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So this wallpaper is a bit different from what I usually do...not sure why. XD It's just not grungy or texture-y or a [pathetically done] vector wallpaper. It's colorful! This was a request by one of my friends on MyOtaku/theOtaku, Yaya-chan. :3 She's a cutie. This request took a while because I had other requests to finish, and I also couldn't find any good scans of what she wanted first. So she changed her mind to Ichigo Mashimaro! And I think it was a good choice! I hope. I actually like how this wallpaper came out...and that doesn't happen too often.
Anyhoo, I first found the scan here:
http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Ichigo-Mashimaro/item99139/
And proceeded to extract. I thought it was fine at first, but then when my wallpaper was moved to SZ for "extraction issues", well, yeah. XD I did have to fix some things up around their hair, but all in all, it turned out fine. After A LOT of work...actually. The initial extraction was rather rough. ^^;; But thanks to Session Zero, I fixed that mistake!
The background was a lot of work because I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it! You should've seen it at first. It was brown with the white fog/clouds and some random squares on the side with lines. Ugh. Then during dinner I decided that a brighter background would be better. I wanted a stock photo of a Chinese restaurant to put back there...which I did, but it was too blurry. ^^;; Sooo...it ended up being motion blurred to just make it look like that. Fiery colors! This was the pic I used, by the way:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magtravels/11707486/
Then some brushwork (flowers etc.)...it took some work to make the scan of the girls [I don't know their names; never seen/read it] look clearer, but I think it's pretty good. I wanted to have that cloud around them...or steam, whatever it is. XD Just because for some reason I thought of that when I thought "Chinese"! Weird, I know. But maybe it was the steam from the meat buns that triggered that thought...anyhoo, the Chinese characters are just a font set from dafont. I typed randomly. So yeah, fiery steamy Chinese-y.
Well, I guess that's all I have to say. Again, this took roughly 2 hours [about 4 hours after Session Zero revisions!! Which were many!]
Anyhoo, I first found the scan here:
http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/Ichigo-Mashimaro/item99139/
And proceeded to extract. I thought it was fine at first, but then when my wallpaper was moved to SZ for "extraction issues", well, yeah. XD I did have to fix some things up around their hair, but all in all, it turned out fine. After A LOT of work...actually. The initial extraction was rather rough. ^^;; But thanks to Session Zero, I fixed that mistake!
The background was a lot of work because I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it! You should've seen it at first. It was brown with the white fog/clouds and some random squares on the side with lines. Ugh. Then during dinner I decided that a brighter background would be better. I wanted a stock photo of a Chinese restaurant to put back there...which I did, but it was too blurry. ^^;; Sooo...it ended up being motion blurred to just make it look like that. Fiery colors! This was the pic I used, by the way:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magtravels/11707486/
Then some brushwork (flowers etc.)...it took some work to make the scan of the girls [I don't know their names; never seen/read it] look clearer, but I think it's pretty good. I wanted to have that cloud around them...or steam, whatever it is. XD Just because for some reason I thought of that when I thought "Chinese"! Weird, I know. But maybe it was the steam from the meat buns that triggered that thought...anyhoo, the Chinese characters are just a font set from dafont. I typed randomly. So yeah, fiery steamy Chinese-y.
Well, I guess that's all I have to say. Again, this took roughly 2 hours [about 4 hours after Session Zero revisions!! Which were many!]
