Wow! So foreboaring in a way. :o I really like the painting here and the outlines so flowy too, I can't help, but make my outlines straight. Grass may be quite odd and simple and so is the big ray of light. Though the clouds were wonderful, you've really captured them. :D
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Artist Comment
The bishounen invasion pushes ever onwards with a wallpaper of Sakis from Lagoon Engine Einsatz. The original scan drew me in with his sense of
wonder at the bird flying over him, and I really liked how the bird was integrated into the clouds of the sky. Thus, we
have Tama's take on sceneric.
I wanted to get a feel of a painting for this wallpaper, thus the entire character was redrawn and repainted using Corel
Painter 9. I tried to recreate the original image, so I copied the style of the grass (also painted in Painter) as well
as the bird in the sky (yes, Painter yet again!) In fact, the only thing I did in Photoshop (minus my typical color
corrections and text at the end) was to make the clouds. I originally was going to paint those, too, but I couldn't
get them to look proper after about 2 hours of experimentation, and I knew that judicious use of stock photographs would work out better (plus some smudging and filtering to give it a
painted feel instead of a photorealistic feel.)
The text on the original scan read, "sono tori wa... watashi no kokoro wo tondeita" which I've literally
translated as "The bird soared through my heart". The title "Flight of Fancy" came about because,
well, it's an old phrase, and it seems to fit the wonder of a white bird gliding serenely overhead.
EDIT: The progress of Flight of Fancy:
Beginning of character painting -
face, hair and shirt | Text version 1 (font = Lainie)
Character painting - pants,
glove
Character painting - sword | Text
version 2 (medieval style font)
Character painting - sword
Character painting - cloak part
I
Character painting - cloak part
II (finish)
Background test - unaltered stock
photo and bird shape for testing of text placement | Addition of flying grass blades | Text version 3 (font =
Venetian)
Background painting - sky
"gradient", the bird | Text version 4 (Japanese text moved to horizontal positioning)
Note: Yeah, it generally takes me 4-5 tries to get the font the way I like it. I absolutely love typography, and am
excessively nitpicky on making the text match the image perfectly. I'm shallow like that.
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moonescape Jun 15, 2007
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SunMist Jul 07, 2007
wow. usually when I even try to paint with the computer -even if its tracing- it ends looking jagged and computertech-y. this is such a good wallpaper tho
You did a great job!
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