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Just added a 1920×1280 version of my Code Geass The Dark and White Knights wall to Pixel Ellipsis, per LockonImpulse’s request:

The Dark and White Knights by flyindreams

I’ve waffled over whether or not to add a “Requests” page to Pixel Ellipsis. At one point I actually put up a Requests page, but chickened out and took it down because I like to wall on my own time (AKA slow as hell, when the fancy strikes) and I have a longstanding rule to only wall things I’ve watched or read before. Plus I imagine it’d be disappointing to put in an “official” request and then have it sink into the deep black hole of no responses.

But the open secret is that at the end of the day, I do like getting wallpaper requests because it’s gratifying to make walls that people want to use. For things like cropping an alternate resolution for a wallpaper, that’s usually fairly simple for me to do and I’m happy to oblige. For more specific requests like walling a particular anime series, it’s a bit trickier, but I do keep a running list of requests that I’ve received, whether it be from tweets, Pixel Ellipsis comments, or online walling communities. Twitter is my preferred channel for requests right now because I get an automated email whenever someone mentions me, followed closely by comments on Pixel Ellipsis.

So – no promises, but if you ever feel like sneaking in a request, I’ll take it under serious consideration. And who knows, one of these days I might actually deliver :D

Oh the Penguins (1920x1200)

Nothing original here – just Mawaru Penguindrum’s epic OP turned into desktop form :D Miss @Maria_Francisca – hope you like it!

Looking back at this past year:

Thanks for all your support in 2011 ♥ Here’s to another great year in 2012!

Love this meme 8) Via loveariddle – blank meme template can be found here.

flyin's 2011 Summary of Art

January wall: Akashi-san
February wall: Reach for Love
March wall: Destructive Aftermath
April wall: Cranes for Japan
May wall: N/A
June wall: N/A
July wall: N/A (wow I was dead for quite a few months there)
August wall: CLAMP Mascots Party Wall!
September wall: Himura Kenshin
October wall: N/A (thanks to work)
November wall: Tokyo Babylon – For Tomorrow
December wall: Howl and Sophie – Flight of Fancy

Howl and Sophie – Flight of Fancy

Was in the mood for some quick-ish painting… clouds + Miyazaki <3

Tokyo Babylon – For Tomorrow

Work is the ninja assassin of walling… but I woke up early on Sunday morning with an idea in mind, so I popped Photoshop open and about three hours later, I’m as engrossed as ever. Glad that the spark is still there, and that inspiration is still lurking around in the dark corners of my mind.

Himura Kenshin

Felt compelled to toss together a quick wall before I jump back into the full-time workforce, and decided to make something that satisfied my simple + bishie cravings 8) This is my first time using borders in a wall! To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of borders in wallpapers, but this wall called for them and I love how everything turned out.

I also ditched my old signature for something a bit more stylish and streamlined. It’s a good time for new changes!

Slightly belated happy 5th birthday, Pixel Ellipsis!

CLAMP Mascots Party Wall!

…as much as I wanted to come up something special for the occasion, this wall took way too long to make. Nowadays I’m really far too lazy to attempt scenic walls – although gradient meshing the crap out of everything was fun. The practice that I got from my Kimi ni Todoke wall really paid off! The perspective of this wall is a bit wonky – I used way too many scans – but I LOVED making the floor, it was probably the most gratifying part of this entire project. I am definitely going to reuse that floor again at some later point in time :D

I was fiddling around with Pixel Ellipsis and decided to try displaying related walls as thumbnails instead of text links. So I installed a new plugin, Related Posts Thumbnails, set featured images for all the old posts in the archive, and said goodbye to Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Hopefully this enhances the browsing experience without adding too much visual clutter! If you feel strongly about the change either way (awesome? terrible?) drop me a comment :)

Related Posts Thumbnails Screenshot

I also did a little CSS/general debugging and the site should be running a bit faster now, yay!

Things have been pretty quiet around here, mostly because I went on a month-long vacation, came back for about two weeks, and will be off traveling again tomorrow for a week :D Can’t complain, for sure, but all this fun has killed off most of my motivation to wall. Anyways! Pixel Ellipsis will be down for a brief period of time after July 10th. Hopefully it won’t be longer than a day at most, but I’m not exactly sure how long it will be. The reason for this downtime is really silly – my hosting provider assigns “free domain credits” on a yearly basis, and for some reason they can’t give me the new credit for the next year until the day AFTER the domain expiration date… I don’t know why they can’t just give me credit for the whole 3 years if I’ve signed up for a 3 year hosting package, but anyways, that’s that. I’ll be back from my trip on July 10th so I do plan to monitor the situation closely.

On a more cheerful note: Miyazaki Lego awesomeness by Ochre Jelly

Miyazakitopia by Ochre Jelly

And “Steampunk Raku Howl’s Moving Castle” by lizzomarek

Steampunk Raku Howl's Moving Castle by lizzomarek

Yay for epic Ghibli-inspired works! More photos and behind-the-scenes notes available via the original source links, so definitely give those a look! :D