My entry for Match 14: Swords! at Wallpaper Games group.
When I thought to a 'sword' themed walll I immediately wanted to do something with a samurai, and my chose ended on Goemon. I like this character, he's meditative, a man of few words but letal with his katana. In the anime he can cut everything with it, iron, too! o.o
I tried to put the focus on him, smudging the closest part, i.e. his hand and sword, adding some thingies for give a bit a 'move' effect to katana. The result isn't what I wanted to get, but I changed it so much time that in the end I lost patience >.< and I stopped editing. Anyway, I hope you'll like it :)
Credits and sources:
Original japanese settei (thanks to Oasi delle anime)
CLAMP's illustrations (for the background): 1 - 2 - 3
Japanese text copied from 50 Popular Kanji (part 1)
Comments are always welcome :)
EDIT:
First of all, thanks for your suggestions guys, them pushed me on editing a bit more this wall. It's like Session Zero it's still alive ^.^
I added various revisions: with not blurred hand/sword, with a paper-texture onto the background and a bold text, with textureless background. Hoping you'll find your favourite among them ^_^
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1 year, 6 days ago
Nice picture I love the simplistic style! :)
And also, didn't know that anyone besides me was the fan of CLAMP's smoke effect. :D
1 year, 6 days ago
Who isn't a fan of CLAMP's smoke effect. After xxxHolic anything that CLAMP did was something I wanted to investigate. In this case the BG doesn't really give me a sense of smoke, because none the pattern drifts into the foreground. The pattern has more of the feel of a kind of floor pattern. We'll have to ask `mirtillo if smoke was her intent, but without regard any such technical details I like the background and the overall result.
1 year, 5 days ago
Yeah, I wanted to do smoke swirls. I'm sorry it doesn't seem for you :( I added a patternless revision (4th version), hoping it looks better for you :)
1 year, 5 days ago
Thanks TJJJ, happy you like it ^__^
1 year, 6 days ago
oh hell
I just now saw your wall
besides, it is amazing one of my favorite characters, strong when needed and shy and awkward with women just like me ehehehe
I repeat what I said on the MP type of art is different but still beautiful all the same.
even if done with a drawing in PC seems really true Japanese style,
really compliments
1 year, 5 days ago
thank you dear :)
1 year, 6 days ago
WOW,I CANNOT BELIEVE SOMEONE MADE A GOEMON WALL ♥-♥ Sorry for the capital letters,I'm just too hyper :P I really love the softness of this,makes him as yummy as a cupcake xD I do wish the end of the strokes were pointy and not round though,it would make his as if he was drawn,and I think that feeling would really fit the overall looks and colors of this (the color of this is paperish,so it would fit well)..I would also want to get the version without the blur of the hand in front,because I hate blur xD I think the kanjis were a nice touch,to fill the emptiness and the simplicity of the background ^^ Great job as always ♥ ++
1 year, 5 days ago
Glad I did a wall with a character you like, Storm :D for each revision I did also a not blurred hand version :)
1 year, 6 days ago
I think it would be nice if it were just the Japanese characters only, without the translations. Also it would be nice if the font that you used were more of a brush stroke rather than a sharp type of font to make it look more authentic and more Japanese than it is right now. :D It would be nice if the outlines were a bit sharper than they are right now. It looks like they were stroked instead of retracing every lineart. Although I do love the motion blur applied to the sword and also the BG. Adding some papery textures to the BG would look nice. Try it. XD
1 year, 5 days ago
It isn't a font, I vectored the text using paths. I filled paths with a bigger brush onto a pair revisions, hoping in this way it looks a bit more like Japanese style text :) one is without English
translation (8th revision), and as you suggested I applied an other texture, a paper look texture. Thanks for your advices Horseradish ^^
1 year, 5 days ago
So beautiful & vintage wallpaper for a really cult Anime. Good work, Mirtillo, as always!!
1 year, 5 days ago
Thank you Sammy ^_^