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

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

• Pixel Ellipsis was featured in Digital Vanity (technically I think this happened sometime in 2010, but anyways ) as well as Socksoff – much thanks!
  
• January: Celebrated Hayao Miyazaki’s 70th birthday by proclaiming 2011 as the year of Studio Ghibli on Pixel Ellipsis. I spent a good chunk of the year blogging and tweeting about Studio Ghibli – learned a lot about Miyazaki through the process! I didn’t produce quite as many Ghibli walls as originally planned though – sad…
  
  
• February: Entered and won the C3 Winter Wallpaper Contest w00t! (Also fell in love with Nujabes, one year after his death.)
  
  
• April: Started Six for Tea with co-conspirators Gideon & Jay to fundraise for Japan in the wake of the devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. We raised just over $250 for Mercy Corps’ Japan relief program!
  
  
• August: Pixel Ellipsis turned 5! I posted my 100th wallpaper to Pixel Ellipsis to celebrate the occasion and show my continuing love for CLAMP. I also made the executive decision to start posting (most) wallpapers exclusively to Pixel Ellipsis.
  
  
• November/December: Added a new site affiliate: The Forgotten Lair! Also started taking wallpaper requests through Twitter, mostly from Miss @Maria_Francisca

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

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

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

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.

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 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!

…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

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

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

And “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!