The bishounen invasion pushes ever onwards with a wallpaper of Sakis from Lagoon Engine Einsatz. The original scan drew me in with his sense of wonder at the bird flying over him, and I really liked how the bird was integrated into the clouds of the sky. Thus, we have Tama's take on sceneric. I wanted to get a feel of a painting for this wallpaper, thus the entire character was redrawn and repainted using Corel Painter 9. I tried to recreate the original image, so I copied the style of the grass (also painted in Painter) as well as the bird in the sky (yes, Painter yet again!) In fact, the only thing I did in Photoshop (minus my typical color corrections and text at the end) was to make the clouds. I originally was going to paint those, too, but I couldn't get them to look proper after about 2 hours of experimentation, and I knew that judicious use of stock photographs would work out better (plus some smudging and filtering to give it a painted feel instead of a photorealistic feel.) The text on the original scan read, "sono tori wa... watashi no kokoro wo tondeita" which I've literally translated as "The bird soared through my heart". The title "Flight of Fancy" came about because, well, it's an old phrase, and it seems to fit the wonder of a white bird gliding serenely overhead.
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7 years, 11 months ago
Not bad, the folds, and most of the ripples were all cleaned up, plus it looks pretty awesome anyway, thumbs up mate.
7 years, 11 months ago
A typical Tama wallpaper--in other words, pure perfection :D The clouds come across beautifully, and the bird overhead was ingenious. I also love how clean the whole wall feels...so peaceful.
*bows to super Tama-walling skillz*
7 years, 11 months ago
simple and brilliant, as per usual Tama. What's that big white thing in the sky though? It's got me a bit confused... looks good though.
Btw, I love that avatar XD
7 years, 11 months ago
oo me likes! >_< really nice and simple. i love the clouds and the bird looks nice too. the only thing that kinda bothers me is the grass for some reason...but other than that i think its awesome
7 years, 11 months ago
Oooohhh, this looks like a painting, great work! You certainly captured the motion of wind in this piece ^^.
7 years, 11 months ago
Nice painting there tama. The field looks like it is vectorized. The clouds looks great too but is the big whitet thingy a bird? Anyway, good job on it.
7 years, 11 months ago
great wall indeed. but what's that big white thingie in the sky?
7 years, 11 months ago
Oooo I like! I love things with a story behind it. Also really like the clean lines and smoothness of the effects. Very nice. =)
7 years, 11 months ago
pretty good work. the person looks good, the bg is nice too, the clouds are well made. good work. keep it up
7 years, 11 months ago
noy that my comment means anything but i like it.
7 years, 11 months ago
Really cool... ^^ I like the colors in this wall. I like the character too ^^. Good job.
7 years, 11 months ago
Great job on this wallpaper Tama :) I love the clouds in this one... they are so fluffy. Anyway, good job. I think I'm going to use this wallpaper :p
7 years, 11 months ago
Nice Job nothing really to correct on this wall. It has a very nice simple cartoony feel to it. Good job Tama.
7 years, 11 months ago
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!
7 years, 11 months ago
My favorite part is the text. So neatly done. ^^
I think it would look better if the outlines on the character were colored. Since the grass has green outlines and the sky has...well, no outlines, the character having black outlines makes him look a little too crisp. But if you wanted him to stand out (and I mean REALLY stand out), then he SHOULD have black outlines and I SHOULD shut up. XD
You did a wonderful job. I will now add this to my favorites and get something to eat, before I eat you, your wallpapers, and my laptop. XD
7 years, 11 months ago
wow..what a simple and nice wall made...the guy's cool...the title suited the wall...hope to see more of lagoon engine wallies^^
7 years, 11 months ago
Wowies! This is a really awesome wallpaper! The concept is really well done! The thing that sort of bothers me is the bird. I know it's apart of the scan but I wouldn't have know what it was unless you told me ^^; I also like how he looks at it and wonders. I love the clouds and the scan is really crisp and clear! Great painting! Awesome work!
7 years, 11 months ago
The background is so clean. This wall looks simple but it's really pleasing. ^_^
7 years, 11 months ago
amazing wall, very nice, cool colors.
7 years, 11 months ago
Tama - as always amazing ^^ As always stunning work on reconstructing the image, I know what I am talking about as it was me who submitted it XP It looks like a painting and although the wall is simple it is really beautiful ^^ Maybe it is not the most constructive comment ever but I really like it :D
7 years, 11 months ago
as usual, great work Tama. If I comment on this, it would be just a repeat of what u said... it's so good I'm speechless. Anyway, nabbing it for my use :)
7 years, 11 months ago
NICE!! grass and flying stalks of grass plus the character scan is gd, esp when u cant see his face portrays the windy-ness of the scene.... but the central cloud seems unreall unlike the right side and bottom one though, overall fantastic effort
7 years, 11 months ago
the grass and clouds are very very very well done i love it it is very simple wallpaper and i just love it keke the scan is really good 4 this wallpaper nothing else to say about this great hard work of urs
7 years, 11 months ago
Nice.
I wish Yukiru Sugisaki would get back to doing D.N.Angel, though...
7 years, 11 months ago
Wow, it's beautiful! But, like someone said before me, the grass looks vectored. The rest of the wall looks painted, so that stands out. I really like the text. It looks very neat.
7 years, 11 months ago
I love the simplicity of it. And the angle of the entire thing is nice too, to be somewhat looking up at him.
Yukiru Sugisaki = teh love.
7 years, 11 months ago
Nice one, well done ^_^
7 years, 11 months ago
yay very good work ** i love the pictures of yukiru-sama and i love this background you have made **
7 years, 10 months ago
this has a very solid feel to it... haha... anything lagoon engine is hard to find... i luv this...
7 years, 10 months ago
Yes! A Lagoon Engine Einsatz wally! >.< It's very nice, well done!
7 years, 10 months ago
This is a great piece of digital artwork. I can't really suggest too much. The background looks okay in my opinion. Thanks for putting effort into this.
7 years, 10 months ago
just cool, cool and very cool!!! i really like it!!!
7 years, 10 months ago
YES~ Finally i found an einsatz wallpaper xD I'm obsessed with Yukiru Sugisaki
7 years, 10 months ago
simple background, but beautiful work ^^ great job
7 years, 10 months ago
The texture of it is great!And the feel is awesome!Great job!
7 years, 10 months ago
this is one god-damn clean wally!!! i like it!!
7 years, 9 months ago
wow, real nice bg, it fits the stock real well, and typography is awesome too.
7 years, 9 months ago
=D great job! wish I could make something like this...I have the magazine with that image, i just luv it X3
7 years, 8 months ago
Simplisticly beautiful. I love it!
7 years, 8 months ago
I found at max size the picture had too much noise. What I did was put it through a de-noise filter, it turned out much better.
7 years, 7 months ago
this is very cool and the wind effect is very nice to make something flying the sword is very cool though I like this one simple is good
7 years, 7 months ago
This is a breathtaking wallie of LEE. The manga is an peice of art in itself and I love it. This probably is my favorite LEE wlallpaper.I love the bg and the scan is marvelous too.The font for your words is beautiful also. Its an all around awesome wallie. +favie
7 years, 7 months ago
Very nice, looks like game art in a way. Love the clothes, and the background's really nice too. :D
7 years, 6 months ago
oh yeah... tama's awesome awesome lagoon engine wall. <3 <3 <3 always luved this one. i just <3 the composition and the vectored grass!!! and u know.. that bird in the sky's just the perfect touch =D *fav fav fav... i could do this all day long xD*
7 years, 6 months ago
I love the font you used for the text on this wall. Can you tell me where you took it from?
7 years, 5 months ago
I have to say this is freaking awesome! I love it!! I want to see more that have that kind of work put into them!!
7 years, 4 months ago
wow you really made this scan come to life!! in other words you made it look AWESOME! XD this is such a great wallpaper, somewhat simple, but it doesnt need anything else! great job using the scan and making the bird and everything, it all looks wonderful!
7 years, 4 months ago
hey very nice job there keep up the good work!!!!! :)
7 years, 3 months ago
Awsome wall. I like how the picture and the background go together. It gives off the feel like there's hope out in the world, still. Yet at the same time the spacious field and the way the eyes are hidden gives me the impression that he lost something dear. (hasn't read lagoon engine, yet) I love how it has that dual emotion. It's wonderful.
7 years, 3 months ago
wow this is really good, im not familiar with the anime / manga but it looks interesting.
7 years, 1 month ago
looks awesome. was a bit confused with the light thing in the sky. otherwise keep up the good work.
7 years, 1 month ago
Looks good for Lagoon, blue is the series color so it looks good.
6 years, 11 months ago
Sweet sword man and i love he char design
6 years, 9 months ago
My comment? Pretty nice and a lovely background.
6 years, 4 months ago
It looks very cool. I like how his jacket blows in the wind. The color are very nice. I like this blue. I like it very much.
6 years, 4 months ago
Subtle picture! I approve the composition and the contours! I also must say that the light looks well and also that the sharp-deep is very appreciated.
6 years, 3 months ago
reallly cool this wall! i like it fvs
6 years, 3 months ago
nice wallpaper
6 years, 1 month ago
6 years, 1 month ago
nice
6 years, 2 weeks ago
it looks alot like the anime page cover for the first page volume one issue...i miss that issue there
5 years, 8 months ago
WOW have never seen this manga before but seems pretty cool so I guess I should check it out before I pass any judgment on this beautiful art.
Aw woops that is judgment isn't it lol oh well f_ck it I'm tired and have a lot of time on my hands so I guess I should put a little effort into commenting lol you can see what I'm trying to do and I really don't give a f_ck cuz theres this really cool MGS scan that I wanna download but I cant unless I gather enough papers.
Anyways awesome wallpaper really funky, the style of the drawing seems distinct among most anime haha. YAAAAAY! too cool love the blade also the clothes as they are beautifully blending with the sky awesome stuff.
5 years, 6 months ago
Awesome! I love the perspective and the BG matches well. Great job painting and the sky looks very pretty. The grass could be a deeper green, but it still looks good. ;)
5 years, 5 months ago
so cool with the bird figure in the clouds,,,,, so like it so muchP(T_T)p(T_T)q
3 years, 9 months ago
seems like you put alot of work into this one
1 year, 9 months ago
Thanks