SHANA! awesome
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Long time no see, MT! I guess it hasn’t really been THAT long, but 2 months on no activity here feels like forever to me. I’d like to say that will change now, but it won’t. School’s about to start up again and I’m currently looking for a new job on top of that, and lots of other things are going on in my life. Here’s my last 3 months in a long list: Summer school; house repairs; helping my brother prepare for his big move to Japan; helping cousins house-hunt; order and watch Shakugan no Shana II; job hunting; training a cockatiel; dying repeatedly against the stupid spider monsters in Siren: Blood Curse (ack!); social obligations; order Shana II from a different seller because the subtitles are screwy; car repairs; and plotting the downfall of NCSoft: Guild Wars for wronging my oldest brother. Whew, that was long. Check out my livejournal for the elaborate version of my adventures in overseas shipping.
So about this wallpaper:
Original Scan – Shana
Runes – Obsidian
Dawn
Inspiration: "Lost Carol" by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (from Silent Hill 3). I've always associated my Silent Hill 3 soundtrack with Shakugan
no Shana for some weird reason. The vocal work on that particular track is haunting, kind of like in the first opening
of season one.
Anyways, I absolutely loved this scan of Shana. The only way I could make myself love it more was to have Shana in a kimono, so there ya go. I tweaked her hair at the ends because I didn’t like how it fished-tailed out in places. When I first vectored her I made her hair the same magenta like in the artwork, which was pretty, but didn’t exactly say “Flames! Mwuhaha!”, so that had to change. The swirling rune-ribbon things were original blue like in the anime, but they looked way better in red by the time I finished the entire piece. I scanned a piece of fabric that I found at a store and toned down the colors to keep it from being too loud. I guess I could have made the kimono red, but that was about to be overkill. And the color is more dramatic this way. I'd kind of like to go back and make a different wallpaper with this scan sometime if no one else ever gets around to it, and rather than vector it simply clean the scan and photo-manipulate a background for it.
AFTERTHOUGHT// Hoosha, it's highlighted! Thank you so much, Kitten &
MapleRose! ^_^
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Chosen by Kitaan and MapleRose
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Comments
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jayes Aug 27, 2009
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nxia Aug 28, 2009
zOMG! this is amazing! O_O
the effects are just gorgeous!
great wall~ :) -
piglet316 Sep 17, 2009
I always like the color of red!
None fits this color better than Shana~~
this wall is so exllent in design, good taste! -
eva1224 Sep 28, 2009
amazing~
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Alex123123123 Oct 05, 2009
Good wallpaper.
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ikuto333 Oct 07, 2009
Shana yay thats awesome nice wall paper
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opuko Nov 07, 2009
WoW!
beautiful!
I like this wallpaper^^ -
rladud839 Nov 18, 2009
wow, this is nice! thanks for sharing (:
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kuroihime30 Jan 09, 2010
all of those runes...great!
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animecon9 Jan 10, 2010
good desktop anime wallpaper
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dragonknight2000 Mar 21, 2010
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she looks nice in kimono
and the red tones are nice too
great wall
merged: 03-21-2010 ~ 11:38am
good desktop anime wallpaper -
ShirakawaKotoriCute Restricted Member Apr 21, 2010
Woow that's a wonderful picture of shana...
It's very pretty... -
knightkiller Apr 24, 2010
Beautiful !
Shana are good looking in the fire -
Krycha May 01, 2010
i love Shana
beautiful wallpaper -
EdsonWilton Mute Member May 07, 2010
Thank you
I Really like this anime -
the2ndpandora May 27, 2010
Red eyes and burning hair , Shana is perfect , i love this wall <3
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TheST0RM May 31, 2010
absolute nice work ^^ thx for sharing such a nice wall of shana ^^
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faizex Restricted Member Jun 04, 2010
Great wallpaper, thanks for sharing.
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Freja12345 Jun 11, 2010
Very nice picture, like. Thank you very much
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TheDevilgirl Mute Member Jun 14, 2010
beautiful ... nice.. i like the colour...
merged: 06-15-2010 ~ 02:52am
i like the colour red...awesome..
good job -
Animezealot5140 Restricted Member Jun 20, 2010
Love the the redness, swirling rune-ribbon thing and Shana is beautiful in her kimono! Great job. +fav. Thank you. =D
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CHickNOob Jun 26, 2010
love the background, tks you
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Oblivion01 Jul 02, 2010
The runes remind me of the engraving on the One Ring in TLOTR
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marcus90 Jul 17, 2010
ohhh shana chan ^^ otimo scan ...thks
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