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.
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Now, were to begin? At the begining I guess. Wel, after vectoring Lenalee (vector here) I began to wonder how to turn in into a wallpaper. For this, I must thenk Sinever and her wallpaper, Field of Love, cuz by making that, I was able to use a scan she used in that wall. THENK YOU SINEVER-SAN! (hope you don't mind me using it) But still, I wonted to change a couple of things on that scan, so I added my toutch to the leafs to make am diferent.
Also, for the floweres down ther, I used another scan found around MT (I saw moon-chan used them in one of her workes as well). As for the banch ... I looked ariund google's image search for "chinese bence" and this is what I found. I vectored it (it would have been too realisic otherwise) and that's about it (I couldn't let Lenalee in thin air now, could I?)
Now, as for the bg ... I shure needed Imagenation. Fortunatly, I had this nice picture of a lake (here I tried to make it look more like the sea), made some major adjustments and here's the result. As for the tree, I am prowd to say that I painted it using Corel Painter Esentiales and my new graphic tablet I got for my b-day (I love my tablet |(VcV| ) Somethimes drawing anime is hard for me, but nobody can say enything about my sketching (not around here et least ([]_[])9 )
What else can I say ... Oh! I tried making one of those paper walls behind Lenalee (my intention was that from the reality of the indore to go in a blink of an eye to the beauty of the outside, like one of those magical figures were if you look at soething from the outside long enough, then the walls tend to dissapear right before your eyes).
The light thingy in the upper-left is suposed to be the sun's light (the tipe that's blinding you like at the sea).
That's about it. This one rely was pleasent to vector (mostly becasue I LOVE flowers ) and with the right music, the images seme to vector themselfs .
Time spent: a couple of hovers with Lenalee and a day and 1/2 for the rest of it "Instruments" used: Photoshop, mouse, Corel Painter Esentiales 3 and graphic tablet Special thenks to: Sinever and moonescape
FAVES, CRITICS AND COMMENTS are allwas WELCOMED and APRECIATED.
Woah! What an awesome wallpaper! I really love it! Now I always try to point something out I don't like, so I'm giving at least a little helpful advice >__>. I would say that some parts of the wall are nice and sharp and vectored, and others are more blurred and kinda look like a watercolor painting. But who cares? ^_^ Its really cool, and deserves a great score. Faves for joo :P
Excellent vector, but the elements of the wall don't really blend in with each other. True, everything in the foreground is vectored, but there is no definite light source and it looks a bit random. BTW, I suggest either vectoring, painting or removing the tree. It stands out from everything because of the glowy outline and paint style.
Lovely wall. I like the background foreground very much. But I think the tree in the back doesn't belong and it made the background too crowded. The sky is nice but it's too realistic. I like it better if the sky and waters are more simple and I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think the colors doesn't fit.
The vectoring is great. It must have taken a lot of skill and time to vector all that.
Overall, it's a nice piece so I'll fav it anyway.
Waaaa It's so colorful and Cute X3~ me like this alot!
all the vectoring is great and the non vectored part are good too!
all the warm and nice colors are so cute and give such a good feeling~
me like wallpapers like this! great job me fav this!
Oh yeah, I remember Sinever's wallpaper, loved it very much ^-^
This one immediately caught my eye - it's so beautiful!!
Lenalee looks so pretty and sweet, and entire wall has this feeling of calmness... yeah, the title definitely fits the wall, it does feel like paradise! ^-^
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Awwww how beautiful. I love the theme of this wallie
The birds especially. Thanks for making this wall.
It reminds of home in Trinidad, Mikomi-chan.
BG & FG are amazing.And the colors are just right as well.
I can see the work you've done on the vector and I appreciate it. The thing is that you have to start trying to make your composition more balanced and whole. With this I mean that you can't have a huge blurred bird behind the bench and the girl. I think you can make it so keep it up. I'll keep an eye on you. ^^
Nice bg of the trees and the sky.
but it seems that the front row of flowers and birds don't suit the scene.
other than that it seems nice. ^^
good job! keep up the good work!
Wow, so much detail! It really reminds me of a rich Chinese person's house, hahah. The vectors are well done, but as mentioned, the whole wallpaper doesn't seem to be... a scene, rather, it's like different pictures put on top of each other. The most immediate thing I notice is that the tree in the BG seems too 3D. When I look at the girl, and then back at the tree, it's looks kind of like a monster X). And then the sky and ocean looks very painted compared to the vectors in front. If the focus is on Lenalee, the birds and flowers in front shouldn't be so bold and crisp. I would also prefer Lenalee to be brighter. Still, your idea is really creative!
Woah. It's really really good. There is a lot of detail in the wallpaper. Overall, it's really nice and colorful although it seems a bit too colorful because the variety of colors that is present. However, I think it's really well done so excellent work!
Wow, this is a really pretty wall! There are a lot of details in this wall and I can see 3 drawing styles. I like the birds and the flowers the most. As for the tree in the background, the 3-D style of it doesn't really match the other two styles. But the clouds look really, really realistic.
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Now, were to begin?
Also, for the floweres down ther, I used another scan found around MT (I saw moon-chan used them in one of her workes as well). As for the banch ... I looked ariund google's image search for "chinese bence" and this is what I found.
Now, as for the bg ... I shure needed Imagenation. Fortunatly, I had this nice picture of a lake (here I tried to make it look more like the sea), made some major adjustments and here's the result. As for the tree, I am prowd to say that I painted it using Corel Painter Esentiales and my new graphic tablet I got for my b-day
What else can I say ... Oh! I tried making one of those paper walls behind Lenalee (my intention was that from the reality of the indore to go in a blink of an eye to the beauty of the outside, like one of those magical figures were if you look at soething from the outside long enough, then the walls tend to dissapear right before your eyes).
The light thingy in the upper-left is suposed to be the sun's light (the tipe that's blinding you like at the sea).
That's about it. This one rely was pleasent to vector (mostly becasue I LOVE flowers
Time spent: a couple of hovers with Lenalee and a day and 1/2 for the rest of it
"Instruments" used: Photoshop, mouse, Corel Painter Esentiales 3 and graphic tablet
Special thenks to: Sinever and moonescape
FAVES, CRITICS AND COMMENTS are allwas WELCOMED and APRECIATED.
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the backgrounds...wonderful...the subject...ideal...
colours, contast and lighting...so well done...
i just cant wait til i have enough papers to download this for my latest wallpaper..
so well done Mikomi :)
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The vectoring is great. It must have taken a lot of skill and time to vector all that.
Overall, it's a nice piece so I'll fav it anyway.
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all the vectoring is great and the non vectored part are good too!
all the warm and nice colors are so cute and give such a good feeling~
me like wallpapers like this! great job me fav this!
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This one immediately caught my eye - it's so beautiful!!
Lenalee looks so pretty and sweet, and entire wall has this feeling of calmness... yeah, the title definitely fits the wall, it does feel like paradise! ^-^
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The birds especially. Thanks for making this wall.
It reminds of home in Trinidad, Mikomi-chan.
BG & FG are amazing.And the colors are just right as well.
Fantastic work
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but it seems that the front row of flowers and birds don't suit the scene.
other than that it seems nice. ^^
good job! keep up the good work!
nice wallpaper of Lenalee!
background and also those birds also very nice too...
well done!
keep it up!!
the image is nice, the colours are great, what the heck?
keep up the good work
i love your wallpppappper