ty dev & hika <3
Oh God, Anna, I didn't know you were a Top Gear fan. ;w; I love you, like, 1e92384399 times more. o/
heck yea TG <3 tbh their cinematography is so great that I ended up with a huge collection of screenshots that I was like "omg i really want to do something with this". Shame that I didn't use most of them haha. But then again, it's kind of hard to take something of that quality and make it mine.
To be honest, I adore this shop. I feel like even your CSS expresses how talented you are. You're so creative and open to muses, it's amazing. There are some real gems in your icon collection. Though, I'm curious, can you give me a bit of a timeline? What are your oldest and most recent icons? Because some of them look a little one-note and flat, while others blow me away with their composition.
I may bug you for a few things later down the road. Until then, good luck and please keep it up! ♥♥
asdfgh you're too sweet bb ;w;
Giving you a timeline is kind of difficult tbh. Most are in the order I found them on my photobucket account, but I really have no idea how reflective that is of timing. What I can be pretty sure of was that Cilan/Cafémocha/Striaton boys things are late 2010/early 2011; most of the other Pokémon icons are from around there as well. Doctor Who was after that- Closing Time aired September 2011, so I'd say maybe June-Novemeber? Things with text are pretty much from that whole timeframe. Top Gear must have been mid-2012
because I marathoned the entire show over the month of April. Most XY stuff has been within the last month (and most of that within the last four days haha).
I'm not exactly very technical with making things and I don't think I've ever had a style. It's basically me finding images I like and playing with them, trying to either do something fun or make something to use for a theme. I have no real intent to making things and I make things up as I go along, figure out tricks as I do and forgetting about them by the time I pick up making stuff again. The only thing I try to do is make them "mine"- differentiate them enough from the source that I don't feel bad saying that this is a thing I made, rather than something I just cropped for my own use.
So really, it's like "I like this; I want to use it somehow." And that sometimes leads to me not making something especially great or giving up eventually and just being like "yeah, that's good enough". I don't like to work on things so long that I get frustrated because I'm just having fun.
Ahh such a cute thread! I really like your CSS and your chosen background, which is so serene btw. Your CSS signatures are also well done. The sigs featuring Sycamore and Cilan have such nice text placement and font colors. As for graphics... I'd love to help you experiment with colors, but I don't know a lot about Gimp. :( These two caught my eye for now~

So cute and vibrant! This one has nice composition as well. I'd personally edit out the stray white line in the top right. From the fanart, I can see that it was a white lightning strike, but the way the icon was cut doesn't imply that anymore. So, I recommend developing a habit where you check the edges of your icons and remove stray colors.

Awahhhh such an adorable icon! Stellar job on emphasizing the shadows. The little sparkle in the top center here fits imo.
I'm glad you like the CSS because I wrestled with that for nearly an hour due to forgetting how the float property worked.
all praise w3schools
Lemon Siblings Avatar- I can see that. tbh I was thinking of editing it out but I didn't really like the idea of solid yellow right there. Probably should have separated the background and put some kind of patten in, but at the time I was like like "ah I need an avatar for this alt better just get it done". :P
BW2 Avatar- ah I'm glad that turned out well. :3 tbh when I started working with that image I was intending to play with a technique I had used a fair amount in the past- duplicating the layer, desaturating the top one, and erasing certain points to being the colour back in. But the whole thing just had suck pretty colouring that it would have been kind of sad to not use it all.