音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

My first time full background makeup took me 17.5 hours in total. Because it was too tiresome I omitted the globe. Also because to put all objects in one single file will incrase the total PS processing time, I separated them into individual files -- good thing was I realised how I should place anchors in each file in order to assemble them in order easily.

So as a quick comparison.
before @ 140512


after @ 140517

Just a summary list I made during the past week.

Yet during the final assemble, I noticed my computer's disk space decreased like mad!
↓ before & after I finishing the final makeup.

Were my files that big that took 12 GB of cache space? Anyway, I was really glad that Photoshop didn't crash.

The two most fun parts were:
1. outlining and colouring the table and the stuff on it.
2. adding text/titles onto books/pages (although I didn't do it for all the books in the shelf since it's too tiresome ^^;).

What about some zoom-in's~?

I. The obvious book title:
Same as what I thought last time.

You fail if you don't know what that is~

II. Obvious book titles and a piece of less-obvious lyrics
As for the paper in the front, I believe it's big enough to read. Somewhat, one person's name there is related the title shown above. :3

A1: Mozart's 7 mature operas. Supposed to be libretto and more study reports (well, the thickness was random since I didn't know I'd put these titles while drawing them).
By the way the top opened book is the libretto taking from "Idomeneo", mainly "that" aria (I mean No. 29...). No more comments! People like me understand the true meaning behind! XD
A2: Lyris of Akiko Shikata's "HOLLOW". I picked up this title by an even more random chance than Mozart's opera titles!

III. Can you figure out which novel the text is from?
Hint: Ali Project has a song under the same title (So does Kate Bush.). Also, the light novel "Bungaku Shoujo" has an episode with it as the motif.

A: from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Overall, not bad as my first time drawing full-background setups~
Gotta practise more about lighting control. I was planning to do more with the lamp this time, but (too lazy to set up a real model so) I didn't have a good reference. Plus, using gradient/etc on Photoshop to apply lighting effects is still tricky to me so I gave up.

Finally, vertical zoom-in version:

文学的なひと時――a literary moment
inspired by Noriko Mitose's "kinema mosaic".
pixiv|dA

Ideas just burst without giving you much time to prepare ahead, which explains why I should be counted as valid for enjoying Mother's Day".
I wasn't planning to do any drawing for this Sunday. So, blame Noriko who flamed up my spirit! -- I've been with Mozart for such a long time so this morning I felt so nostalgic while playing her songs again~ °w°

My point (?) is that I fell in love with that song at the very first listening, and since then, shapes and colour patches were turning in my head. But I couldn't fetch them to detail. Once, if I remember correctly, I got a draft with that song--for some reason I forgot I didn't "give it life" (I suppose that draft is gone forever).
Anyway, I believe I'm doomed to reach "something" with that song, and today it was the time.

↓

Do you smell some aura like that of a magical study/library? (σ・∀・)σ

Next tasks:
- Find out some text to fill into the blank pages, also a title for the cover page. What I should use then? Considering the entire setting, Shakespeare is good, although personally I don't like his stuff too much (mainly the trauma from Silent Hill 3 but I'm not switching the topic now) except "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (thanks to Mendelssoh :3)--that can be the title. As for the text, what about Arthur Conan Doyle?? Even though I'm now doing this sort of cosplay~~ =w=
- Do the make-up, blend a background. Two choices so far: Taishou Style and Magical Fantasy. Basically, the former is merely a nostalgic study, and the latter is more like the aura I've mentioned earlier. Yet the former is supposed to be preferred since that's also of the song that I got inspired by.

... Almost forgot, the song, right, I haven't brought its title clearly.
"Kinema Mosaic" <<< You've probably read it of my fb2k OSD at the top right corner of that screen shot (I left it there on purpose, you see).

And last, right, the time.. I spent 7 hours up to this point, not including the very first drafting time (more surprisingly Photoshop didn't lag at all, thanks to windows 8.1 (?) and hope it's not just by chance!).

No matter what, I'd believe my past 2 weeks were totally messed up. People can tell that's true when they insert their office key into their home's door.. (Hope it's not because someone I don't like just left and not because I died to much in CoC).

1. Last Wednesday (Apr-23)
I've let my dough (or immature bread) raised to a pretty decent shape, then I just thought it won't hurt so I kept it raising for another 40 minutes.
As a result, it shrunk...(although still soft when you eat it)!! °A°

2. Tuesday evening (Apr-29)
I got my finger touched to the blade of a kitchen knife the first time since I started cooking. Yet at the very moment, what appeared in my mind is, "perhaps this is why scalpel has to be very sharp, so the person being cut doesn't feel hurt." -_-''

3. Wednesday afternoon (Apr-30)
The weather turned to plus 15-20, making me super unhappy.
--well, it's around 5 right now, raining, so I'm happy. =w=

4. Wednesday evening (Apr-30)
Since my first disappointed try of Harve (you know I'm saying windows) 8.1 in last October, I finally decided to try it again because 8.0 keeps nagging me to do it.
At least this time, things were fine, and the blurry display--not disappeared completely but I just somehow fixed it.
So far, I haven't felt anything very different in terms of performance or new functions, but I do dislike the "start" button that does nothing... hey, I'm NOT the one who ever complained to Microsoft that they should bring the button back!! =_=
You know I now use CMD to call this or that, so I merely wish this button doesn't come back or I can hide it like how I customise the taskbar.

5. Thursday evening (May-1)
Like what I said in previous post, PHYSO-PASS, due to our great chef Urobuchi, almost all my fav-ed chars are gone so I was not happy.
After that, I tried to resume my GinEiDen, but again, I'm now giving up (or I'd say I've already given up). Tanaka Yoshiki is the biggest lunch-box producer for sure (hope you know what I mean)!!
But that OVA was really well made. If I didn't read the novel, I'd keep watching to the end.

6. This morning (May-2)
Mr. Sanger's Pfam help isn't up-to-date. My script that does batch search for me started to strike this morning. After a few rounds debugging, I realised the problem isn't from me but from Mr. Sanger... the target URL should be changed to the *.org one... x_x
=> and that's really annoying that lots of online database doesn't provide either a good API or a good explaniation of it, which keep getting people confused and wasting time to debug.

7. Just now (May-2)
I forgot my cup was filled with milk this morning so I didn't rinse it very well and I filled it up with water and pushed it into microwave then I dumped some tea leaves into the water...
milk tea.. guess that's what I ended up with.