Neat animated gif huh? Well, it’s just a simply way of showing off the process behind my April 2012 wallpaper. For the full in-depth breakdown, visit the project at Behance!
new wallpaper and more
- Keep an eye out for my April wallpaper (calendar). It should be released either today or tomorrow. Here’s an older WIP preview of what’s to come.
- I’m thinking of starting up a blog for dsktps so I don’t flood this one with posts from them each week. But that won’t stop me from reblogging some, haha
- Toying with the idea of doing another case study, this time with my upcoming April wallpaper. Did you guys like the December one? Should I do it again?
- Also going to work to get a lot more of the content from the old site moved to the new site. That includes more resolutions of older wallpapers (including re-releases of old calendars without dates) and new content that hasn’t been uploaded anywhere previously!
- Hoping to get this NYC subway wallpaper series done in the near future as well. Here’s a small preview of what they will turn out like.
- Seeing as Tumblr has been a pretty good choice thus far for the blog, I’ll look at doing a domain redirect to it in the near future.
Case Study: December Wallpaper
Although I’ve had quite a lot of requests, I’ve never really given a fair shot at writing up a tutorial/case study before. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t see myself as the teacher type or that I hate trying to write about what I’ve made. When creating my December calendar wallpaper, I thought it would be a great candidate to at least give it a shot once. So, let me try and break down how it came to be. Oh, you can click each to see a larger sample:
01. Starting with a stock photo of a winter house on a blank canvas.
02. Removed the trees, light post, extra fence section and extended the driveway a bit.
03. Removed all signs from the house and barn
04. Added in extra windows, candles in windows, wreath on the barn and misc clean up.
05. Color correction and scratch/grunge elements. Cleaned up the road. Also extended some elements of the house to give it a more hand drawn look.
06. Added in trees to the background so it wasn’t against a stark white background. Also added in some misc paint splatters and texture.
07. More color adjustments, grunge elements and splatters.
Final image: The final wallpaper with the calendar element. You can download this (without the calendar element) from my site.
Source: kriegs.net
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