Turn Away From The Light…

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created may 2005, heres my writings from it then:
i dont think i ever walled final fantasy before from what i can remember, but when i saw nekkeau’s beautiful fanart for aerith, i pretty much couldn’t take my eyes off of it. honestly, his work in general is amazing and if you havent done so already, go check it out!
http://www.geocities.jp/nekkeau/intro.htm
anyways, first thing i did was get his permission to wall this and then i went about thinking of a way to do justice to the image. i felt that if i changed it too much i would actually be taking away from its original beauty then adding anything significant. so i went with more of a simplistic approach. following my previous wall, i tried doing a strong dynamic contrast in the image and made half the wall in complete darkness and the other part in complete light. then i added some light shading tweaks to aerith so that she fit the setting change. finally, i added a light texture with the same text layout as my other walls. and like the others, i got the text from a song, in this case it comes from “Eye” by The Smashing Pumpkins & is off of the Lost Highway OST.
finally, i really got to give credit to nekkeau once again for the beautiful image and thanks for letting a fool like me wall it (and possibly butchering it in the process).