Alright, now I'm in a pretty good mood for looping Nagi's "Ambivalentidea", and I just realised that how delicate the instrumental version is--I actually love it more than Nagi's vocal version! Like what I said previously, since bermei.inaza was involved, the songs HAD TO be awesome. Nothing is better than the unique arrangement. The piano, the strings, so excellent that I myself is engulfed in the sounds. Then, recent rainy days triggered my desire to "create" something. Consistent with my past post, the most initial idea came from that rainy day.
On Saturday, draft was done, and on Sunday evening, I got the willing to outline it.
On Saturday, draft was done, and on Sunday evening, I got the willing to outline it.
Motif: rain, umbrella, dark, depressing+delight=contrast/ambivalence
Characters: Mihane x Chisatothe most yuri-sisters forever
Characters: Mihane x Chisato
I finished outlining and basic coloring on Sunday and shading on Monday. As usual, I went online for good background candidates. However, I couldn't decide what kind of image I would use very quickly. I tried lots of images on Monday and Tuesday, from realistic photos to abstract color patches, finally I got to this focused view of two lilies. Although being a bit tedious, it was fun. I also learned how to turn an image into sepia hue, how to make shiny glassy balls (didn't apply in this work), and how to "rain" your image--Photoshop is awesome!
I took so much time in the final make up, yet I couldn't avoid the tragedy from my bad habit of not keeping saving my file--Photoshop is so stable that it never ever crashed in years no matter how busy my computer is! Yesterday, when I was about to finish, I wanted to active a tool by keyboard shortcut, so I hit on Ctrl plus another key, and unconsciously hit on N for aborting current modification. That only happened in 2 seconds, and after that, no time for me to regret.
What I hit on first was "Ctrl+W", which means "close current file", and the following "N" closed my about-to-finish work without saving it!
OMG, WTF...
Not the music or the image, I myself was depressed. orz
I even had an impulse to turn my desk over. (the desk is innocent!)
Fortunately, to restore my latest work manually wasn't that hard. I did take long time, but that was all about this or that adjustment. I knew what I should to do this time, therefore my desk was saved I regained everything very quickly (and even better :3 ).
I took so much time in the final make up, yet I couldn't avoid the tragedy from my bad habit of not keeping saving my file--Photoshop is so stable that it never ever crashed in years no matter how busy my computer is! Yesterday, when I was about to finish, I wanted to active a tool by keyboard shortcut, so I hit on Ctrl plus another key, and unconsciously hit on N for aborting current modification. That only happened in 2 seconds, and after that, no time for me to regret.
What I hit on first was "Ctrl+W", which means "close current file", and the following "N" closed my about-to-finish work without saving it!
OMG, WTF...
Not the music or the image, I myself was depressed. orz
I even had an impulse to turn my desk over. (the desk is innocent!)
Fortunately, to restore my latest work manually wasn't that hard. I did take long time, but that was all about this or that adjustment. I knew what I should to do this time, therefore
Eventually, time to give it a title. I'm not that kind of person who always names his/her work in the very beginning. It was Wednesday morning when I chose "Tranquil Impulse" as the title, and it was Wednesday afternoon when I tried to place a piece of lyrics of "Ambivalent" in the image (with three words in different colors). Also, this time, the main title got a semi-transparent gradient fill, which made the title standing out from the endless depressing blue. Hmm, depressing blue? I love this kind of color though. XD
At last, a casual thought: yuri = lily, coincidence?! :P