Nagisa♥ It's finally done. My first Clannad work since the last eppy aired ^^ But I'm sure I'll have many more.
I associate this wall a lot with the song "Yuki no Hara" (Snow Field) from the Clannad OST. It's just seems to fit for me. A lovely song too.

This wall is not out of season! Spring isn't for another 4 days! And when I look outside, I see snow! Well not that it matters :P

This wall is like the winter version of Inspiration. I put Nagisa in the same place. I even used the same mountains :P But I painted them a lot more this time. And just like in Inspiration, I vectored all of Nagisa, yet ended up cropping off half of her for the wall >.<

I realised why I use landscape backgrounds so often. It comes from my obsession with nature photography. How did I not notice before? I like recreating scenery that I've seen before or that I'd like to see. I've never seen mountains like that up close, but the sky, I got to see many times this winter. I love the flowing, painty clouds, especially when they turn pink at sunset ^^

The background is based on the original scan. Repainted sky, repainted mountains, repainted snow...and I made little trees. They're cute ne? :P Some snow falling...some text...and of course Nagisa. The background is quite simple, but I meant for it to be. Just Nagisa and fields of snow. I won't go into how many hours of frustration I went through >.< That's typical though.

Vectoring Nagisa was pretty average. Gradients on many layers, her tights were blurred but you can't see them anyways. And I finished her in under 10 hours! Yay.

The main reason I was so eager to do this was because I wanted a wall that portrayed my love for winter. My favourite season. So sad that it's over. But now I look forward to spring.

So thanks for viewing my wall. It's certainly not perfect but I hope you like it!

Original Scan by suemera

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~Vector Stats~
Outline: 5.5 hrs
Colouring: 4 hrs
Total: 9.5 hrs
Layers: 47
Original Size: 2567x3523
~Wallpaper Stats~
Time: 6 hrs
Layers: 20
PSD Filesize: 26.1 MB
~Totals~
Time: 15.5 hrs
Layers: 67
Duration: March 3 - March 16 2009