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What Exactly Is Pink? by °dalarty 1 week 4 days ago

What Exactly Is Pink? by °dalarty 1 week 4 days ago

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Not too much for me to say about this wallpaper that hasn't already been said: Dalarty has provided a descriptive walk through all the way from the concept idea, to its execution and ultimately its fruition. And you can really see how that careful planning paid off. But it just goes to show, good ideas take time---and a whole lot of patience!

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A New Day Has Begun
A Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind wallpaper.
Also a wallpaper for Widescreen.
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© 2006 °cyd84
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°cyd84
Community Waller
12 wallpapers
2 years 4 months ago
(The standard res version of my made for widescreen wall available here)

My first widescreen wall...celebrating my new widescreen laptop :D
Made for the IIDWP v. Trompe Les Mondes Pre-90s Challenge on The Battleground

Steps:
1) extracted Nausicaa from this scan
2) painted the glider
3) painted the cliff
3) painted the fields and trees
4) painted the sky
5) touched up Nausicaa and other finishing touches

This scan and this scan were helpful for colors

Technical Details:
About 20 hours
50 Layers
Photoshop
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User Comments!

$machika
Donating Member
Hurricane Bomb
Comments: 238
2 years 4 months ago
I really like the idea of wallpaper! It's relaxing to look at and I like the green color too.
Although the sun looks a bit weird, I think this is a great wallpaper!
You did a great job on the hill and I love it. Nicely done!
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Juudaime's right-hand-man!
~nekome
Member
Comments: 259
2 years 4 months ago
There are some senses of incompatibility in the background of pastoral landscape (?) though it thinks the composition to be a very good when the outlook on the world of the work 'Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind ' is considered.
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θblu3angl
Retired Staff Member
Moody Lady
Comments: 766
2 years 4 months ago
What i like about this wall is how all the styles fit together :D
how well you managed to match the bg with this scan. Nice job!
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2 years 4 months ago
Its like a painted !the brushes sure are like magic wands for you!have you attend a fine art school?
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`MinstrelKnight
Senior Member
Epinephrine
Comments: 630
2 years 4 months ago
Its a great concept, and one I expected to get more attention, but I think everything seems sort of pasted on without any real shadowing/shading, so it sort of makes the blending seem sort of off.
~hitome-sakura
Member
INIQUIT
Comments: 468
2 years 4 months ago
Its a very lovely looking wallpaper, especially
the background, the fields are looking very
nice, the image is blended in quite well, the
overall effect is totally awesome,and how much
attractive it is, its really very nice, it must have
taken alot of time.

very well done.
n_n
~tHeDraGonBoy
Member
Comments: 83
2 years 4 months ago
Like the feel to it...
A new day...bringing unknown possiblities...
Maybe someday . . . the seas shall part with a wish, the clouds will clear with a dream, stars will fall, igniting a passion...
and my hope will arise with my confidence conquering and unstopping.
~mblack
Member
Looking Back At You...kyuu~! (o'.'o)
Comments: 1237
2 years 4 months ago
Really nice concept here ^^ I like how everything blends into each other, usually these scans would be difficult to make a background out of, you've made it seem like it was so easy XD I like the style! And the background is really well done ^^
Yes, I know that my name is mblack, but I am NOT Black, I am Chinese! My friends call me mblack because I have long straight black hair! =P
~yolanta39
Member
WELCOME THE END*
Comments: 233
2 years 4 months ago
Wow, you know what I noticed? The title is a tad bit.. weird. I always thought it was called Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. XP Anyways, This is definately different than what the Valley looks like, haha. First of all, you did a BEAUTIFUL job. I really thing it reflects the feeling of the princess. A serene intensity that's hard to explain. I'm so very glad you used a manga scan instead of the anime movie one ~ you don't see a lot of miyazaki manga walls. You did an absolutely WONDERFUL job on this wall, but it looks awkward in a way. Nausicaa looks displaced from the wall as the background's style is different from that of her. Though Ghibli art is the same way, it looks blended in. But not this wall. :[ I see you were trying to make it look as if Nausicaa was on a plateau of sorts? But instead, it looks like she's on a little hill. I have no idea why, but it makes me feel this way. Overall, it's a beautiful wall! Keep it up!
~usotski
Member
Comments: 449
2 years 4 months ago
Very nice miyazaki wall, the landscape is done very well, good job
~KiBaLuVeR6520
Member
...Crazy Anime Freak ;3
Comments: 320
1 year 7 months ago
The watercolour ans such really match this scene, but the thing is...the sky looks kind of bare because there are no really detailed clouds in the sky and whatnot...there are just random blobs there. One more thing is that Nausicaa doesn't really match into this picture since her extract looks so detailed with all of the shading and such and the valley of all of the feilds looks really bare in my opinion since there is barely no colour differation between the parts of the field. :( Im sorry if I was a LITTLE too harsh, I'm just like that...^_^"
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$tmaughan
Donating Member
Comments: 2
1 year 7 months ago
I think Miyazaki himself would be proud of such artistic work.

Very nicely done!
~ondaesu
Member
Comments: 85
1 year 6 months ago
Pretty Anime is excellent and it really deserves wallpapers as its.
                                                                                                                            
Its is very good same, did not only like very it format widescreen, but not that the work ruins.
                                                                                                                            
Congratulations and are with God.
~albie
Member
Comments: 49
1 year 5 months ago
Cool Scenery XD. Great job!
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Shuffle!
~Shinji-Lee
Member
absolutely unmotivatable minded halfdemon
Comments: 17
1 year 4 months ago
As i saw it first, i thought it`s a photo.
i get down on my knees and pray for seeing such a wonderful masterpiece.
call me exaggerating, call me a freak.
espacially the sun behind the hill has a touch of magic. i like that really.
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~ahhee
Member
Comments: 26
1 year 2 months ago
The paint is very well done, Really nice concept here. lovely looking wallpaper
~Ramune
Member
Enjoy Ramune' !!
Comments: 81
10 months 1 week ago
Excellent !!...The paint job was by Rembrandt ?...No?
Great work!!
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WOW !! We all Love ANIME...YES !
~ElvenAngel
Member
Insane Genius
Comments: 354
1 month 2 weeks ago
Really beautiful!