===DO NOT RE-POST ANY OF MY WORK ELSEWHERE,
DAMMIT!
First of all, this is a super late Birthday gift for dear 
. Gomen ne? Your dame-neechan is
swamped with RL (and babysitting ;__;). But, I hope you like it. Hey! It's smexy Luka after all! ^^
EDIT: Second of all, urghh.. forget it. It was rejected! ;__;
And lastly, this is also to celebrate UraBoku anime. I intend to finished this much earlier (after the official
announcement back in August), but.. yeah. Anyways, the anime will start airing in April on Chiba TV with all drama CD
cast returning. YAY! (more Sakurai X Hoshi!)
Well, enough that and onto the wall. This is one hellish project I've ever made! Vectoring Luka himself wasn't
that hard. But I'm kinda stuck after that. I want to change the original stairs into something else, but
couldn't come up with anything. So I end up vectoring the stairs too. And for the stairs, it took me quite a while
coz I hate the way I originally painted it. I tried many different styles before getting this one. Not good enough, but
I like the way they turn out.
Next is the biggest problem I had. The main background. I scrapped out like more than 10 background and actually gave up
so many times. Until, few days ago I decided to try again (after being "forgotten" for 2 months ;_;) and I got
this! I love how the cross and window turn out, and I even use the same styles as the stairs to paint it! But not so
much on the clouds. Urghh.. I handmade them using basic brushes and yesh, it sucks. No need to tell me that ^^
Since I made the stairs like in the original scans, I decided to "smashed" it a little when I add the windows.
They look a bit weird going all the way up with the windows on the back afterall ^^ Oh, please ignore the wording on the
cross if you don't like it >__<
For the title, I couldn't come up with anything at first. But when I finished the wall I kinda remembered Yuki and
"Beautiful Stranger" just pop out. I mean, when Yuki first met Luka he's like "I've never met
such a beautiful man before". So, the title is actually Yuki first impressions of Luka ^^
P/S: Special thanks to AduialPeredhel-chan for the scans and Kara-chan & Erika-chan for shoving me some ideas for
the background!
EDIT: *sigh* I forgot 1 more thing. From now on, I won't be able to vector as much as I had before. My RL is really
killing me, esp with baby Aaron REFUSED to part from me. I'll try find some time, but it'll probably took a
very long time before I can finished one ;__;
EDIT 2: Thanks to trofi-chan who realize my missed, I uploaded a new version with a little light this time ^^ I even
removed the moon too!
Stats
Vector #121
Layer's: 71 (Luka), 74 (background)
Duration: Sept 5 (outlines), Sept 6-13 (coloring), Sept 17-23 (stairs), Oct 14-17, Dec 24-27 (main bg)
Original File Sizes: 3500x2486 (172MB) - Luka, 2800x1989 (100MB) - bg
Funnest Part: hair
Annoying Part: main background
Tools: Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop CS3, and my loyal mouse ^^
Original Image: ASUKA 10 Spread
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OMG... long descriptions ^^ Sorry 'bout that!
