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If it wasn't painfully obvious it's Kagura with Byakuei and Yomi with Nue/Ranguren from the recent Ga-rei Zero. I really liked the anime and searched for a wallpaper for it. Unfortunately I couldn't find a wallpaper I was satisfied with and decided to make my own.
I started on this almost 2 months ago. I initially worked on it almost every day for 3-4 weeks and then took a break because I got caught up in a game qq. Then when I was doing my daily animepaper drive by, I saw someone beat me into vectoring this beautiful scan. Of course, I was disappointed in myself for slacking but because of that I started up this project again and finished it, swooot.
I have no idea on the exact time it took me vector the scan. Hours upon hours were stacked upon each other. I had a couple of days where I used up half of the day on vectoring. All I can say is that it took a really long time. I vectored it in it's native resolution 2950x2480 to get clean lines later on by scaling it down by 1/4-1/3 it's original size. I traced everything with the pen tool... in shapes. Yes, each line you see is one big humongous shape. Tracing with the pen tool and then stroking is bad-bad-bad! You will not get the varying line widths which all stack up in the end. I tried to stick to my rule of coloring everything by selection and gradients but I ended up brushing almost half of the chains to get it over with. The chains were a real pain.
The second challenge was the background. I went through a ton of backgrounds. I even had them up in space at one point, geezus. My most favored idea was to add steel supports and some cloth but I couldn't get the colors right and scrapped all of that. I didn't want to do flames because it's really lame but it was really the only thing I could do. I couldn't do some crazy background design because it wouldn't go with the color intensity of the scans.
I am sorry that no 1280x1024 resolution is available. Too much of the characters would be cut off and too much of the background would be covered if I moved things around. So I just scrapped it. ><
I vectored every single detail down to each hair strand shade. So please FULL VIEW!
Enjoy the wallpaper.
I started on this almost 2 months ago. I initially worked on it almost every day for 3-4 weeks and then took a break because I got caught up in a game qq. Then when I was doing my daily animepaper drive by, I saw someone beat me into vectoring this beautiful scan. Of course, I was disappointed in myself for slacking but because of that I started up this project again and finished it, swooot.
I have no idea on the exact time it took me vector the scan. Hours upon hours were stacked upon each other. I had a couple of days where I used up half of the day on vectoring. All I can say is that it took a really long time. I vectored it in it's native resolution 2950x2480 to get clean lines later on by scaling it down by 1/4-1/3 it's original size. I traced everything with the pen tool... in shapes. Yes, each line you see is one big humongous shape. Tracing with the pen tool and then stroking is bad-bad-bad! You will not get the varying line widths which all stack up in the end. I tried to stick to my rule of coloring everything by selection and gradients but I ended up brushing almost half of the chains to get it over with. The chains were a real pain.
The second challenge was the background. I went through a ton of backgrounds. I even had them up in space at one point, geezus. My most favored idea was to add steel supports and some cloth but I couldn't get the colors right and scrapped all of that. I didn't want to do flames because it's really lame but it was really the only thing I could do. I couldn't do some crazy background design because it wouldn't go with the color intensity of the scans.
I am sorry that no 1280x1024 resolution is available. Too much of the characters would be cut off and too much of the background would be covered if I moved things around. So I just scrapped it. ><
I vectored every single detail down to each hair strand shade. So please FULL VIEW!
Enjoy the wallpaper.
