Card Captor Sakura Anime Wallpapers
First Snow
First Snow
By ASH-Hikari
- Submitted:
- 40wk 3d ago by ASH-Hikari
- Category:
- Card Captor Sakura
- Official Creator:
- CLAMP
- Type:
- Anime Wallpapers
- Resolution:
- 1,600x1,200
- Size:
- 1,086 kB
- Views/Downloads:
- 5,256/539
- Comments/Favorites:
- 40/117
Dedicated to entity1660. Why? For many
reasons. First reason, I owe her. Second reason, I still feel bad for vectoring
a scan that she's doing. Most important reason? She's one of my great friends
here <3 Thanks for always being someone I can look up to, my onee-san, and a
role model for all other vectorers as well as me! 
Also my entry for 
November contest. Theme: winter romance. (Okay, so it
doesn't look very romantic. But it's Sakura and Syaoran, alone in the middle of
nowhere, enjoying the first snow together.)
Now for all the usual description stuff, huh? Hm...
First off, this is the most time-consuming vector of my entire vector career. 29
hrs, beating my previous 22. I didn't expect it to take quite so long (I
estimated 20 hrs), but I guess it's because I spend so much time on every
detail. Even though in the end, you can't really tell. (Abul-kun said he could
do it in 6 hrs; he's probably right 
).I
hate frills 
There's all kind of lighting effects here, on their hair, the
sword, even their clothes, but you can't see it much. 3 hours was spent on
colouring the staff alone, because I tried some of that multi-layered vectoring
that gives it a painty-look. My first time doing that, you can tell me how it
went.
The original
scan had text and boxes covering parts of it, so getting around that was a
bit difficult...but I've done much harder reconstruction before so this wasn't
so bad. I don't know what else to say about the vector except it took too long
Now the wall. I tried some more painting. I know I'm not that good, but I'll improve, right? I painted the snow and mountains myself (I like the mountains on the right), and the clouds were part of another scan that I painted over. Oh, and the tree was from a Kanon scan but I also painted over it. I do realize that the wall seems kind of empty; however I realized the more I add to walls, the worse they get. So a nice simple wall will do, I guess.
Issues:
(a) You might be thinking that for this to be the first snow, there's too much
snow. Well you're wrong! What's ironic is that while I was making this wall, it
snowed for the first time. And it snowed a LOT. Here's a
picture of it just after it started, and it continued (it's still snowing right
now, days later). Kya, I love snow! I was so happy when it first snowed...*goes
into Fuuko starfish mode*
(b) You might think Sakura would be cold in this outfit. But I believe if she
can rollerblade in the winter in her short-skirted seifuku, then she'll be just
fine.
(c) It seems now that I adjust my monitor settings, you can't see the painted
snow as much. I may update that later.
I knew this description would be long 
Vector Stats (...and lots of them)
Outline: 14 hrs
Colouring: 12 hrs
Staff Colouring: 3 hrs
Total: 29 hrs
Orignal Size: 5056x3619
Sakura Layers: 32
Staff Layers: 56
Syaoran Layers: 37
Total: 125 + 2 = 127
Wall Stats
Time: 5-6 hours
Layers: 8 (many merged)
Project Duration: Nov. 19 - Nov. 27
I hope you like you present entity-chan I
know my walling skill aren't the greatest but I certainly put a lot of effort
into it, and I suppose that's what counts
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Texture version:
lovely artwork~ love the layout and the vector of sakura and syaoran~
and the
background and colours used as well~ lovely~ 
thanks
for sharing~~
Woow! Is so sweet! I love Sakura and Syaoran!
The vector is so beautiful! I love it!
Great job.
That is a stunning vector! Larger than life & twice as fun! And such a change in scenery to the pure white snowy hills...
Oh, I hate to say it, but you know that MiniTokyo has a clean version of this scan. But if anything it just shows how good your reconstruction skills are because it looks just like it =D
Beautiful wall, fantastic vector, and stunning imagination. Love it!
nee-san!
im busy now so ill commennt later, ok?
ja
Ahh, your lucky I love your works.
Awesomeness strikes again, it's gorgeous <3
Another excellent vector wallie from Ash-san! It has beautiful lines and the color is great. I love the staff, neat and shiny. This should be faved by everyone!
kyaaaa! Kawaii!
I love
this pic! The background is so awesome 
And
the outlines, so clean! *-*
And... I love Syaoran! 
Great job
wow this is just amazing. I love the atmosphere and for me it looks like a winter romance. the vector is perfect as always. And don't be mad, I would need more than 40hours for it
And you painted again. you should do it more often. It looks really nice. Entity sure will you gift =D
Wow! a painted wall *.* I love it, Great job <3
duh, finally have time to comment
well i actually hate this wallpaper cuz the bg is very badly done and the vector is the worst vector i ever seen XP
hate it, XP
now invert it
WAHHHHHHHH, I'm ready to go up in tears now! WAHHHH....*sniff* *sniff* Sakura and Syaoran are my favorite couple, how did you know? And again...I WANTED TO DO THIS VECTOR! HAHAHA JK But thank you very much, I feel more special as a friend to you than ever. Thank you so much! I'm touched....=_=;
Wow, beautiful! A creative idea to shift them onto a snow field-thing! And the vectoring is so gorgeous. I love the shading on Sakura's staff! And amazing reconstruction job
+fave
and new desktop! 
Wow! The vectoring is so awesome and just so neat 0_0 Love the simple background as well =D
The wallpaper is very cute. You painted this wallpaper? I think you did a wonderful job on that and everything else. The wallpaper is simple, which I like, and it is really nicely done and perfect. ^^ Keep up the great work. ^_^
love it
Whoah, I simply love how you've used multi-layered style on the wand. It looks gorgeous! Background is absolutely cool, snowy, fresh and it's fun! Flawless vectoring again, Ash. Simple at first glance, but high in details when fullview. Great work!
ps. One thing though, the tree might look better if it isn't blurry.
merged: 11-28-2007 ~ 01:20pm
Textured version looks nice, but I prefer textureless one cause it's softer yet so pure.
already seen this in AP and DL it
love the vector + the sharpness and cleanliness
and the bg is simple yet nice! love the snow effects too
+fav!
This is so nice
wow
snow, ASH-Hikari your wallpaper look great 
Thanks for sharing!
I can't resist to fav this. Very smooth textures and it's got that 'happy' atmosphere. Feel like Christmas is round the corner. Another well done job Hikari-chan.
Cute! I love Syaoran and Sakura!^0^
this is so cute! Awesome vector wall as alyways
yay it snowed here too, and it stayed!
Anyway, nice vector, very clean as always ^__^ I like the detail on the wand.
Are they supposed to be sitting in the snow? 'cause it looks like they're kinda floating/hovering above it, esp with Syaoran's leg. I like what you did with his hand, having a bit of snow covering it to make it look like his hand is in the snow instead of just on top of it. Since snow is soft, and there's a lot of it, I'd think if they were sitting on the snow they'd be some kind of indent ^^;
The tree, while it's well-made, looks a bit random and.. unnecessary, and it blocks off the openness of the perspective of the background, if you know what I mean ^^; Also, because the background is so light, the black outlines stand out a bit too much from it... maybe use a brown outlines instead of pure black to soften it a bit?
Nice job painting the background, esp the snow ^^ And the clouds look nice too, though they're a teeny bit over-smudged, but that's okay.
Anyway, nice work ^^
It's so cute. I love it!