One year huh, well that’s what happens “when life gets in the way” they say. Anyway since now I’m a History of Art student, I have access to nice resources, and almost any artbook I could want (do not fantasize, of course not anime artbooks). And the vintage amateur that I still am, I grabbed this one, and scanned. Enjoy, and please credit the artist and myself (would be nice thank you) if you use or redistribute (especially if you redistribute).

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Every Graphic Designer/Waller/Photoshop amateur should possess this!
Terms of Usage in the About section.
Content (you can see most of it in the preview):
-1 .ai shape
-3 Photoshop 6+ custum shapes
-4 .png 1600×1200 textures
-11 .png patterns
-17 Photoshop 6+ brushes

This is the Vector of one of the walls I made for Which?Waller’s second round. Since the actual wall was only the vector with a random stock behind, well, well I can’t deny it sucked. So I won’t post it anywhere, but I can give away the vector I made, since it’s not something that’s to my taste much (bunny girls eheeww). Same conditions as usual apply (see About page)
Original Artist: OKAMA
Series: Getsumen to Heiki Mina

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I bought a huge print of this very famous Absynthe poster drawn by Privat Livemont last fall and scanned the 1×2 meters big poster in lots of little bits and stitched them. The result is a high resolution, high quality scan for you to enjoy or use for personal non-commericial projects. I post this now to celebrate the opening of the Art Nouveau fangroup on MiniTokyo.

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Illustrator and Photoshop imaged steps from the planning to the finalization of this wallpaper.

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Made from my entry of the Which?Waller first round.
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A long, hasty and (I hope) comprehensible post to give the beginners some tips about blending an anime scan in a wallpaper. I tried to cover different aspects like the scan’s outline, colour adjustments, textures and CG styles and finally a little last section about vectors. I couldn’t find anything else to talk about that was in the “blending” thematic so it stops there XD It was kinda long to make so if you have any questions or clarifications to be made, please ask.
Maybe I will add more sections to it if I get sudden inspiration, some day.
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Learn my secret ninja technique on how to make your stock photo elements fit in your paintery wallpaper! Or any other design piece! For any Adobe Photoshop user, beginner to intermediate level.
This tutorial was made specially for the Paint-o-rama group on MiniTokyo. You can find more walk-throughs and tutorials by the p-o-r members on the page.
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Here’s a collection of images I scanned off a special edition of a Visual Arts magazine I bought at the Louvre. Various artists.
The very last one(bottom right) is a relay from Hiroshige’s Tokaido, the scan got mixed up in the batches. Enjoy~

Before falling in love with Art Nouveau, I discovered through the manga world the beauty of traditional Oriental work. Especially Ukiyo-e, because if was so close to modern manga artwork. A new passion in hand, I went for the library and robbed it of all the artbooks I could find. Here are some artworks by the talented Utagawa Hiroshige. He is said to be, with Hokusai, the greatest artist of the period. The three first of them are from his Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (trail from Kyoto to Tokyo) series and the rest are scanned off a 2006 calendar.