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Original Wallpaper: In Between The Realms

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excellent highlight in vector-wallers and featured in vectory and wings-lovers

after going back and looking at all my unfinished vectors, and deciding i really didnt want to do them at the moment i decided to challenge myself instead XD

i thought maybe i could make up my own character instead of vectoring an existing one :D

after planning to do this for a long while [ever since the beginning of last year] i decided to go ahead and just vector it XD

so i present to you a an orignal character i made up :)

as with all characters, each one has a name so i thought she also deserves a name of her own :D

i decided to name her Malena, the name originating from the Scandinavian origin/culture and the meaning of her name is a woman from Magdala and is also a variant of Madeleine [or originating as a swedish name it also means from the tower]

this is what the outlines look like before i tweaked and cleaned them on the left and after the tweaking and cleaning on the right :D

i changed her head accessory, her arm positioning, her hair, added her collarbone lines and erased all the unnecessary lines, etc from the original outline i did XD

the finished outlines [the one on the right] is what you see in the wall :)

for her hair i used many colours and shades, on the left is the original size and on the right is enlarged at 300% [this was before all the touch ups that you can see in the wall]

sample hair

this is just a small sample of some of the colours i used in her hair [not all of the colours are there since all her hair colours i used would be about three times as many shown in that small sample] :D

sample colour pallette

the hair took about ten hours and i was getting tired of doing the hair by the ninth hour ^_^'

if i have to do another ruffle, it would be too soon ^_^' the ruffles in this took far too long about ten hours to get it how i wanted them to look >.<

sample colouring

personally to me the easiest thing to do would have been painting the moon :D the hardest thing i think would have been the composition of this wall; trying to place all the elements in spots that didnt seem too strange [i hope ^_^'] and doing the colouring ^_^'

there are about 230+ layers altogether and this wall took about 80+ hours as i kept going back and changing things, tweaking it a bit here and there XD

never before has my wall had so much meaning as this was a wall i thought long and hard about XD

the background i thought i would try a different style and approach so i did it this way :) since i didnt want to have the usual normal average background XD

i didnt want to stick with the usual style of having everything facing the one direction; or having the same perspective since that is what i would usually have done however i wanted to do something completely different from what i would normally do, hence the arrangement and perspectives of all the elements XD

her accessories are to signify humanity's materialistic nature XD

the ribbon she is letting go of is to symobolise how humans try to let go and forget their problems :)

the clouds near the middle of the wall are to signify how everything is under the one sky as everything is living under and share the same sky which is the reason i designed this wallpaper this way :D the reason the clouds are in front of the bridge is to add a misty like effect and to symbolise how as humans we cannot not see whats ahead [eg. future] such as when one is in a fog everything is unclear and it becomes harder to see everything clearly XD

because the moon is being covered by the clouds and the structure, this symbolises secrets, as humans we try to hide what we dont want discovered which is portrayed by how the moon is partially covered :)

a bridge for crossing as paths of many are joined signified how a bridge has two ends and joins one end to the other XD i decided to make it seem as though the bridge is suspended over water [not too sure if the water turned out okay ^_^'] because continents are separated by water however alliances are still formed with various countries :D the water contains mostly dark shadows rather than light shades to symbolise the ambiguity of our world XD

the field is to symbolise nature, the birds and butterflies are to signify wildlife and creatures that roam our world and the structure is to symbolise civilisation as us humans have built structures upon this world :)

the reason the structure is upside down is because of how our planet earth is spherical and there is a north and south end of the planet, and if your at one end the opposite end seems to be upside down yet everything is held in place due to the force of gravity :D

because of the way the structures are positioned you could flip the wall vertically and view it that way XD [youll notice if you do that the structure is the right way up and the words 'the realms' can be read the right way up and youll notice that the wall would then say the 'the realms in between' and the whole section with the structure, moon, clouds and the birds seem as though they are the right way up however if you view it normally its only the structures that isnt the right way up XD flip canvas/wall vertically not 180 degrees ^_^']

thanks for viewing ^^

note: i appologise for the inconvenience of my credits in this wallpaper however it has come to my attention that someone has ripped one of my previous wallpapers by uploading it on another site [not on mt; on another image site] without my prior knowledge and i only found out because i stumbled upon it accidentally when browsing the internet T_T this has not only happened to me as i soon discovered it has happened to various other artists artworks found on mt and its sad to find out something such as this has happened T_T

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Comments

  1. DarthTofu Jan 25, 2008

    Always could count on you for lots of detail!
    Great symbolism as well.
    I disliked the lack of unity at first, but it does make sense in a way, that everything is merely perception, differing from person to person, and I also noticed the flip thing before I read the description. Thought that was interesting.

    Though uncomfortable to be yanked off of gravity...
    imo, I think the painting is blurry, and the style too clean, but I still like this.

  2. nxia Jan 25, 2008

    gee.. its just so gorgeuos and pretty *o*
    I can't beleive you actually made your very own character *faints*
    *flaps hands* it must required a lot of effort huh nee-san? T_T
    demo i think all those hard work is worth it ^^
    Really Great wall :) & it serves as a BIG inspiration to start vectoring! XD
    Thanks for sharing <3 +FAVS!

  3. mystvearn Jan 25, 2008

    Its abstract, its lovely. Maybe a bit too whitish for my taste, but on different monitors it may work well

  4. CaMiLi Jan 25, 2008

    her dress looks a little bit weird ^^ but the flowers and her fae omg,..very good and detailed... u did a great job,..i really like your ideas..very reatively :D keep this up, hunny

  5. aznprianime Jan 26, 2008

    itz veeeerrryy original, yet, soooo profesional
    excelent job :D

    one of my favorite parts is how you designed the dress, and made it a full 3-D lik ;)

  6. reirei777 Jan 26, 2008

    wow looks really good

  7. rika23 Jan 26, 2008

    oww~! you also can draw!? sugoi! xD

  8. Hanahanoiday Jan 27, 2008

    I don't believe my eyes...that is soo beautiful wallpaper!
    This is so original and her dress are totally wonderful.This background is too amazing.
    I have not simply more words!

  9. BlackSponge Jan 27, 2008

    Here's my simple opinion on this one.
    I'm just a sucker for walls that were created with much "blood and tears", so to speak.
    Just another masterpiece for me to collect.
    Excellent job once again dood.
    Fav+

  10. acid-awakening Jan 27, 2008

    I like your character and the really really long dress. The details are amazing but it kinda doesn't fit with the background. The background is tilted from a high angle and your character is like another picture. But I guess you covered that up pretty well with the flowers and clouds. Excellent work.

  11. MagicianFairy Jan 28, 2008

    omg u made that?
    I wanted to make my own charas but i don't know how to start..lol

  12. moonelf313 Jan 28, 2008

    Wow! Absolutely beautiful and gorgeous...I cannot believe how beautiful this is, and I think it is actually going to go on my desktop...I love the butterflies and how the background and the girl match so well...+Favs and keep up the awesome work! :)

  13. IzumiChan Jan 29, 2008

    Woah, EL, your original character is impressive~ you've drawn her from scratch? o__o
    I loved the shining flowers near her dress~ and her dress! The frills are just wonderful, really great work~ >w<
    I just think that the top color's scheme changed too suddenly~ lots of blue and red and yellow, while her is all pink-light-bathed~ xDDD
    But the upside down castle is just too cool~ really wonderful work!~ >w<
    Congrats~ >w</~

  14. starcraft2 Jan 29, 2008

    wow she is a princess.

  15. Animezealot5140 Restricted Member Jan 29, 2008

    Awesome job.... XD
    Well done for the hard job!
    This wallpaper is really beautiful in bg, images and etc.
    + fav. Arigatou Gozaimasu! X)

  16. CaMiLi Jan 30, 2008

    awesomeeee :D the edited version also looks very great ^^ i' still speechless that you made up an own character... you're so talented :)))

  17. silverdragon Feb 01, 2008

    I love this wall! You spent so much time on it but it was well worth it :) and it has so many symbolisms ! I also like how you could put everything together so nicely :) On the character my favorite part are the ruffles on her dress, I absolutely love them. In the bg I love the structure and the way you positioned it, it's very unusual and I like the way it goes and it gives me kind of a mystical feeling XD
    Overall a awesome work! keep it up ;) *runs to fav it*

  18. nolove Feb 01, 2008

    that's an amazingly long discription 0_o
    i love the girl a lot, when i viewed the thumb, i thought it's from some scans around but yeah, you really did an awesome job
    love the hair and dress details of her ^^, great choice of color and very lovely coloring as well
    keep up the good job ehe

  19. kemushi Feb 06, 2008

    Fine colors! But to bright for my desktop. :(

  20. vDrag0n Feb 10, 2008

    looks beautiful =) but the resolution is really low =(

  21. DreamMagician Feb 13, 2008

    Sugoi!
    I don't know how to make these but i certainly know how to comment and ,i tell you^^
    It's cute!

  22. DarkPriestessKikyo06 Feb 14, 2008

    This character is so beautiful and breathtaking! It definetly has the feel of elegant gothic lolita! You did an awesome job on this wall! :D

  23. MaskedAngel Feb 15, 2008

    Wow... it's absolutely gorgeous! Everything is well-painted... I like your concept as well! Thanks for sharing!

  24. moonescape Feb 16, 2008

    Whoa, I can't believe you even made this. =o This is just incredible and you really have talent. Come on, this is really one of the best I believe I mean seriously I bet this is actually the best yet. I just love purple and the fact often your colours are pastel makes me even love your wallpapers more. =D

    Plus the concept is itneresting and things like these are just well... not much I can say about since my feelings about this can't be expressed through typing. c_c Excellent job and I do mean it. ;)

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