音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Yes, I'm serious. You know, it's not the first time I got inspired by Akiko's fantastic songs!
Although when the first time I created my daughters, I didn't even know Akiko (I could probably chase back to how I got the original ideas for each of them sometime), I bet Akiko-inspired works would take a big part.
And those songs are all so loopable! >v<

So the one I just finished a hour ago.
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Klass::SINFIN_MELODIA;

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Lemme see, 2 weeks ago (Mar-15), I was addicted to the song Class::CIEL_NOSURGE (without knowing what that means other than it's like perl package), and the traditional Japanese style just kept reminding me her "hiraitesanze" from Turaida. So thought I, "I have made a pic for the latter, now it's time to make another one for this!"
See, traditional style lures me to retrieve my pencil and peel and peel and ...

The draft took me 3 hours. Honestly! Because I solely wanted to draw something, but had no clue what kind of image that would be. After the draft, I spent around 8 hours (or maybe less??) in total to do the PSD.
Which included 2 major steps:

↓Basic and plain first arrangement, and

↓Patch in shadow/gloss effect, as well as kimono patterns (which I had lots of fun).

Then what? Just merge with a background and that's the end of story??
Sounded neat, but things were not going well as what I wished.
First, I had again no clue what kind of background I should use. Even with a vague plan of using traditional Japanese patterns, all I could find online for free didn't match well with what I "see" in the music. Well, after another a few hours of memory/speed-fight, I sorta got an acceptable image and left everything there--I couldn't finalise.
I was out of naming ideas for that. My brain couldn't work it out simply due to the mind-stealing melody!

Therefore, as you see, I didn't do anything until today--Must finish it before the end of March--Also because I just decided to colourise my another random doodle last night. ~_~
However, when I again started to loop that song to dig any hidden idea in my mind, I was so willing to make this pic a perfect seasonal loop. Right, the kimono patterns have sakura (spring), butterfly (summer), and maple (autumn). I need winter! Snowflake, pine, bamboo, or whatever fits in!
I was aware of integrating winter into the background 2 weeks ago already, but even the temporarily settled background pattern didn't indicate any sign of winter. So tonight, I started over. From changing pattern to using motif of a silding screen, I ended up with plum blossoms plus (random) vertical strips. I also tried to use more vivid colours than choosing from the traditional greyish colour set. Or everything was just not fitting the song's image (hard to explain but that was it).

Smoothly I finally went to the very end. One step before I could export to a JPG. Yet what about the name?? I then wandered online again. Somewhat I believed using phrases from Norito (祝詞) would be nice. So I did that. But for the final title. Although I didn't want to put "Class::CIEL_NOSURGE" as the title since my chars have nothing to do with it, I had no other choices. Right at that moment. Hey, dude, why not just modify that text a little bit so we could end the story?
Alright. Replace "C" to a "K", and the following as well...

One more thing, I tried to put those lyrics "codes" into the background, but gave up since I've changed the title anyway!

I've got tons of new music in my hard disk recently, and thanks to that I was facing a serious space cirsis. But just now, I've removed about 15 GB so I could buffer it a bit.

Of the 15 GB, briefly, the reason was that I have no love toward them.
Too bad even Furtwän the greatest conductor couldn't get me loving Wagner and Mahler (now challenging Bruckner but not having a good sign as well)...
At least I tried.

A small warning to people who don't know too much about classical music. If one day you want to explore, don't dream that anyone who likes classical can provide all info you'd need from Monteverdi to Mahler. Classical music occupies hundreds of years and all classical lovers have their own preferences.
My compatibility with Wagner is poor, so I'll stick with Mozart. My Get-Mozart-To-My-Top-1 last.fm mission is on its way~!