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Description
A FEW WORDS:
I made this wallpaper for my 5th anniversary of my walling career which is 16.7. on animepaper.net and 19.7. on minitokyo.net. Those 5 years where definitely a good experience, and my skills grew into a phase that I can finally say being able to do some good stuff stuff.
First I want to thank to everybody who supported me trough those five long years, naming all of them would make this description twice so long, so let's do so towards the top ones, to Brad, Isshi and Moutonzare.

GENERAL:
I had my eyes on the scan quite for some time, when somebody vectored it, and was even quite decent. Though soon after, another user made a wallpaper from that vector, which unless the vector, it was quite bad and rushed. And since this anime is between my very favorites, it made me a bit (thats a lie, a lot!) mad. So I decided to make my own and a lot better version.

WORK PROCESS (ORIGINAL PLAN):
As I told before, this vector was already in the gallery, but as a vector artist myself, I would not go that low, as to use the work of somebody else. So except the colored outlines it has a stronger contrast (to match the summer scene) and a lot of glow/blush/shade to improve their sex appeal.They are girls with extremly good proprotions after all. I made the beach - water/sand/waves from scratch using various effect/textures/filters/styles/etc. Funny thing, but worked - waves and the water effects have been made using transformed cloud brushes, the outcome is almost as surprisingly good. Not at least, a small part of Tomo's hair has been changed, on the original she has 2 curls on each other, making the angle bad for my beach, so one of them is now straight. Is not 100% perfect still, but better as a slap in da face. Well, jokes aside, is anime after all, we don't need hold us to total realism.

WORK PROCESS (TIER 2):
Quite often I have MSN opened by still working in PS. If you have Isshi on your friendlist, and you talk quite often, it can be very prosperous and dangerous at the same time. Seeing how his mere sketch is evolving to a awesomesauce art, is forcing you to put a lot more time and detail into your own works, and you set the requirements towards yourself always a bit higher. Thats the prosperous part. The dangerous is that your lose twice as much energy as you usually do. I'm beat dead today (be sure to have emergency supplies near to PC in similar cases) So eventually I added the tree using some old scan (tried a satin effect on the leaves - worked well by making those little stripes), next was a little island - originally a free vector sketch on the internet "dino island" I redrawed it and recolored to match it my own needs. Then as bonus, I decided to add/vector both those chibi characters from the original scan, and by the fact that I made them with the same style as the girls (gradients + colored outlines) it took a additional 6 hours to do so. Phew! Title comes from the title of the anime itself - Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, and since Horizon is not present on this, just Kimi and Tomo, plus they are on the beach and not nowhere, might sounds kinda good this way.

TECHNICAL DATA:
Original resolution: 4000x2500 (16:10)
Original size: 77,9MB (.psd)

CREDITS:
Clouds: Sugar Cloud Pack 1

PS.
And to the ones who don't know this anime, I found a good description on YouTube:
The story occurs during the future of the past and it's about a party face guy who commands an army of demons, ninjas, samurais, knights, giant robots, lesbian angel witches, slimes, economists, werewolves, poets, cross dressing politicians and curry mans in order to save his robot girlfriend from the space pope.

Description
A FEW WORDS:
I made this wallpaper for my 5th anniversary of my walling career which is 16.7. on animepaper.net and 19.7. on minitokyo.net. Those 5 years where definitely a good experience, and my skills grew into a phase that I can finally say being able to do some good stuff stuff.
First I want to thank to everybody who supported me trough those five long years, naming all of them would make this description twice so long, so let's do so towards the top ones, to Brad, Isshi and Moutonzare.

GENERAL:
I had my eyes on the scan quite for some time, when somebody vectored it, and was even quite decent. Though soon after, another user made a wallpaper from that vector, which unless the vector, it was quite bad and rushed. And since this anime is between my very favorites, it made me a bit (thats a lie, a lot!) mad. So I decided to make my own and a lot better version.

WORK PROCESS (ORIGINAL PLAN):
As I told before, this vector was already in the gallery, but as a vector artist myself, I would not go that low, as to use the work of somebody else. So except the colored outlines it has a stronger contrast (to match the summer scene) and a lot of glow/blush/shade to improve their sex appeal.They are girls with extremly good proprotions after all. I made the beach - water/sand/waves from scratch using various effect/textures/filters/styles/etc. Funny thing, but worked - waves and the water effects have been made using transformed cloud brushes, the outcome is almost as surprisingly good. Not at least, a small part of Tomo's hair has been changed, on the original she has 2 curls on each other, making the angle bad for my beach, so one of them is now straight. Is not 100% perfect still, but better as a slap in da face. Well, jokes aside, is anime after all, we don't need hold us to total realism.

WORK PROCESS (TIER 2):
Quite often I have MSN opened by still working in PS. If you have Isshi on your friendlist, and you talk quite often, it can be very prosperous and dangerous at the same time. Seeing how his mere sketch is evolving to a awesomesauce art, is forcing you to put a lot more time and detail into your own works, and you set the requirements towards yourself always a bit higher. Thats the prosperous part. The dangerous is that your lose twice as much energy as you usually do. I'm beat dead today (be sure to have emergency supplies near to PC in similar cases) So eventually I added the tree using some old scan (tried a satin effect on the leaves - worked well by making those little stripes), next was a little island - originally a free vector sketch on the internet "dino island" I redrawed it and recolored to match it my own needs. Then as bonus, I decided to add/vector both those chibi characters from the original scan, and by the fact that I made them with the same style as the girls (gradients + colored outlines) it took a additional 6 hours to do so. Phew! Title comes from the title of the anime itself - Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, and since Horizon is not present on this, just Kimi and Tomo, plus they are on the beach and not nowhere, might sounds kinda good this way.

TECHNICAL DATA:
Original resolution: 4000x2500 (16:10)
Original size: 77,9MB (.psd)

CREDITS:
Clouds: Sugar Cloud Pack 1

PS.
And to the ones who don't know this anime, I found a good description on YouTube:
The story occurs during the future of the past and it's about a party face guy who commands an army of demons, ninjas, samurais, knights, giant robots, lesbian angel witches, slimes, economists, werewolves, poets, cross dressing politicians and curry mans in order to save his robot girlfriend from the space pope.