Original Scan: Here At Minitokyo
Layers: 46 ( after I started smushing it all together)
Time: 2 days. One day for the basic online & vectoring, a second for painting and background.
Inspiration: "One More Soul to the Call" by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

THE IDEA\\ Anyways, this is what happens when I cross my obsession with Silent Hill music with my late obsession for Gundam 00. I haven't fan-girled over an anime character in quite a long time... (video game characters, yes, but not anime). Anyways, I broke down and bought a copy of the Silent Hill: Homecoming soundtrack off of ebay, and after listening to it for so long and then watching Mobile Suit Gundam 00 I started thinking "Hey, that song works for Setsuna!" o_o So I decided to make a wallpaper for it. A vectored one. I haven't finished a vector since the ANIWOOD contest. Yeah, that was back in either august or September I think.

PLAN IN ACTION\\ The way the song fit with Setsuna is what I really wanted to put forward with this wallpaper (lyrics are HERE for anyone that is curious, though I think few places are slightly off). I really had no idea what I was going to do to convey that other than I wanted to make a wallpaper of Setsuna, and specifically This Scan. So I started vectoring and then went back and started blending & painting in darker shadows. Originally I had vectored the rose as well, but by the time I decided on the background it just looked off with what I was going for. I found a sword- necklace stock photo that I tweaked to fit the way his hand is moving. I used a couple of different photos to make the background and blended them together. The background is also meant to be a bit blurry, like it's hazy from a fire that is raging(so if you say something about it I will know you didn't read what I wrote and I will mentally smack you for admitting you did not do so before commenting). The embers were actually made from a snow brush, oddly enough. If you look closely at the cross I embedded these lyrics on it:

Damage done to the flesh, what they said, in the name of the...
Damage done to the heart, is the start, of the end
Damage done to my soul, and you know, it goes with my...
Damage done to my life, cursing loud, at the chaos

I didn't make them clearer or easier to read because they weren't meant to be an item of much focus, just a fun little Easter Egg of sorts, since there are lots of graves that have sentiments carved into them. And if you've read thus far do the "hokey pokey and turn yourself around" so I can give you a cyber cookie because I like you ;)

CREDITS
Cemetery Stock - Stock_Karr

And that has been the longest brainspill that I have ever written. Good Night, and that's what it's all about.