AvantGeeks - A bunch of crazy GFX slaves.

2016 icon post #1

strawberries_85 — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 09:12:30 GMT

Hello everyone ~~who is left watching this comm~~, and a belated happy 2016! Time sure flies when you forget about your old internet past-time and tune out of every source of entertainment possible.

Ok well…this is awkward because I have no idea what the icon community is like anymore, having made no post since 2014 probably. Like I said, I tuned out of most entertainment/media for a good amount of time, so I just haven't had the incentive to create. But there was a short phase where I was getting back into Sailor Moon and I read some recent-ish Bleach chapters, so here's what I created for that. ~~(So many variations because I can't make up my mind, hah).~~

Also a very small Princess Bride and The Hobbit batch after a few short days of fangirling sometime last year or the year before, I can't remember anymore. Oh and a lone Sebastian.

Did I post some of these before? I can't even remember, I'm lost.

Icons:
Bleach
Sailor Moon
Black Butler
Princess Bride
The Hobbit

I make a comeback - icon post

strawberries_85 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 07:15:25 GMT

Hello my dears, it's been a long time. Wow, time sure flies when you get distracted by Tumblr and abandon LJ. I've been making these icons on and off in the past year or so and I was meant to post them months ago, but got intimidated. I know they're not that great, I don't really have a style and them some of them are way too similar, but it's what happens when you don't hone your skills. It's like a second-rate version of better icons, but hey, I tried and without reading any tutorials either which I do need.

FILM & TV

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ANIME & MANGA

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Usual rules apply like give credit to the comm, comments would be nice, etc, etc.

Thank you for viewing. <3

I made a thing.

strawberries_85 — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:13:50 GMT

Hello all…if anyone is still following this blog or aware of its existence. Can you believe it's been almost a year since the last post here? Wow, time flies when you're doing nothing with your life. Actually, in my defence I've been travelling. And then I got back home and had to finish my last semester of studies and since then I've been doing responsible adult things. Like trying to look for a job and eating healthy. And also, LJ sucks. Boo-urns.

Here's a thing I did for Tumblr while I still had a Photoshop trial. It's been so long since I made graphics that I forgot how to graphics.

Isshin/Masaki colouring/pic set.

Well…this will be goodbye until I get Photoshop again. Oh, cruel fate.

Colouring - Madame Red (Black Butler)

strawberries_85 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:53:29 GMT

1 Madame Red colouring - this is the panel I used in an old icon, but I've finally finished the full size colouring.

Teaser:

I know there may be mistakes…it took me ages to get some things looking at least somewhat pleasing in my eyes, like the damn clothes. Sometimes it's so much easier to colour at icon size. XD

You can also find it here on my Tumblr.

And also, there's Avantgeeks on Dreamwidth if you go there and are interested in following. (But honestly, does anyone even go on journal sites and forums anymore? Tumblr has taken over!)

50 Ichiruki icons + others

strawberries_85 — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:04:08 GMT

50 Ichiruki icons
28 other (some non-animanga) - Bleach, Black Butler, works of Kaoru Fujiwara, Fairy Tail, Dogs, Mawaru Penguindrum, Nightwish (Anette, Marco), Within Temptation (one lonely Sharon icon)
Some Tumblr sized icons available for anyone interested.

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These are icons which I started for the 50in5R challenge at otp20in20 and never finished, until now. Sort of. They're not all the icons I originally wanted to make; some are variations, some are icons I started for the challenge months ago and then when I looked at them more recently, I hated them. So what to do? Take them apart and try to improve them, that's what. I think it would've been more useful to just make more fresh icons, but I couldn't help myself.

I'm also posting the icons I made for the animan rumble back in like, January? I also tried to improve some of those, but for the most part I just want to move on from it and try new stuff. There's some random stuff here too, but to be honest, I think many of these could've been a lot better, I'm just so out of the game right now. ~~And Photoshop kept killing the quality of my Masako icons, so at one point I gave up.~~

Back on the topic of otp20in20: for any watchers of that comm, I am so sorry, but I have no idea what's happening. I know Anetee is very busy with school and I am too right now and also, I will be travelling very soon, so I won't be around to maintain it. Therefore it's really not practical to start new rounds or anything ~~if anyone still even cares~~ and maybe we need new mods…

The usual:
Watach?
Resources. (I think I still need to update these. orz)

- Don't hotlink, don't edit/claim as your own, credit is lovely but I won't hunt you down for it.

I feel like I am forgetting something. ~~Please be kind, I feel like a fish out of water.~~

Icon textures

strawberries_85 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:14:39 GMT

Download here.

So the story goes like this: I was working on my Rukia icons for solo20in20 and it inspired me to just keep going and making textures. They were supposed to have an Autumn-ish theme, but idk if that really worked out like it should have. Still, I hope you enjoy it and find these useful one day.

-Comments are lovely. ♥
-Credit to this comm would be lovely too.
-If you like what you see you can always WATCH US?

Uh, I think that's it. Thanks for stopping by. ♥

Rukia icons

strawberries_85 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:59:05 GMT

20 Rukia Kuchiki icons for solo20in20 round three.

Preview:

Tsuru No Ongaeshi	Isshun Boshi	Tengu no Kakuremino	Yuki Onna	Urashima Taro

Momotaro	Hanasaka Jiisan	Kintaro	Shitakiri Suzume	Tanabata

Stone Begging Bowl	Jewelled Branch	Robe of the Fire Rat	Coloured Jewel	Cowrie

Artist's Choice I	Artist's Choice II	Artist's Choice III	Artist's Choice IV	Artist's Choice V

I tried to plan these icons out so I'd know what I'm doing before I actually start making the icons, but as it turns out, quite a number of these were spontaneous anyway.

1-10 Themes:

1. Tsuru No Ongaeshi: Kimono Patterns - I hope this is pattern-y enough, the texture is from a picture of a kimono, so I think it counts. XD This was a challenging one, imo. XD
2. Issun boshi: Big & Small - I had the original scan sitting on my hard drive for a while and I really wanted to colour it because it's so cute, so here's it is.
3. Tengu No Kakuremino: Fade - I don't think I've done justice to this beautiful scan, but alas. :(
4. Yuki Onna: Mist/Winter - I really wanted to colour my own version of this spread. It looks really wintry, it could fit into the "seasons" theme too, haha.
5. Urashima Taro: Seasons - Autumn-ish. I'm doing too much of this fade-y thing. >_>
6. Momotaro: Peach - Is this close enough to peach colours? My first attempt was too orange becuse I seem to have a fascination with orange/red/yellow colours right now.
7. Hanasaka Jiisan: Vibrant Flowers - It's Rukia sort of blending into a flower texture...eh, could've been better.
8. Kintaro: Strength - See what I mean about the fading/blending thing? Bleh. But it's Rukia kicking ass with Sode no Shirayuki so I hate myself a little less for it.
9. Shitakiri Suzume: Bird - It was either this or paper crane textures, but I couldn't find textures I was happy with and in the end, I think is a much better result anyway. Such a sad, but beautiful moment.
10. Tanabata: Separation - Whenever I think of Rukia and "separation" now, images from that ch. 423 farewell come to mind. It's beautiful. And although this panel isn't technically from ch. 423, it's sort of part of it. :p

11-15: Kaguyahime
Stone Begging Bowl: Round shape - Another old page I wanted to colour. I just painted in that round, swirly thing in myself because every other idea I had was even more lame. :/
Jeweled Branch: Branch - Yeah. What. Idk what to say about this one, I really don't.
Robe of The Fire Rat: Red Clothing - Rukia in this awesome red outfit which for some reason I want.
Colored jewel: Light Texture - A bit too clichey perhaps?
Cowrie: Spiral - I originally drew in spiraly/swirly stuff in the background...then changed it to this texture. Spiraly enough? :(

I don't usually do a unified category set, so I guess the use of blue/blueish backgrounds is as close as it gets.

16-20: Artist's Choice.
Stuff. Also, there's another icon here that could be an interpretation of the "Seasons" theme. Don't blame me, I was just happy to see a sunny day here when I made that.

I need to make more icons man, but everything I do seems so redundant. :'( ~~My user icon is more successful than any of these. >_>~~

Updated resource list here.

I always feel paranoid before posting an icon challenge set, but I have to do this now before I spend too much time doing "minor edits". (Although some icons did benefit from that, imo). Someone PLEASE let me know if I've made a stupid mistake somewhere, 'k? And I probably have. :( ~~SEE? I FORGOT THE PREVIEW!~~

Yeah another meme.

aentee — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:59:43 GMT

Ask The Maker || My Thread

aentee: small batch of christmas gifts

aentee — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:41:27 GMT

To end the year, I'm leaving a small batch of icons I made over this Christmas for various gift exchanges. Happy belated Christmas to all those who celebrates it! And an early Happy New Year to you all!

21x gift exchanges icons (various fandoms: incl. CLAMP, Petshop of Horror, Mononoke, Persona)

Teaser:

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1: for mobiuswolf / clamp_icontest's holiday exchange
2-6: for ai1610 / calendarsquares' gift exchange
7-21: for lu_hesperia / calendarsquares' gift exchange

All are SHAREABLE though, sorry to my recipients, but I never make non-shareable as I would never be able to post my icons otherwise, I hope you understand!

No edits / hotlink, comments & credits nice but not necessary.

Those requests will arrive sometimes in the future, I promise. But I'm on holiday overseas rn so it'll be a month of two yet, sorry!

Finally:

animubest / Nominations Post

Go spam the thread w/ your faves :D I definitely will when I get back tonight!

Pimping

strawberries_85 — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:48:17 GMT

No icons from me yet, just a promotional post.

animan
“ SIGN-UPS / RULES / AFFILIATES ”

If this sounds appealing to you, do give it a try. :) ~~Yeah, I've got nothing witty to say.~~

Also, Merry Christmas/Happy holidays to all our watchers! Stay safe and have fun over the holiday season.

Requests Open.

aentee — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:33:25 GMT

requests open (aentee)

Help me out here guys, I haven't made new icons in what feels like a couple of decades, so please give me a couple of images each to work with. With any luck I might be able to finish the requests in time for Christmas ♥

No limit atm cos I doubt many people would want requests anyway. I will stop the post when I get lazy and decide it's enough 8)

RULES:
☆ 2 images per person. Make them decent quality please!
☆ No fanart, unless you have the permission of the artist.
☆ No hentai or anything overly explicit, I have my flatmate looking over my shoulder after all lol. Yaoi/yuri is still OK tho.
☆ All will be shareable.

FORMAT:
NAME:
IMAGE LINK(S):
OPTIONAL: e.g. specific text you want on it, certain style etc.

I'm most comfortable with official coloured images for manga and anime, but I am game for anything you throw as me (so long as you're willing to accept it might turn out looking shitty) XD!

Please help me get back the motivation to open Photoshop!

meme spam

aentee — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:29:03 GMT

Icon Bump || My Thread

I post more meme than icons these days orz

Dogs: anime20in20 Round 19

strawberries_85 — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:36:44 GMT

Finally I finished my claim! (Though I'm still overly critical of my own work).

Preview:

THEMES

Chibi	Collage	Crazy	Faceless	GMA

Only Text	Rainbow	She	Smoke	Splats

CATEGORY: PALETTE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

1. Um...that's the most chibi-ish manga scene I could find and I wanted to use an actual scene so...yeah.
3. Magato. Cos he's crazy, right?
4. I hope that's "faceless" enough.
5. I lost creativity at this point. :(

Category set: did not want to colour more panels so I tried something...different? The palette colours are still there. XD

Artist's choice: I actually tried to have a cohesive set this time.

The usual rules apply such as:
-Don't claim as your own or edit the icons.
-Credit strawberries_85/avantgeeks if you wish (it's not like I go hunting down those who don't credit XD).
-And I think I'm forgetting to say something.

Watch us if you like what you see here! :)

Resources list to be updated ASAP - still trying to find who made certain stuff so I can properly credit. I fail. -_____-

Round 1: Code Geass

ce_lestic — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:41:08 GMT

Ha! I've finally finished my entry for aentee and ryfee 's newly minted and magnificent comm, solo20in20. Yays crazily :p

Themes
Mirror	Heart	Behind the Wall	Dwarves	Seven

Laces	Comb	Apple	Glass Coffin	Slumber

White as Snow, Red as Blood, Black as Ebony
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Artist's Choice
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Generated by Malionette's Icon Table Generator

05. Lol, I don't know what I did but I tried incorporating seven colours and the numeral. So lame!
06. I tried drawing a flowy, lacy ribbon but was sadly rendered unsuccessful. So I used this magnificent texture by fiendie. I'm a cheat :p
08: I had so much trouble with this one. Mostly because all the images I wanted to use were characters I'd already used before. So I settled for the most charming man in code geass, save Lulu.
11-15. I had resolved not to abuse C.C in my entry. And I succeeded from 01-10. Then look what happened!
16-20. Let's not talk about this -__-

Pimpage

strawberries_85 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:25:21 GMT

solo20in20

The lovely aentee and ryfee have created a new 20in20 comm which is sure to blow your mind, so go check it out and join. ♥

2 Bleach colourings

strawberries_85 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:51:35 GMT

Larger versions of the Sui Feng & Nelliel colourings I made for icons in the previous post. :)

HERE at my DeviantArt account.

HERE, also at my DeviantArt account.

In the icon version, Nel's hair is just a bunch of rough, large-ish brush strokes, but I tried to make it prettier and neater here. Wavy hair is a pain. ;_____;

- Comments/constructive criticism would be nice. :)
- Don't edit the images, etc etc etc.

Bleach - Icons for anime20in20 + extras

strawberries_85 — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:35:07 GMT

20 Bleach icons for round 18
41 other icons
- 37 Bleach
- 2 Fairy Tail (Happy)
- 2 Kyuubey (Madoka Magica)

Yeah um, most of these icons are kinda...plain. And lame. And old. Just stuff that I did while bored, unable to sleep. :/ I promise I'll make a better icon post soon.

Bright	Corner	Destiny	Hands	Heat

Energy	Flowers	Merry	Tree	Wind

CATEGORY: NOT 100X100

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ARTIST'S CHOICE

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OTHERS

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I'm paranoid that I did something wrong with these icons. Please tell me I didn't. ;____; Well, other than them being a bit shit and rushed...I changed so many of my ideas due to lack of time. orz

Byakuya was originally supposed to be "Flowers", but I couldn't find the right image/s and make it work. Riruka was meant to be somewhere in there but I couldn't be bothered to go over the current arc. XD Maybe I should've just done a Bleach girls set? I wanted diversity, I really did, but I think I failed and ended up with...this.

Half of these panels were found through the random "close your eyes and pick a chapter/page" method because I was in a hurry to finish and losing inspiration quickly. XD ~~I'm an idiot.~~ I also refused to use others which I saving for otp20in20's 50in5r.

Rules:
- Don't hotlink
- Textless icons are not bases so don't edit.
- Credit isn't mandatory, but it would be lovely.
- Watch us, please?

49x icons; aka random icon dump

aentee — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:18:25 GMT

Apparently it's been 6 months since I posted, I feel awful, sorry Cel & Kitty for having to put up with me.

49x icons, mish-mash of animanga stuff I've entered for icon_tournament, animan, and my short-lived gig at shounenbattle and battleothesexes. Also FMA and Bleach icons from my never completed shounenicontest claim. I am a terrible and tardy icon makers ;_;

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Credit & comment nice but not mandatory. Just don't hotlink or edit ♥

Urgh I sorta hate how messy it all looks, but nvm, the real reason for this post is:

animubest
Nominations Directory / Promote / Rules

20 Emilie Autumn icons for musicians20in20

strawberries_85 — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:02:40 GMT

+15 reject icons
+32 other EA/musician icons

I don't know what possessed me to do this. I mean, since when do I make real people icons? Well, I do, but I am still quite the noob at it. :( I know this isn't the usual animanga icon post, but please don't hate me; feedback would be absolutely lovely.

Teasers:

THEMES

plain	with...	corner	tiny	border

4 squares	profile	bright	hands	blue

CATEGORY: MAGNIFYING GLASS

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

Alts/Rejects

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*Comments/credit would be lovely (credit me or the comm), but I won't go batshit insane on you if you don't.
*Textless icons are not bases, so if you want to edit them, ask.
*Don't hotlink or claim as your own.
*You know you want to WATCH US.
*Resources list: to be updated soon.

Disclaimer: obviously the original images don't belong to me. I am forever in debt to the interwebz.
That's all...I think.

yet another meme.

aentee — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:26:06 GMT

Join the Meme // My Thread

This is apparently the latest trendy meme so I'm hopping on the bandwagon yet again. ONE DAY I WILL MAKE A REAL POST ;A;

#15: Cel

ce_lestic — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:45:37 GMT

Total Icon Count : 131

COLOURINGS (click the preview for full colourings, pretty please?)

SERIES: Gurren Lagaan
Characters: Yoko/Kamina
Program: SAI + Photoshop
Tools: Mouse + Tablet

SERIES: TRC
Characters: Sakura
Artist: CLAMP
Program: SAI + Photoshop
Tools: Mouse + Tablet

SERIES: Clover
Characters: Oruha
Artist: CLAMP
Program: SAI + Photoshop
Tools: Mouse + Tablet

SERIES: TRC

Characters: Yuuko
Artist: CLAMP
Program: SAI + Photoshop
Tools: Mouse + Tablet

SERIES: Sukitte II na yo
Characters: Mei/Yamato
Artist: Hazuki Kanae
Program: SAI + Photoshop
Tools: Mouse + Tablet

SERIES: Di[e]ce
Characters: Kazuki Naruse
Artist: SAKI Otoh
Program: SAI + Photoshop
Tools: Mouse + Tablet

♥ Do not hotlink

♥ Do credit ~
♥ Enjoy

Promo

ce_lestic — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:42:01 GMT

battleothesexes
Sign-Ups / Rules

Spams comm some more~

ce_lestic — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:18:14 GMT

Ask The Maker || My Thread

LOL I can't imagine who would want to ask me anything, though XD

meme.

aentee — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:08:33 GMT

I should stop spamming this comm and post some actual icons for once but for now I'm following the footsteps of all the cool kids:

Ask The Maker || My Thread

Questions, tutorial, etc are fine ~

Next icon post will most likely be commentary for icon_tournament & animan? Which will happen when I get booted from animanlims i.e. any moment now guh why is everyone there so good ;~~~;

Icon textures

strawberries_85 — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:16:53 GMT

This is the result of a bit of procrastination...or should I say "taking a break" from banner making for otp20in20. Inspired by an icon I made for round 5 as well as the prettiful colours of the sky.

Fairy Tales - Icon textures by ~sheisnotsweet on deviantART

There aren't many rules for use, but do credit/comment and maybe link me to your work if you use these? I hope you like them. ♥

On a more random note: LOLOL, avantgeeks now exists on Dreamwidth too because paranoid maintainer is paranoid. If I can get around to backing up the comm properly I will do it soon. Wut? Don't look at me like that. D:

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