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My rendition of a famous woodblock printing by Hokusai. It was published in Hokusai's series "36 Views of Mount Fuji."

874 shapes (not including all the little circles)

Took me about 7 hours prob'ly.

Download for the full size wallpaper (1280x800)...you'll have to crop it yourself if you don't have a widescreen monitor.

edit: I've done a second Hokusai woodblock. Check it out here: [link]
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~musclemutt Sep 19, 2011
The great advantage of vector art is that the file will make as many pixels as you need to get a great-looking image.

If you rasterize the file, you lose that advantage, only to end up with a file where pixels are now fixed in number and thus limited in use.

Graphics companies don't always promote best practices. They water down the care, techniques, and learning we put into fine art to lower the bar for selling their products. Adobe, especially, promotes less good methods with simple claims that go against professional aspirations. Many companies also want to avoid improving their products. Adobe connived for almost 20 years to get their hands on the vector program Freehand and then junk it and eliminate competition to their clunky Illustrator software. Many examples see innovation waning when competition is stifled.

Pictures like yours are why decades back I gave up photography to pursue digital arts full time. You're sure to inspire others to excel and advance.
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~KEKart Jan 4, 2011
So I Google Image'd "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" because I might be using the painting for an art project, and I saw this one. I hovered over it, thinking it was the actual painting, and I saw that it was on a deviantART account. I was thinking, What IDIOT uploaded a piece of famous art to their account! Surely people know that it's not their work! And then I clicked on the picture and saw the slight differences in the style and my face did a complete 180 and I was thinking, OH MY GOSH! They actually drew this! Holy... Amazing! This is awesome, and I am completely apologetic for even thinking that you uploaded the real thing. I guess it's sort of a compliment, though. xD It really does look amazingly like the original. Excellent job! :la:

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~Jagun Sep 24, 2010
Looks excellent.
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~GreggleSPH Jul 26, 2010
Very cool!
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~calm-mariachi Jul 9, 2010
very nice indeed! But the download option doesn't provide the 1280x800 wallpaper that I so much covet. where is it now?
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~wallybescotty Jan 21, 2010
nice like the colors,looks better than the one apple used on snow leopard, hey guys if u have sno kitty and use theres,Stop! and use this one

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If U Want To Know How I Do Anything Or Want A File From Me Let e know, I'll do my best to help ;)
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~painfullyxuncool Jan 22, 2010
wow i didn't even see that as an option in snow leopard till you said that.
those are pretty decent colors compared to others i've seen, considering it's the original.
thanks for the comment!
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~wallybescotty Jan 22, 2010
no prob

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Mood: Wow! ~euronay Feb 27, 2009
Amazing. Love it!
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*TheShadowFolk Nov 16, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
I love it...What is the Drawing Style called???

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