my work Ice Cream Tomoyo ... sorry, i can't found some good title for this wall, so i take that ice cream on Tomoyo hand

actually this work was an old work when i was still watching Clannad Movie and decided to made some wallpaper using Tomoyo base image and began to croping it (it's Tomoyo from movie so the artwork design is a bit different with Tomoyo from Clannad TV series), but because of my lack idea i can't thinking of some good theme for it just after i'm finish croping the scan.

and after a while (got some idea by chance) i've decided to finish it >_< making the splashing background (well, it's look like tribal than splash), and because i thought Tomoyo is cool character and match with black-grey-white color (well, matching with her hair maybe :P) so i'm using monocromatic color for main color of this wall except the character scan itself (or maybe it's just because i like black-grey-white color :P)

i'm using the help from both adobe tools (Photoshop and Illustrator) to made this wallpaper. I made the spalshing thing at Illustrator, using their Artistic_Paintbrush and messing around until i've got what i want.

after export it to be a Photoshop brushes (using define brush preset), i move my hand the second time at Photoshop ^_^
well, just messing around again on 1680x1050 Photoshop canvas using the splash brush that i made before (on Illustrator), blending this and that, add some additional brush (some clannad text brush that i made), give some pattern (line pattern that i made before too), color gradation and text

the next, i'm messing a bit the Character Scan like add some shadow and glow effect and modify the adjustment level a bit

and the last for finishing ... i'm adding some blending smooth effect to the wall and watermark at the bottom-left-side :D

estimation time that i take for design this wall is about 6 hours (well ... making the brush on Illustrator take a lot of time), and croping the scan is about 2-3 hours i think, so the total time is about 8-9 hours to finish this wall :D

i also made for 1440x900 resolution and desktop version at 1280x1024 resolution

the hardest part is ... hmm ... making the splash brush (i'm not too familiar with illustrator) and croping the scan i think :D
and the number of layer that i've used are 22 layers

when i used it on my desktop, it's match perfectly with XP theme (well, i'm used silver theme on my desktop :P)
well, the smoothing thing really my favorite effect :X

waiting for your comment (every aspect if possible)
and hope you enjoy this wall ^^

NB: for the scan, i found Tomoyo scan which similar with the scan that i've used in here (AP), the scan was posted by suemura

though the scan that i've used are from the other source (i forgot the source)