I am also known as eternallegend --> http://eternallegend.minitokyo.net/ on Minitokyo

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copy and pasted from mt

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after going back and looking at all my unfinished vectors, and deciding i really didnt want to do them at the moment i decided to challenge myself instead XD

i thought maybe i could make up my own character instead of vectoring an existing one :D

after planning to do this for a long while [ever since the beginning of last year] i decided to go ahead and just vector it XD

so i present to you a an original character i made up :)

as with all characters, each one has a name so i thought she also deserves a name of her own :D

i decided to name her Malena, the name originating from the Scandinavian origin/culture and the meaning of her name is a woman from Magdala and is also a variant of Madeleine [or originating as a swedish name it also means from the tower]

this is what the outlines look like before i tweaked and cleaned them on the left and after the tweaking and cleaning on the right :D

i changed her head accessory, her arm positioning, her hair, added her collarbone lines and erased all the unnecessary lines, etc from the original outline i did XD

the finished outlines [the one on the right] is what you see in the wall :)

for her hair i used many colours and shades, on the left is the original size and on the right is enlarged at 300% [this was before all the touch ups that you can see in the wall]

sample hair

this is just a small sample of some of the colours i used in her hair [not all of the colours are there since all her hair colours i used would be about three times as many shown in that small sample] :D

sample colour pallette

the hair took about ten hours and i was getting tired of doing the hair by the ninth hour ^_^'

if i have to do another ruffle, it would be too soon ^_^' the ruffles in this took far too long about ten hours to get it how i wanted them to look >.<

sample colouring

personally to me the easiest thing to do would have been painting the moon :D the hardest thing i think would have been the composition of this wall; trying to place all the elements in spots that didnt seem too strange [i hope ^_^'] and doing the colouring ^_^'

there are about 230+ layers altogether and this wall took about 80+ hours as i kept going back and changing things, tweaking it a bit here and there XD

never before has my wall had so much meaning as this was a wall i thought long and hard about XD

the background i thought i would try a different style and approach so i did it this way :) since i didnt want to have the usual normal average background XD

i didnt want to stick with the usual style of having everything facing the one direction; or having the same perspective since that is what i would usually have done however i wanted to do something completely different from what i would normally do, hence the arrangement and perspectives of all the elements XD

her accessories are to signify humanity's materialistic nature XD

the ribbon she is letting go of is to symobolise how humans try to let go and forget their problems :)

the clouds near the middle of the wall are to signify how everything is under the one sky as everything is living under and share the same sky which is the reason i designed this wallpaper this way :D the reason the clouds are in front of the bridge is to add a misty like effect and to symbolise how as humans we cannot not see whats ahead [eg. future] such as when one is in a fog everything is unclear and it becomes harder to see everything clearly XD

because the moon is being covered by the clouds and the structure, this symbolises secrets, as humans we try to hide what we dont want discovered which is portrayed by how the moon is partially covered :)

a bridge for crossing as paths of many are joined signified how a bridge has two ends and joins one end to the other XD i decided to make it seem as though the bridge is suspended over water [not too sure if the water turned out okay ^_^'] because continents are separated by water however alliances are still formed with various countries :D the water contains mostly dark shadows rather than light shades to symbolise the ambiguity of our world XD

the field is to symbolise nature, the birds and butterflies are to signify wildlife and creatures that roam our world and the structure is to symbolise civilisation as us humans have built structures upon this world :)

the reason the structure is upside down is because of how our planet earth is spherical and there is a north and south end of the planet, and if your at one end the opposite end seems to be upside down yet everything is held in place due to the force of gravity :D

because of the way the structures are positioned you could flip the wall vertically and view it that way XD [youll notice if you do that the structure is the right way up and the words 'the realms' can be read the right way up and youll notice that the wall would then say the 'the realms in between' and the whole section with the structure, moon, clouds and the birds seem as though they are the right way up however if you view it normally its only the structures that isnt the right way up XD flip canvas/wall vertically not 180 degrees ^_^']

thanks for viewing ^^

note: i appologise for the inconvenience of my credits in this wallpaper however it has come to my attention that someone has ripped one of my previous wallpapers by uploading it on another site [not on mt; on another image site] without my prior knowledge and i only found out because i stumbled upon it accidentally when browsing the internet T_T this has not only happened to me as i soon discovered it has happened to various other artists artworks found on mt and its sad to find out something such as this has happened T_T

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i also submitted this on minitokyo earlier and it can be found at this link --> In Between The Realms on mt