Summer Dream

I could have submit this much earlier, but it was actually for a contest/challenge. It wasn't a major contest, but yeah I wanted to wait till the results been made and I won. :] Got first place or I'm assumed that was first place. I honestly didn't enter to win...well it is a bonus, but I entered for other reasons actually, personal reasons that means a lot to me. A few know my full reasoning and most don't. I'm not too sure if I want to explain it all here, but...

I'm sure if anyone been reading my journal entries and such, that summer haven't been the best. Things happened at home. Things happened with family. And I lost someone who claimed I was their closest friend. How life works sometimes...then just ultimately I was going through depression and things just haven't been mentality and emotionally stable on my end except till a couple of weeks ago, but I'm mentioning this because...this wallpaper...I was so depressed working on it. I poured alot of my sadness, frustrations, and so much into this wall. It's funny because it turned out quite the opposite of what I was feeling, but I guess once I got all that negativity out on it...my mood must was gradually lightening up. I guess that is all I'll say on that.

Haha this is a vectored wall by the way...here is the progress of it, if anyone is interested: i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb…

No brushes or anything used for this. All is vectored and some patterns and such are drawn by me and vectored over. The girl and fish shapes is from this scan: gallery.minitokyo.net/view/621…

I do have other versions of this wall. The one I submitted in the contest and alternate versions:

Summer Dream [Other Sizes]: www.theotaku.com/wallpapers/vi…
Summer Dream [With Text]: www.theotaku.com/wallpapers/vi…
Original Girl [With Text]: www.theotaku.com/wallpapers/vi…

Music Inspiration: Albinoni's "Adagio in G Minor"

Music Motivation: Nujabes' "Ain't No Happy Endings" feat. Substantial [Explicit] & Substantial's "Make Believe" (P.R Remix)

Disclaimer: Original scan used belongs to Nishida(?).