First - Sorry abul! I flipped it back around again... >_<
My collab with abul-kun for w?waller round 4.
We started this about halfway through w?w and we both were really busy with other projects, and I had a lot going on IRL
as well, so it never really got finished. It's still not, really, but I'm too frustrated with it to keep
trying. >.<
Abul chose the scans -
LAIN submitted by Serger
&
ALICE submitted by Minebann
- and we vectored/painted one each. Abul did Alice, I did Lain.
To try and disguise our styles a bit I did another layer over them with the cutout filter applied and then played with
the opacities a bit.
We decided to do a semi-abstract kind of bg and started brainstorming ideas and I came up with this little
MOCKUP inspired by
the guardrail in the Lain scan.
We liked it and so I set about changing it into the final version. The telephone poles I vectored from a photo I found
on google, the same with the crows and most of the grasses and weeds.
I painted the sky and then grunged it up a bit with the poster filter and a grid brush. The painting in the bg of the
cityscape I did in art-rage. [Which is SO fun to use ^_^] It's supposed to look a bit like painted plastic cut out
and pasted on the pic. The whole thing is supposed to have a collage-y feel to it. ^_^
The BG paper effect I made by cutting out various paper two paper effects from other images and then even-ing them out
so they matched on all 4 sides and could be used as a repeating pattern.
Heres the original w?w version -
which is flipped and sans
the trees and extra grass.
p.s. About the telephone poles, in case anyone thinks they're too short, there's a steep bank just behind the
guard rail. :)