Okay, so i've been wanting to do a karekano wall FOREVER.
mainly because it'smy favorite manga and i love the artwork. the anime is amazing too, and is also one of my favs
And inspiration finally hit me the day i picked up volume 20 of the manga and saw this image.
To start, this is a collab with Evol. If you've been around AP for a long time (and imean before the gallery) you may know who he is and my history with him. Whats my history with him? Ask me and maybe I'll tell you
anyways, i vectored the image from a manga scan (just arima and miyazawa) and then i heard this song...
Imogen Heap - Come Here Boy
(download it and listen. It's awesome)
And i was hit with the full inspiration for the wall.
I wanted to make it sweet yet seductive. Romantic, yet slightly sexy. So, i had them in the cherry blossoms, almost like they're hiding from everything.
So, the process:
step 1: vector arima and miyazawa in illustrator. Then thecherryblossoms.
step 2: send vector off to evol to paint in painter using watercolors
while he paints arima and miyazawa, i paint the cherry blossoms and some of the background
step 3: recieve painter file back, make slight color alterations, and add into wall.
step 4: critique and tweak.

Thanks to taters, brom, highknees, the11342 and anyone else who i maybe hinted at my wall to for their help
and i asked evol what he wanted to say and all he said was he enjoyed doing it and that i'm apparently awesome.
I'm still open to critiques, so critique away.
and enjoy the song
oh, and go read karekano. best manga ever.

btw...i hate painters watercolor brush. it makes me angry. theres very few similarities between it and real watercolors :/ iw ould have painted it myself by hand, but i don'thave the money, nor the time :3

EDIT:
lightened the lines as shinn suggested.
thanks shinn!