Okay, so, I have no excuse. I've been in this graphics' block for centuries. I can't believe the last time I posted was JUNE. If communities were like houses, this one would be inhabited by hobos and rats with rabies already.

The batch is kind of tiny. I hope you like it. There's a lot of LOLlawyer videogame plus some CLAMP from LIMS entries and stuff.

But at least I changed the layout? :D See: icondork icondork icondork

27x Apollo Justice (Klavier, Vera, Apollo, Trucy, Ema)
07x Cardcaptor Sakura (Li, Tomoyo, Fujitaka, Touya, Yukito)
02x Okami (Amaterasu, Tama)
06x random CLAMP (Rikuou, Souryuuden, Chunhyang, Yuzuki, Umi)
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TOTAL: 42 - answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

( The game with the trippy bracelet and the magic panties )

Another big Saxon batch, with a tiny bit of Team Tardis on the side. All icons from The Sound of Drums, so beware of the spoilers. And no, I'm not fixated or anything, nope.

70 x Doctor Who 3x12
-- 67 x Saxon, Harry/Lucy
-- 01 x Doctor, Martha & Jack
-- 01 x Martha & Jack
-- 01 x Martha
Total: 70

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( Is it the smile? Is it the aftershave? )

John Simm batch. I utterly adore the man, and not because of Doctor Who, mind you. But he's making an already sexy season finale a whole lot sexier, so let's celebrate Mr. Saxon in all his hott evil glory! First cut goes to the Doctor Who icons (so mind the spoilers for 'Utopia' and 'The Sound of Drums' trailer), the second goes to Simm!movies icons I made a little while ago. Enjoy!

11 x Doctor Who 3x11
10 x Doctor Who 3x12 trailer
11 x Mr. Saxon promo images
02 x Doctor + Martha + Jack
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06 x 24 Hour Party People
09 x Human Traffic
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Total: 49

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( Your vote could change the future. SPOILERS! )

( The weekend has landed. )

No, I'm not dead-- I just haven't been icon-productive lately, sorry. This is a big batch, but it's only because I haven't posted in a long long time. A few mixed fandoms here, and please note that I don't actually like Eureka 7 (though I do like Dominic and Anemone), so I won't be making more of those.

I apologize in advance for the upcoming John Simm/Doctor Who icons I'll be posting, ahaha :3 I hope you all enjoy this batch at least~

15 x Fullmetal Alchemist (Roy, Havoc, Ed, Al, Winry, etc.)
16 x One Piece (Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Robin)
09 x One Piece Movie 6 (Luffy, Nami, Sanji)
15 x Nodame Cantabile (Chiaki, Nodame, Mine, Masumi)
08 x Noein (DVD covers)
07 x Slayers (Zelgadiss, Lina, Gourry, Amelia)
10 x Eureka 7 (Dominic, Anemone)
Total: 80

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( Live for today, dream for tomorrow. )

Exercise your right to vote . . . again!

Weirdly enough, I'm nominated for CLAMP icons and Best Crack :P But you guys should vote for the best iconists from the classified ones, rly.

Right, back to your friendlist schedule. And I go back to my boring studying schedule.

ETA: Hmmmm, we should change the layout. Let's see what I can do about it.

Even though I won't be able to make icons until my finals are over (more like I won't let myself), I thought I should plug this:


Be a part of the democratic process!

And so it won't look so empty and spammy, I do have a few uglies, from last week's experiments, to share. Let's call it the starry night batch for obvious reasons.

12 Card Captor Sakura
-- 2x Clow
-- 1x Sakura
-- 1x Li
-- 1x Tomoyo
-- 1x Touya
-- 1x Kaho
-- 1x Cerberus
-- 1x Yue
-- 1x Eriol
-- 1x Spinel Sun
-- 1x Ruby Moon



( Why you wanna go put starz in their eyes? )

Well, I had an awful icon's block and I didn't touch any icontest in ages, so I was trying to accumulate stuff before posting. I really hope this never happens ever again.

Some of these icons are pretty old, also. There's not even a lot of CLAMP or of big fandoms in it.

And beware, because I fell in love with the videogame Okami, so you'll see it a lot in the next posts.

x47 Slayers (Lina, Gourry, Amelia, Zelgadis, Xelloss)
x07 Mushishi (Ginko)
x05 CLAMP (Oruha, Yuuko, the warashis)
x04 The Last Unicorn (Schmendrick, Schmendrick/Molly)
x02 Fullmetal Alchemist (Winry, Hohenheim)
x02 Avatar (Iroh)
x01 One Piece (Chopper and Carue)
x01 Princess Tutu (rocks fall, everybody dies?)
x01 Discworld art (Ponder Stibbons)

TOTAL == 70



( I has a pony, guys! )

*points above* Like the title says. I've been trying to learn the arts of selective color in anime icons. Sometimes I can work it out, sometimes I can't. Anyway, this is a test batch so the quality varies from product to product. I need practice, I think. But thankfully, the test subject is very shiny and colorful.

x072: Slayers (Lina, Gourry, Lina/Gourry)
x319: Screencaps for episode 01

They're all from the first part of the first episode, and that's why there's only from these two characters. Yes, Estefanía, you *will* have your Zelgadis icons!



( And after all this effort, it was just a flat-chested little girl with big eyes... not )

By the way, I zipped all the caps I made for episode 01. Grab them here (15 and something MB) I don't need permission or credit for using these on graphics or websites or galleries, but it's appreciated (a link to icondork or mercury-retrograde.net).

You gain something, you lose something. That means: when I'm out of the writer's block, I'm in an icon's block ¬_¬ So I don't have a lot of icons to offer in this batch because I haven't done a lot these last months. I promise a better icon batch on February, probably with more shounen manganime, and more of these RG Veda omake icons. And a couple more of x-ing signs, if I can remember how I made them...

10x RG Veda
(chibi Ashura, Ashura/Yasha, Karura-oh, Karyoubinga, Kendappa-oh, Souma, Ryuu-oh, Kujaku)
8x Cardcaptor Sakura
(Yukito, Yue, Touya, Sakura, Tomoyo, Li, Eriol/Kaho)
3x Random CLAMP photoshop'ed: crossing signs
(Mokona, Kero, Suppi)
2x XXXHOLiC
(Yuuko, Tanpopo the bird)
1x Tsubasa
(Shougo)
1x Duklyon
(Kotobuki)

TOTAL == 100 * (1/4) == 25 (LOL Math)



( Danger: guardian x-ing )

I heard there's a certain person who used an icon of mine as a base, deleted the text on it, and put some instead saying exactly the opposite of my text. I'm not pointing out or mentioning names or flaming her icon post, but I only want to say this: nimwit, if you're reading this, READ MY RULES and get the hell away from my icons. This kind of crap is one of the reasons that's making me believe a big percentage of your OTP's shippers can't read for fuck. (Please, sane shippers of that couple, don't feel insulted.)

Ahem. Happier thoughts.

Guys, tokyonoir's Animanga Iconmakers Awards is now in the voting round, so go support your favorite iconmakers! and us too :D Even though I'm screwed as I'm the worst in my only category and I'll be pwned XPP But seriously, the work she and her friends went through to organize it is unbelievable!


Exercise your right to vote!

This post is sucky. But it's because I wanted to make a couple of Halloween-themed fandom icons and post them before the date, but I had almost nothing else to go with. So *shrugs* here they are. Have a nice Halloween if you celebrate it, or a joyous Samhain, or a nice Día de Muertos, or a good I-wish-I-could-eat-candy-in-disguise-like-the-Anglosaxons day.

08x Fullmetal Alchemist
(Random Halloween, Rockbells, Mei and Xiao Mei, Roy)
07x Random CLAMP
(Text, Mokona Modoki in Halloween)
04x Cardcaptor Sakura
(Cerberus, Eriol's guardians, Fujitaka)
03x Tsubasa
(Ryuu-oh, Mokona)
01x Gohou Drug
(Kazahaya)

TOTAL: miserable 23 icons
Bad jokes: only 3 this time



( Here comes the mash... )

First of all, I want to thank the folks who nominated this journal and both of us for tokyonoir's animanga iconmakers awards ^_^ Estefanía's output about this was, literally "WTFFFFF." Mine is "someone remembers my username?!" Personally, I don't know what the hell I am still doing there -I understand Este, but not myself- considering I'm not what you'd call a famous or even a good iconmaker, 3/5 of my votes were made by my mutual friends (and really, I actually told them off by cheating me in), and none of the big CLAMP iconmakers supported my nomination. Personally, I doubt I deserve it.

Second, I don't know what icons of mine to suggest for the run. I'm supposed to choose five to seven, but I'm not sure what to use since I lack what you'd call a personal style. They all look different! Which ones define me?! If any of you can make suggestions on good CLAMP icons I've made (and by good I mean pretty, not funny; the Kuro-llama song, for instance, is not pretty), I'll appreciate it. To save you time, I have them all listed by series here.

Well, I moved last month so between that and the incredible icon's block I've been having, I didn't have a lot to offer. So it looks like all I could do for this batch were bad jokes, some of them even in-jokes- and spinoffs of Internet memes. This time, art was sacrificed for the sake of, um, cheesy humor. However, I think the muse is sort of returning, so I might try to do more icons soon. If this semester's Schedule from Hell lets me.

07x Gohou Drug -Rikuou, Kazahaya, Kakei, Saiga
05x Cardcaptor Sakura -Yue, Yukito, Cerberus, Kaho, Eriol
04x XXXHOLiC -Doumeki, Yuuko, Raijuu
03x Ouran Host Club -Tamaki, Honey, Nekozawa
02x Princess Tutu -Fakir
02x Fullmetal Alchemist -Ed, Kimbley
02x Tsubasa -Primera, Spirit slash
02x RG Veda -Ashura
01x Kino no Tabi -Kino
01x Harry Potter -Luna
01x Kobato -Ioryogi
01x Dukylon -Kentarou and Takeshi
01x Magic Knight Rayearth -Lafarga
01x X -Kamui
01x Random CLAMP -Clow-cola?!

TOTAL: 34 icons
TOTAL BAD JOKES: 9!



( Im in ur lj-cut makin witty remarkz )

About time I made another Fullmetal Alchemist batch. This time I iconized the two latest chapters -- I'll try to make an Ishval batch with the chapters I skipped next time. Also included are icontest entries and some other random ones.

19 x Fullmetal Alchemist ch 62
13 x Fullmetal Alchemist ch 63
14 x Fullmetal Alchemist misc
Total: 46

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( FMA ch 62-63 *spoilers* )

( Even more FMA )

Ouran/Hachikuro/One Piece mix. Yeah, something must be wrong with my head.

20 x Ouran Koukou Host Club (Tamaki, Tamaki/Haruhi, Kuma-chan)
20 x Honey & Clover (Nomiya, Nomiya/Ayumi)
13 x One Piece (Luffy, Nami, Straw-hat crew)
Total: 53

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( It's not easy being king -- nevermind host or pirate )

First, a little survey for the people who are here for my CLAMP icons. ( cut for people who aren't )

Fine, let's get to business. This time we have... well, zero fandom icons O_o I'm sort of having an iconmaker's block and haven't touched icontests in two weeks. Instead, here's some random major arcana Tarot art and some bird stock.

22x Medieval Cat Tarot (Gina M. Pace & Lawrence Teng)
22x Miracle Tarot (Reiko Shimizu)
09x Stock
Little chicks, cygnet, parakeets, emperor penguins

TOTAL: 53



( Peep =/= chick )

This time... a lot of CLAMP. Okay, so that's normal, but that's still a lot of CLAMP.

15x XXXHOliC and Tsubasa
Soel!Mokona, Larg!Mokona,
tank!Syaoran, Fay,
Yuuko, Watanuki, oden kitsune child, karasu tengu, neko musume, spider lady
09x Cardcaptor Sakura
Yue, Yukito, Kero, Li, Kaho, Eriol
04x Fullmetal Alchemist
Ling, Mei and Xiao Mei, Riza, Winry
04x Stock
Crows
04x Shin Shunkaden
Chun/Mong, Mong Ryong
03x Wish
Shuichirou/Kohaku (both of them)
02x RG Veda
Ashura, Ryuu-oh
02x Tokyo Babylon
Subaru
01x CLAMP crack
Mokona manjuu
01x Howl's Moving Castle
Howl/Sophie
01x Gohou Drug
Rikuou
01x Angelic Layer
Hikaru
01x Daffy Duck

TOTAL: 48



( Is that meatbun staring at me? )

I decided to go back and iconize the FMA chapters I skipped, so here's the first batch with ch 57. Hopefully, 58-61 will follow.

22 x Fullmetal Alchemist ch 57 (Roy, Hawkeye, Lan Fan, Mei Chan, Breda, etc.)
13 x Gundam SEED (Mwu, Murrue)
10 x Futurama quotes
Total: 45

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( FMA ch 57 *spoilers* )

( Gundam SEED + Futurama )

Some old, fugly Yuuko icons for icon challenges I never got to plug. But most of all, random.

14x XXXHOLiC
Yuuko, Kudakitsune, Akari
12x Random CLAMP (mostly Newtype white)
Random text, Kakyou the cat, Yuuko, Watanuki, Mokona Modoki, Doumeki, Ioryogi, TRC!Sakura, assorted usyagi and winged monkey
09x Shirahime Syo
Shirahime, the traveler
07x Cardcaptor Sakura
Eriol, Ruby and Spinel, Touya/Yukito
05x Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Clow ruins, Kyle, Kurogane, Fye
02x Fullmetal Alchemist
Ed and Armstrong, Yoki and Pinako
02x The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Kyon, Kyon and Haruhi
01x Magic Knight Rayearth
Lantis and Zagato
01x X
Kakyou
01x Clover
A and C
01x The Sandman
Death
01x Saiyuki
Kou-tachi



( Mahjong is serious business )

Wow, it's been a while. Anyway, these are really sucky, but please forgive me. Also excuse my sudden urge to make X-Files and GN&GL icons, but the first is a long time obsession and as for the second... that movie owns me completely.

20 x Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
-- 08 x Kyon
-- 04 x Haruhi
-- 05 x Kyon/Haruhi
-- 03 x Itsuki, Nagato
08 x The X-Files (6x15 Monday)
06 x Good Night, And Good Luck.
06 x Naruto (Asuma, Kurenai, Team 7)
04 x Eyeshield 21 (Hiruma, Sena, Monta)
02 x Kodomo no Omocha (Hayama)
Total: 46

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( Mikuru Beam~~ )

I've been glancing at the suggestions, yeah. I'm afraid some series and characters you guys would like me to do make me want to rip my own eyes off my face, and some others I haven't seen, like, two minutes/pages of them. It's nothing personal, of course ^^ I'll still try to tackle the ones I'm comfortable with ^^

Next post, though, will have CLAMP obscure stuff nobody icons about, because I'm getting some muse from it -namely, Gohou Drug and Shirahime-sho. But first, I need to get this batch out of the system.

13 x TRC/HOLiC/CCS crossover: Touya/Yukito, Clow/Yuuko
09 x Tsubasa: Fye, Kurogane, Souma, Touya/Yukito, Yukito
08 x Card Captor Sakura: Eriol, Fujitaka/Nadeshiko, Touya/Yukito, emperor penguins
08 x Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Link, Pit, Metaknight, Samus, Kirby and Mario
05 x CLAMP misc: Kamui and Suu, Kazahaya, Hokuto, MKR!Mokona, SeixSub typo
04 x Avatar: Toph
02 x XXXHOLiC: Watanuki, kudakitsune
02 x Fullmetal Alchemist: Ed's abs/Winry's boobs, Roy
01 x Nintendo

TOTAL: 52



( Clow and Yuuko so played strip mahjong )

Here's a little poll to suggest me things. You can type whatever you want, even though you have no idea if I like/have seen the series or not. But please note something: this is not a request post. I won't feel obligued to make an icon for you about your suggestion. I might pick it up, but I might not as well. I just want to know what do you lurkers want from me, and if there's something I dig in the suggestions, I'll give it a try ^^ But don't expect much from me.

Oh, and this only applies to me (hiragizawa/amewarashi). I'm sure Estefania isn't open for suggestions at the moment. Sorry.

Poll #728039 Suggest me!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What characters/fandom (I've already done icons for) would you like to see more around here?

What other characters/fandom would you love to see icons made by me for?

ETA: Nobody has done it yet, but just in case. Note I haven't put "couples" there. I sort of only make shippy icons for my OTPs or pairings I like, so it's pointless to suggest me something outside it as I'm not picking it up.