Ha! Wow! I've been lurking around your gallery for months waiting for you to finish this one. It's totally
worth the wait! You're a god, Sherry! I worship you.
Go Clone Syaoran! I hope you do not die!
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Artist Comment
Heya! :)
Full view please!
Believe it or not, but I actually started this wallpaper...in october o.O How about the reasons of this large gap of
time between the beginning and my posting...?
Well, before explaining; first : I made this wall starting from the splash page of chapter 132 of Tsubasa Reservoir
Chronicle, that you can see here : raw scan of the
splash page of chapter 132
I vectored this B&W scan and, like always, making the black outlines was tiring but...it was nothing compared to what came afterward : the thing is, my first idea was to make a gray-scaled wall with only the blue eye colored...and I did it : but I didn't like the result...So I was back to the beginning and *obviously* decided to make a full colored version; and one BIG problem raised : the glass... How was I supposed to make a glass effect that would not look too bad, seeing how more then half of the wall is covered by broken pieces...? I figured it out, and that's when I felt very discouraged and ended up taking a 3 weeks break, since the 'solution' I found to make this glass effect was to actually use 5 layers for EACH piece of glass, and then start with playing with gradients, colors, fill, opacity, layers orders, filters, masks...etc...So the first thought that eventually came to my mind was "no way in hell I'm ever doing that!"...Well...I ended up doing, it, SLOWLY, at my own pace, and ended up with a wall with few hundreds of layers ^^;;
Aaanndd...well, few others stuffs :
1-I love his blue eye :) ;
2-since the shards were superposed ones over others, I started erasing the black
outlines of the ones situated the most bellow variating the opacity of the eraser tool, though I don't know if you
can see it really clearly;
3-for the ones who already saw others colored walls of mine, you must be
surprised by Syaoran ghostly looks : I purposely gave him very fair skin and accentuated it even more with darkest hair
color then usual, because with the usual colors...well...he looked FAR too healthy at my taste ^^;; ;
4-i used the burn tool to give him painful looking scars on his skin (face, hand,
neck) to show clearly he was hurt badly, and also added a cross shaped scar in his hand (Kamui *wink*); Its kinda sad
all those details can't be seen as well now that I resized it in a tiny version (well, I don't know if we can
call 1280*1024 'tiny, but compared to the original size, it is ^^;;). Actually, I'm starting to seriously
think about posting the bigger version...well...it's 1am here and I'm damn tired, I will think about it again
tomorrow or something :P;
5-patterns were used for his hair and clothes;
6-i wanted to add highlights to the shards but it looked like weird white spots,
so I gave up on the idea ^^;; ;
7-it might not be too clear, but it's darker in the bottom left and getting
lighter and lighter when getting to the top right corner of the wall;
8-the perspective of the wall it's not like the scan : Syaoran was like
'perpendicular', perfectly horizontal right? to put it simply, I encountered a dimensions problem : when it
was just like the scan, 50% of the wall was Syaoran at the left, and 50% was the glass shards at the right ---> he
didn't took as much space as I wanted him to on the wall, so I changed the perspective to null this 50/50 view that
was totally ugly... ;
9-His facial expression : I said before that I gave him painful looking scars, so
why does he looks so peaceful, comfortably laying on the glass? [spoiler] He is a clone, a created 'thing' by
a psycho wizard with no heart and no feeling, it also showed clearly in the manga that he do not feel pain no matter who
much he is hit or hurt, he's got absolutely no emotion nor feelings and only obey the orders of his creator and
murder with no remorse and nor showing emotion, so the fact he's got this expression-less face is 100% normal :)
That's it!
I hope you'll like it and review +fav ^__^
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LuthienRapier Dec 22, 2006
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CosmoStar Dec 23, 2006
The creepy and funest atmosphere of the wall is what interests more us viewers, it's so dark and solid... his face is alarming together all those blood stains.
Awesome job! I loved its strong feeling and your awesome job of vectoring!
Congrats!
Keep it up! :D
Added to favs!merged: 12-23-2006 ~ 09:56am
You worked very well at the glass! Congrats again! And I liked that you added some glassy effect to his blue eye too... very interesting detail! -
geas Dec 23, 2006
It's great. I like it very much
thanks for sharing
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lordfalcon2889 Dec 24, 2006
darn...read the spoiler....
didn't recognize 'Syaoran' in the wall though and yea, whats with the diff eye colors?
nicely done with the vetoring+coloring, looks amazing, i like it, his blood and wounds look realistic, wallpaper looks soo awesome! -
shiwei Dec 24, 2006
nice wallpaper.. the background is great, the glass shattered around is nice,
the vector is good, color and shading is nice... ^^
keep it up, +fav -
animefairy Dec 24, 2006
Sherry, all your vectoring rocks! <3
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Zefie Jan 14, 2007
really many feeling you have manage to capture for your wallpaper by making tiny details like the scar looking like x. i wasn't sure who the character was at first by first view but after reading the discription it came clear who it was, the darker hair colour and the blue eye mystify it little bit so it was harder to recognize him. but i think the blue eye and darker hair fit for him really well and you can easier tell that he is the clone of sayoran. perspective change works nicely and from this view it looks like the fragments of the glass are more sharper and more in the position that they would affect more pain and wounds. vectoring is really well done, all the lines are really clean which makes it easier to follow all the figures and lines since there are much different items in it. colouring is also nicely done, especially neat colouring on the glass works wonderfully and lightens the dark background colour so the character doesn't get covered in. shadows and highlights are on natural places which makes the drawing balanced looking ^_^ overall wonderful work and thank you for sharing !
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Elves Jan 19, 2007
You get kudos points just for the long, detailed description. :) Which I found interesting.
You also get many, many kudos for all the work on each piece of glass. I would have been the same way, "Like hell I'm doing that." ;) But your hard work paid off - it's very realistic (in an anime sort of way) and I love it!
I realize that you changed the perspective, but I'm not really sure it's pulled off 100%. Sayron looks as though the "camera/viewer" is looking at him from an angel to the side and above. The floor boards, however, are dead-on straight from above. If you make them slant slightly (the top boards becoming narrower than the bottom) I think the perspectives will match a lot better. And I believe that it shouldn't mess with the glass and whatnot.
The time spent on the wall was not wasted - AWESOME work!(Oh, and btw, you might want to put more room between the **spoiler** warning in your description and the actual spoiler. I wasn't able to stop myself until I'd already read 3 words, but the C-word gave a bit of the plot away for me. ^_^' )
Thanks for the submission and what you put into it!
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yui20 Apr 08, 2007
Wow ~~ this is a really amazing wallpaper >.< ~
Really love this ^^ ! One thing which is really bothering me was the wood floor O.o, look kinda weird ^^
But everything was really good ~ :P I am just wonder how long did it take?
It must be really really hard work ! -
Terra-chan Jul 25, 2007
I think it might have also been very strike if you'd allowed for just the skin color eye color and blood with everything else being black and white All of the deep brown is a little too powerful in my opinion, but that's just my personal opinion in color choice - that's aways something personal :P fuhu
The effect of the glass IS gorgeous and well worth the effort. And finally full-view loads and OMG it is amazingly beautiful! I still think Syaoran's hair is too dark though... It was never that dark even in CCS and it doesn't seem right... but seeing the detail on that floor... gorgeous... You keep getting better at this stuff Sherry.
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Mortiferatrinidad156 Oct 13, 2007
Moody stuff there and full of angst. Great bloody effects, though the background wasn't as clear. Overall good work.
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animes-4eva-rox Jan 18, 2008
awesome wallpaper
but his hair a bit messy
cant really tell it is him
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TaiBlack Nov 03, 2008
I think I'm gonna cry T_T
This is really amazing! The drawing, the painting, the scene...
I loved the dramatic but "sexy" style.
Good job ^^ -
Helenaaaa Banned Member Nov 14, 2008
I like blood
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dreamworld911 Jan 27, 2009
looks really amazing! i just fell in LOVE with this wen i first saw it!
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SukiRin May 27, 2009
i love this ...this is sooo coolll..it suite syaoran
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daniticha Aug 25, 2009
I love this wall *-*
Syaoran, love this pic *_*
Thanks a lot! -
yudi-salay Mar 04, 2010
amazing blood picture realy cool
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Krycha Apr 24, 2010
'hmmm.... i like blood
so dark so good -
CloudyDay May 16, 2010
beautiful beautiful beautiful
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carrotbell Jul 13, 2010
oh my god! its amazing! i love bloody syaoran! haha he always looks hot
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Daiya-san Dec 22, 2010
Is great!
thx for upload!
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