Ghost in the Shell RESOLUTION

hello.
At last i did a wallpaper! i was waiting for that moment xD agh more than six months since my latest, anyways i am very happy with this work that mean my return or that's what i am believing right now xD for more information of this past months you can read my journal I don't want to mix stuff here on the wall (lie) xP

Motoko, cyberpunk, not much to say, this girl inspired me so much, she is one of that heros to admire because of the complicated and simple things that compose this serie. As this scan i fell in love of many of them so i am working on some more from her, i want to do some from battou but any picture for now :p

The things that captivated me was the beauty and the delicated side of her face, open eyes, looking straight and strong but kind of sweet and relaxed, naked but in he middle of something. what are you looking right now on the wall wasn't the first idea, even is a simple focus on her, highlighting the tones and color and cleaning the orginal concept, I could be able to tweak the wall at this point, which i am very pleased for the result, with every picture I saved I was more excited of how it looks with every change, every layer of process, I thought like "how i did this!" xD. While doing this some other ideas come to my mind and that's what i am looking for while i am doing this, a instantaneous feedback of creativity and XD i hope take advantage of it and don't lost the motivation.

the concept is based on a clean and cybernetic exposure of her, but not overusing the classic elements, and not over recharging the wall, keeping clear zones to use for desktop, making her figure stand out but not too flashy, too much bright bother D: for that reason i used a grayish violet as base for the background, i mean, the extreme black or white will not work for this one. I could add more thing to this, many complicated parts and so, but simple is nice! and i like that, that's what my usual style for desktop.

I had a lot of fun playing with colors xD, since blue to magenta, I didn't want a boring violet over the whole thing, so I changed and mixed the colors, i guess the most notable is the eyes, they aren't red it all, on the scan looks a bit opaque which gives a dark and mysterious aspect over her, i opted for give some light and details, but shading the depth for that reason I enlarge the shadows of the eyes and behind. I loved doing the lips, i was so tempted and that was the first part I did and the last I finished.

What i like the most of this wallpaper, besides of painting the face, was how it turns the idea, with the broken "circles" i must to say they aren't perfect shapes, and is o purpose, when i was extracting them and using simetrical shapes, I saw them too systematical and stiff to my liking, it was more a feeling than a esthetic stuff, the circles are part of her body they are merging it with a different reality, spreading apart pieces, skin, thoughts, becoming something or just fading far away, that's my intention. I don't know but somehow remind me what happen at the end with her, metaphorical and.. not it all. I took the graphics shapes from the scan, mixing it and some others made by me.

:D i am happy because i always wanted to do tutorials but i usually skip (forget) to save pics and so (i suxs teaching, i'm kind of cruel). On the other side, I always wanted to do speed-vector i don't watch too much XD but i like it, is relaxing watch it and yes, I recorded how i did the lips and one eye of Motoko (yaiii), shamefully, my pc is quite old and the progress of doing the fast forward took me years, thanks god i could handle it :P to explain something, is not the full progress of how did it, let's say eerm (easy to expect) is the video without the final details, specially the lips, i did five more process over the lips, with the eye two more, but you can see the final result at least and the very complete base for the vector :3 why? I don't usually record and even if I work fast, I pay too much attetion to the details, once and once again, xD and it was around 4-5 hour the time spent on the lips vector, similar happened with the escaflowne vector, I recorded many parts but I forgot to record the rest xD aho ne. Here the videos! you also can find them at Club Illustrator and in my journal

The video of the Process over the lips

The video of the Process over the Eye

Music while doing the wallpaper, yoko kanno, kenji kawai, gits ost, escaflowne ost, steve conté, aerosmith, gorillaz, lady gaga and some electronic music.

This wallpaper is all made with vectors, using Illustrator cs4,layers: 8, sublayers : i don't know =.= Time: One month + few days. 72.5 MB. original size 7000x4375px. The PNG is the best. Original picture:

As always i hope you like it, this one is very special to me, commentaries will be very appreciated, thanks ^^