Wallpaper
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All of these wallpapers were created exclusively for Totally Severe.
 May You Live in Interesting Times A Chinese curse, featured in a giant collage. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 | 1920×1200 |
 What if this is as good as it gets? An ornate, hand-drawn quote from the movie As Good as it Gets. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 | 1920×1200 |
 Jackalope Crest The Latin name for the jackalope is Lepus Cornutus Ridiculus, meaning Ridiculous Horned Rabbit. I totally made that up. I really just wanted to draw a bunny. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Good Behavior A quote from Walden: "If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?" 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Oranges A collage in orange, with cowboy illustrations and lots of florals. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Pomegranate A red collage with a 16th century Spanish princess, a priestess of Delphi and an orca whale. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 | 1920×1200 |
 Apples A collage in green, with Queen Nefertiti and an unknown Australian soldier. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Bad Fortune ne’er should daunt me …for I am Young and the World is Wide. This is a line from an 18th century Irish song, here written in curly script. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Umbrellas A graphic-y, tilted, polka-dotted swirl of a design. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Feral Furniture When good furniture goes bad! 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 |
 Superstitious Walk under a ladder, break a mirror, open an umbrella indoors and have a black cat cross your path. It’s only bad luck if you believe it. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Red Collage A mix of photos, art, and red flowers. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Bus Stop I have taken many buses in my life, which is to say, I have a sense of humor. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Proverbs A bunch of proverbs from around the world, arranged typographically. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Do-Re-Mi A quote from a 1937 song by Woody Guthrie- California is a garden of Eden; A paradise to live in or see. But believe it or not you won’t find it so hot if you ain’t got the do-re-mi. In other words, CA is an expensive place to live. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Femme Fatale Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate That you hate to make him wait But you just gotta have another cigarette. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Shiny Baubles Birds like shiny things. And so do I! 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Presidents of the United States All 44 are accounted for, but you can’t make me draw George Bush. The widescreen versions of this look slightly different than the fullscreen. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1600×1200 | 1920×1080 | 1920×1200 | 2560×1600 |
 Do Bears Crap in the Woods? Only the park rangers know for sure. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 |
 Jurassic Park Doll house When I was a kid I had a doll house, and my brother’s Jurassic Park action figures moved in. The velociraptor, with his underdeveloped arms, was the perfect height to play the upright piano. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 Dinero You can be totally severe even if you don’t have any money. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920 x1080 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Junk Drawer Just a small selection of the many images I’ve collected over the years, thrown together in a scrapbook style. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 Fashionista We may be headed for a worldwide economic depression, but the least you can do is look like a million bucks. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 The Death of Paperman The murder weapon was found at the crime scene. Poor Paperman. He never stood a chance against that hole-punch. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Clip Art Making clipart is fun. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 Some Days are Harder Than Others A collage wallpaper made from a digital sketch, some photos, and some old postage stamps. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 | 1920×1200 |
 Sea Kelp Hands with seaweed coming out of the fingernails. I know it’s a little psychedelic, but I swear I’m not on drugs. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Hellow! No one wants to be friends with Yellow. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Fashion Victims This season, don’t wear the same thing as your friends. It can lead to awkward moments. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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! 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Calle Aguacate No comment. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1600×1200 |
 Wavy Hair A woman with hair made out of waves. It’s art nouveau meets hippie surfer style I guess. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
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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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Cow & Pig on Ugly Wallpaper I found out that Thomas Kinkade is from the same area as me. I can be kitschy too, dammit. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 The Conqueror This started out as a huge collage of lots of old designs. It got reduced from there. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Meadow A quick sketch in Illustrator of a girl in a flowery dress. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1600×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 At the Hop Nothing says ‘wallpaper’ like French fashion and German Romanticism thrown together with orange slices. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Coffee Break Hokusai’s famous wave with coffee cups, a statue, and an Egyptian-inspired background. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Gnomes Looking at Broccoli This is a picture of gnomes looking at broccoli. I call it "Gnomes Looking at Broccoli." 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Rustic Cabin That moose died 98 years before I was born. You gotta love public domain photographs. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Rabbit Ears They are taking over… Too bad rabbit ears have gone the way of the dinosaurs because of digital television. No more tin foil for me. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 Totally Severe Collage A collage with art from John Singer Sargent and Jan Toorop. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Caribbean Rhino Those Colonial buildings took a long time to draw, that’s for true. Made with five colors. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Divoon! …And so then I thought, you know what would make this image even more ridiculous? Boxes of pancake mix everywhere! 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 I Wuv You Beary Much "This concept of ‘wuv‘ confuses and infuriates us!" 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Modern Daguerreotype It’s easy to romanticise history when iPods are involved. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Tacky Fantastic! This is the most obnoxious and gaudy wallpaper ever and I love it. With apologies to Cellini. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Known by Heart A scratchy green design with frilly little scrollwork and a big red heart. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Fingerprints Simple Illustrator graphics, nice and clean. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Rhyme or Reason Photos from Cuba, Peru, and Oregon. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 James Dean A quick doodle in Illustrator. Based on the slightly non-sensical introduction to Rebel Without a Cause. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Geisha The design in her hair is a long-forgotten embroidery pattern from the 1850s. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Love Conquers All "Omnia Vincit Amor" is Latin for "Love Conquers All." Hurray for typography. 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 |
 Hipsters It’s… modern. Dude. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 Manwich I had a dream where a man turned into a pastrami sandwich and he didn’t seem all that upset about it. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 |
 La Moderna Poesia Abstraction en español. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1280×1024 | 1440×900 | 1680×1050 | 1920×1080 |
 A Deer The woman is from a book of old fairy tales from the 1880s, and I took the photo of the deer. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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? 800×600 | 1024×768 |
 Vagabond Hand drawn doodles, photos, and vector graphics collaged together. The dress is from a Victorian painting by Franz Winterhalter of the Empress Eugénie. 1024×768 |
 Memoirs of Another Life Photoshopped collage with images from Peru. 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
 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. 1024×768 |
 Spring Collage, Photoshop, and some photos of snow and sky. Swirly and patterned, but plenty of room for icons. 1024×768 |
 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. 800×600 | 1024×768 |
 Dancer I took this picture during a festival where Mexican dancers were performing. 1024×768 |
 The Cherry Blossom Stranger I really got that fortune, and it made me happy. 800×600 | 1024×768 |
 Rockerfeller Acrylic paint, collage, Illustrator and Photoshop used together, for better or worse. Inspired by a fireplace in J.D. Rockerfeller’s apartment. 1024×768 |
 The Diva I like how your eyes fill in where her shape should be, even though there’s nothing there. 1024×768 |
 Aria Angel Every MySpace page is required to contain at least one image of a gothic angel. 800×600 | 1024×768 |
 Lili Takes the Bus I colorized this image of a French theater actress and placed her on the bus out of town. 1024×768 |
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