Solitude of the Ocean Depths

One of my works in 2010
Timestamp: April 2010

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Happy Birthday to Vitaa and Chrisp!

I did not expect to wall another chii until I found Kitten's - A New Journey Begins. I decided to make a partner for it but it became a partner by character rather than by concept. Ok you guys might say "Why not the whole scan?" it's because I want the focus to be on chii or else the focus will be on the big hair and the crystal she is sitting on. If people did comment about it then I would say you didnt read!

Scan is from [link]

The lineart took me 3 days for the hair and 2 days for the rest of lineart. Coloring took me 2 days again...The style is sort of similar to my Still Doll wallpaper. If in that wall vectoring the hair was hard, this time the lineart of the hair was hard but coloring was fun( duh there is no lineart in the hair of Still Doll XD).

As for the BG it took me another 2 days. I almost wanted to give this up, because the bubbles are so hard! Good thing Kitten was there to snap me out of it. I swear I died doing the bubbles --> you can see that in my process picture. My first attempt looks weird then I tried vectoring it. but it still looks flat then I removed the linear of it and made it a bit transparent. I applied masking too. This is my first time doing masking!

Although the original BG was fine something kinda looks missing so I added fishies <3 I painted using a mouse *wish I have a tablet*

I definitely took my time scrutinizing every lineart of chii to make it sure it was smooth just like what Kitten and Nysha asked me to do. Hope I got every one of them.


Layers: around 700
Time : 1 week
Photoshop size: 280 MB (biggest so far amongst previous walls)

Lesson learned: Patience ( Man! I've done clamp wall, havent I learned that!?) also if you can't paint it, then vector it (bubbles)

Thanks to Kitten and Nysha for help!

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