Patience under the wisteria tree... I wonder what she's waiting for?

Dedicated to everyone involved in this year's w.a.r.

When chara (organizer extraordinaire ) asked me a while back if I felt bad that this year's w.a.r. is a lot smaller, I sorta gave a nonchalant answer and thought that was that. When she asked me another variation of the same question recently, I thought, hmm...

To be honest, the scale of the competition hasn't been something that concerned me much at all. If I organized the competition with that in mind, it probably would've not been held at all after I heard some initial responses from the planning thread, and I knew that the war on AP was sucking away a lot of people, since I was one of those involved For me this competition has always been special because it's so inspirational, not only to see what people can come up with under pressure, but also because you get to work with a really great bunch of organizers/judges behind the scenes. And it's a tremendous amount of fun. So, much thanks to everyone involved this year... It's been inspirational, on many different levels.

This wall is also my virtue for the 7 Virtues Project over @ the Invalid Litter Department... She's my patience XD I've wanted to wall this scan for ages, but had no idea what to do until I happened across this image at the Graceful Lament Gallery and thought... hmm... XD The original idea didn't quite work, but it gave me inspiration enough to finish the wall. I also stole the smoke from that scan...

Girl from this scan, with alterations... I covered up her butt and cut off the fox ears 'cause I've never been an ecchi/animal ears fan Wisteria (painfully) extracted/modified/blended from this scan... butterfly appropriated from this xxxHolic scan... thanks to nageni-kun for the butterfly idea (to make it look like she's been there for a while!), crap for the check, and tat0rs with eagle eyes for doing last checks... and driving me with a whip XD Loves for you

I really enjoyed working on this since it provided a nice vector break, and it's something a bit different from me. I miss walling Asian style, so I may try some more like this X) This is the first wall in a while that I really like, so I hope you all enjoy too; if it looks kind of empty on the left, it's because I have five rows of icons right now >XD

Check out pixel-ellipsis for additional res! :D

Edit:
9/3/06: Brushed over the butterfly and resmudged her kimono a bit... thanks shinn for the suggest :3