I’ve been so hungry these last couple of days, and I couldn’t figure out why. I had regular meals, but at random hours of the night/day I’d start gnawing on my boyfriend because of the mysterious hunger pangs. I think it’s because I’ve been vectoring/staring at my new wall, which has takoyaki in it.
Damn you, yummy-looking takoyaki! T _T
(As part of the pixel ellipsis wordpress migration, some things are getting moved around – including this old walkthrough for my Loveless wall that I wrote up in February 2009!)
This walkthrough highlights some of the more important/interesting steps I took in Photoshop CS2 to create this Loveless wall. I use Illustrator & Photoshop CS2 so if you’re using a different version of these programs, I can’t guarantee that you’ll see the same tools and options that I do. I’m also going to assume that you’re fairly comfortable with both programs. Anyways, hope you’ll find this helpful in creating your own walls 
“This is an awesome flip book style animation that we just had to share…” Word. Check it out!
It’s been a while since I’ve settled down with a nice long shounen manga series. Not to say I’m a shounen n00bie – I followed most of the ongoing series featured in the Taiwanese equivalent of Shounen Jump back in middle/high. So I’ve had my dosages of Rurouni Kenshin (adored), Hunter x Hunter (ok until it turned really weird), Shaman King (ok until it turned utterly convoluted/uninteresting), etc. And then more recently D.Gray-man (dropped but will hopefully pick up again someday?)… I think it’s fair to say lately I only pick up shounen if I like the character design, or have seen many pretty scans floating around and really want to wall said scans. AKA I usually read shounen to satisfy my silly “no-walling-unless-read-or-watched” rule, less so because I’m dying of curiosity about the plot.
But then there was Bleach – undoubtedly the longest shounen series I’ve managed to stick out recently (I’m up to chapter 201 now! xD). While marathoning/slugging through the story I find myself constantly being reminded of all the things I both love and hate about shounen manga.
Here are two Bleach pages that I especially liked the text of, so popping them up here for safekeeping
…that’s it xD The title text just sort of randomly popped into my head the other day, along with a vague accompanying idea for a typographic something or another. Now I’m not sure if it’s this exact phrase – I’m pretty sure I was thinking something else – but am getting the general gist down here so I don’t forget and maybe turn it into an actual something someday.
I have a higher quality version of this scan saved, but I just really liked the caption 
Because man, these characters are seriously some of the most tortured out of CLAMP’s whole repertoire. After the whole reveal with Syaoran I tried to mentally prepare myself for a huge bummer in Fay’s past. Still killed me when I got there, it was so freaking disturbing/depressing. But now Fay is definitely one of my favorite characters ever xD
(Courtesy of onemanga.com)
I loved Eureka 7, and I especially like the episode titles. Maybe because so many of them came from song titles, even though I know very few of the songs. I had a crazy idea at one point to try to do a wall for every episode title. That’s 50 episodes and I’ve only done one so far, so I kinda doubt it’ll ever happen. Still, I’ve kept the list on hand just in case I’ll ever need them someday ;D