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"In sleep he sang to me,
In dreams he came.
That voice which calls to me,
And speaks my name
And do I dream again?
For now I find,
The Phantom of the Opera is here,
Inside my mind"
- Phantom of the Opera
While Phantom of the Opera has never been my favorite musical the setting and character relationships in Ergo Proxy are similar to that of the musical.
After the extremely positive reception of my Okami wall I decided to further my endeavors into a more hand-painted style instead of traditional vector methods. What made this wall much more difficult however was that about 50-75% of the character outline was missing. Both images of Re-l and Ergo Proxy started out as only headshots [ 1, 2] which meant I had to draw what was missing from scratch. Using a few reference screen shots, bits and pieces of various vectors I already had been working on, and a few grey hairs later I had finally succeeded in my first hurdle.
The hand-painting took time but was not very difficult. My favorite part of this wall has to be Ergo's mask, the shading turned out surprisingly realistic.
The background turned out to be my biggest headache, even moreso than the vectoring. This is the second background design, the first idea I had I actually spent about two-three hours working on (including a beautiful rendering of a statue) that in the end only distracted from the characters and, more importantly, was completely off perspective wise.
After two hand-painted walls and much love for my Wacom tablet I have to say I'm proud of my latest work. I hope you like my new walls as well! *runs off to make another Okami wall*
In dreams he came.
That voice which calls to me,
And speaks my name
And do I dream again?
For now I find,
The Phantom of the Opera is here,
Inside my mind"
- Phantom of the Opera
While Phantom of the Opera has never been my favorite musical the setting and character relationships in Ergo Proxy are similar to that of the musical.
SPOILER (click to view)Thus when I stumbled upon this screen shot from the movie adaptation of the musical I immediately knew that I had finally found the inspiration for the Ergo Proxy wall I've been wanting to make for some time now.
After the extremely positive reception of my Okami wall I decided to further my endeavors into a more hand-painted style instead of traditional vector methods. What made this wall much more difficult however was that about 50-75% of the character outline was missing. Both images of Re-l and Ergo Proxy started out as only headshots [ 1, 2] which meant I had to draw what was missing from scratch. Using a few reference screen shots, bits and pieces of various vectors I already had been working on, and a few grey hairs later I had finally succeeded in my first hurdle.
The hand-painting took time but was not very difficult. My favorite part of this wall has to be Ergo's mask, the shading turned out surprisingly realistic.
The background turned out to be my biggest headache, even moreso than the vectoring. This is the second background design, the first idea I had I actually spent about two-three hours working on (including a beautiful rendering of a statue) that in the end only distracted from the characters and, more importantly, was completely off perspective wise.
After two hand-painted walls and much love for my Wacom tablet I have to say I'm proud of my latest work. I hope you like my new walls as well! *runs off to make another Okami wall*
