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Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan Wallpaper: Vindicator

Yone Kazuki, Idea Factory, Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan, Hajime Saitou (Hakuouki) Wallpaper
Yone Kazuki Mangaka Idea Factory Studio Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan Series,Visual Novel Hajime Saitou (Hakuouki) Character

2560x1440 Wallpaper

Artist Comment

AnimePaper and DeviantArt
Edit: Whoops I found some minor errors needing fixing asap! The wall should be better now! Redownload it so you don't keep the messed up first versions. lol

Edit 2: Oh snap! I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw the gold border! Thank you guys so much! As for that bg photo comment, these are the various refs I used (all my pics):
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l58/Nysha88/th_bamboobgs.jpg
I mostly used #s 5 and 6.


http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/w/t/wthplz.png


…Yes, Nysha has walled a bishie!


And for those who already knew I was working on this, it’s finally done! D:

So I had two main goals before this project: I wanted to wall a bishie (way too many girls in my gallery), and I wanted to wall bamboo (because I love bamboo!). And I didn’t want to wall just any bishie – I prefer the more serious and badass ones lol.

And thus Yone Kazuki’s fabulous artwork of Saito was the perfect match for what I wanted to do. Although I don’t really care so much for the anime, I really like her official artwork, and Saito is my fav character design of hers. :D

http://www.animepaper.net/art/158836/kazama-and-saitou

The basic idea of the wall’s scene is that Saito is getting ready to defend/fight against an antagonist in the middle of a bamboo forest. Expect a super showdown with bamboos hacked over and everything. The extra blood is for those certain fangirls who like that. >D A “clean” version without any blood is also available.

Everything was painted via vector masks like how I usually do. And 100% Photoshop with my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet. The background was made from scratch, while I used some various bamboo reference photos I took during my Japan trip to get the basic perspective. Some details of the original scan were either incorrect (the directions of the string’s braid) or too dark to make out (the sword’s handle), and I had to reference some tsuka-maki images http://www.montanairon.com/tsukaimages.html to see how the handle is wrapped.

Check out the progress pic!
http://imageshack.us/thumbnmail.png

And also a gif animation showing the steps from each day I worked on this:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/4128/saitoprogress.gif

Oh, and there is a default burlap texture on the cloth, in case you wondered why it looks fuzzy. :D

And for those who wondered how, here’s his hair tutorial: http://missnysha.deviantart.com/art/Hair-Coloring-Tutorial-186007368

The hardest part was actually starting this and deciding on a final crop to use. @.@ I first had a much closer/portrait crop, but I felt more of his body needed to be seen, especially the lower hand, because without it the string he’s pulling looks very awkward. XD

Basic stats:
Time taken: in 16 sittings, about 4-6 hours each time, over the course of about 2 months (I was busy with other RL stuff), so roughly 80 hours total, more or less.
Layers: about 400
Psd size: 292mb at 2844x1600px

Get the 16:10 and standard resolutions at Brokentone! http://www.brokentone.net

Special thanks to Deto, alenas, Kitten, and ashlie for your continual support/suggestions on msn. :3

Enjoy! Just no stealing or removing my sig, or I’ll hunt you down like Saito here. D<

vector-wallers vectory chamber-of-kings paint-o-rama

Highlighted

Chosen by Kitaan and Fran

Nysha's amazing use of gradients are the win in her newest piece.
The soft, nature scheme that is so rich in color highlights the delicate work she's placed on her main character. The painting is firm yet so neat, bringing Saito to life. She even took care of correcting those small details that most wallers would ignore, such as the sword handle.
The background, which was crafted from a combination of photos looks flawless.

Nysha really shows off her level of care for perfection in this piece, well worth a highlight.

Proposed by Kitaan and highlighted by Fran.

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Comments

  1. crystella Jan 16, 2011

    wow , I like the colors so much !

  2. haruka2007 Mute Member Jan 16, 2011

    thanks for the sharing...
    it's nice picture~~

  3. chocoripeyes Jan 16, 2011

    oh my gawsh i LOVE this *0* the hair and lighting = love~~`wow it seriously could be like a screenshot from a cg game or something! awesome work! +Fav<3

  4. ZeroSo Jan 16, 2011

    thanx man to this pic...........................................

  5. adupe Jan 16, 2011

    Wahat a wonderful work! thanks a lot! :3333

  6. Kishintora Jan 17, 2011

    It's one of better wall than I have never seen !
    Great work, keep it up.

  7. lolboy619 Jan 17, 2011

    wow great job indeed,keep it up :)

  8. MissDaphne Jan 18, 2011

    There are no words for how awesome this wallpaper is.... I LOVE it. It's wonderful and the bamboo is a great touch.

  9. Ash78663 Jan 18, 2011

    Now this is AWESOME Work, Just Fantastic.

  10. alegonara Jan 18, 2011

    good job! Its incredible

  11. jkizumi Jan 18, 2011

    Beautiful piece of artwork you've accomplished.

  12. snyp Jan 18, 2011

    I've already posted a comment once for this wall but i felt the need to post a second one ! Congrats for the highlight, it's so well deserved and i'm so glad it got one ;-)

  13. skynight Jan 19, 2011

    I LOOOVVEE IT! Thank you!

  14. Dioma Jan 19, 2011

    You should have gotten a highlight on AP too. A NORMAL highlight, not some stupid staff pick which doesn't even show up on the front page :/

  15. pureblood98 Jan 19, 2011

    HOLY SH**! this is awesome.. THIS IS AWEEEEEESOOOOOME!

  16. fireflywishes Retired Moderator Jan 19, 2011

    How much do I love the gif of your creative process? I wish more artists would post things like that. ^_^ Great wallpaper... love the atmosphere and sense of depth. (And it helps that the guy is hot! XD)

  17. irix Jan 19, 2011

    As always you do a magnificent wall! i really like how you did in this wall!

  18. jns Jan 19, 2011

    Oh snap... You really do pay attention to details, it makes your work very interesting to look at cos i can go around scanning and looking at small aspects of it most wallers wouldn't really bother to work on
    Lol was i the only one who had fun with the anime? Maybe that's cos I'm a history geek and even though there were those fantasy elements in it I really loved seeing how it all played out

    I can feel his killing intent, that sure is one badass face
    Love the use of gradients in the hair <3
    And congratz on the highlight

  19. rtminky Jan 20, 2011

    Thanks for sharing! Wonderful!

  20. hayashinomura Jan 20, 2011

    Congrats on your Highlight XD

  21. dreamsxreality Jan 20, 2011

    Beautiful! Well done! especially like the bamboo! .. and saito of course.
    XD

  22. Kwazykittylulu Jan 21, 2011

    Wow! This is an amazing wall! I don't know this character but I just had to download the image a see it all. It looks great and I can tell you worked hard on it. The bamboo background looks awesome too!

  23. Gaaralia Jan 21, 2011

    awesome! thank you for sharing!

  24. girlysouix Jan 22, 2011

    wow! he's so cool! love it!

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