Konnichiwa minna-san !

 

Almost summer holiday.... yes this is the moment we all been waiting for. Now I have some good news and some really bad news.

 

Good news: the bad news only afflict me not you so thats a plus for you.

 

Bad news: I lost my hearing on my left ear. Long story to keep things shorts, when I was a baby I had an ear infection, it never got cured and my ''drumvlice'' w/e you call it in dutch its trommelvlies was torn. It only started with a small rupture but today when I was swimming it totally torn...

 

Now don't worry I knew from a child I would lose my hearing on my left ear one day but this is just bit to soon for me.... I kinda don't like it cause I don't enjoy music and my anime series right now, I really hope this will pass. But first I hope the pain will go away.

 

Now other good news cause I don't want to be depressed ! First I had some nice school trip with school to our main city in our country, Amsterdam. My classmate finally gonna send me the pictures of that day ^^ looking forward of those.

 

Now for my GFX update guys, I finished a wallpaper project, its pretty decent as it was a tribute to all my MT friends, Bj0rn, Milkiyo, Rikka, Uchiha, DD, Ayane

 

 

 

 

Anime: Deus Machina Demonbane
Genre: Drama
Inspiration: Read story below please
Type Wallpaper: Scenery
Resolution: 1280x1024
Working hours: 10 hours 31 minutes 12 seconds
Special thanks to: Adobe Photoshop for not crashing

Please watch it in full version mode.

Dedicated to: bj0rn, Milkiyo, Uchiha, Ayane, Rikka, Devil Dude

(6 of my best friends, 6 of the best artists I know, combined we are the lucky 7)

Description:

I will divide the description into 2 stories. Story 1 how the wallpaper was made. Story 2 something about my inspiration and something for my friends to read.

I'm sorry to bore you with all these stories but for me its very important. So please respect my wish as designer.

Story 1 - Birth of the wallpaper

One night full of sorrow was made in a different style then my others. I wanted to work on details wich I think is well seen in this wallpaper. I started in this order: Scan placement, Clouds, Ground and then brushed the trees. I kept everything in black and white and wasn't on planning to color it.

Due to everything beeing black and white I had more view on the wallpaper and on how I really wanted it. I downloaded a simple grass brush. It was called grash brush.. but to all disappointment.... it was not really usefull. So I got myself the smudge tool and burn tool and went a crack at it. Clouds were smudged too, this I done on previous wallpapers so that wasn't to hard to repeat.

I wanted to create a dead and spooky feeling around the wallpaper, my vision that I had was this girl standing on the outskirts of a dead swamp, everything died yet she descended from heaven to save this one special flower. She looks sad cause everything else died. The original scan came with 2 attached feathers.. I could not how much I tried get rid of those, so instead I made myself feathers to go with the flow. (if you can't beat it join them)

So now I got the girl right, the grass right and the clouds. I still wanted to make it look like the moon was shining through the swamp, so I added some lens flares, did some filters on those and voila. I took a 12px round soft brush, grey color and on 57 opacity I went shading. I duplicated the main scan, made it bigger and let one of her fade in the sky. I told you before I wanted to give it a heavenly look while the theme was sad and all dead like.

Thats pretty much about it, I started at noon, finished at 10:31 PM so I spend quite some time on it. But was it worth it... I let you decide for yourself. If you like it please favourite it but also make a comment. It are the comments of you that makes me want to continue my work, specially with summer vacation coming up.


Story 2 - To my friends

Bj0rn

Happy birthday to you. I am so sorry I was a lousy friend these couple of weeks. The reasons why I was avoiding you was because you and everyone surpasses me in wallpapers. When I first came on gaia you welcomed me with open arms, you even introduced me to your friends. When I got to know you and them I felt really good. When I first posted my first made wallpaper and saw it in an actual gallery... I ... I still can't explain that feeling. It is amazing. It even overwhelmed me. Then later on I felt bad because I felt like a ''leecher'' I leeched out on you and all your friends... that made me feel so bad. I saw you guys were getting so good and I made crappy works... How could I ever hold a compilation with you guys if I was only there to tear down the quality of your works. Thats the reason why I was afraid to talk to you or anyone else.

Meeting you is a good thing that happened in my life, you made me laugh countless times and I consider you one of my best friends. Thank you for everything, your faith and your guidance.

Milkiyo

Thank you for the wallpaper you dedicated to me. It really gave me strenght when I really needed it. You were always so nice to me and made me laugh always, especially the whole grandpah part. Its your friendly and laughing attitude that cheered me up ^^. We don't know each other for so long, neither do we know each other that well but I would really really like to become part of this group of friends, bj0rn, you, ayane, DD, Rikka, Uchiha.

Uchiha

Only mett you since today, though I have seen your works before. You helped me a lot on this wallpaper, guidance and advices. You took your time with me and boasted my self-esteem. Thank you for that and I'm sure we will be good friends ^^

Ayane

Ayane... yes you, you helped me so much on msn, things in real life and you always made me laugh aswell. Denisu ^^ thats my nickname when I am talking to you. We haven't talked much lately due to my own mistakes in avoiding you. This will soon change and I hope to catch up, I really do. For you aswell Thank you !

Rikka

Miss rikka =_= I mean Rikka-chan ^^ You make p'wntastic doujinshi. You are most of the times busy and funny to chat with. Wacky sort to speak in a good way of course ! I would like to thank you for the convosations we had. Specially the group convosations where really cheering me up. Keep it up and well thats all to say to it. Thank you !

Devil Dude

My inspiration for a lot of things. Someone that I can look up to and say: I want to become that good one day. We hardly speak to each other but with us two I believe your work does the speaking. It shows me every time over and over again I need to do better. This keeps me going, so I would like to thank you aswell !

Ok thats just something that really really needed to get of my heart. (wiping away a tear or two)

Ok time to get a hold of myself. I'm sorry I wasn't a good friend... and I hope you all can forgive me and from now on I will do things differently. I want to become a real part of the group and I want to become better and better.

I hope you like it,

 

Anyways I still have some more good news, OMFG you still have MORE good news NO WAI ! well YES WAY

 

Bj0rn wants to do a COLLAB this summer with ME .... OMFG YES YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT WITH ME !!

 

looking forward to it !!

 

 

gotta go now !

 

Ja na