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.
'I foung this BEAUTIFUL scan of xxxHolic, but it was kinda 800x600 and blurred. I automatically thought I'll vector this. But when I changed the size, to my astonishement the work looked like a manga blob rather than a CLAMP masterpiece. So I started looking for something a bit bigger or less blurred. Well I found it, but it appeared to be cut (from half of yuuko's skirt, and just above her head, and some sofa on both sides) AND it had horrible colors (orange a yellow only). So I merged the two, and tried to do my best recreating the bits missing in the better scan (after all CLAMP is mostly about the lineart...) :)
After that came the coloring. Now, it's finished, hope you like it.
Oh the different colors of the smoke made me think of Mr Tulip from 'The Truth' by Terry Pratchett (confesion: am a big Pratchett fan). It look so chemical, it made me think of mothballs(don't worry if you don't understand... it's just my feeling towards the work)'
Wow! It's absolutely gorgeous. You did a great job! I really ought to learn how to vector but before that, I should get Illustrator. That is the program to use for vectors, right? ^^
Great! I must see this series! They're just...so cool. xD I just love CLAMP's artwork. You've done a good job and I dunno why but it feels like they're in a castle in sky as empress and emperor. That's what I got. -_-' I think you could add shadows to background to make it look more realistic. Anyway,it sure deserves a fav! Well done!
Wow!
You did a great job merging/cleaning up the scans!
If you didn't tell us up front, I doubt anyone would have guessed that this wallpaper is consisted of two different scans.
Can you post the two scans just to show off you mad skills?
I think it would be interesting to see the before/after pics!
Very nice, xxxholics artwork looks like a comic to me, never watched it tho but cool art. i like the way you used the gradient mesh, the only thing i dont like is the border but hey dont mind me i was never a border person +fav
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I love how you recreated the missing bits. You've got skills.
And the colouring is just as good. Though the wall is still simple...But good nonetheless!
This is an awsome wall! XD I like it. The scan and the background are great, and they fit each other very well. I especially like the scan, it is great! Nice job! Keep it up!
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'I foung this BEAUTIFUL scan of xxxHolic, but it was kinda 800x600 and blurred. I automatically thought I'll vector this. But when I changed the size, to my astonishement the work looked like a manga blob rather than a CLAMP masterpiece. So I started looking for something a bit bigger or less blurred. Well I found it, but it appeared to be cut (from half of yuuko's skirt, and just above her head, and some sofa on both sides) AND it had horrible colors (orange a yellow only). So I merged the two, and tried to do my best recreating the bits missing in the better scan (after all CLAMP is mostly about the lineart...) :)
After that came the coloring. Now, it's finished, hope you like it.
Oh the different colors of the smoke made me think of Mr Tulip from 'The Truth' by Terry Pratchett (confesion: am a big Pratchett fan). It look so chemical, it made me think of mothballs(don't worry if you don't understand... it's just my feeling towards the work)'
~~Terry Pratchett
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I think you did a great job with this wallpaper. The colours look brilliant, alot nicer than just the oranges and yellows you said it was before!
Congrats on such a pretty wallpaper, it's really got me in the mood for watching the anime too!
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wow very nice work here!
it looks like the clamp masterpiece it should be..
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You did a great job merging/cleaning up the scans!
If you didn't tell us up front, I doubt anyone would have guessed that this wallpaper is consisted of two different scans.
Can you post the two scans just to show off you mad skills?
I think it would be interesting to see the before/after pics!
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Terry Pratchett, his fans are everywhere ^^.
I love how you recreated the missing bits. You've got skills.
And the colouring is just as good. Though the wall is still simple...But good nonetheless!
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