Hi^^

I know it kinda is a long time since you commented on my wallpaper (Christmas Kiss, Ai Yori Aoshi).. but I just had time and reviewed a few of the comments in order to be able to do better next time.

I can assure you that you are by far not the only one who likes this type of anime. Most of the guys in fact can't admit it to themselves - as I couldn't. But when I watched this special... I definitly knew that I had to wall some scene of it. As I mentioned in my description it took me a huge amount of time to create that wall - especially since it was only my second vector trace work ever.

The most important thing was to try to keep this .. magical atmosphere somehow. I know - by now - I should have done better on the background. The water/ice beneath the bridge is kinda strange and the "other side" of the river isn't visible - which makes the wallpaper lose as a scenary.
Same goes to the snow: since I had to "draw" it myself - with photoshop - I just couldn't figure out a way to "put it" convincing enough. At the end I still wasn't satisfied with it - but I just couldn't do any better (even after reading some tutorials).

Anyway - sorry for boring you with such a long comment. Long story short: I believe you can do something like this as well. But I'd suggest you create walls using some good high-resolution scans first - in order to learn how to get along with Photoshop. After you have learned the possibilities of that master piece of program, you can proceed to Illustrator. You need a lot of time and patience though to achieve good results.

So.. good luck! :)

Thx for the comment on 'Alexandria'! ^^