This is dedicated to you, Kelsey, my dear partner in crime :3
Well, there goes the last wallpaper from 2008, since I don't think I'll be able to make another one in so little time (especially because I'll be going away for a period of time and won't have access to the Internet or my files). It took a lot of time to make and I'm happy with what I came up :)

I wouldn't like people to say that I ripped the idea from Kelsey's wallpaper, which accidentally uses the same scan; I got the scan from her and made my own version, based on my own ideas. At first I wanted to have him "walk" on the clouds and make a glassy surface under his feet (the sky was going to be a sea and there were going to be some islands there too), but I scratched that and went for the "falling" effect, which is connected to the title. The title is from Nightwish's song Wish I Had An Angel, from the first 2 verses:
I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
I wish I had your angel tonight
To cut a long story short, I thought of illustrating the all-too-popular theme "forbidden love", thus making him "fall from Heaven for a moment of love" (not taking Heaven in the biblical sense, but in the "state of absolute grace" sense; I don't know if you can see the difference but there is one for me).

After collecting dozens of images of clouds (Kelsey, I really don't remember if I used some from you, if you spot any of your there please let me know ^_^'), I warped, scaled and killed them. Then I painted and moved them around a bit, finally deciding on that bulged effect :) I painted and smudged the wings myself, making them look as if they're disintegrating (hence the blood - that's the red thing on them). I enjoyed doing the puffs on his back, that's one thing I'm good at painting/drawing XD

I really recommend viewing the dual screen version, since that one is the original thing and it looks the best out of all. However, if you want other resolutions, I made some. Just to warn you, they don't look as awesome (how would they, you try squeezing dual screen into 1600 x 1200 and see what happens -_-'). Anyway, here they are:
1280 x 1024 | 1600 x 1200 | 1920 x 1200 | 2560 x 1600
Yeah, I made 2 wide screen ones, pick whichever you like :)

Other details:
# of layers: 57 (trust me, they looked like 100 in the list @_@)
.PSD file size: 220 MB
Textures: Desktop Anime
Brushes ("fire" and feathers): Scully7491
Original image: click here
Comments and criticism are very appreciated! :D As are favorites, naturally! Thank you in advance and sorry if I might reply later than usual! Hope everyone has a great holiday! :D
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