Hmm...well, I guess I'll submit here first rather than AP! The site is down at the moment. How odd. Anyhoo, this is a somewhat different wallpaper for me! First of all, I haven't ever made a Samurai Warriors wallpaper before, and I rarely use purple! I wanted to make this wallpaper look like a painting. I got my inspiration from several places...some quite odd. XD
1.the scan itself (http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/scans/wished/item147840/)
2.My bathroom walls (they are painted a dark periwinkle)
3.My shower curtain...it's a lavender color
4.My Kleenex/tissue box, which has pink and white flowers that look painted. XD
5.One of my towels which has green, purple, and white stripes.

Ahem. Yes. Most of which can be found in my bathroom...how odd! Anyhoo!! I did change some of the colors along the way, but my initial idea stuck. I diligently extracted Ranmaru (btw, he's a guy...a very pretty guy), and then I proceeded to smudge all of him! I wanted to give the effect of a painting, and I thought that was a good way to do it. Plus, it cleaned up the scan...well, hid all the hideousness of the original scan's texture, etc. So yeah, that took a while. -__-

The background was all brushwork. Layers of purple, green, white, blue, etc. flowers and other brushes that looked like...errr, paintbrush strokes! Then I used more brushes to overlay and create the texture that you see. :3 Texture fun and brushwork, that's my style. Oh, and then I overlayed brown-ish clouds...to make the color you see, but then I erased some away to emphasize the purple/gold in some areas! And finally I added the text. That took a while because I'm so indecisive when it comes to where to put the text. ^^;; I hope it looks ok. Overall, this took 2 hours or more...

Enjoy! I hope you like it!