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Description MADE IN APRIL 2006
Yep, it's pretty old ;
This is a vector wallpaper based on a black and white scan from the manga.



Here is what I felt about it at the time, 4 years ago:

"Believe it or not, but I have been working on this pic for several weeks... and I think that ,never in my life, did I have so much thoughts of the kind "F*** it all to hell!" and "Damn it!" while making a wall;

The original pic is a black and white scan from the manga of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and you can see it HERE

The hardest work : vectoring the black outlines, vectoring the black outlines, vectoring the black outlines and , oh!, did I mention vectoring the black outlines? It was really a living hell to take care of those and the grass + Sakura's&Fye's hairs together with all the missing parts covered by texts, symbols or drawings or...blablabla... killed me even more then the rest T___T It took me weeks to vector and it drove me totally crasy lots of times!...But since it's my very first black&white vector, I guess it's not bad ^_^

Now...the coloring!
It took me 2 days and, well, it's definitely different from their usual style I think...or not?
The only brushes used were the ones you can see on Kurogane : the green dragon and the blood ; the flower on Syaoran's T-shirt was vectored from Nobu's (a male character from the manga Nana by Ai Yasawa) and the drawings on Fye's T-shrit was drawn by me using the pen tool, I hope it looks ok And finally, Kurogane's t-shirt : I vectored the black symbol from a scan of the manga and then added the red mark : at first it was as perfect circle and all, but since Kuro is lying on his side, I though it was not natural for the drawing on his chest to have such a perfect geometrical shape, so I started distorting it until I was satisfied with the result...As for Sakura, at first she had a pink dress with flowers buuutt....well...she really looked like she didn't belong with the three others boys, soooo! I ended up having a lot of fun patch-working her dress using patterns. Nyah! \^__^/
As for the colors I used on the four of them, well, I did it with the "feeling of the moment" : Syaoran looked cool in lots of red and Fye was kawai in lots of blue and...

Anyway!, when I finished coloring the four of them I was really happy until...THE truth downed on me : I had forgotten there were the grass left to color...Urrrgggggg!

That's it!"
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Comments: 38

Axiral [2012-08-13 14:38:33 +0000 UTC]

Ton dessin est superbe, très réaliste!

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sakurakizz [2011-01-01 04:32:28 +0000 UTC]

hehe i love kuro-tan shirt lol

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CuteSherry In reply to sakurakizz [2011-01-02 09:17:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^

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sakurakizz In reply to CuteSherry [2011-01-02 16:19:28 +0000 UTC]

^^

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Ali-2-Zee-Rescue [2010-10-25 03:49:32 +0000 UTC]

its soooooooooooo goood! i lurv it!! *faves it* do you mind if i use it as my screen saver? Pwease?

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CuteSherry In reply to Ali-2-Zee-Rescue [2010-10-25 05:45:53 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it ^^
And of course you can use it as your screen saver! It's a wallpaper to be used for your desktop to start with after all

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Ali-2-Zee-Rescue In reply to CuteSherry [2010-10-25 14:12:14 +0000 UTC]

^^ its soo big! <3 i love it!!!!

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kielle27 [2010-09-29 00:46:41 +0000 UTC]

very nice..^_^

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CuteSherry In reply to kielle27 [2010-09-30 06:12:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^

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xSeaStar [2010-09-01 13:12:43 +0000 UTC]

Aaah I love that scan! (and your colouring of this wall! It's my current desktop background <33) Their expressions are so peaceful and it's a nice group shot, plus I love the patterns you used, very fitting, Fai's one looks pretty - love your work!!

I have a question - would you mind if I used this in an AMV? I'll credit you of course (and if you would like to watch it later I would be honoured).

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CuteSherry In reply to xSeaStar [2010-09-01 19:51:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the review, glad you like it!
It's actually a pretty old wall of mine, but ended up being one of my best

For the amv thingy, I don't mind, you can use it ^^

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xSeaStar In reply to CuteSherry [2010-09-02 03:44:00 +0000 UTC]

Haha I know but it's awesome also before i forget thanks for all the hq scans and all the other clamp-related goodness on various websites etc - much appreciated!

And thanks <3

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CuteSherry In reply to xSeaStar [2010-09-02 12:01:59 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome ^^

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GossamerWing [2010-07-04 17:05:50 +0000 UTC]

I loved reading your comments about itI laughed and laughed Especially at the end, "I was really happy until...THE truth dawned on me..." :laugh:Anyway, awesome job on the coloring. It blows my mind I particularly love the details on Fai-san's shirt and Sakura-chan's dress (I want a dress like that now!) And Syaoran-kun's and Kuro-rin's clothes suit them so well

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CuteSherry In reply to GossamerWing [2010-07-06 20:11:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^

I always tell myself not to bore people with lengthy descriptions, but still end up writing too much, and I'm not quite sure many persons read it all aha~
Glad you enjoyed it

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GossamerWing In reply to CuteSherry [2010-07-06 22:31:23 +0000 UTC]

No problem I'm the same way with my descriptions. I just love talking about art I ALWAYS read the descriptions, some people can be so funny with describing the process or explaining their work- like you

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kinokoe [2010-05-26 04:51:34 +0000 UTC]

This used to be my wallpaper for a very long time I think it still is, but on a comp that I left at home I absolutely love it! It's such a lovely piece of work with all the colours and patterns, the designs of their clothes are great, and you kept the mood of the fabulous original artwork, too

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CuteSherry In reply to kinokoe [2010-05-26 07:54:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^
When it was released, back then, it became pretty popular~
Though, right now, years laters, there are people around with so much skills that they could easily put me to shame aha~

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kinokoe In reply to CuteSherry [2010-05-27 08:07:19 +0000 UTC]

You mean it? I find it difficult to believe someone could put you to shame, really...but then again, I know almost nothing about vectoring and have a very vague idea of what is difficult, what is easy, or what is almost impossible to do , so all that I can appreciate is the prettiness of the final result and nothing else

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CuteSherry In reply to kinokoe [2010-05-27 18:16:52 +0000 UTC]

Well, I don't think I'm bad at all, my works are decent ^^ But lately, people release works that are pretty much at a professional level, it really makes you wonder just how much time and efforts they put in each of those, impressive! @___@

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kinokoe In reply to CuteSherry [2010-06-04 15:48:52 +0000 UTC]

I think your works are much more than decent, though But anyway, as I said - I know nothing about vectoring, so I can't tell how much time an artist put into the work just by looking at it, but it's true that I can't help but admire the artist when I realize how much time and effort they had to put into even the slightest details.

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CuteSherry In reply to kinokoe [2010-06-04 18:27:22 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I *do* kill myself over each of the artworks I release, but even like that, there is always a lot better than me, inevitably ^__^

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kinokoe In reply to CuteSherry [2010-06-08 10:36:57 +0000 UTC]

I really don't know about better or worse, but the truth is I really love your artwork and am looking forward to your new pieces

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CuteSherry In reply to kinokoe [2010-06-08 13:02:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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WinxC1ub [2010-05-12 23:40:47 +0000 UTC]

It really looks like the original

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CuteSherry In reply to WinxC1ub [2010-05-13 06:24:27 +0000 UTC]

Well, it's a vector, if it didn't look like the original that would be a problem aha~
I made this years ago, at a time the only available black and white scan of this page was really pure crap! So it almost turned into a guessing game at some parts to vector, and I had to redraw over the japanese text that went all over it The grass was a real pain =__=
Coloring it was fun though ^^

Thanks for the review!

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WinxC1ub In reply to CuteSherry [2010-05-13 13:08:51 +0000 UTC]

Well, I mean the coloring looked like the coloring of the original picture

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CuteSherry In reply to WinxC1ub [2010-05-13 14:08:40 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, I sincerely and truthfully don't understand what you mean, since the original picture is in black and white, your saying that "the coloring looked like the coloring of the original picture" really makes no sens to me ;__;
I thought at first you were referring to Clamp's style but I don't feel like my coloring is similar to theirs at all, so I finally concluded you were very likely talking about the lineart, maybe.

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WinxC1ub In reply to CuteSherry [2010-05-13 14:22:17 +0000 UTC]

CLAMP collored that picture. It's even in their Tsubasa RC Art Book that I found at B&N

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CuteSherry In reply to WinxC1ub [2010-05-13 14:39:03 +0000 UTC]

...what? @_@
I own all 28 volumes of TRC together with both Official Artbooks (Album de Reproductions 1 & 2) and I've never seen this picture colored.
Furthermore, I've been following TRC for 7 years straight and I've seen countless images from magazines, goodies and such along the years, but still no trace of this one.
You really made me truly intrigued now!
I'd really appreciate it if you could link me back to it!

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WinxC1ub In reply to CuteSherry [2010-05-13 14:41:43 +0000 UTC]

If you are near a Barns & Nobel, they've got it in the graphic novels section. It's got several tittle pics from the manga, book covers, ect, and everything is in color

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CuteSherry In reply to WinxC1ub [2010-05-13 14:53:38 +0000 UTC]

There is no Barns&Nobel where I live
I've been to their official website though, and they've got listed the official volumes, Album of Reproductions 1, the 2 characters guide book and one more called "Tsubasa Chronicle Factbook: Mystery, Magic & Mischief" but this is one is not a Clamp official release, it's created by fans and it's about the anime.

If you ever get the chance in the future, please give me the title of that book you are referring to. Thanks~

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WinxC1ub In reply to CuteSherry [2010-05-13 15:01:14 +0000 UTC]

Well, I'm looking for that picture, and this is the only one I've been able to find so far. It's in small view though, so it's kinda hard to tell that it's different from yours [link] I'll keep looking

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CuteSherry In reply to WinxC1ub [2010-05-13 15:52:12 +0000 UTC]

You can't direct link pictures from animenewsnetwork, which is why your link leads nowhere
Please give me the link to the page it appears in, better then the thumbnail~
I find one with the same reference as the thumb you linked me to on photobucket though (ref A2494-131): [link]
If that's the one you're referring to, this vector coloring is mine, not clamp's~

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WinxC1ub In reply to CuteSherry [2010-05-13 17:58:17 +0000 UTC]

But I know I saw it in the book. Hmmm, I'll have to go to B&N again and look to make sure. If not, then I'm gonna be pretty embarased

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amethyst-rose [2010-01-17 23:29:38 +0000 UTC]

Even four years ago you were awesome at this *_*
I love the change to the outfits you gave them =3

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CuteSherry In reply to amethyst-rose [2010-01-17 23:38:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^^
This vector wallpaper is actually one of my most popular of all times in both Minitokyo and AnimePaper

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amethyst-rose In reply to CuteSherry [2010-01-18 00:22:39 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome~!
I can see why, it's fantastic ^-^!

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