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[shamanicshaymin]

Freddie went to the groomer a couple days ago! He looks like a calander Bichon now, he's so precious! I took pictures with my new phone, so I'll upload them later when I learn how to transfer them to my computer. :P

I want new icons, specifically Kirby icons of pretty Japanese fanart, but nobody but a few friends makes icons anymore. *sob* I miss Photoshop and I have to get it back along with all my old brushes and textures from my old dead computer. Though maybe it'd be easier if I just started over from scratch. /first-world problems. I went browsing through my icon journal to look at my old icons. O THE OVERSATURATION. O THE OVERSHARPENING (AND LACK OF IT). O THE TEXTURE ABUSE. O THE OVERABUNDANCE OF BRUSHES. O THE AWKWARDLY PLACED (AND FONTED) TEXT. O THE SMUDGES I DIDN'T CLEAN. I like to think that I've gotten better now that I've seen my mistakes, at least. :P

I'm close to beating Rune Factory 4! I finished the third quest and now I'm tackling the Sharance Maze. I just want to marry Arthur and then my life will be complete. ;;

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[sarajayechan]

Awww! :D He must look so cute.

LJ/DW culture is dwindling which means icons are becoming rarer. :( I have a few icon comms on my flist and I still make them, though!

Oh God, old icons. XD Mine were all THE BLURRING, THE BORDERS, THE TEXT, THE LACK OF LAYERING, THE OVERUSE OF DARKENING PAINTBRUSH. XD

[shamanicshaymin]

I can't wait to make a big Freddie spam post. :3

I'll browse through your watched icon comms to see what I can find. Mwoiiiiiiiing~!

God, and some of my old icons look muddy as fuck from my tampering with them too much. SO MANY MEMORIES.

[militarypenguin]

I'll be making icons until I die, likely--no amount of lj/dw culture fading into obscurity in favor of tumblr/plurk can dissuade me. Plus they're really relaxing to make!

[shamanicshaymin]

There's something comforting about a picture in 100 x 100 pixels. ♥

[masu_trout]

BICHONS. SO CUTE. My grandparents have a bichon pup, and she is an absolute(ly adorable) terror. You should definitely post the pictures! :D

I actually still see a fair amount of icon posts cross my flist! Though definitely none for Kirby anything, tragically. What sort of fanart have you found? I'd love to see it, if you have links handy.

[traitortoheaven]

I still make icons! ...but usually just of stuff I'm REALLY into. Specific characters and pairings. Oh, and sometimes my own art. Because I'm shameless. I USED to be really good at iconning all sorts of stuff and I don't really know what happened...

But this means the time where I made icons of All The Things is the same time I made shitty as fuck icons, because everyone has those times. The shitty MSPaint creations were the worst of them--things got SLIGHTLY better after I put a border around my text, at least. Ugh, and my ship edits. They were so CHOPPY! Photoshop has SOOOOOOOO been my friend...