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All of these wallpapers were created exclusively for Totally Severe.

Wavy Hair A woman with hair made out of waves. It's art nouveau meets hippie surfer style I guess. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	The Death of Paperman The murder weapon was found at the crime scene. Poor Paperman. He never stood a chance against that hole-punch. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Honey Bear I haven't eaten honey in a long time but I still like the bottles it comes in. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Meadow A quick sketch in Illustrator of a girl in a flowery dress. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	The Conquerer This started out as a huge collage of lots of old designs. It got reduced from there. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Life's Not a Paragraph The words are from the final lines of a poem by e.e. cummings, which was a kind of an arbitrary choice for trying out some psychedelic lettering. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Caribbean Rhino Those Colonial buildings took a long time to draw, that's for true. Made with five colors. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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! 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Elvis, Illuminated Sure, medieval manuscripts are beautiful, but they lack one critical element: Elvis. I hope this excruciatingly detailed image helps rectify the aforementioned injustice. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Cow & Pig on Ugly Wallpaper I found out that Thomas Kinkade is from the same area as me. I can be kitschy too, dammit. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	I Wuv You Beary Much "This concept of 'wuv' confuses and infuriates us!" 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Rustic Cabin That moose died 98 years before I was born. You gotta love public domain photographs. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	At the Hop Nothing says 'wallpaper' like French fashion and German Romanticism thrown together with orange slices. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Coffee Break Hokusai's famous wave with coffee cups, a statue, and an Egyptian-inspired background. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Gnomes Looking at Broccoli This is a picture of gnomes looking at broccoli. I call it "Gnomes Looking at Broccoli." 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Tacky Fantastic! This is the most obnoxious and gaudy wallpaper ever and I love it. With apologies to Cellini. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Modern Daguerreotype It's easy to romanticise history when iPods are involved. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Rhyme or Reason Photos from Cuba, Peru, and Oregon. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Totally Severe A collage with art from John Singer Sargent and Jan Toorop. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Vagabond Hand drawn doodles, photos, and vector graphics collaged together. The dress is from a Victorian painting by Franz Winterhalter of the Empress Eugénie. 1024x768	Divoon! ...And so then I thought, you know what would make this image even more ridiculous? Boxes of pancake mix everywhere! 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Rabbit Ears They are taking over... Too bad rabbit ears are being phased out in 2009 in the US. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Love Conquers All "Omnia Vincit Amor" is Latin for "Love Conquers All." Hurray for typography. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Snow White The design in her hair is a long-forgotten embroidery pattern from the 1850s. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
A Deer The woman is from a book of old fairy tales from the 1880s, and I took the photo of the deer. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Known by Heart A scratchy green design with frilly little scrollwork and a big red heart. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Fingerprints Simple Illustrator graphics, nice and clean. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	La Moderna Poesia Abstraction en español. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 1024x768
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. 1024x768	Manwich I had a dream where a man turned into a pastrami sandwich and he didn't seem all that upset about it. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	James Dean A quick doodle in Illustrator. Based on the slightly non-sensical introduction to Rebel Without a Cause. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Rockerfeller Acrylic paint, collage, Illustrator and Photoshop used together, for better or worse. Inspired by a fireplace in J.D. Rockerfeller's apartment. 1024x768	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? 800x600 \| 1024x768	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. 1024x768
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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Lili Takes the Bus I colorized this image of a French theater actress and placed her on the bus out of town. 1024x768	Memoirs of Another Life Photoshopped collage with images from Peru. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Dancer I took this picture during a festival where Mexican dancers were performing. 1024x768
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768	Aria Angel A very gothic, very dark attempt at photorealism. The plain background is great if you've got lots of icons. 800x600 \| 1024x768	Hipsters It's... modern. Dude. 1024x768
The Cherry Blossom Stranger I really got that fortune, and it made me happy. 800x600 \| 1024x768	The Diva I like how your eyes fill in where her shape should be, even though there's nothing there. 1024x768	Spring Collage, Photoshop, and some photos of snow and sky. Swirly and patterned, but plenty of room for icons. 1024x768

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Wavy Hair A woman with hair made out of waves. It's art nouveau meets hippie surfer style I guess. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	The Death of Paperman The murder weapon was found at the crime scene. Poor Paperman. He never stood a chance against that hole-punch. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Honey Bear I haven't eaten honey in a long time but I still like the bottles it comes in. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Meadow A quick sketch in Illustrator of a girl in a flowery dress. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	The Conquerer This started out as a huge collage of lots of old designs. It got reduced from there. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Life's Not a Paragraph The words are from the final lines of a poem by e.e. cummings, which was a kind of an arbitrary choice for trying out some psychedelic lettering. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Caribbean Rhino Those Colonial buildings took a long time to draw, that's for true. Made with five colors. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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! 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Elvis, Illuminated Sure, medieval manuscripts are beautiful, but they lack one critical element: Elvis. I hope this excruciatingly detailed image helps rectify the aforementioned injustice. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Cow & Pig on Ugly Wallpaper I found out that Thomas Kinkade is from the same area as me. I can be kitschy too, dammit. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	I Wuv You Beary Much "This concept of 'wuv' confuses and infuriates us!" 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Rustic Cabin That moose died 98 years before I was born. You gotta love public domain photographs. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	At the Hop Nothing says 'wallpaper' like French fashion and German Romanticism thrown together with orange slices. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Coffee Break Hokusai's famous wave with coffee cups, a statue, and an Egyptian-inspired background. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Gnomes Looking at Broccoli This is a picture of gnomes looking at broccoli. I call it "Gnomes Looking at Broccoli." 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Tacky Fantastic! This is the most obnoxious and gaudy wallpaper ever and I love it. With apologies to Cellini. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Modern Daguerreotype It's easy to romanticise history when iPods are involved. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Rhyme or Reason Photos from Cuba, Peru, and Oregon. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Totally Severe A collage with art from John Singer Sargent and Jan Toorop. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200
Vagabond Hand drawn doodles, photos, and vector graphics collaged together. The dress is from a Victorian painting by Franz Winterhalter of the Empress Eugénie. 1024x768	Divoon! ...And so then I thought, you know what would make this image even more ridiculous? Boxes of pancake mix everywhere! 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Rabbit Ears They are taking over... Too bad rabbit ears are being phased out in 2009 in the US. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Love Conquers All "Omnia Vincit Amor" is Latin for "Love Conquers All." Hurray for typography. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024 \| 1600x1200	Snow White The design in her hair is a long-forgotten embroidery pattern from the 1850s. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
A Deer The woman is from a book of old fairy tales from the 1880s, and I took the photo of the deer. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Known by Heart A scratchy green design with frilly little scrollwork and a big red heart. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Fingerprints Simple Illustrator graphics, nice and clean. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	La Moderna Poesia Abstraction en español. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 1024x768
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. 1024x768	Manwich I had a dream where a man turned into a pastrami sandwich and he didn't seem all that upset about it. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	James Dean A quick doodle in Illustrator. Based on the slightly non-sensical introduction to Rebel Without a Cause. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Rockerfeller Acrylic paint, collage, Illustrator and Photoshop used together, for better or worse. Inspired by a fireplace in J.D. Rockerfeller's apartment. 1024x768	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? 800x600 \| 1024x768	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. 1024x768
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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	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. 1024x768 \| 1280x1024
Lili Takes the Bus I colorized this image of a French theater actress and placed her on the bus out of town. 1024x768	Memoirs of Another Life Photoshopped collage with images from Peru. 800x600 \| 1024x768 \| 1280x1024	Dancer I took this picture during a festival where Mexican dancers were performing. 1024x768
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. 800x600 \| 1024x768	Aria Angel A very gothic, very dark attempt at photorealism. The plain background is great if you've got lots of icons. 800x600 \| 1024x768	Hipsters It's... modern. Dude. 1024x768
The Cherry Blossom Stranger I really got that fortune, and it made me happy. 800x600 \| 1024x768	The Diva I like how your eyes fill in where her shape should be, even though there's nothing there. 1024x768	Spring Collage, Photoshop, and some photos of snow and sky. Swirly and patterned, but plenty of room for icons. 1024x768