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Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Wallpaper: Love Memory

CLAMP, Bee Train, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran Li, Sakura Kinomoto Wallpaper
CLAMP Mangaka Bee Train Studio Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Series,OVA Syaoran Li Character Sakura Kinomoto Character

1600x1200 Wallpaper

Artist Comment

My second wallpaper~ another Tsubasa one. Think it's a scan? Heh. Look again! This wall took me ages... I worked on it fairly steadily for about a week (maybe more) and then just picked it up and worked on it all night because I couldn't sleep. It's not EXACTLY done but it's 90% done, and my brain and eyes are more or less dead after stupidly staying up, so suggestions or comments on this wall would be nice.

I'm going to explain in great detail how I made this wallpaper because it's a synthesis of three different scans, LOADS of extraction and lots of re-coloring T_T I'm very proud of it, heh, so here goes:

The main scan of Sakura and Syaoran I got from chuayw2000 After I extracted what I wanted you can imagine my dilemma. I mean look at all the text all over this thing. At this point I kind of wanted to cry and die. But before then, I decided to work on the background.

The cherry blossoms in the background I got from atzur. Again, loads of extraction, cropping, moving blossoms to strategically cover Syaoran's hand... recoloring to wipe out Syaoran / Sakura in the middle... etc. etc. It actually wasn't too bad as I remember.

Then I went back to the original Syaoran and Sakura scan and wanted to cry some more, but then I had the brilliant idea to find a PRISTINE Syaoran's cloak and drape it over him! It took some trial and error, but I found a good cloak for him from Aerith0530. After some flipping, manipulating, and coloring in additional wrinkles so that the cloak folds the right way, voila! I managed to cover up most of the offending text.

So tonight I finally sat down, brushed in Sakura's veil and recolored over all of the text. Sakura's metal corset-thing proved to be the biggest challenge... I used a lot of imagination, detailed brushwork (with a 1 pixel-sized brush zoomed in at 1600% most of the time @x@), and in the end got mad and erased about a centimeter of metal plate that I had created earlier but didn't do so well on the lighting. I then tried applying the "dream effect" tutorial that I saw in a site... didn't work as well, so I started playing with different layer overlap effects. After almost 3.5 hours of work... almost done... but just had to keep going back and fixing little things like a bump on Sakura's back, putting in the shadow for a missing arm... and TA-DA~

Sorry for the long description, but I'm writing this to remind myself... no wallpaper again for a long time... until I can learn moderation... but hope you all will enjoy.

P.S. The title's inspired by one of Tsubasa's main theme songs' lyrics... and I was stylistically inspired by Tysoh's beautiful wall.

Updates:
6/26/05: Slight modification to Syaoran's cloak collar and background...
6/30/05: Added in a shadow crease to Sakura's hand, straightened some of Sakura's lines, cleaned a bit of blue out of her hair that I missed before... Tried smudging Syaoran's cloak, which looked ok, but then I decided to stick with the original "rugged" look.
10/30/05: In the spirit of taking other people's advice... I finally caved in and smudged Syaoran's cloak so that quality-wise it looks consistent with the rest of the scan now. I also went over some of the worst jaggies with the eraser + smudge tool, and smudged some of the background flowers just a teensy bit.
11/1/05: Realized that the lines in the cloak were still really... mortifyingly bad... and went over most of the lines again with the smudge tool + pen tool, since I'm now in love with the smudge tool. LOADS better... and I imagine that this will be the final edit of this wallie *kicks it*
6/6/06: Made and updated 1600x1200 version.

Now that my earlier wallies are SLIGHTLY less embarrasingly bad, I can start making a new wallie with a clear conscience! Kekeke... *^.~*

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Comments

  1. PikaMoon Jun 12, 2005

    Wow! What a wonderful wall and what a lot of work. Thank you so much for sharing and all your hard work and no sleep. Truly appreciate it since the end result it truly fantabulous! :D Definitely a +fave+ for sure! Looks great. *sigh* Just reading all the things you had to go through made me want to cry with you. *sigh* Wish I could be as good and creative as you. You've inspired me. Thanks! :D Hope to see even more of your work!

  2. Tirdaelyn Jun 12, 2005

    This is an amazing wallpaper. It is totally gorgeous. :)
    i love the image you chose, and the background is very pretty. It is easy to see that you worked very hard on this one. Great job, and thanks much for sharing. :)
    +fav

  3. Story-Weaver Jun 14, 2005

    Really impressive! You did all of that? woah ;)
    Not only have you showed off some very impressive skills the end result is a beautiful wall :)
    Love it - *favs*

  4. RileyE Jun 14, 2005

    Sweet pic!! I wish Koru-san & Tomoyo-hime had a pic like that..!! ^^

  5. Glamp Jun 21, 2005

    Uuuuuu!!
    Very particular works !!
    i like it! !!!!
    +favs!!*lol*~~~~~~

  6. Matsukaze Jun 21, 2005

    Awsome work!!!
    Realmente un explendido trabajo, te quedo bastante bien. Felicidades

  7. Bla-demer Jun 23, 2005

    Great job. You rely are brilliand. You rely are good at this. I like everything in this picture cuting, colours you rely are talented. :) :)

  8. Sakari Jun 23, 2005

    it look like it take to you a lot of work, but its more than beaufull, great coloring and the pic just looks lovely n_n great one!!!!

  9. Shilian Jun 24, 2005

    Daisuki! Even though the flowers are a little rougher then the drawing of Syaoran and Sakura. But that's just small stuff. Great job! :)

  10. lakelady Jun 26, 2005

    Wow you worked really hard on this wallpaper. But you know it worth it!!! Beutiful!!!

  11. passionclouds Jun 26, 2005

    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! so pretty! so touchy! XD T_T whatda matching couple!!!!! :)

  12. mackica Jul 01, 2005

    >insert applause here< No doubt it includes hard work. I like it, especially the colors, warm and easy on the eyes. I like it even better then your other one.

  13. Nkabee Jul 08, 2005

    woww, so much work, it really payed off, it looks incredible, reallly cool. thanks for sharing this, tsubasa chronicle ruless!!! XD

  14. leekheng Jul 13, 2005

    wow! another sakura n' syoran wallpaper..
    its beautiful..the wall..the cherry blosom..
    really good job u have done..
    *add to fav*

  15. llxcharlenexll Jul 15, 2005

    OMG this is so pretty u rock \m/ its awesome!!!! adding it to favourites

  16. Red-Cresent Jul 25, 2005

    Sakura and Syaoran looks so good and they're great in that Cherry Blossoms background.

    It seems that Tsubasa has so much romantic scenes than CCS...<Goes reading the manga...>

    Anyway, nice job and I'll wait for more...

  17. Firedemon Aug 02, 2005

    realy cute wallpaper! the background is sooo beautiful! nice job +favs

  18. Aeris24 Aug 05, 2005

    Wow!! You did a wonderfull wall! It's great ^_^ It's very difficult to use scans that have text or other signs on them, but you did it, so congratulations! Hard work, but awesome results ;) and thanks for explaining all the process, it makes your wall even more valuable!

  19. ScarXHeart Aug 13, 2005

    THis wall is not good.... ITS perfect!!! I LOVE IT!!
    You did a very very neat and beauitful job with the background and pic.
    *adds to favorites* *clicks download and smiles* :)

  20. shezaei-neko Aug 20, 2005

    I love the image. Shaoran and Sakura are just wonderful. Plus the background is great!!
    Well done!! ^_^

  21. keroandsuppy Aug 20, 2005

    I love that couple hehe They are great either they are in CCS or TRC Sheesh they should even get married!!!! This wally is great

  22. s9031496c Banned Member Aug 22, 2005

    This wallie is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up pal!

  23. beanbun Sep 04, 2005

    Gorgeous. I was wondering how you got that lovely background. All your hard work paid off!

  24. Boyish123 Sep 04, 2005

    Romantic and wonderful>_<

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