Post by Asuka Was Here on Sept 14, 2006 21:56:18 GMT -5
Back to my iconing, sort of (at least, I'm trying to get back into the groove, so to speak). So I have 10 icons from the latest chapter, and some cleaned scans to boot, spoilers of sorts here and there, don't look if you don't want to know, yadda yadda. Mostly Ishida, since he and Chad are the focus of the chapter (I don't care about the two random insert Allankar; they're probably not going to last long), and Chad never gets any decent shots to work with. Poor guy gets no love.
Other stuff: If I were to host a big icontest here as a sort of fun let's-all-be-prodcutive-instead-of-sitting-stupidly thing, or just for the heck of it, 'cuz I'm bored, would anybody be interested in participating? You'd probably have to join to enter (the easiest way to send votes and submissions is via PM, which is only available to members), but I'd be willing to fork over actual prizes if there was enough participation... so, any interest?
As for the obligatory about-my-life part of the post: cookies is my latest new word. My angelfish, Ise Nanao, has died, and left behind his (yes his) wife, Kyouraku Shunsui (yes, I said wife. Aside from gender issues, my fish pair off according to Bleach canon. Go figure), and their approximately fifty children (seven bigger kids, the rest are like two weeks old), including one named Ebert and a large cloud of babies dubbed the "microfish" - but pronounced like "microfiche" for kicks. I am woeful. On the other hand, I have discovered actual, edible school food. As in, you don't need to drench it in ketchup to eat it. I should probably alert the administration so they can correct this issue immediately.
Moving on to the icon rules blather:
Rules:
1. please credit to the forums (http://auroraborealis1.proboards25.com) or if on LJ, to username asuka_was_here
2. Do not steal or claim as your own.
3. Please do not direct link these unless you are using on as your avatar on these forums and THESE FORUMS ONLY.
4. Textless icons are not bases unless stated otherwise, so please do not use them as such.
5. Guppies.
Credits list can be found HERE, but I will add that a lot of the textures I used came from colorfilter on LJ (see credits page for link). If only because I was too lazy to scrounge out textures from all of the hundreds and hundreds (probably thousands) I have downloaded. It's easier to browse through one folder.
All that said... Icons:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
NOTES:
2. Lyrics from "Bring on the Wonder" by Susan Enan. Excellent song, highly reccomended.
3. Yes, that's Chad's eyeball. Told you the poor guy gets no decent pictures in the manga. But I had to include him somehow.
4, 5. Lyrics same as 2.
8. This is the only one that uses entirely my own textures. If that matters.
10. Okay, so it's graphically dull. I needed something to fill the space. It seemed like the Thing To Do.
Cleaned Scan-bits:
Feel free to use these for your own graphics purposes. They're cleaned with the purpose of iconing (i.e. resizing) in mind, so at this size they're a little pixelly. If you use them, please credit back to these forums - it took a lot of time to clean these up from the stupid MQ scan.
Ummm... Please comment if you're going to take them; I'd like to know which ones people like so I can improve my icon sets ('cept for the ones where I decide to get all lazy ^^'). Guest posting is enabled here; you don't need to join to comment, but we would like it very much if you did. We need friends
Other stuff: If I were to host a big icontest here as a sort of fun let's-all-be-prodcutive-instead-of-sitting-stupidly thing, or just for the heck of it, 'cuz I'm bored, would anybody be interested in participating? You'd probably have to join to enter (the easiest way to send votes and submissions is via PM, which is only available to members), but I'd be willing to fork over actual prizes if there was enough participation... so, any interest?
As for the obligatory about-my-life part of the post: cookies is my latest new word. My angelfish, Ise Nanao, has died, and left behind his (yes his) wife, Kyouraku Shunsui (yes, I said wife. Aside from gender issues, my fish pair off according to Bleach canon. Go figure), and their approximately fifty children (seven bigger kids, the rest are like two weeks old), including one named Ebert and a large cloud of babies dubbed the "microfish" - but pronounced like "microfiche" for kicks. I am woeful. On the other hand, I have discovered actual, edible school food. As in, you don't need to drench it in ketchup to eat it. I should probably alert the administration so they can correct this issue immediately.
Moving on to the icon rules blather:
Rules:
1. please credit to the forums (http://auroraborealis1.proboards25.com) or if on LJ, to username asuka_was_here
2. Do not steal or claim as your own.
3. Please do not direct link these unless you are using on as your avatar on these forums and THESE FORUMS ONLY.
4. Textless icons are not bases unless stated otherwise, so please do not use them as such.
5. Guppies.
Credits list can be found HERE, but I will add that a lot of the textures I used came from colorfilter on LJ (see credits page for link). If only because I was too lazy to scrounge out textures from all of the hundreds and hundreds (probably thousands) I have downloaded. It's easier to browse through one folder.
All that said... Icons:
1.
2. 3. 4.5.
6. 7. 8.9.
10.NOTES:
2. Lyrics from "Bring on the Wonder" by Susan Enan. Excellent song, highly reccomended.
3. Yes, that's Chad's eyeball. Told you the poor guy gets no decent pictures in the manga. But I had to include him somehow.
4, 5. Lyrics same as 2.
8. This is the only one that uses entirely my own textures. If that matters.
10. Okay, so it's graphically dull. I needed something to fill the space. It seemed like the Thing To Do.
Cleaned Scan-bits:
Feel free to use these for your own graphics purposes. They're cleaned with the purpose of iconing (i.e. resizing) in mind, so at this size they're a little pixelly. If you use them, please credit back to these forums - it took a lot of time to clean these up from the stupid MQ scan.
Ummm... Please comment if you're going to take them; I'd like to know which ones people like so I can improve my icon sets ('cept for the ones where I decide to get all lazy ^^'). Guest posting is enabled here; you don't need to join to comment, but we would like it very much if you did. We need friends
