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I like the idea of having a forum only for graphical fanart for a more direct discussion, but I think it would be more a split of the fan stuff forum than aggregate new things and bring more active members to the forums. In the end, I think it would slow down the Fan Stuff forum and come to be a not very active one itself.
Meanwhile, I made something different:
I based this on a friend's picture. Originally I was just trying to copy her pose to make Nei (she was wearing a bikini, what better than replacing her with another girl in a swimsuit?), clean the trace, and color on Photoshop. But at some point I found it boring. I did paint her with mid tones, made some shadow and light, she was ready. But it was not enough, it was just an everyday attempt, nothing better or worse than what I had already done before. So I drew the scenario of that picture in 2B grafitti, pasted Nei in the front layer, and applied some filters to turn the dull coloured Nei into something that would match the background.
May not be the greatest thing ever done (if you look closely, you'll see that her shadow on the rock was made with the Photoshop pencil, because I totally forgot to do that in the paper... hell, NOTHING was supposed to be there besides a floating purple Nei in the first place), but this is the first time I use one of my own works as my desktop wallpaper.
Wallpaper size, hell yeah:
http://www.b3tards.com/u/7116c087b49513ac33e4/nei_na_pedra_-_cinza.jpg