A quick wallpaper to get back into the swing of things, nothing really special here. I liked the scan of the folks from Xing because, well, I like the folks from Xing. Especially Ling. And everyone by now knows of my penchant for walling lesser known or less favorite characters - what better way than to wall some manga-only characters? Since the folks from Xing are searching for immortality, I titled the wall "A Quest for Eternity". Frankly, they sort of remind me of the "Journey to the West" legends with the monkey king and all.
Basically it was a lot of cleanup of text, repositioning Ling so he appeared closer to the others, an extension of the pipes in the scan to make a horizontal layout, some light texturing using default Photoshop textures, and some text.
I know, I know. ZOMG another freakin' FMA wall. I'm tired of them too... but I have a lot of wallpaper ideas in mind: Gankutsuou, walls for the Doujinshi contest winners, Utena, a Bebop wall for AnimePaper's contest, Kino no Tabi... this is just filler, really. A throwaway wall. The same old. Nothing ground breaking here. That'll just have to wait.
Dedicated to CsakuraS, LJ friend and recently translator of the ZOMG Fruit Tree Alchemists team that's been putting out scanslations of the most recent FMA manga chapters.
NOTE: I guess my reputation for vectors leads folks to assume I vector everything... well, I don't, and there isn't a single vector, not even a tiny path or bezier curve, used in this wallpaper. This is pure Photoshop clone tool, and a few other tricks I have up my sleeve for image reconstruction.