Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped,-turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell y-OH MY GOD I MADE A WALLPAPER ZOMGWTFBBQ!111!one!1!!11!eleven (no pun intended on the "eleven").

Before you start booing and throwing tomatoes and rocks at me, I just wanted to say:
I'm sorry, lulz.
I've been really really busy with other things (from uni, to work, to a lot of other stuff), I never managed to fully finish a wallpaper in like... over a year. Yes, that's a lot of time.
Anyway. I got spare time again, and this wallpaper is the first one I managed to finish (yep, there's other wallpapers in progress as well, hell is freezing over). It was mostly a practice work to remove some rust I gathered in the past months, as I consider this a painting excercise. Scene was redrawn (character vectored, as usual) and background painted, using as reference a screenshot from the second ending of the first season of Code Geass. I eventually flipped it since most of the users usually place their icons on the left, and poor C.C. doesn't want to be covered by ugly filthy icons!

Before people start whining about the castle's water reflection, all I did was reproducing the same effect it had in the original screenshot, where the reflection looks just as blurry (if not even more). So yeah, I'm already aware of that, but that's as how I intended that to be, just in case you guys were to jump on that with your knives between your teeth.

An other note, I wasn't originally planning to submit this, since I finished this about a week ago, and Susan-chan amazingly had the same idea of walling this scene just like I did, so I felt that it would have been a bit repetitive to submit that right after she submitted her own take on it. Be sure to give a look at her wallpaper as well because she did a good job at it.

Lastly, be sure to check Scenic FFA Competition, and if you feel like it, give it a try and join it! The more people the merrier, scenic wallpapers need serious loving!

Oh and of course, be sure to check out Shinndou.com for more resolutions (for the other two aspect ratios)!