Galgrease - 01/07/2005
Featuring a lovely pair of gals from the last of the Posterbooks. Galhound made for such a great set of art, too bad its done with now, along with the whole line of posterbooks.
The Art of Masamune Shirow
Masamune Shirow is one of Japan's leading manga artists, not in quantity, but in quality of work. Ever since I laid eyes on Ghost in the Shell, I've been a huge fan of his work, all filled to the brim with the tiny little details, beautiful coloring jobs, and a slightly bizarre sense of humor(the police force's motto in Appleseed is "We kill for peace"), not that I'm complaining. For more info about this great artist, check out my not-so-little shrine to him. But for the moment, just sit back and enjoy the wallpapers. - Phil
Cybergirls - 11/14/2004
Wow, almost a year since the last one o_O Anyhow, this is a pic I've always, always loved, and is probably at least a quarter of the reason I got into Shirow. It kicked off the start to a monthly series of wallpaper calendars, though its been updated to remove the date as you don't really care about November 2004 anymore now do you?
Faerie - 11/24/2003
This paper is based off of an image that I've wanted to use for absolutely forever, originating in Intron Depot 2/Rebirth calendar(or probably earlier), but I never had a high-enough resolution scan to work for me. Fortunately Seishinsha came through for me and posted it as one of this month's two gallery pictures, making me very, very happy. I was playing with quite a few effects on this one, and like every bit of this wallpaper.
Chroma - Phil - 7/11/03
Based off a scan of a GitS2:MMI cover, I really liked how this one came together. I had an idea for how I wanted this one to come together from the start and I'm pleased that I was able to achieve it as close as I did, choosing the colors was probably the hardest part about this one.
Cowgirl - Phil - 4/16/03
::gasp:: an actual new wallpaper and not part of the backlog! This one originates from Shirow's new posterbook series of images, and originally had a blue background that shifted to a much nicer looking white-base with a little inversion and some filtering.
Fire Spider - Phil - 4/16/03
Having actually done this wallpaper back in mid-December when I got and scanned my shiny new 2003 Thrilling calendar, I don't remember too much about it aside from her hair being such a pain to edit out that I decided to leave part of the background in the image.
April's Assault - Phil - 4/14/02
Using another calendar scan(Heroic's April shot this time), I took some time and had to rework bits of the background until I was finally happy with it.
Appleseed - Phil - 3/22/02
This one was created on a whim, as I don't usually don't touch reds, but this was a scan I've wanted to use for a really long time, and just decided to play with it.
Camo Gal - Phil - 11/06/01
Based on a scan from the Angel Star calendar, I felt like making a wallpaper of the month and ended up experimenting with filters and blending for the 'camo'
