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All of these wallpapers were created exclusively for Totally Severe.



Fashionista

We may be headed for a worldwide economic depression, but the least you can do is look like a million bucks.

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Guinea Pig Things

I hear guinea pig tastes like chicken. When I went to Peru, I planned to eat a guinea pig. Instead I got violently ill from eating chicken. Que será.

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Some Days are Harder Than Others

A collage wallpaper made from a digital sketch, some photos, and some old postage stamps.

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Napoleon's Little Pony

Many historians have glossed over how Bonaparte actually crossed the Alps on the back of a pink pony named Gumdrop. Jacques-Louis David was in on it.

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Hellow!

No one wants to be friends with Yellow.

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Carmen Miranda's Star Trek

I was raised by nerds. Socially speaking, this means I am only slightly better off than if I had been raised by wolves.

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Wavy Hair

A woman with hair made out of waves. It's art nouveau meets hippie surfer style I guess.

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The Death of Paperman

The murder weapon was found at the crime scene. Poor Paperman. He never stood a chance against that hole-punch.

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Honey Bear

This is pretty self-explanatory.

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Black Swan

For centuries in Europe, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could never exist. It turns out black swans do exist; there are half a million of them in Australia.

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The Conquerer

This started out as a huge collage of lots of old designs. It got reduced from there.

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Mother Ginger

In The Nutcracker, the character Mother Ginger lifts up her giant skirt and all her children scamper out from underneath. Here she is with ginger-root children that look a bit like zombies.

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Meadow

A quick sketch in Illustrator of a girl in a flowery dress.

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Intergalactic Smoothie

My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate.

That may not actually be true.

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Entomology 101

I was going to make a series of these, but this one took so many hours to finish I just couldn't stand to do it again.

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Black Velvet Band

A watch she took from a customer, and slipped it right into my hand.

Then the law came and put me in prison.

Bad luck to her black velvet band!

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Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh made smoking look cool, at least until he was beheaded. Now he's in a digital collage with doodles of eyeballs I drew in high school and some scraps I cut out of an IKEA catalogue.

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Princess Sparkles the Super Fantastic Unicorn

Note to self: Don't design anything while angry. This pink nightmare has a pony, hearts, stars, cupcakes and lollipops.

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Cow & Pig on Ugly Wallpaper

I found out that Thomas Kinkade is from the same area as me. I can be kitschy too, dammit.

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Bob the Dinosaur

Bob was not a very smart dinosaur. Here he is seen putting a fork in a toaster. Click here for the full story.

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Rustic Cabin

That moose died 98 years before I was born. You gotta love public domain photographs.

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It's Only a Paper Moon

I don't mind drawing a paper moon, a cardboard sea, and a canvas sky. But I put my foot down when it come to muslin trees.

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Pompei

A cityscape with photos from three continents. The sketch of the people is from 1880, and is called "The Return of Hadjis." Methinks it's a little obscure.

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I Wuv You Beary Much

"This concept of 'wuv' confuses and infuriates us!"

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Come Josephine in my Flying Machine

This is based on a song written in 1911. My personal kudos to those who can recognize the landmarks in the skyline.

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The Frog Princess

I dreamed this up a few years back while I was in a Spanish class. It includes works from Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Mark Catesby.

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Tacky Fantastic!

This is the most obnoxious and gaudy wallpaper ever and I love it. With apologies to Cellini.

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Coffee Break

Hokusai's famous wave with coffee cups, a statue, and an Egyptian-inspired background.

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Gnomes Looking at Broccoli

This is a picture of gnomes looking at broccoli. I call it "Gnomes Looking at Broccoli."

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At the Hop

Nothing says 'wallpaper' like French fashion and German Romanticism thrown together with orange slices.

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Modern Daguerreotype

It's easy to romanticise history when iPods are involved.

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Totally Severe

A collage with art from John Singer Sargent and Jan Toorop.

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Rabbit Ears

They are taking over... Too bad rabbit ears are being phased out in 2009 in the US.

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Rhyme or Reason

Photos from Cuba, Peru, and Oregon.

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Divoon!

...And so then I thought, you know what would make this image even more ridiculous? Boxes of pancake mix everywhere!

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Snow White

The design in her hair is a long-forgotten embroidery pattern from the 1850s.

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The Cashier

All the 1920s art deco women always look like they're brooding. I figure they must have some reason for looking so wicked serious all the time, like maybe they're stuck in a crappy minimum wage job.

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Love Conquers All

"Omnia Vincit Amor" is Latin for "Love Conquers All." Hurray for typography.

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Vagabond

Hand drawn doodles, photos, and vector graphics collaged together. The dress is from a Victorian painting by Franz Winterhalter of the Empress Eugénie.

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Lost Children

I found a sketch of this idea in one of my old notebooks. The right side is blurred to better see your icons.

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Known by Heart

A scratchy green design with frilly little scrollwork and a big red heart.

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Spiderweb

I didn't plan on it turning out this gothic and dark, but it's pretty hard to plan collages sometimes. I just wanted to use Jean Foquet's Madonna.

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Fingerprints

Simple Illustrator graphics, nice and clean.

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A Deer

The woman is from a book of old fairy tales from the 1880s, and I took the photo of the deer.

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James Dean

A quick doodle in Illustrator. Based on the slightly non-sensical introduction to Rebel Without a Cause.

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Happy Family

Does anyone remember this type of Fisher Price Little People? I think they got taken off the market because children kept trying to eat them.

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Manwich

I had a dream where a man turned into a pastrami sandwich and he didn't seem all that upset about it.

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La Moderna Poesia

Abstraction en español.

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Rave On

Buddy Holly, early rock star extraordinaire, in desktop wallpaper form. If it wasn't official already, I think making this little vector creation makes me a card-carrying nerd.

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Una Noche en La Paz

An unedited photograph of a display in a restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia. In the daytime, this display looks a whole lot less eerie, but where's the fun in that?

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Deus ex machina

A rusty texture... with an airplane! The floral pattern is based on a very ornate 15th century illuminated manuscript. I've really spent WAY too much time in Art History classes.

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Dancer

I took this picture during a festival where Mexican dancers were performing.

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Rockerfeller

Acrylic paint, collage, Illustrator and Photoshop used together, for better or worse. Inspired by a fireplace in J.D. Rockerfeller's apartment.

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Heart

A photograph of a paper heart against some glass. I took this photo, developed it, and printed it in a darkroom. This is about as old school as photography can get.

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Lili Takes the Bus

I colorized this image of a French theater actress and placed her on the bus out of town.

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Memoirs of Another Life

Photoshopped collage with images from Peru.

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Jack of Diamonds

I photographed this with an SLR camera. I processed the negatives in a darkroom. I printed it and enlarged it under the red light, made a bunch of tools to burn it, then printed about 40 versions before I scanned it in for your viewing pleasure.

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Northern Lights

A city collage with all original photographs of Paris, London, Canterbury, Dover, Lucerne, San Francisco, and Harper's Ferry West Virginia. The woman in front is from the painting "Windflowers" by John William Waterhouse.

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Aria Angel

A very gothic, very dark attempt at photorealism. The plain background is great if you've got lots of icons.

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Hipsters

It's... modern. Dude.

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