GIP and Art

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Weird... For the first time since I started coming to the Kirkwood computer lab in the evenings, there's more than four people here. In fact, there's at least five times that many. And they all seem to be typing things in Word. (I can only assume that some teacher has a big assignment due, but I haven't asked.) Makes me feel kinda unproductive ^^a

Anyway, spent quite a while taking screencaps from Avatar over the past few days with the intent of making icons. Also had some leftover Bleach icons that I never actually got around to posting, so I figured I'd slap those up as well. Take a look, nab if you want (though plz to credit somewhere - keywords, comments, whatever).

Okay, remember in the third Bleach ending (Houki Boshi, I think), where they went by with pictures of all the captains in rainbow colors? Yeah. Screencapped the lot of 'em, made icons. Took a while, too, 'cuz they never showed all of the captains in one ending.

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13.

Kinda wanted to make an animated icon of all of 'em, but I know diddly-squat about actually animating. Was also tempted to make a Soul Society is Love colorbar, but figured there were too many, so opted out of that one.


Moving right along, for lyzzle: art and icons.

See, the other day we were talking, and one thing lead to another, which lead to me saying I thought Jet looked like Kiba when I first saw him. Which lead to the question of what sort of dogs they had in the Avatar world, the comment that poodle-monkey was the only one we could think of (and what did it look like anyway?) and the comment that an armadillo dog would be just darn cute, and eventually Lyzz writing fic which I still need to review, ahaha, faaaiiil ¦D and me drawing the animals in question.

Anyway. Poodle-monky:


I basically figured it would look like a monkey with poodle hair? Yes, this includes the French poodle cut, because I am a dork and Mom is a geek. (Aparently, poodles were once used to smuggle lace out of France; it was hidden under the hair where you see it cut in the classic fashion today.)

Armadillo-dog:


Went through three and a half drawings to get this one to where I wanted. As per usual, I eventually decided that I liked the first best, and the rest could hang themselves. Not perfect, as I still semi-fail at drawing animals, but not bad either.

In the process of drawing the armadillo-dog, I kinda watched Aang's Tale in Tales of Ba Sing Se, and found the following pet animals at the end ^^a


So I guess I eventually found some more, though I have no idea what (m)any of them are called unless the one's a Sheep-Dog.

Also, some icons based on a quote of Lyzz's from a few weeks ago, when she found out about new episodes of Avatar being shown on Friday. Didn't ever find the perfect image, but found several that would do. Made several versions of each:
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.

...In hindsight, it probably would've worked better (or just as well) for the second in each set without the extra circle around the text, but I ain't changin' 'em now. Hope you find one you can live with, Lyzz.


And now, for some self-indulgent icons (a number of which are really bad:

01. 02.
I mean, haven't you ever wondered? (This also continues my trend of shoving my own thoughts and sometimes opinions *guilt* onto helpless characters. I feel really bad for those two icons, but not so bad that I wasn't going to post 'em.)

03.
...I saw it, I took the screencap, I made the icon, and then the stupid song attacks me.

04.
I was thinking of you, Jeva. 'Cuz you said that you didn't really have a 'foot-in-mouth' icon, and I did, so I had to be there whenever you needed to use it. Don't kill me.

05. 06. 07.
Oh come on. Like I could go without making the obvious joke.

08. 09. 10.
'Cuz some things are just damn cool. Or just damn pretty. Also, 'cuz sometimes I just can't think of text.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21.
Because some things just speak to me. (I blame 18 and 19 on my parents being librarians, and I have alternate versions of 20 and 21 with white text (though it doesn't show up as well).)

22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
27.
The writers are genius.

28. 29. 30. 31.
Smooshy family ones, because I am a giant fluffball at heart.

And that's about it for the normal-ish ones. Next few are more obviously pairing-based.


Finally, because I am a thing that cannot resist, JetLi icons. And, uh, things that I want to be JetLi icons someday, but don't yet have the capacity to make into JetLi icons. You get the idea.

1. 2. 3. 4.

I ended up photoshopping the grass stem in, because I am a dork like that. And anyone who accuses me of being obsessed can jump in a lake. (Which is why I'm not yet posting these to jetheartszuko; when I make a few more and they can be part of a larger batch, then they will go up there.) The fact that I came up with an even better ending for Oral Fixation has no relevence. Even if it is a really hilarious idea and would potentially allow me to expand it into a lemon. I'd end up feeling like that was all I wrote or thought about, and I don't want that sort of limit placed on me, especially by myself. Plus, I don't imagine it would get many reviews.
Using the more ambiguous one for myself, since I seem to like making people think harder.

Anyway, to prove that it's not all I think about, two things that I want to turn into icons eventually (but the text turned out too small when I tried, so I'm putting it off until I maybe learn to animate):


Not quite the response I was looking for from Jet, but it'll do for now.


This one I'm much happier with. Really want to make an icon of it.


This would be followed by some fic rambling, but I'm running low on time, so I'mma cut this short. Plus, I don't know how close I'm getting to the character limit. So I guess I'll save that for later.

To close, LJ is still being weird with times in here. Also, that took me an hour to write.

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