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

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For the making of my Noriyuki Matsumoto feudal wallpaper, I had to extend the scan’s cropped parts. The horse was missing half of it’s head and there were no available scan versions of the complete thing. This is probably the one thing that stopped many wallers from using this gorgeous scan, but I had no fear!

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These are all of the steps I went through to enhance the quality of this Someday’s Dreamers scan. It was pretty long as you can guess but working with a low quality scan has many disadvantages. And vectoring it would have taken as much time, BUT would have lost it’s paint-y soft shell shading style (because I’m not a genius of the mesh tool).

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I worked with this Akira chapter cover for a wallpaper I did a while back. It had big blocks of text on the top corner I had to deal with in order to have a clean image. This was not an easy thing to do because Katsuhiro Otomo draws with a lot of sketchy detail. The normal thing to do would have been to use the perspective grid feature in PS and grab the clone tool. However my laptop can’t handle Adobe Photoshop CS and my version doesn’t have that famous grid. Using the clone tool without the grid would have been suicide.

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