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Although I said it would take a while to post something, I felt compelled to make something after browsing so many nice wallpapers. Since I'm quite new to Photoshop, you will have to forgive the simplicity of this piece - my first wallpaper on Photoshop!
I had the background vector (yes, it was a vector) done in Corel a few weeks ago for a college paper (a small add about nature). So I just copied it to Photoshop and started trying to do a painting style. After I got the handle of it (a friend pointed me out to the smudge tool, nice little tool) I went on to give the painting feeling - all to remove the vector style since I don't like vectorish backgrounds since they seam too artificial.
As for the image, I found this at another site long time ago and it was "Touhou Nanaya" art, I think it would fall under Touhou here. Anyway, to fit the painting style I did the same thing with the image and than again "painted" all the image again. Since the eyes became weird and the eyes are said to be the soul of a image, I decided to keep the original eyes - so the only original art left is her eyes, the rest I painted again using noise, texture and smudge.
Took me about 2 hours to do the background, and than about 30 min to do the image. I don't remember how long took me to do the vector but it was quick back than since I can handle corel pretty well nowadays.
To finish the piece, I did some sepia toning with a new layer and added a frame, which I think is lame ... oh well.
Anyway, I will be waiting patiently for your feedback. This is my very first wallpaper using anime artworks and also my first using Photoshop (well, I could say this is my first wallpaper overall since my previous wallpapers were coreldraw only just for fun and don't even look good to me since they look too CGI)
first revision:
Increased the frame, painted the character, reduced canvas texture opacity.
Do you think I should actually get rid of the frame? it looks weird as a wallpaper because one part is covered by the taskbar =x
second revision ~ submited:
Well I didn't have any new ideas and no one seams to have them too. I added a lot of detail on the frame, added a small "paper tag" on the frame to add the signature, and that's about it.
I had the background vector (yes, it was a vector) done in Corel a few weeks ago for a college paper (a small add about nature). So I just copied it to Photoshop and started trying to do a painting style. After I got the handle of it (a friend pointed me out to the smudge tool, nice little tool) I went on to give the painting feeling - all to remove the vector style since I don't like vectorish backgrounds since they seam too artificial.
As for the image, I found this at another site long time ago and it was "Touhou Nanaya" art, I think it would fall under Touhou here. Anyway, to fit the painting style I did the same thing with the image and than again "painted" all the image again. Since the eyes became weird and the eyes are said to be the soul of a image, I decided to keep the original eyes - so the only original art left is her eyes, the rest I painted again using noise, texture and smudge.
Took me about 2 hours to do the background, and than about 30 min to do the image. I don't remember how long took me to do the vector but it was quick back than since I can handle corel pretty well nowadays.
To finish the piece, I did some sepia toning with a new layer and added a frame, which I think is lame ... oh well.
Anyway, I will be waiting patiently for your feedback. This is my very first wallpaper using anime artworks and also my first using Photoshop (well, I could say this is my first wallpaper overall since my previous wallpapers were coreldraw only just for fun and don't even look good to me since they look too CGI)
first revision:
Increased the frame, painted the character, reduced canvas texture opacity.
Do you think I should actually get rid of the frame? it looks weird as a wallpaper because one part is covered by the taskbar =x
second revision ~ submited:
Well I didn't have any new ideas and no one seams to have them too. I added a lot of detail on the frame, added a small "paper tag" on the frame to add the signature, and that's about it.
