-brushes.com
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2 years, 1 month ago
Congrats for the vector!
2 years, 1 month ago
very nice work It looks very nice and all the caras fit well and don't look too crowded
2 years, 1 month ago
the background doesn't go with the image it doesn't looks good
2 years, 1 month ago
I'm sorry it's not to your liking. If maybe you could suggest what I should have done instead, that would be very helpful. I did the background as a sky/stars/night/etc because the scan had it like that and thought to keep it to the original.
2 years, 1 month ago
Congratulations for the vector work.! Seems really hard, but in the end it made a beautiful wall.! Well done.!
2 years, 1 month ago
The vectoring job is really, really nice! The colors are pretty too. The colored outlines are a nice addition to it. The BG though IMO, is kinda clashing with the characters. D: Because if you look closely at the original scan, the BG with the moon is neat and clean looking. Whereas to your own rendition of BG, the stars and the clouds kinda distract the viewer from focusing on the characters. Also, the moon behind them in the original scan is whiter than your moon. It has a faint color yes but the color of your moon is kinda dark. Maybe, if you went with a nice gradient of indigo+purple for the BG, then add some subtle star BG----I think it would look nice and clean. :D Never mind the clouds. I don't think they blend too well. As for the moon, make it whiter, cleaner and brighter. :D
Hope this helps. :D
2 years, 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing! A beautiful wallpaper.
1 year, 11 months ago
How nostalgic :)
1 year, 10 months ago
Just Beautiful ;)
1 year, 9 months ago
The old memories come back, It seems pretty good, nice job!
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Just amazing, I remember the scan or pix of this a long time ago and remembering that i wished the quality and color where better so i could have a wallpaper of it and now there finally is and I just love it thank you so much
8 months, 1 week ago
so loved
1 month, 6 days ago
Wow. This is amazing. I can tell you worked hard on it! It turned out really nice. I never would have been able to do that much detail for one character let alone ten! The colors are perfect, the shading couldnt be better. I don't know why but Jupiters dress bugs me though. I'm not sure what it is but it's probably an OCD thing.