Every now and then I check the stats on my blogs and find out the different sites that referred people to my blogs. Some of those referrers are search engines people use to find me, like Google, Yahoo, etc. Well, in checking out what people were searching about me, I came across an old wallpaper I did some years back. I posted it to a website, which I later found was no longer hosting wallpapers. In fact, I'm not too sure if the site is active. In any event, my wallpaper was still there. It was this one.
It's a redux from the cover of "Ichigo 100%," featuring my favorite babe of that series, Aya Toujo. Of course, the manga cover was proportionally thinner than a monitor screen, so I had to actually draw, clone, copy & paste, and color in things that were missing... like her knees, extra bed ruffles, shadows, etc. And this was all done with Photoshop 5.0 and a mouse!! (No, I did not have a pen-tab back then.)
Here's my initial version, without the grey coloring of the bedsheet. For the final version above, I greyed out the sheets to tone down the brightness.
Although it was difficult to manipulate Photoshop tools with just a mouse (and the tools weren't as "refined" as they are now in Photoshop CS), I recall having a lot of fun working on this. It's Toujo after all! XD
Now that I look at it, though, maybe one of these days I'll remove Manaka from the picture! XD
