Awesome wallpaper. I love the dress it's so pretty
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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]
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
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 >.<
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
link to animepaper version ---> In Between The Realms at ap <---
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KikyoFan81 Mar 09, 2008
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babyblueshakira Mar 13, 2008
hehehe...yet another beautiful
wallie that i can put up on my laptop ^_^
it's super beautiful!
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iDeem Apr 12, 2008
pretty ^^
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ShanaFlare Aug 21, 2008
magnificent wallpaper! XD
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Dynia Dec 09, 2008
Wow!
Absolutely a favorite! -
NiceLilDevil Jan 15, 2009
the theme and the picture corespond so well it's astonishing!
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blackrose07 Jan 15, 2009
gosh... i love the dress.. nice background.. and the hair.. its absolutely beautiful.. thanks for sharing..
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amuikuto2009 Jan 24, 2009
Its a nice wallpaper.
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laluuci Feb 04, 2009
beautiful *.*
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Anna666 Feb 08, 2009
just amazing! :D
everything's great! so clean and neat *__* -
syahyu Jun 24, 2009
i see this wallpaper have a special color effect that different from another wall as usually. but this good.
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Litania Aug 14, 2009
Very pretty, nice use of coloring.
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Larucroe Aug 18, 2009
It's very nice :3.
But...can I critique you a bit...? If you don't want to read it, then you don't have to, I understand that XD.
Anyways, while it's a nice composition,
a part of her anatomy looks off to me, [it might just be me, though] it's a bit hard to tell with the hair,
but, it seems like her right shoulder is out too far, which makes the chest and neck/head look disporportioned a little XD.
Okay...I'll shut up now when it comes to critiquing XD. *shot*.
On a good note.
I really like the background, and quite frankly, I'm actually...a bit envious, I can't draw architecture to save my life XD. The building has this sort of...nice surreal and cartoonish feel to it.
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mmeia Oct 01, 2009
Of course,every girl want to put on this dress.
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Sakura-Rabbit07 Dec 04, 2009
My! how charming
i love your charcter and the background is awesome^^
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AyaCastro Jan 22, 2010
I don't know why people think they are making their own "original character" when they vector one that is from an anime or manga and just change a few things around on it. That's call plagiarism and is illegal to do. Next time why not try making your own true character from your own head and not try and make a character that is from an anime into your own.
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zylfairy Mute Member Jan 23, 2010
Congratulations! Your work is so cool.
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ilovebrasil Mar 16, 2010
kakooiiiiiiiiii...i love this paint
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MoonDust Mute Member Mar 17, 2010
very lovely picture.I love dress,very nice work.thanks.
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EvanescentOrchid May 09, 2010
I love the folds in her dress!
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pl94 Mute Member Oct 29, 2010
Great wallpaper! thanks for sharing! =D
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Akoya Nov 12, 2010
I love this dress. It's wonderful.
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CrazyMialuvsAnime Dec 07, 2010
this pic is great thanx for sharin
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SilverS Jan 13, 2011
Thank for sharing! It's nice!
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