Widescreen RECOMMENDED. Full-view please! Standard has black bars of death. >> Ok, so...I just had to submit this wall before I killed myself over it. Ok? Ok? Ok. Lol. Good. Um, so this is for a challenge/contest on theOtaku.com. I didn't join it because of "OMG, a contest! I want to enter and WIN." I joined because it was all about being inspired, and the original scan chosen for the contest totally inspired me. Well, it did at first, that's for sure! I was like "bishie...smexy...sexy, must wall!" Lol, and so I did. I had fun at first, but then my level of fun deteriorated as I got closer to the bg...cause, in case you can't tell, it's VERY different (pretty different) from the original. :/ I was going to keep it closer to the original, and just be simplistic...with a white bg and the colors all the same, but where's the challenge in that? Exactly. >>
[this took me over 2 weeks to do]

Well, first I tilted the scan, to make him looking straight-on, instead of up...and I wasn't even going to give him a hand, believe it or not. Haha. I don't like drawing and vectoring hands, but I decided the wall needed it desperately. :/ It wouldn't have been complete! Uh, so yeah. This was all vectoring and painting with my tablet. I vectored the outlines and base colors, and then painted everything else. I added more butterflies...found some pics on google, then vectored them black, and I only painted some (I painted them my own way, so sorry if they don't look good! I made up the colors!). I have a reason for that!! So don't be all like, "Why on earth didn't you color those other butterflies?" I'm not familiar with this smexy hunk o' man or what his story is, so I made up my own:

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He brings life and color to living things...hence all the flowers growing from him, and him being the main source of color in the wall! And the brightest butterflies are the ones that come near him. So like the one sitting on the flower on his back...I guess you could say it "drank" his color/life. So yeah.

So that's the explanation for the butterflies. Um, I had fun painting his tattoos A LOT. I added a lot of my own, changed some, did different colors, stuff like that. :) I had a tough time painting his hair, but all in all, I think that worked out. Smexy bishie hair.

favorite part = his lips They're very kissable.

Uh...as I said, the bg was the hardest part for me. I didn't know what to do! T__T And so I ended up with some type of field scene. I used brushes from dA, vectored some vines and things...pained over them. :/ So yeah. Then it was still missing something (it looked way too empty), and so I tried a texture, which really did help. Sorry if you don't like textures, but TRUST ME, it looks way better this way. That's why I'm being a piggy and keeping the textureless from your eyes...it's that bad. Fine, here's textureless:

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Lol, thanks if you read all that! It gives you more insight into my horrible mind, and why things are as they are. Comments and faves are much appreciated! Thank you. :D

edit: Added some "depth" to the butterflies...with some highlights. :/ Sorry if it looks retarded. >> As for the grass, I'm sick of it, lol, so I just changed the color of the grass in front to a darker green/blue instead of the brighter green. I hope that's good for now!

P.S. (this just keeps getting longer, doesn't it?) If you're wondering about the title, it's a line from the song "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. ♥ I was listening to it...a billion times during this wall, lol. So yeah.