Changing rules/themes for the wallpaper challenges is the current fad of the designers’ at my workplace to keep it from being stale and boring. For today’s challenge, we decided to go for Style as our chosen challenge type; Pop Art was the winner on our votations, and the style used for our pieces. Though I find the actual pop art’s description as confusing, I decided to use this definition:
A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture; often uses techniques from commercial art and advertising
Popular culture, specially on my case would revolve around no other thing than Anime. Darker than Black was my chosen Anime since it really is cool, and I always wanted to create a wallpaper for the series. I’m not really impressed with my work; though Hei is really making my desktop sexy, so I’m still happy. Hope you guys would like my little Darker than Black tribute as well.
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This weekend I watched Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood from episode 1 to 27, even though I had some other things to do. The first part of the series was similar to the first series – Full Metal Alchemist, then the other half was totally different. It’s quite interesting to watch another version of the story. I read that FMA Brotherhood is closely related to the manga unlike the first animated series. Though, I don’t like the part of their jokes, even in serious battles they have silly chibi characters having tantrums, specifically Ed. That’s just my own opinion though. The artwork also differs with characters like Scar, they look older compared to the first series. The series by far is very interesting to watch, and I’m still craving for more!
Photo from: Nippon Media
Monday has passed, another wallpaper challenge. This week, Mae was our challenger. I really liked her topic, and I love the outcome of my wallpaper, but I don’t think my concept will suit her taste though. Her topic was:
With a smile…
My concept was to create an evil smile. I didn’t have much time, so I vectored an animal’s face that is already sinister looking on its own – a fox. After I finished creating the wallpaper, I realized it looks like Naruto’s Kyuubi. Created in just about 30 minutes I didn’t place any effects on this one, for I was going for a simplistic wallpaper. Let’s just say, I’m tired of my messy wallpapers all this time.
