New wallpaper but this one is a bit special. It's my first try of vectoring with photoshop (shape method). Man, this was really hard. I had to learn to use the pen tool the right way but it was worth it.
I took this scan of Utena because I always loved those girls. 
I vectored the girls and the roses behind them but I decided later to use only the girls and even them in a cut version. I wanted the wall to implend the feeling of looking at a stage at a theater but I've overworked it a lot. The hole wall was really empty looking so I browsed my Utena scans and found this one: 
I vectored the hole border with the roses and merged it with the existing wall. After that I decided to paint the roses in a dark-red color but to use some shading so the roses look a bit more dimensional. After all this I added a lovely texture which I found at deviantart for the different background, did some merging here, some textures there, uses some effect e voila this is the end of the story.
The title of the wall is a german word which is perfectly descibing the hole wall. The word "Schattenspiele" in english is "Shadow Play" which is shown at the wall. This is the only title which came in my mind before the wall was finished. I usally have hard times by chosing the titles of my walls.
Please leave a comment and a fav if you like the wall. Every comment is appriciated like always.
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5 years, 7 months ago
well qhat can i say, for someone just to remember about revutionary girl utena is somethign remarkable hueueueue and to make such a nice qallpaper is totally unexpected. utena is one of my favorite animes of all time, specially because of the soundtrack and stile of animation, i just loved the shadow puppet theater witch you used to create the wallpaper, very nice work. great colours and a very nice composition. this is a great piece of work, keep this kind of work ok?
xxoo
5 years, 7 months ago
Wow! Good job with the vectors, I wish I could do that.
I really liked the border with the flowers and the colors in the wall. You are really patient in vectoring images. Congratulations.
5 years, 7 months ago
very good!! thanks for this beautiful paper it s very nice! i like the back of this thank youuu... congratulations
5 years, 7 months ago
Hey, nice wallpaper you got there. :) I haven't heard of the anime yet. Hm...
I must say that you really did a great job vectoring those stuff. Very patient. :D
I really like how it turned out. Another favourite....
5 years, 7 months ago
love the frame!! very artisitc...and unique! and the background is cute too..maybe you should use other color..if u use lighter color..it will be nicer..others are well done
5 years, 7 months ago
I love the flowers in the bg! < 3
Pretty interesting, reminds me of a shadow puppet theater. I think the border doesn't work too well with your theater idea, it doesn't really look like a puppet stage to me. It looks good, but I think curtains would be better (the ruffly kinda >D). But still, I like the work you did with the two scans and it turned out pretty good! Good job :)
5 years, 7 months ago
Ah, the shadow-puppet girls. Really cool to see a wallpaper of them.
5 years, 7 months ago
Das Wallpaper sieht ja voll herzig aus ich find die Idee toll gefällt mir wirklich sehr gut X3 Das is so putzig
5 years, 7 months ago
I love this wallpaper~
5 years, 7 months ago
From the both "Schattesspiele" is this what I like more! :) I liked this characters in the anime! XD
5 years, 6 months ago
wonderful, looks classic
5 years, 6 months ago
sry for late comment voicy! >xDD oo! i like the use of silhouettes! ive never heard of this anime, but it looks good! ^^ and i like the rosy border :D great job!
5 years, 3 months ago
"Do you know, do you know, have you heard the news...?"
I love the Shadow Girls! This is an awesome vector. Great work.
4 years, 8 months ago
Those shadow puppets were such an integral part of the series, giving background and embellishment in an indirect and humorous way.
Your capturing of them on a stage was a good idea as they are a theatrical device.
The ripping and vectoring of the various pieces was cleanly done.
4 years, 8 months ago
Honer describe very well this piece. A refined art. I would like to discover that is Schattenspiele, but the concept wall make me an idea. Congratulations and fav, I begun to read Utena now... ^^
4 years, 8 months ago
Oh, forgot... Is shadow play... xD xD remember me a Japanese theatre ^^ good idea! Lovely! And sorry for my dump comment xD
4 years, 2 months ago
Those shadow puppets are one of the things that sets Utena apart from the rest. A metaphoric narrative and foreshadowing. Told by gossipy beings that may or may not exist.
The scans were well picked, as the pose of the -bo girls captures them perfectly.
3 years, 11 months ago
So here is the original "Shadow Play" wallpaper. To make you feel better, I'll start by saying that the second is palpably an improvement of this one.
I think what doesn'tworkfor me in this one is simply that it looks kind of grungy (is that a word?), and that does not commune with "Utena" for me. The flower mural on a brick wall in the background looks like they have come from another world than Utena's, a kind of street world where plays are performed in front of somewhat derelict brick walls. I appreciate what you were trying to do with adding shades to give the rosees dimensions; I find that odd with such obviously one-dimensional rose design and even in this trip away from the artistic style of the series the simplistic way that was done makes them jut out of the picture.
In the end the rose frame seems to make the whole less like a stage view than it would have been without, unless a Punch-and-Judy puppet kind theatre is what was being aimed at.
3 years, 10 months ago
I love that scenes on the anime, great wall ^^
1 year, 2 months ago
I love shadow girls!
1 year, 2 months ago
I love shadow girls!