This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.
While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.
OMG! contest entry fore Paint-o-rama contest we had a while ago. Theme was Japanese Ancient and Feudal Eras, and we had to work with vegetation (I hope i got enough in there lol). Im sorry if its messed up looking, I tried, Im so super tired beyond belief you dont know. I am super proud of myself though, I had a vision for it and didnt give up even though it took me so long to do, and I did something different and chaledged myself, I hope you can see it thru my work as well! Many sleepless nights I can tell you that!
This wallpaper was fully painted by me (even my text I painted over yes) in my own style and using only a mouse, and the Brush, Smudge, and Blurr tool in Photoshop CS2. I got five stocks and put them together to make the layout for this and painted away and also added in some of my own stuff. I hope you like it, I think it came out wonderufully, full of scernery, depth, and detail as much as possible. I added in a mount fuji in the back thanks to Starr for the idea of it! I had about over 130 layers I know lost count .
My Fav part of the wallie?: The Reflections, why: b/c it took so long and so much thinking
The most fun thing to make?: The bridge b/c I had to think on how to do it and it was easy.
The hardest part?: the reflections it killed me, trial and error and over and over again! But worth it in the end.
This is a present for my Crack Fairy Triplet Rhondi, Without her encouragement, advice, and company I would have never made it thru alive without crying or giving up. She spent many sleepless nights keeping me company up from 4pm till 6 am while I worked on this, I love you so much, Thankyou for all that you've done! I also want to thank my twin sister Elizabeth aka thingperson for her support as well, staying with me as i worked on it, and was so sweet to me and also encoraged me, thankyou. I love you so much! And thanks so my best friend Starr for her encouragement as well.
If you didnt already know, Starr and I had a theme going on. She did a Kenshin bloody wall, and I did a Kaoru pretty wallpaper lol, arent we cute .
I will write more later to tired yet hyper to write lol. OMG im so nervous right now its unreal, i've waited so long for this. Also thanks to supermonchi for giving me hope. thankyou to everyone and my friends who supported me this year with my walling and everything, I love you all.. I can never say enough thanks but thankyou and my all your wishes for the new year come true!
UPDATE: added a shadow of her thanks to mickyoko for pointing that out.
Although wall is gud too! but something is lacking? bg is overshadowing the Image I suppose, but i MUST say I loved the detailing of the bg right from the vegetation to the bridge's shadow, water and everything is carefully planned which is awesome!
i WANNA know what software did you used for the bg and pls elaborate.(I know you must be thinking gosh! after so much of detailing this person want to know more! but hey I am like that only)
b4n
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This really is a nice wall. :) Love the scenery. Just wondering.. do you have a version without Kaoru because I believe the scenery alone would make a beautiful wall.
When I first saw this, I was like "WOAH! So pretty!". And I'm right. I love the background very much. It looks like a painting. AND I love the feel. Plus, it's Kaoru! Good job!
The background is beautiful, the enviornment of this Japanese garden is really nice, though, the volcano in the corner looks a bit strange there. The character is beautiful too, she fits to the background well. Nice wallpaper.
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OMG...that's fantastic...wow....great job, the trees looks great, the water, the sky...and she's like a rare flower standing there *.*
gorgeous....
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LOVE IT. Specially the backround it is really beautiful and realistic. EvEN THOUGH SHE DOES STAND OUT A BIT AGAINST IT YO DID A REALLY GREAT JOB WITH IT!
Simply a beautiful background here but I can't help but suggest if you made a bigger wall you could have put lots more detail into some of it. Also some of the background seems to be out of porportion, that tree is at about her height when it should be considerably taller than here. Also the little bridge seems to be short compared to here. Maybe its just me though.
Gorgeous! I love how the hazy background and the sharp character contrast. Beautiful paint job. I wish it had a higher resolution T.T. Beautiful job overall, though!
Very nice wallpaper indeed!
Painting with a mouse is not easy at all! so I'm really amazed by the result!
An awesome background! However, the character looks a tiny little bit out of place... It just seems like she is too well defined for the rest ^^ Nothing very serious though about it, it is still a very nice wallpaper! Keep up the nice work!
Although I really can see how painstakingly drawn the background is, the problem with this wallpaper I think is that the background looks sort of like an oil painting. I can see that effort has been put into blending in the image too, but it isn't quite there yet.
Omg i cant believe you painted the whole thing!!! I actually thought that you had some kind of picture or photograph that look like this and you used some brushes in photoshop to make it look like that!! o_O You did such a great job, you really should be proud, congradulations!! ^_^ +Fav Keep up the awesome work!! ^_^
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OMG! contest entry fore Paint-o-rama contest we had a while ago. Theme was Japanese Ancient and Feudal Eras, and we had to work with vegetation (I hope i got enough in there lol). Im sorry if its messed up looking, I tried, Im so super tired beyond belief you dont know. I am super proud of myself though, I had a vision for it and didnt give up even though it took me so long to do, and I did something different and chaledged myself, I hope you can see it thru my work as well! Many sleepless nights I can tell you that!
This wallpaper was fully painted by me (even my text I painted over yes) in my own style and using only a mouse, and the Brush, Smudge, and Blurr tool in Photoshop CS2. I got five stocks and put them together to make the layout for this and painted away and also added in some of my own stuff. I hope you like it, I think it came out wonderufully, full of scernery, depth, and detail as much as possible. I added in a mount fuji in the back thanks to Starr for the idea of it! I had about over 130 layers I know lost count .
My Fav part of the wallie?: The Reflections, why: b/c it took so long and so much thinking
The most fun thing to make?: The bridge b/c I had to think on how to do it and it was easy.
The hardest part?: the reflections it killed me, trial and error and over and over again! But worth it in the end.
This is a present for my Crack Fairy Triplet Rhondi, Without her encouragement, advice, and company I would have never made it thru alive without crying or giving up. She spent many sleepless nights keeping me company up from 4pm till 6 am while I worked on this, I love you so much, Thankyou for all that you've done! I also want to thank my twin sister Elizabeth aka thingperson for her support as well, staying with me as i worked on it, and was so sweet to me and also encoraged me, thankyou. I love you so much! And thanks so my best friend Starr for her encouragement as well.
If you didnt already know, Starr and I had a theme going on. She did a Kenshin bloody wall, and I did a Kaoru pretty wallpaper lol, arent we cute .
I will write more later to tired yet hyper to write lol. OMG im so nervous right now its unreal, i've waited so long for this. Also thanks to supermonchi for giving me hope. thankyou to everyone and my friends who supported me this year with my walling and everything, I love you all.. I can never say enough thanks but thankyou and my all your wishes for the new year come true!
UPDATE: added a shadow of her thanks to mickyoko for pointing that out.
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Although wall is gud too! but something is lacking? bg is overshadowing the Image I suppose, but i MUST say I loved the detailing of the bg right from the vegetation to the bridge's shadow, water and everything is carefully planned which is awesome!
i WANNA know what software did you used for the bg and pls elaborate.(I know you must be thinking gosh! after so much of detailing this person want to know more! but hey I am like that only)
b4n
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great attention to detail
nice choice in colors
well done
BTW, Faved.
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Brilliant! *_*
I loved wallpaper
thus follows with your works
[+] and my favorites ;)
byeeeeeeeeee ^0^
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OMG...that's fantastic...wow....great job, the trees looks great, the water, the sky...and she's like a rare flower standing there *.*
gorgeous....
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Painting with a mouse is not easy at all! so I'm really amazed by the result!
An awesome background! However, the character looks a tiny little bit out of place... It just seems like she is too well defined for the rest ^^ Nothing very serious though about it, it is still a very nice wallpaper! Keep up the nice work!
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