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Submitted: July 4, 2012
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You're so beautiful, I'm black and blue all overby *Xelestial

Customization / Wallpaper / Photo Manipulated / Science Fiction

Finally, I am done

It took me like 45 seconds just to find the submit art button, I am so tired at the time of this writing.

Title is from a sweet song by Imogene Heap called "It's good to be in love."

Blue and black are my favorite colors, and they're also my Shepard and Garrus' colors, so I really wanted to do something with them and their colors.
After a ridiculous amount of time and many MANY iterations, I bring to you the wallpaper I promised after I did [link]

Now, for some useless fun facts about this piece:

1. I (obviously) changed the concept art Shepard to fit my Tempest Shepard's looks i.e. black hair and blue eyes. I think I'll be using her again in some other piece in the future

(that lovely red hair fought me to go though...)

2. Garrus over there comes from the Art of the Mass Effect Universe artbook. Saw him and couldn't resist.

3. I originally had a lot more text but no matter what I did, the picture was too busy (it's always too busy- in my art I put too much, in my writing I put too much, I talk too much, meh)

4. The swirl in the middle is supposed to be at an attempt to be a galaxy type thing. My second time using liquify tool.

5. The font is called Sweetly Broken. I nearly cried when I saw that

6. I know there's 2 billion pics with those quotes, but I couldn't think of anything more fitting for this particular picture once I was done.

And all the artwork, characters and whatnot belong to BioWare and EA and all that legal crap.

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~BinkuMuja Jul 15, 2012

I always found it interesting how black blue is often the colour of bruises. Love the rendering!

*Xelestial Jul 15, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks

And yeah, well, they're beautiful colors and I'm sure Shepard has a lot of them!

~BinkuMuja Aug 11, 2012

I am now imagining Shepard looking like a patchwork quilt....god help me. m(_ _

*Xelestial Aug 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Haha XD She probably does...

~TreeWyrm Jul 5, 2012

I think this is a really good piece. I love the watery whirlpool you have going on, and I think how you matched Garrus' lithograph to the new FemShep poster pic is brilliant, perfectly balanced with the pictures of the two of them in sweeter guises in the centre. Very good!

*Xelestial Jul 5, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you!

~iGaMzEeX Jul 4, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

The Goodbye scene hit me hard ;n;

*Xelestial Jul 4, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I think it got everyone right in the feels. I was bawling by the end of the EC and I don't think I've cried once this whole trilogy.

~iGaMzEeX Jul 7, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

My sister and Mum thought it was stupid I got emotional over a game, but you've created your Shepard... You've chosen their personality and who they want to be with... Scenes like that just hit you hard... ;A;

*Xelestial Jul 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

They only think it's stupid because they can't understand...if they played it, they'd be bawling too.

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