Hello everyone!
finally! another wall..
i made this wallpaper because i felt that there just weren't enough walls that showed kenshin in action!
i've seen this image in the scans gallery here at ap, but i just decided to vector an image i had found over at 'destiny's embrace'. i vectored it because:
a) the image was just awesome, and very worthy of a vector reproduction.
b) i could have more control over the layers.

with this wall, what i wanted was a very clean pic, with clear, sharp lines and shapes rather than gradients or smudging of any kind. and i wanted to draw a background that complemented the amazing sense of movement already present in the picture.

i was inspired to make this after seeing Shadow_Dude's ugetsu hakua wallpaper. the splattered blood was just amazing! i wanted to do something pretty much the same, using only a few colours. but since i work with a mouse, doing something that detailed, with those fine, swishy lines wasn't an option for me. and i didn't have the necessary reference either. so i did it in my own way, first manually drawing the waves, then applying cutout and turning then to paths to simplify and smooth out the lines. coz of which the water is rather 'clumpier', but it does the job. the splash near his foot was also drawn by me. i wanted to emulate david hockney's style, as seen in his acrylic painting, 'a bigger splash'. it looked a bit lonely all by itself, so i put in the ripples too. which turned out to be a very good idea as they help to 'fix' him in place, as well as enhancing the 'feel' of the force of his foot coming down on the water. the lines on the waves, the background and the colouring on the ripples all drawn manually.

the vector itself took quite some time to finish. and quite painful too...*stares at right hand*...
originally, this wall had a moon and some hills in the background. but after much evaluation, i decided to remove then as they were only taking attention away from kenshin and the splashy things. which is really sad, coz i had put in a lot of effort on them too... but then again, more doesn't always mean good. i was thinking of using red for the waves, but then i decided that waves of blood weren't 'proper' for a kenshin wallpaper.

and as always, i had trouble with the title. so i looked up 'water' in the dictionary, NoT because i didn't know the meaning!, but because i was looking for phrases with the word 'water' in them. i thought 'come hell or high water' was very appropriate.

and so there you have it! himura-san running on the water! this is for all the kenshin fans at ap. enjoy!