Thread: Fan Wallpapers

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It has been a few weeks hasn’t everyone. Sorry I have been away from wallpapers as much as I have. I’ve also been helping diii.net with their Diablowiki with the Fan fiction section, and life as usual pulling me away too. Well enough with my ramblings!

This wallpaper was in my mind for a few months after people weren’t so well received with the last locations wallpaper. This time I broke down my standards for this sub series and made the runes as graphical bars like I should have done in the first place. I also have changed the runes. You should notice they aren’t so bright anymore. I tried an effect with the original rebuilt fiery runes that I made back on the 4th locations wallpaper for Tristram. For me those runes look so much sharper and much less distracting.

Also as usual I added the world map in the background and no alchemy again in the background too. I also used a stock texture image from deviant art by Wojtar. See the original texture here: Paper texture 4 Please let me know what you think guys. I personally think I finally got it right for this wallpaper series.

See you next time!

HK

Original Art (C)Blizzard - Stock Paper Texture by Wojtar
Fiery Runes by me using CPT8 w/ Eyecandy 4000 and CS3

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Greetings everyone, this week I decided to continue the locations series with The Stinging Winds. This time I chose to make sure that I had some variations in the walls like in the past; maybe subtle but still small changes. This time I found another stock texture off Deviant art again. This one was a Sandpaper Stock by Enchanted Gal. See her stock page here.

With that texture I was able to get a sandy feel to the background. I thought that adding some of the dusty scenes from in-game shots of the location itself along with the world map was a cool change. With that I will see you next week for another wallpaper.

See you next time!

HK

Original Art (C)Blizzard - Sandpaper Stock Texture by Enchanted Gal
Fiery Runes by me using CPT8 w/ Eyecandy 4000 and CS3

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Hey everyone, sorry its been a few weeks since the last wall. This time I went a little further than my usual recolor of the runes. Unlike before where I would grab the runes and recolor a few color tones and make them look nice. This time I went back to the rune-circle redid the same filter effect as the dim runes and did some different coloring.

With the runes like they were now I did a faint darker blue glow and called them Twilight Runes. With that I redid the lighting for the red areas of the rune-bars. Then I build a faint blue glow effect above and below the runes to give them a more tangible effect unlike before.

I also searched for some nice stock images from deviant art to help add to the background effect with the map. The map is harder to see but the effect is there. It is night time in the concept art, and so I made sure to match that with the background.

Stock images used:

Night Sky by Reznor70

Night Sky Texture by desideriasp-stock

Watercolor Painting Texture by Enchantedgal Stock

See you next time!

HK

Original Art (C)Blizzard
Stock Art (C) The original authors linked above
Twilight Runes by me using CPT8 w/ Eyecandy 4000 and CS3

hey have you ever considered doing a dreamscene wallpaper?

Saw this on diii.net and thought it looks pretty cool

thanks, kinda creatively drained right now so im helping the diablowiki.net site and some community things on diii.net for now.

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Greetings everyone it has been a while hasn't it. With Christmas coming I wanted to make a wallpaper. Sadly the image took more time than I planned and it arrived a day later. Oh well as the saying goes; "Better late than never."

With this wallpaper I went the extra mile in details. It may not look like much but this was a more detailed work for me adding to the original Goat Hill Tabern concept art. I removed all the outdoor structures save for the sign and a few stools and tables outside the building.

I tried to make this image as best as I could with the snow. Sorry it's a tad blurry on the larger sizes. The original concept art was small and I build the snow and everything from the original, and then blew the picture up. I'm not fond of doing this a lot but I hope it doesn't detract from the work I did. I will be posting the original sized version of the art in a fan art post soon.

The snow was the most time consuming aspect of this image. When I added it all; I was grateful that my computer didn't crash. I reworked this snow at least 3 times until later on when I was halfway done with the snow on the roof. Originally I used some of the texture from the ground to cover the buildings like they weren't there and do a simple recolor on top of the texture. Later I just painted white on top of it and got the result you see now.

The background behind the Tabern was from the original art, I just changed the color and what you see now was the final effect. The building and some of the side structures were painted around and cropped out so I could get the background effect. I made the background a blank gray so I could paint in some clouds, and maybe change some of the trees, but in the end the color effect was better.

In the end the runes were simple recolored like in the past instead of rebuilt like the Twilight Runes were in the last wallpaper. I wanted to make them red and green but the result of them being white instead was a better balance. I tried to also add a festive texture behind the map again but used an old stock texture and the map again like the Lut Bahadur wallpaper was. Over all; this piece took me at least 4 hours 3 of which were on the snow, and the other hour putting up with the slowness that is my computer. I hope to finally get a new one this next tax season.

I hope you all like this piece. I wanted to give something a little more for the community, and my fans. Plus I haven't made a Christmas wallpaper yet. Enjoy and I will see you next time, and hope you all had a great Christmas.

HK

Stock images used:

Christmas Tree Stock Image by Lexidh-stock

Snow Covered by teq

Snowfall PS Brush (Used B+W image in the zip) by MzFrkD

Watercolor Painting Texture by Enchantedgal Stock

HK

Original Art (C)Blizzard.
Stock Art (C) The original authors linked above.
Snow painted with a mouse.
Fiery Runes by me using CPT8 w/ Eyecandy 4000 and CS3

personally like the blur, good job.