As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!
EDIT 22/08/06: Reuploaded 4:3 version - pm me for widescreen or textless version. And moved from Kazuya Minekura to Stigma category.
Featuring Stork and Bluebird from a manga called Stigma by Kazuya Minekura (Saiyuki), this wall draws parallels and literal translations of the song Amazing Grace.
It's fairly open to translation, however the way I see it is that no matter how much rubbish there is in our life or we're trying to hide, how hurt or how lost we are, there is hope in God because his amazing grace never fails to find us. I thought this first verse of the song really suits the manga story about finding hope to carry on living in a hopeless world, which is also the aim of the wall.
Bluebird is added in to tie in with the "I was lost now am found" part of the song. The same goes with Stork looking up with bloodied face - to tie in with the "I was blind but now I see" part.
The wall itself is neither pretty or tailored to everyone's liking, but it has personal meaning to me therefore it's one of my favs.
It's the longest wall I've ever endured - 4months on-off :) Started out in March/April as a vectoring target practice, this project got shelved pretty quickly because spending 30-45mins to vector each item gets pretty boring - and finally completed now!
The background idea took a while. I liked the pure black&white original vector but wasn't quite happy with it, so I ended up experimenting with bg ideas and learnt painting techniques (done after battle judging) - which I thought worked quite well.
Ugh yeah I did change a lot of things from the original image - not only with covering his bits (^^;) but also with joining the scans, adding Bluebird in, facelift surgery, items arrangements etc.
It sure did take a long time to do, hope you like it!
Notes:
Stork isn't dead (>_<) and that hand belongs to him - it's not The Thing from the Addams Family :)
Bluebird has black hair instead of blond because I'm lazy and had enough vectoring >_<
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i love it i love it.. what i can say more than that!
it's amayzing.. i love the vector and the colour and everything.. it's just really really amayzing..
i think this should be Highlighted to the next year :)
of course this is on my fave. list now.. awsome work.. keep it up :)
Supermonchi make super wall! This owning! Look at that vector work :D. I know what your talking about when it come to vector things i get bored easyly if it's to much to do. your wall have a very good detail stuff great job! Fav yippie!
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Mate i dont know how you endure vectoring all that but i salute you :)
nice bleak theme to this wallpaper
like the monochrome style of color and how the blood is the only color in the piece
bg is blended in nicely and nice touch with the lighting effects
well done another quality effort from you
+fav from me
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Damn... amazing vectoring and shading, I love how you used the bit of blood red to bring attention to the characters... and that sure is an interesting interpretation of Amazing Grace. I almost wish the text wasn't there... I think that's the only element of the wall that sorta sticks out, but given the challenge... just a minor complaint. Awesome awesome work! >_<
Beautiful, really ^^
i think you did an amazing job with this one - everything blends so nicely.
i sort of don't know what else to say, except - excellent wallpaper, goes to favs! ^^
I love the shading. I want to know your secrets *-*
i wish the text was different, but I love the guy you added. just the hand you added looks really ...creepy , and kinda weird. but who cares about that when the wall's really great? :D
Job Well Done!
Wow, I really love what you've done here. The red blood on the characters is a really nice touch, it makes them stand out quite well. I do agree with flyin' about the text, it seems like it just shouldn't be there, but otherwise, this wallpaper is great!
A superb job on vectoring. I love vectoring, but it can totally be boring. But I am not so good at illustration, so I try to avoid that at all possible.
Anyway, I am so glad that you didn't submit it as black and white. It looks amazing.
I am glad that you kind of swayed away to what everyone thinks as amazing grace is to be. Sort of heavenly type of feel to it.
Again superb job and glad that you stuck it all the way through even though on the very ending part, but it is not like it is noticeable. Deserves a favorite from me.
I like how the characters have blood on them to draw attention to them ^^ But vectoring that...wow lol, and for how long as well o.O But I guess the wallpaper is really well done ^-^ And the vectoring is awesome ;D Your hard work has paid off ^^
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Did I ever comment on this wall? ...Or was I already on vacation? o_O
Either way, you have magical vector powers, monchi. Your skills almost burn me. And not only that, but the background so brilliantly complements the vector that it just blends in perfectly. Thou must show me the ways of shading like that, too.
Wow! I can't believe that this version is better than the original. I love them both! The painted version makes it more grimy and realistic. it's great!
When one such as you spend so much effort on one wall alone, it really shows, and this wall looks great and almost very epic, I enjoy looking at it a lot.
Holy, how did you make this one? Its soo damn good! I love the quality of it! Awesome vecotr work! I like the scene even tho its sad but still, the wall is just fantastic! Instant Favorite! Hope to see more from you!
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The shaded version works much better than the plain one you submitted as the challenge wall, but there's still something about the sky that really bugs me <_<
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EDIT 22/08/06: Reuploaded 4:3 version - pm me for widescreen or textless version. And moved from Kazuya Minekura to Stigma category.
Featuring Stork and Bluebird from a manga called Stigma by Kazuya Minekura (Saiyuki), this wall draws parallels and literal translations of the song Amazing Grace.
It's fairly open to translation, however the way I see it is that no matter how much rubbish there is in our life or we're trying to hide, how hurt or how lost we are, there is hope in God because his amazing grace never fails to find us. I thought this first verse of the song really suits the manga story about finding hope to carry on living in a hopeless world, which is also the aim of the wall.
Bluebird is added in to tie in with the "I was lost now am found" part of the song. The same goes with Stork looking up with bloodied face - to tie in with the "I was blind but now I see" part.
The wall itself is neither pretty or tailored to everyone's liking, but it has personal meaning to me therefore it's one of my favs.
It's the longest wall I've ever endured - 4months on-off :) Started out in March/April as a vectoring target practice, this project got shelved pretty quickly because spending 30-45mins to vector each item gets pretty boring - and finally completed now!
The background idea took a while. I liked the pure black&white original vector but wasn't quite happy with it, so I ended up experimenting with bg ideas and learnt painting techniques (done after battle judging) - which I thought worked quite well.
Ugh yeah I did change a lot of things from the original image - not only with covering his bits (^^;) but also with joining the scans, adding Bluebird in, facelift surgery, items arrangements etc.
It sure did take a long time to do, hope you like it!
Notes:
Stork isn't dead (>_<) and that hand belongs to him - it's not The Thing from the Addams Family :)
Bluebird has black hair instead of blond because I'm lazy and had enough vectoring >_<
NEW 21/08/06: Play Where's Wally game with this wall! ^^
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i love it i love it.. what i can say more than that!
it's amayzing.. i love the vector and the colour and everything.. it's just really really amayzing..
i think this should be Highlighted to the next year :)
of course this is on my fave. list now.. awsome work.. keep it up :)
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nice bleak theme to this wallpaper
like the monochrome style of color and how the blood is the only color in the piece
bg is blended in nicely and nice touch with the lighting effects
well done another quality effort from you
+fav from me
i think you did an amazing job with this one - everything blends so nicely.
i sort of don't know what else to say, except - excellent wallpaper, goes to favs! ^^
i wish the text was different, but I love the guy you added. just the hand you added looks really ...creepy , and kinda weird. but who cares about that when the wall's really great? :D
Job Well Done!
Crisp and beautiful vector... a very professional look all around
Anyway, I am so glad that you didn't submit it as black and white. It looks amazing.
I am glad that you kind of swayed away to what everyone thinks as amazing grace is to be. Sort of heavenly type of feel to it.
Again superb job and glad that you stuck it all the way through even though on the very ending part, but it is not like it is noticeable. Deserves a favorite from me.
amazing vector.. 4 months...
wow...
the only things I don't like are the font and the lack of color.
Either way, you have magical vector powers, monchi. Your skills almost burn me. And not only that, but the background so brilliantly complements the vector that it just blends in perfectly. Thou must show me the ways of shading like that, too.
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