Just a quick little wallpaper for practice and a break from painting and vectoring. xP

(Full view please, the text and everything looks ultra blurry in the thumbnail. D:)

My first time using a stock photo background... Paint Shop Pro's filters are terrible compared to Photoshop's, but I did the best I could.
I also changed it's colors to be more green (unlike the original yellow-ish-ness) and smudged over the tree and leaves, and finally got rid of a few things I didn't want in it. :3
(Stock photo from http://www.sxc.hu/)

The scan is from www.aethereality.net
When I saw this scan I just HADTA use it... something about her expression was just so cool.
(No cleaning really required... at least nothing worth mentioning.)
I did haveta vector her bangs because they were too thin for PSP to get out right.
(I can't extract with my pen tool... all freehand lasso. DX)

The leaves flying around her (the barely noticable ones) are vectored + painted from the original scan.

For this wallpaper I wanted a kinda natural yet magical feel, and I thought the text fit perfectly. THEN I remembered they also happened to be lyrics in a song (Aly and Aj's... Rush? o-O I don't really care for that song...) and so I looked up the rest and added the line "out of the dark; sunlight again".
(Which then made me wanna add the rays of light through the tree~)

Here's a link to the textless version. (If the link or any other is broken mail me and I'll fix it.)


Finally, this is a wallpaper for Forget Me Not because there's only one wallpaper with Hotaru in it. D:
She's not a main-main character, but she's still cool.

Haha... guess in the end I really didn't get that far from vectoring and painting. >.>

Thank you for everyone who gave advice on this in Session Zero~! :D