Hello there =] the time is : 6th of august, AM 9:34 EDT which means my 3rd anniversary on AP came, and i finally changed my avatar ( after 3 years! ... lol :D) and made this wall to celebrate the happening.

i had this inferno like scene in my mind for a long time but couldn't do it till now... and when i was searching through the scans this one popped up and i thought that why not illustrate the other world from the fullmetal alchemist series <--- which actually fitted to the scene in my mind =]
so i worked on it for 4 whole days , 6-10 hours a day and i think it paid off. it was ready way before the anniversary (about a month before, i started it after my akira wall was ready which is pretty old too) and i made a few wall after this one but i thought that this should be the one uploaded on this day.
i was inspired by alexxius's works on deviantart and also by my other wallie, the freedom. for first i though i shouldn't use reference photos which worked in the background but in the end i used one for the car, one for the crow and one for the cat. so the whole bg the town, and the houses in the foreground were painted without reference which, to tell you the truth, im proud of =]

i think i learned a lot of things in the last 3 years thanks to AP which provided me rivals and people who are way better than me, which always inspired me and urged me to be better and make better pictures, walls
to see how much i managed to improve i want to show my firs wallpaper here =) (never deleted a wall from my gallery so it pretty much shows how lame i was in the first year :D)
also, i want to thank peris for critics on this wall, and on all the others, and my brother who always tells me if my work in progress wall is a piece of sh*t xD

so enjoy if you can or if you want, comments critics and faves are appreciated as usual =)

few screenshots

textless version