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When I was cleaning up my room I found a stack of old anime magazines that I hadn't fully scanned. In Newtype Japan 3/04 I found a stunning picture of the Count in a different, sketchier style. Obviously I had to wall it.
At first I wanted to focus on the sword cutting the image into four quadrants, then I remembered my wish to make another 'clock' styled wallpaper based on a scene from one of the middle episodes in which we see Eugenie through the face of an old clock. I really liked that style so I decided to combine both ideas into this wallpaper. The image became much more experimental as I kept working on it, and it's certainly not your typical sceneric or grunge.
The background is a blending of numerous stock photographs of clocks and clock gears in a more abstract style.
The foreground clock was drawn in Illustrator based on several stock photos of large clocktower faces, and each slice of hour was colored differently, as if stained glass.
The title is the Latin inscription the Count has engraved in his pocketwatch, translating to "Death is certain, its hour uncertain" and seemed to fit very well with the time themes running throughout this wall.
Additional resolutions are available at DA! Desktop Anime.
EDIT: I've decomposed this wallpaper so if you're curious as to how the Count looked before I obscured him with my big happy clock of DoM! then you can.
At first I wanted to focus on the sword cutting the image into four quadrants, then I remembered my wish to make another 'clock' styled wallpaper based on a scene from one of the middle episodes in which we see Eugenie through the face of an old clock. I really liked that style so I decided to combine both ideas into this wallpaper. The image became much more experimental as I kept working on it, and it's certainly not your typical sceneric or grunge.
The background is a blending of numerous stock photographs of clocks and clock gears in a more abstract style.
The foreground clock was drawn in Illustrator based on several stock photos of large clocktower faces, and each slice of hour was colored differently, as if stained glass.
The title is the Latin inscription the Count has engraved in his pocketwatch, translating to "Death is certain, its hour uncertain" and seemed to fit very well with the time themes running throughout this wall.
Additional resolutions are available at DA! Desktop Anime.
EDIT: I've decomposed this wallpaper so if you're curious as to how the Count looked before I obscured him with my big happy clock of DoM! then you can.
