Vector #99

About Vector:
Layer's: 39
Time: 15-17 hours
Easiest Part: eyes
Hardest Part: painting those skins
Original Image: HERE
Program used: Adobe Illustrator CS3 & Adobe Photoshop CS3

I can't believe I finished this. I mean, I already finished the outlines like 5-6 months ago, and I even started coloring his eyes, tears and hair. But then, I kinda stopped. I got REALLY scared with Xion skins tone ^_^' I mean, that is much harder than the previous Xero I made before. But few days ago, the urge to finished it come back, so I start working on it. On Xion face alone, I think it took me an hour to paint them (mostly on his nose) OX Then, I lost track of the time.. but I do know I spend the whole day painting his skins T_T Okay, to be honest.. I don't really like how they turn out. But, I'm too tired, and my arm already killing me (that's right.. I paint those with just a MOUSE! No tablet used!), so I leave it like that.

For the wings, I originally wanted to re-paint the original ones, and even expand it. But, taking a good close look at it I got scared (again!) at how detailed the wings is. So, I decided to look for other wing image that I can vector from. Luckily there's a lot of Belldandy image I can choose from ;) The wings is pretty easy to do, but I have some problem choosing the color for the black wings. In the end, I just use gray for the outlines, and use deep black for the wing. For those who had bright monitor might see them :nya:

About Wallpaper/Background:
Time: 9 hours
Layer used: lot's of them!

To be honest, I had no idea what to do for the background. So, I decided to re-watched Shining Tears X Wind, and in episode 1, Souma & Kureha met with Xero in some space filled with broken glass shards. I kinda like that idea, and decided to use it. But the problem is, there's no good broken glass brushes. So, I had to do it myself. Yes, I vector those broken glass shards from this beautiful CARNELIAN image (which I might add, I've been wanting to vector this scans for so long! Now that I've done the glass shards, I will vector the rest after I'm done with my 100th vector). There's 80 glass shards, and I used 233 layer to made them! I feel like dying now and I can't move my right arm ^_^'

Anyways, no fancy background. I just use gradient and use some huge soft airbrush to make some light effects. Actually, I originally wanted to put Xion is some sort of beautiful forest, but quickly dismissed that idea, Why? Because I don't want a naked man out of room! X-P Although it sounds tempting... but... I don't think I wanna see naked man on street or something. Nope... not even Suzaku got naked :nya: But I think this is enough. Just like that Carnelian scans, I imagine that Xion just came out from the glass egg, thus explaining those shards. And that's also the reason why I named this re:BIRTH (because after this, Xion is "dead".. only Xero exists)

Okay, enough that. My only hope is, this doesn't seems too bright for those who had bright monitor. I can't get it darker, coz the white wings will get brighter instead! Sowwy!

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EDIT: GASP! I forgot to mention.... that I forgot to vector his rings! NOOOOOOOOOOO!