An 'organic' wall of Hinoto. I say 'organic' because a lot of the tenancy nowadays on AP and other such communities these days is to vector. As someone who's been vectoring for many years, vectoring is great when you want that stylized clean look, and it can do things to a scan that you can't normally do, a lot of the time. But a while ago I noticed that a lot of people were starting to vector for the sake of vectoring- when the same wall would actually have been better by exposing the original art. Clean lines has its uses, but people seem unable to tell when which is more appropriate; the mechanical vector path, or the simple beauty of the organic, drawn line. Vector for the sake of vector, with no creativity and originality is probably only useful as practice. I'm not saying I make incredible walls, but I feel that the overall quality of AP walls has fallen from what it was originally. When I see people upload walls that are carbon copies of scans, but vectored, well, what is the point of that? If its vectored well, its proof of technical skill, but not proof of intelligent design on the parof the waller. Anyone can learn a program, the difference lies in what you do with it.

Well, thats very little about this particular wall, since its not the ultimate example of organic lines or anything (I just wanted to get that first part out there on AP). As far as this wall goes, well, its obviously very simple in end result. The image of Hinoto comes from a page in the manga... a double pager I edited a long time ago. The chapter which this comes from has many gorgeous pictures of Hinoto as she's about to be corrupted by her other half, and after I finished sewing the two pages together in Photoshop I decided to also edit it in such a way that it was coming out of whiteness, so that I could later use it in a wall. Played with colors a bit... and added the red to make her pop, as Hinoto's character design by CLAMP is made to show how red pops in the first place. Added the damask in the background to make it more interesting... I was worried if it were blank it would be too boring for here. There is a version with text I prefer here http://flobberworm.com/flobberworm/whitedeath2.jpg The spacing of the bird and the text might seem weird at first but its to work with the Start bar in Windows.