I love the background and the faint image of wings. The water ripple was nicely done. Excellent work!
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Artist Comment
Yes, you are looking at my newest wall, that is at the same time my 2nd wallpaper in life :]
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Details about the wall:
Title: Meet Me In Heaven
Time to complete: 9 days (do not make me count hours >.< definitely too much)
Number of layers: 53
Original psd file: over 38mb
Tutorials read to complete it: dozens about each: water, planet, clouds
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Before I move on to the description of the walling process let me thank few members :D
First of all, I want to thank my great friend and great mod Keltosh for his support and objective criticism that allowed me and my
skills to evolve and who pushed me to correct every mistake (even when I have been quite happy with the result ^^). It
is thanks to him that I have learned not to push some things too much and value time, effort and patience :]
Next, I would like to thank two of my great friends here, whose continuous support, encouragement and help allowed me to finish this wall and not to leave it half-unfinished. They were with me through many times of my frustration and sadness. So basically without them this wall would not have come into being in this form (yes you know who is to blame:P). Anyway, thanks to Dufoe88 and Rikimaru-jp. They offered not only they words of encouragement but also took time to send me some useful brushes and so on :] So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Ok, now back to the wall.
First my intention: I wanted to make a background with a dancing girl in the heaven. I got a clear picture of what it should look like, but finding the proper scan that would fit my idea was not that easy. I have spent over 2 whole days digging through galleries at MiniTokyo, AnimePaper and some others. Searching. At the time, also Rikimaru-jp and Dufoe88 engaged in the search process and were sending scans they thought might suit my concept for the wall. None of the scans did. Until, I found (of course as a last one) this beautiful scan from Erementar Gerad at AnimePaper.
So, I had my scan. I extracted it. Now will be the laughing part :P Since I am a C-o-M-p-L-e-T-e n00b at walling, I did the extraction the longest possible way. I used the pen tool. Devoted over 2hrs to the sole extraction, and then Riki told me I could have used magic pen to extract it since that bg at the original scan was all white >.< He killed me there. Then I cleaned the extracted scan to improve its quality. And then I had to extract it 2 more times, because at one time my computer crashes (and I did not manage to save the file) and again cause there was a glitch in the extraction.
Ok. I had an extracted scan and my concept. I had to learn how to create water in photoshop (since I never did it
before, quite understandable since it is only my 2nd attempt at walling). I have read every tutorial there is about
creating water. Tried them all� but the effect was not satisfactory. So I combined few tutorials to create
it, among them: Shinta's
water tutorial and Rippled Water
Walkthrough tutorial that I have found at DeviantArt. The others I can't remember.
But I am really proud of this water (actually I am the proudest of water in this wallpaper)
Then I moved on to create clouds. I made like 10 versions in over all of them until I became satisfied with them. For the clouds I used various brushes downloaded from DevianArt and send to me by Dufoe88. I have also drawn from a scratch the cloud at the very front ^^
Then I moved on to create planet. I did it according to Greg Martin's famous tutorial. The result you can see :]
Ok then I added wings, stars, birds, magic, mist and finally all the reflections in the water (not necessarily in this order). It might sound easy for you but it was a hell and real torment for me. Now I present you with the final effect.
Please comment, fav if you like it. I will gladly hear words of constructive criticism as well :] Since I do not know what to write I will just end it like that ^^
Oh, if you want to see some steps in this wall making process, see this: Steps walkthrough
Oh, and please full-view to see all the details (esp. water)
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Comments
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Dream24 Oct 22, 2005
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animekai3 Oct 23, 2005
very cool i like how she i above the water i love the purple hair nice job. :) :)
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markjo Oct 23, 2005
You have put in a lot of effort and it definitely shows. This proves only that if you are patient and willing you can make a great wallpaper even if you are a complete novice at making walls. Great job!
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reenat Oct 23, 2005
Pretty! I like the colours and stuff, erementar gerad is awseom!
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iiwa Oct 23, 2005
wowwie jasmine!!
this wallie is amazing.. and to imagine this is only your 2nd wallie >.<
you'll be a wallie expert by the time you reach your 5th wall *bows*
i love the ripple effects and the colour of the bg. :D awesome colours.. pastel-ish, thats how i like em! ;)
very nice and cool.. definitely a fav from me! :nya:
keep them coming jasmine! you certainly have talent for walling! ^_^ -
Karolina Oct 24, 2005
O.O OMG! Jas this wall rocks! Really! And u did everything here! That's amazing and very hard job! But You can be proud of yourself!
This scan is incredibly clean! And it fits soo good with atmosphere and everything!
Those butterfly wings are nice and those little birds *-* *speachless*
Yes water looks perfect! I tell you girl -I can see that you have made a very hard work and with very beautiful result!!! XD -
TresGunslinger Oct 26, 2005
Hi Jasmine nice wallpaper..you are geting better and better..i have this anime.. ;)
anyway you will have a fav from me..i`m Tonny Diana`s brother and from i know from her that you are a nice person and your work is good....best wishes from Tres..
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markjo Oct 30, 2005
Whoa! A great improvement from your first try. I liked it at first sight, and no matter what people say, I was, am and will be getting mushy when I see a wallpaper with a planet on it. It reminds me also that you have got a good feeling for fashionale colours - both lila and pink are in this season (so did the newspaper I read at the hairdresser's say :) ). On the minus side, I think you should make the frame for the wings a bit more visible. I don't know if it was your intent to make it barely visible or not, personally I would like to see it clearly.
Btw, I am really jealous of the amount of effort you put in your works - I don't think I'd be able to exert so much patience. This is probably why I don't even try to make a wallpaper... -
SkyKing8 Nov 07, 2005
Very beautifully created and worth all the excellent comments it recieves :) Hope I can be as good as you in creating wallpapers as I hope to study a course on graphics design one day. Thanks for sharing :D
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minimouzo Nov 15, 2005
*sneaks in* As promised i let you my comment ^_^ *better late than never, ne ? ^_^'*
So, this is a really good wallpaper, in my opinion you improved a lot on combining all your ideas to make a coherent global scenery. The atmosphere created is really easy and to feel ; we are directly touched by the message and the scenery. That is a big improvement since the first wallpaper where i had to do a brainstorming to discover the message ^_^
Technically this is also really good i think, even if i don't know at all how to make a wall. This looks very pure and fluent. What touches me the most is the sky, the moon, the bird and the colors you choosed for them. Bright but not too bright with pastel colors and nice variants. It's really a nice sky ; there are a lot of sky-wallys but yours is really outstanding in my eyes. So congratulations for that.
The magic (as you said me on messenger) is also well done ; not too much artifacts. And it really adds something to the wall.
As for the water, you did a great job too : some parts remind me texture from 3dsmax ; so having that result with photoshop is great ^_^ I like the water close to the girl ; it really renders well (the circles, ...). But in my opinion there is something wrong with the horizon or the skyline. The water seems to stop suddenly and to not reach the horizon.
The second thing i think weird is about the perspective ^_^' *don't worry i'm always talking about perspective ^_^'* In this wall it's hard to see where is the light coming from because there are a lot light spots in the sky and it's hard to say if that planet is shining or not ... Maybe the light could be coming from an unshowed sun. Well, this makes difficult to know how the perspective must be. But in my opinion the reflect of the planet in the water shouldn't be that right but more inclined and directed to the left. To make it "lie" on the water or "play" with it floating. Here it is too righteous i think ... The last thing is that the high contrast of the character's color is creating a strange feeling in me because it contrasts a lot with the more pastel and light colors of the background.
Except that it is really really good. You're becoming really a good waller. What i like in you is that you want to create a wall with a concept and no matter how difficult it is, you will do everything to create that dream background you hope for. You don't choose simplicity and you succeed to make your ideas look good. So continue because there are maybe not a lot of wallers that have these qualities on mt ^_^ And it's good because you can also transpose your creativity that you developed while drawing in your wallpapers. So i'm cheering you up to do something again ^__^ And of course it's definately a favourite ^^'
P.S : you again removed me from friend when you clicked on add to hotlist ^_^' I had to type your name in "my friends" to have you on the hotlist ; so i think you'll have to do the same ^_^
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Kitako Nov 16, 2005
Beautiful... simply beautiful...
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Osirisa Nov 23, 2005
Wow
Love everything in ur wall, especially the water ^^. I've been looking it for while but still don't know how u make it +__+Wait for ur future work, add to fav ^^
*Have a nice day*
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Ririsuchan Nov 27, 2005
Beautiful wall, I love it.
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vinicius73 Mute Member Dec 04, 2005
Good I liked!
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CHRISGOH0818 Dec 05, 2005
THIS IS SO COOL,I LOVE IT VERY MUCH THANK YOU FOR SHARING JASMINE SAMA.SHE IS SOOO BEAUTIFUL.WAAAAA.^^
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MizuhofanFFX2 Restricted Member Dec 20, 2005
again got my fav!
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Koi89 Dec 20, 2005
this is a good wall jasmine! you have skills!
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kaitodaidouji Dec 31, 2005
Excelent wall! scan is perfect not look some bad more the background effect is great!, un wall perfecto el scan esta muy bien editado y que puedo decir del fondo
un buen efecto sin mencionar la calidad de la imagen. EXCELENT WALL! god job.. -
smoon Jan 25, 2006
I had to stop to write somethung about it, it is WOW! the water effect is completely speachless, it is so beautiful! >.<
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GoodnightAndGo Feb 11, 2006
This is a really beautiful wall. The clouds and water effects are awesome ;) As for the other details, they were great as well. You also picked a good character to wall with. I have to say, You did a really good job for your second wall :)
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wolfino Feb 16, 2006
hi how are you? nice wallpaper keep the good work jaz :D
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LavenderGeisha Apr 05, 2006
I Really really reallly like her hair and eyecolors first of they really match and the hair is definitley unique i havent seen anything like that before totally cool and her outfit is cute too i also like her shoes alot lol but i will say i like this backround more than the other one (with the ship or sumtin)
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enchantment Apr 13, 2006
wow, so pretty, it seems peaceful^^
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cisnehyoga Jul 15, 2006
DE VERDAD TODA LA IMAGEN ESTA DE MARAVILLA SOLO QUITENLE LOS ZAPATOS
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