Happy belated birthday, Kitten-chan! At least it's not as late as usual. Still a bit late though. What happened was, I had another present I was working on for Kitten, it would have been a much better gift if I had finished it, but since it's not something I'm used to and is still far from being done I decided to make this and submit the other one later, when it's finished, as just a normal gift :)

So! Since the other gift I'm making is not a dark wall, I figured I should give Kitten something dark She's the master after all. This wall was made to represent the other side of people. I think everyone has at least a bit of a dark side; a side that you usually keep to yourself. And dark side doesn't necessarily mean bad, nuh-uh. I chose this scan of Rena for it...mostly because I love the scan XD But it also fit with the theme. Those who have watched Higurashi know that there's more than one side to Rena.

I haven't vectored in SO LONG. So I'm a bit rusty. I'm so glad I started again though. Without vectoring I just don't feel like myself. I enjoyed vectoring Rena, fun part I guess was the sunburn-like stuff on her shoulders and elbows, and her eyes. I vectored her whole dress but ended up cropping half of it for the wall.

Then the wall; I created everything from scratch, basically, besides the overlayed textures. On my last wall with similar lighting (Tsukiakari) I was reminded that the shadow of the window panes would conform to the body's shape, so I tried to work on that here, hope it looks better. I added the roses so it wouldn't be empty, and tried to make the text look like part of the shadow in a way.

Vampire version inspired by Kitten-chan's trademark blood ^^ I understand now. The blood was fun XD Blood brushes courtesy of Ann Frost @ Deviantart.

I hope you like it Kitten-chan :o Sorry it's only a replacement present for the one I didn't finish, but I don't want to rush that one ^_^' Your birthday's far past so wishing you a happy birthday seems odd :P But thank you for being one of my bestest friends online, you can always cheer me up, make me laugh, and inspire me to do new things with my art

Other Versions

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Moonlight Version

Red Dress Version

Vampire Version

Stats ~Vector~
Outline: 6 hrs
Colouring: 4 hrs
Total: 10 hrs
Layers: 20
Original Size: 2739x2500

Stats ~Wallpaper~
Time: 7 hrs
Layers: 15 (after merging)
Duration: November 22 - December 1, 2008
PSD Filesize: 137 MB

Comments and faves are really appreciated it! Critiques too. Like I said, I'm rusty :P