Merlin Wallpaper: A Heavy Cross

[coffeestudies]

Ugh, I never know what to say about these things. By the time I'm finally ready to post my wallpapers, I feel like I've fed them for 18 years, stayed up all night to make them feel better, put some money aside so they can go to a proper college and so on... Which is why, at some point, I kinda just want them gone and having a good life out there so I can have back mine?

But still, let me tell you why I love this one especially:
I had such a good time last year in Manchester, not least for its absolutely stunning architecture (namely the Manchester Town Hall, the John Rylands Library, and the Manchester Cathedral); it made me jizz in my pants far more than once! So using some of my own photographs and reminiscing while working on the wallpaper was a great pleasure!
And I totally want to hug the lonely knight in the front of the picture, awkwardly shuffling around as to not stubbing my toes on his metal-clad feet while he stiffly puts his cold and very heavy arms around my neck and sighs a very cold breath into my ear. Okay, so maybe there's this entire story where I keep coming back to oil his joints, and then we watch Arthur and Merlin emoting into the sunset - but then he starts shoving these metallic, thick, on the one end rounded cylinders into my hands... But I guess that's neither here nor there.


AND BTW I SCORED AN OVERALL B IN MY EXAMS!! \o/

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Resources: CGTextures, cross, a lonely knight, and photographs made by yours truly from the Manchester Town Hall and the John Rylands Library, also in Manchester. ♥

Title and words from The Gossip's Heavy Cross

Any kind of feedback makes me insanely happy! ♥

Comments

[castros.livejournal.com]

Allthough I wished you'd have saved it in .png instead, your texture work is stunning, reall creative.

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

First off, thank you very much! I'm a bit of a texture whore so that's an awesome thing to say! :D

Secondly, why do you think I should have saved them as .png's? I saved the images as high-quality .jpg's to make sure that nothing get's lost in the process. Personally, I think .png's are fantastic for icons and smaller images, but jpg's work better for me for larger-sized images.

[i-slash-thee.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think .png's are fantastic for icons and smaller images, but jpg's work better for me for larger-sized images.

I completely agree.

[castros.livejournal.com]

It might just be my computer, but jpg's tend to blur the image a bit and sort of, I don't know how to explain it, take away a bit of its 'shine'.

[i-slash-thee.livejournal.com]

My old computer did the same. I get what you mean. Annoying, isn't it?

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? That sucks. :(

[i-slash-thee.livejournal.com]

Thank god it's over. World looks so much better now ;)

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 'cause looking through the window is all nice and stuff; but when you wanna see the world, you look through the monitor. :D

[i-slash-thee.livejournal.com]

Couldn't have put it better :)

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

I always try to achieve a nice balance between sharpness and natural smoothness within the psd file. And on the screens I've worked with and with the right settings there's hardly a difference appearance-wise if it's saved as .png or .jpg :)

[i-slash-thee.livejournal.com]

Original, lovely manip. Beautiful wallpapers. I saved the coloured one, it's on my desktop right now, and I am so very happy, so... Thanks! :)

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

HURRAH! Thank you so much... again! :D

[emerish.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. Really like these. <3

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you!

[pkai7.livejournal.com]

beautiful.

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Thank you, glad you like 'em!

[sacrament666.livejournal.com]

this is gorgeous! i really like the idea. Thank you, sweety, for this beauty!

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

YAY! Thank you so much! You're very welcome! ♥
Lovely icon, btw. :)

[beeej.livejournal.com]

So beautiful! :D

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! ♥

[prfctdaze.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! I'm snagging the first one for my wallpaper. Thank you :)

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! And I love your icon! I can see Arthur awkwardly flirting with Merlin and Merlin's eyes are like ♥.♥   :D

[musicsage92.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, these are beauuuutiful. Lovelove their facial expressions - they make the skillful manip look truly genuine. *cough* I mean, what manipulation? Of course it's genuine! ^_^

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Thank yoooooou! Naturally, I love it when people notice and comment on these details. That's real lovely of you! ♥

[gcaedmon.livejournal.com]

these are fantastic! beautiful job :)

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm very happy you like 'em! :)

[lilithrain.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the grade on you exams. The blue, black and white one is lovely but I do love them all.

Blessed Be
Lilith.

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you so much! For both the congrats and the compliment on the wallpaper! ♥

[lilithrain.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome.

Blessed Be
Lilith.

[takayajd.livejournal.com]

They are really sweet!

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

O HAY THAR!! :D

Thank you BB! ♥

[mata090680.livejournal.com]

*still really, really luffs them* ;D

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

Haha! See, there I was bullying you into commenting and then I'm waiting days before saying thank you...

THANK YOU BB!! ♥