Tales of the Tape - Duration: approximately 1 year, on and off
Medium: Photoshop CS5
Tools: Trackpad only
Revision 1: Original work
Revision 2: Sepia tone added and burned surroundings
Revision 3: Removed the textures of the characters' clothes
It's finally over. After a very long and arduous time devoted on this wall, finally. This is another one of the parody works I grew to love create. For this latest piece, I decided to go on working on Da Vinci's classic, the Last Supper, and place anime characters into it instead. Indeed, this has to be my most technically challenging wall yet.
The concept is this: In the future arc of KHR, after the young Vongola Decimo defeated Millefiore Famiglia and returning to his normal time, the future Tsuna now meets with the rest of the family to discuss their next course of action and to layout their terms as they reestablish their claim as the most powerful mafia family in the world. Hence the title, inspired by Vito Corleone of the Godfather.
I've placed the process pics to better discuss the details of the walling. It's almost purely driven by Nysha's concept of Vector Mask Painting. I started doing the background (taken from a shot of a promotional picture of Battlestar Galactica), something I rarely focus on from my previous walls, vectored them and added a concrete texture. Next stop was the characters. I used my old technique on modifications and collages of different images to create the most suitable pose. All the images of the characters were either taken from scans of the original artists or from the cards and other paraphernalia of KHR. I had to blend the shadows and lighting to the best of my skills to make the entire wall taken at one time.
Well, I'm kinda tired from running around two hospitals and operating on my charity cases. But, walling is a great distraction for me and it I hope to continue some more.
Check out the process pics. I need to start reviewing for the in-service exam, so I might postpone some of the projects which I've already made some concepts too. Walls for Fairy Tail, To-Love-Ru, and One Piece. In the mean time, enjoy this wall.
BTW, Thanks Brosteb, for all the comments you've made on the wall as well as tipping me about going sepia. Hope THAT version I made suits you. And also, I had the beer I owe you, but since you're not around, I drank it.






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11 months, 1 week ago
OwO My eyes not deceive me?! The Last Supper! The moment I've seen the wall I needn't to read the sig - I's sure it's yours!!
Seriously, your way of interpreting things in a hell of unique way, and very VERY creative one is genius!!!
First off the vector - it's just awesome, clean and vivid! The work done of seeking all those images and fit them to the place and the scene is amazing! I also like that the every character has it's own style and details which make him/her recognizable!
Then the bg - it's wonderfully done! Depth&depth and depth! The texture also adds the 3d feeling to the walls, ceiling and floor!
But the idea is really brilliant! can't take my eye off!
+fav and wait for the next ingenious treat!
11 months, 1 week ago
Thanks Ness for the comment. I nearly went berserk looking the right image to use as posing. Your the first to comment, and I liked your opinion and appreciate your feedback. Thanks
11 months, 1 week ago
Finally oh finally, Another beautiful piece from you! I thought youd left us but to see you come back like this O.O.
Great work once again, and what a wonderful idea using the Last Supper as a reference. Simply stunning. I hope we will get more from you now?
11 months, 1 week ago
I wonder how many times the Last Supper has been parodied... but whatever! You've done a magnificent job on your wall. I'm simply amazed at the effort put into this including you finding every single character as well as vectoring them and the background. Your efforts alone deserve a reward. The background is beautiful (the textures are very nice) and as with the Last Supper, the depth is not loss in your work. Awesome work!
11 months, 1 week ago
What a impressive wall ! I like how you combine all the characters together . +Fav
11 months, 1 week ago
Amazing!! Excelent Wall.
11 months, 1 week ago
What an amazing wallpaper!! I've never seen or imagined a Last Supper's parody with anime characters...Neither by K.H.R! Excellent job =)
11 months, 1 week ago
**WHUT!? I thought we're doing this as a collab! ** Oh well since you finished it, I'll comment here.
Firstly I would like to commend on your parodies. It's in a way very creative to think of such ideas. There isn't a waller out there who has made as much parody walls out there as you - quantitatively speaking.
While I adore the parodies, I feel like there is something off about the wallpaper. The BG looks too realistic compared to the characters even though it is vectored. I think it's because of the textures. You might want to tone down a bit of textures in there. As for the character lighting. It looks like it can be improved further well, because they - all characters- are very bright on the upper half while dark on the lower half. It's like their brightness is too uniform and in that type of room. I think darkening some shades on the characters especially those on the sides would give it depth. Also the parts below the table looks unfinished., no matter how hard I try to argue with myself that it is finished. It's like they lost detail --> I actually noticed this when my friend pointed this one out to me saying "Bakit ganoon, parang nde tapos?". I must admit the Pokemon wall of yours did have a nice lighting - if that lighting would be in here I think it would be perfect!
But anyway, I'm glad to see you back. Hope to see more parodies from you. Keep it up!
11 months, 6 days ago
I'm very sorry Ashley for not informing you. I kinda got carried away with all the work that in between, I focused on this wall and realized that I was too deep into it already. Thanks for pointing out those things. I personally am not familiar with painting beyond the use of blending or layers. But, I'm reading tutorials on it after you pointed it out, and I'll put it in my future walls. As for the "nde tapos" parts, you are partially right, I was thinking that being underneath the table with darkness, there's not much room to put details (PLUS I was already getting crazy with all the revisions for the lower half of their bodies
11 months, 4 days ago
No worries, it's alright, I also have my walling motivation drained from me ever since I finished my Amnesia wallpaper
so I wouldn't have finished the collab and would prolly take a longer time.
Well most people would think that because it is dark, there's not much details to put. Actually a dark color - like black would have hidden them (like what I did in my wallpaper above - lower left and right areas) but the problem here is that the floor also reflects a bit of light back so details should be seen. If you actually want to hide them (and I know with all the revisions you've been going @.@) you could like add a blanket on the table to cover the legs, but it would look too plain.
11 months, 1 week ago
Amazing as always
11 months, 1 week ago
This picture is interesting! I like it!
11 months, 1 week ago
Awesome wallpaper! +fav!
11 months, 1 week ago
To be quite honest, this made my day. This is PURE WICKEDNESS man! \m/ Lucky me that I went for a visit here in AP! LOL. I remember vaguely about you talking about another parody wall in your last wall so when I saw this, I instantly knew that it had to be yours. :3
That being said, I'd like to point out a few things about your wall, while I like the WHOLE setup and mash-up of your characters, I find the textures on the surroundings to be too strong/very realistic. It doesn't quite blend in well together with the characters IMO. Maybe toning it down ought to do the trick. Although your lineless vector looks nice, I still think that them having a faint outline would make it stand out even more. I'm somehow longing for more gradients in the colors of your characters.
Other than that, I really praise your efforts and hard work in completing this very detailed and structured wallpaper! It's very refreshing to look at, as always. Your concepts amaze me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I don't get bored at all. TO sum it all up, let's just say that I really, really, really, really appreciate this wall of yours. \m/
Good luck with your work! Keep 'em coming! ^^v
11 months, 6 days ago
Hey horseradish! Thanks for pointing out these stuff on the wall. I'm going to start the conceptualization of my next wall. It's going to be a Fairy Tail one. The parody: well that's a secret for now. I will use line art on the next wall, and learn a bit more on painting. Thanks for the input. I'll use them on the next wall. But right now, I'm scrubbing in
11 months, 1 week ago
Vongola X Family in one wallpaper. Too good
11 months, 1 week ago
At last! Finally there is a good wallpaper of the entire Vongola family! THANKS
11 months, 1 week ago
Awesome job, great wallpaper! Fav for me!
11 months, 1 week ago
just wonderful. it's an excellent and meticulous work
11 months, 1 week ago
Oh , I don't think it gets more awesome than this. Love the last supper effect.
And the quote rules. Very apt.
11 months, 1 week ago
im sold! xD
you did an amazing job in this wall, it looks amazing^^ love how you modified their lower bodies^^ only thing i'd like to point out is, hibari, he looks like he has abnormally short legs, his upper half looks good and i think that if you move him up more it'll make him too tall, maybe try making him smaller... im not sure about that cause it might make him seem oddly small? but other than that it looks wonderful and i'm loving the background^^
11 months, 1 week ago
Well. It's a matter of opinion i guess. Hibari is wearing a yukata, usually it's low waist. I dunno whether I'm really right or just guessing. Anyway, I'll look into It and maybe modify him if I got it wrong. Thanks for pointing it out
11 months, 1 week ago
Who did you kill in order to acquire walling skill like this? You must have sacrificed at least 3 wallers in order to become this skilled. I hope it was worth it! This wall looks amazing and the theming is amazing! Im gonna use this as my background! Thanks for the amazing wall!
11 months, 1 week ago
Finally, it's been submitted. Great job!
Because I've seen this a lot of times already, everything I had to say has been said already.
Just buy me another beer when I get there. heheh
11 months, 1 week ago
Very nice work
11 months, 1 week ago
Truly an awesome wallpaper to have. Love that anime just wished it follow manga more. Did a great job on this. +Fav
11 months, 1 week ago
Excellent job! You did once again a great wall.
+fav
11 months, 1 week ago
So this is the final one. Damn, it took you so long but it was worth the wait to see this!
Excellent one. It sure feels great to accomplish another masterpiece.
+1 for you and keep it up! Good day, bro. o/
11 months, 1 week ago
Amazing!! fantastic work..................
11 months, 6 days ago
Really really nice. I love the concept and you did a great job with their positions. Also awesome background design. What I don't like about this are the textures, specially since the vector is a really clean and sharp one (even though some of their clothes have textures) it doesn't blend well. Maybe is just me, I don't really like that kind of use to make surfaces. I prefer for this kind of wall, painted ones. Still you did a wonderful job with the rest :) keep it up!
11 months, 6 days ago
Once I get back from the hospital, I'll post a third revision MINUS the textures in the clothes. Thanks for pointing that out filo! Right now, I'm about to scrub in an operation
10 months, 4 weeks ago
aaaaand now I'll fav it :3 I love how it looks :D
11 months, 6 days ago
Your creativity and patience for vectoring of so many characters needs a big applause, especially if I take how much time you poured inside this wallpapers. Should be a example for many newcomers who submit a quantity of underaverage wallpapers made in a few hours. What feels a bit different from the rest,is the table itself, not sure if that texture (or pattern?) makes it that way. However the ammount of deatils and blending everything together still makes this piece a first class art and even if I don't like Reborn itself , Iwill sure decorate my desktop with this for some weeks. Thank you. +Fav
11 months, 5 days ago
goodddddddddddddd
11 months, 5 days ago
so cool
11 months, 5 days ago
Fantastic Job !!
11 months, 5 days ago
I noticed this wallie because of the concept behind it. It is indeed creative to base a wall deisgn on a famous painting, which is the Last Supper. Clean vector and cool design. What really impress me is that you've done everything from scratch.
Anyway, I like all the 3 versions because they have the beauty of their own.
Hope to see more of your work. They are indeed amazing. X3
11 months, 1 day ago
I hope you love reborn anime manga ta come back soon too
10 months, 2 weeks ago
This is just amazing. For one, having the entire Vongola family in one wall already makes this a mandatory feature on my desktop :) I love how you textured the background, as well as how you vectored the characters.
I think some have already mentioned that the lack of textures in the characters as compared to the foreground is a little...disturbing? But honestly it doesn't bother me, rather I think they make the characters stand out just enough. What bothers me though, is the lack of textures in the table lol! Makes this inanimate object look too flat and clean as compared to the other inanimate objects in the background.
This has gotta be a fav though :)
10 months, 1 week ago
niice
10 months, 5 days ago
wow nice wallpaper!keep up the good work!
10 months, 5 days ago
kawai ... that is a amazing art =)
10 months, 4 days ago
OMG this wallp is amazing
10 months, 2 days ago
This is an awesome piese of work.
9 months, 1 week ago
Only a genius can come up with this idea. i love it!
9 months, 2 days ago
Wow, this paper's slate, very very slate! Love this and keep up the good work!!
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Great job,i loved that wall and the details.:):)
7 months, 3 weeks ago
cool
7 months, 3 weeks ago
am
7 months, 1 day ago
Adoro Katekyo Hitman Reborn um Anime que merecia ter continuação,essa imagem não fica para trás ótima escolha,Sugee -
6 months, 3 weeks ago
This is awesome Tsuna looks so boss
6 months, 1 week ago
Good work:)
6 months, 3 days ago
you did a good job. i love this wallpaper. the vector is good. i'm impressed keep up the good work
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Santa Madre, Unos de los los mas creativos wallapers de Reboon que he visto en toda mi vida, que biblico, que hermoso todos de la mafia es el mejor que hay, el acabado el diseño sobre todo la combinacion se agradece el gran trabajo y dedicacion, es un trabajo sin criticas y alavado el diseñador de este el acavado que le diste, gracias eso es todo.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Yo! I can't believe my eyes! The whole Vongola is there and the rest! I saw Lal Mirch there, and why is Colonello is not there, but who cares...She looked amazing. I saw Binachi, with Gokudera, and its somehow confusing, that why didn't Gokudera fainted and have a stomach ache while his sister is beside him...Maybe it's because he's not looking at his sister's face. I saw Dino there, But wheres Romario? I hope Dino won't be clumsy, lost balance, or fall of the stairs, when his not around. Why is Xanxus is there? Maybe he's been called for a grand meeting...But seens he's there, I hope he won't bother Tsuna, even if he thinks their still enemies. Look at Chrome! She looked hot, and more beautiful, than 10 years ago! Man!! She's so cute!!! Even Rokudo's with there. My! Look at Reborn, now in his 15 year old self...He's so good looking!!! To the person who created this picture...It's the first ever time I saw the 25 year old face of Tsunayoshi Sawada...He look alike as Primo's face. Hibari is more handsomer than he was 10 years ago...He's little pet bird, Hibird is as adorable as ever!! Oh my gosh!!! To the artist that created this beautiful art!! I give you a round of applause!!! : )
3 months, 1 week ago
Ok... I favourited..
2 months, 2 weeks ago
good job!!
1 month, 3 weeks ago
perfect ---
3 weeks, 6 days ago
thx for this awesome reborn wallpaper. epic!
5 days, 3 hours ago
The second revision is by far the best, love the lighting and what you did with the bg is pretty sweet =}