The bishounen invasion pushes ever onwards with a wallpaper of Sakis from Lagoon Engine Einsatz. The original scan drew me in with his sense of wonder at the bird flying over him, and I really liked how the bird was integrated into the clouds of the sky. Thus, we have Tama's take on sceneric.
I wanted to get a feel of a painting for this wallpaper, thus the entire character was redrawn and repainted using Corel Painter 9. I tried to recreate the original image, so I copied the style of the grass (also painted in Painter) as well as the bird in the sky (yes, Painter yet again!) In fact, the only thing I did in Photoshop (minus my typical color corrections and text at the end) was to make the clouds. I originally was going to paint those, too, but I couldn't get them to look proper after about 2 hours of experimentation, and I knew that judicious use of stock photographs would work out better (plus some smudging and filtering to give it a painted feel instead of a photorealistic feel.)
The text on the original scan read, "sono tori wa... watashi no kokoro wo tondeita" which I've literally translated as "The bird soared through my heart". The title "Flight of Fancy" came about because, well, it's an old phrase, and it seems to fit the wonder of a white bird gliding serenely overhead.