Happy May the 4th! Star Wars tile art theme

So, finally got around to doing the Star Wars #tileart theme. We had a few requests come in for this one…

@TileArtGuy Just want to say that i love you work! Any chance you can do a Star Wars tile art for the Lumia 1020?

— Parth (@TheIndianJedi) March 8, 2015

@TileArtGuy cool, but what about Star Wars theme?:)

— Pivazi Zurab (@PZurab) February 19, 2015

@TileArtGuy how come there isnt a star wars/ darth vader art so far….

— Parish Pokharel (@parish_lfc) February 9, 2015

@TileArtGuy nice can I request star wars or star trek start screen design cheers

— RWatt📱➕🚘=❌ (@rolandworf) February 4, 2015

After a lot of thought I decided to go with this Dark side vs Light side (Ying vs Yang) approach to the home screen. It doesn’t use the real-life characters from the films, but I think the comic book art adds a nice effect. I especially love the white theme.

One thing I have to say…is long live the stylus! This is the first time I’ve tried the stylus on my new Surface and it’s been incredible!. First time stylus user, so all those wacom experts please forgive my enthusiasm 🙂

Anyway, here are pics and videos to show the home screens in action. Links to the images at the bottom of the post:

The theme was only possible thanks to the awesome artwork form RebornRock, Kevin Nowlan, Tim Bradstreet, Tony Harris, Joe Quesada and chrono-strife

You can find all the images used to create the two themes here – http://1drv.ms/1ETJpn0

Sons of Anarchy inspired Lumia 1520

So, one of my friends and I were chatting about home screens the other day…as you do…and she challenged me to create a Sons of Anarchy themed home screen.

I’m not a huge fan of using TV shows for home screens, but SOA is not only one of my favourites, it lends itself nicely to a black & white colour scheme which I’m always a fan of.

With this home screen, I really liked how well the lock screen image lends itself to being double-sided. ie. Lock screen image + Kids Corner lock screen image together look pretty cool.

Challenge accepted friend, hope you like it 🙂 Iron Maiden, Breaking Bad and Halo have all been requested, so will be looking into those shortly I promise.

Images used for this SOA home screen can be found here.

Wolverine Lumia 1520 Home Screen

So, I have a friend who loves comics, Wolverine in particular. You could say he’s partly to blame for my love of all things “comic”. Decided to do something nice for the guy and mock-up a home screen I thought he might appreciate…maybe not as cool as his custom Wolverine Converse, but I’m hoping it’s a close second 🙂 Enjoy bud.

Images and PNG’s used can be found here.

Spawn home screen on my Lumia 1520

Had a bit of a difficult time with this one. As you’ll see, the pics and Vine here look a little different.

I wanted to do Spawn justice, mainly because it was the first comic that really blew me away with its dark and detailed artwork.

So, as you can see by the pics, I’ve used the standard red colour scheme…no funny business with transparent Windows 8.1 backgrounds.

If you look at the Vine video, I tried using the same curtain background I did for Deadpool to see what it would look like.

Is it too busy? Is the simple red the best? I have no clue…both kinda work. Suppose that’s the beauty of having the freedom to play around with either.

Link to the images I used here.

Pikachu theme on my Lumia 1520 (for the kids)

I know what you most be thinking…why amongst the awesome artwork of Alan Moore, Marc Silvestri, Rufus Dayglo, David Finch and Frank Miller…is there Pikachu? Well, the truth is…someone requested it:

@TileArtGuy do you take requests? My kids would love a Minecraft or Pikachu one if so. 🙂

— KC Lemson (@kclemson) April 25, 2014

And I love a good challenge, so I figured why not do something fun for the kids. My little cousin saw this too and made me put it on his Lumia 520…not quite as cool as a 6 inch, three column, Windows 8.1 Lumia 1520…but he’s happy 🙂

Enjoy KC Lemson…

You can download the images and wallpapers here.

The Darkness start screen on my Lumia 1520

Marc Silvestri and Todd Macfarlane were my favourite comic book artists growing up. Figured I’d start the homage to both with The Darkness, but many more like Witchblade, Spawn and Fathom will hopefully make an appearance here soon.

You can find all the images I used here, and the app was Custom Tile Maker.

Tank Girl tile theme on my Lumia 1520

I decided to play around with the ‘Light’ background option on the phone today. Figured it was time for a little punk and black & white artwork…so Tank Girl was an easy choice.

For this one, I’d definitely recommend checking out the Vine to see the full effect of the parallax background.

If you guys have any suggestions for what I should try out next, let me know?

As usual, all the images I used (and more) can be found here. App is Custom Tile Maker.

Deadpool tile theme on my Lumia 1520

Figured I needed a red theme, Deadpool was the obvious choice 🙂

If you don’t keep it simple, the parallax Windows 8.1 background can make your start screen look like some kind of cheap banner ad. Not sure I’m ‘quite’ there yet, but I thought the red curtain added a level of fun and simplicity to it all. Either way, hope you enjoy 🙂

All the images I used can be found in the album here, and the app I used to create the Deadpool tiles was Custom Tile Maker.

Batman tile theme on my Lumia 1520…with Windows 8.1

So today was my first attempt at stuffing around with Windows 8.1. What comic did I decide to go with? Batman, as only David Finch and Frank Miller could draw him 🙂

Saw a couple guys had the new 8.1 software, so I figured I’d try it out. Doesn’t look as good on static images, so I created a Vine which should show you how the parallax scroll and transparency effects work. Overall, I think it looks pretty slick.

For some reason I think the simple version actually works best in this particular case:

As always, if you want to check out the original images I used, just click here.

If you guys have any ideas about what I should do next, throw your suggestions in the box below.

Swamp Thing Tile Theme on My Lumia 1520

So, my little sister thought she was pretty funny and asked if I could do a ‘pink’ theme. Well sis, eat your heart out 😉

Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing…maybe some of you remember the TV show.

As usual, if you guys wanna check out the images I used to create this home screen, hit the link for the full album.