WHY STYLE | graphics gallery

[myystogan]

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WHY STYLE

WHY STYLE

GRAPHICS GALLERY
GRAPHICS&LAYOUT (C) MYYSTOGAN

VERSION | 1.2, featuring FKA TWIGS

INTRO I'm myystogan (otherwise known as KB3 / Fury / derezzed), and I've been designing for nearly four years now. When I was first introduced to graphic making in August 2011, I started out by only creating tags, but now I'm a lot more versatile. You can check out everything below. (I greatly appreciate C+C, though if you want to provide it I think I should mention that sections are not arranged from old to new; thus, there are some flaws I had in the past that I've fixed by now.)

POLICIES Most pieces here are free for public use, and can be used on any website without asking for permission beforehand. Credit is not required for any smaller piece (icons + tags), just do not claim the editing as yours, and make sure to credit the artist if you want to use an icon that features fanart (details can be found in the final 'Sources' section). For larger pieces (i.e. banners), credit is necessary. A link to my profile or gallery and/or a line of text crediting any of my aliases is acceptable.

NEVER CATCH ME (INSTR.) - FLYING LOTUS

icons

LATEST (MARCH ICON DUMP)
PREVIEWS

CHECK IT OUT HERE

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OLDER (APR 2012 - NOV 2015)

Spoiler: series/subject list

Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Fire Emblem, Persona, Danganronpa, The World Ends with You, Disgaea, Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Zelda, Ace Attorney, Naruto, Pandora Hearts, Soul Eater, Blue Exorcist, Legend of Korra, One Piece, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Kagerou Project / Mekakucity Actors, Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Kuroko no Basket, Haikyuu, Steven Universe, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, SKET Dance, Fate/Zero, Hetalia, BECK, Durarara!!, Inazuma Eleven, K (Project), Bleach, Death Note, Orphan Black, Teen Wolf, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, The Maze Runner, KPOP (2NE1, BAP, BLOCK B, F(X)), Vocaloid, Gorillaz, Marina and the Diamonds, Homestuck, Fisheye Placebo, Original Art, More KPOP (F(X), RED VELVET)

**Icons are sorted by series/subject, not date. "Apr 2012 - Nov 2015" means everything was done in that timeframe; that DOESN'T mean the top icons are from 2012 and the bottom icons are from this year.**

Spoiler: **WARNING** 500+ IMAGES

Alternatively, my icons can be viewed on my imgur album. There are a few more there that I didn't bother posting here as well.

tags

misc

LARGE PIECES
Click on the thumbnail to view the full image. Each graphic is completely free to use.


LOWPOLY ART
Click thumbnails to view the full-size images. Each piece is free to use as a stock image.


MOCK-UPS
Click on the thumbnails below to see the full-sized mock-ups of my portfolio website, portfolio logo, and some of my traditional word art.


LINK BUTTONS
The first was one I did for myself, but the rest of the animated link buttons were completed for friends.

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GIFs
Click on the thumbnails to view full size.
The Genocider Syo, Nonon Jakuzure, Luffy, Elfen Lied, and Kageyama/Hinata GIF banners were requests. Public use of those five graphics is not allowed. Everything else is free to use, however.


REQUESTED WALLPAPERS
Click on the thumbnails to view the full wallpapers. These pieces were custom-made for my shop requesters on another forum; they are not intended for public use.

Spoiler: Featured Art Information

1 & 2- For Jintii @ dA / Jint @ TBT. Art used was commissioned by Jintii @ dA of their OC.
3- For Lliri @ dA / Lilliee @ TBT. Art used was drawn by Stacheous @ dA, commissioned by Lliri @ dA.
4 & 5- For Kanaa @ TBT
6- For Hatori @ TBT. Art used was drawn by Itadakii @ dA and liszst @ dA, both commissioned by Hatori.
7 & 8- For Jintii @ dA / Jint @ TBT. Art used was drawn by Jint.
9- For MayorEvvie @ TBT.
10- For Alvery @ dA / Alvery @ TBT. Art used was drawn by Alvery.
11 & 12- For Kairi-Kitten @ TBT. Art used was drawn by ardrey @ TBT and kyukon @ TBT, both commissioned by Kairi-Kitten.

OTHER REQUESTED STUFF
A signature banner I created for a friend of mine featuring the art she's commissioned of her OCs.

RETIRED LAYOUTS
Click on the thumbnail to see the entire preview. These retired versions of my graphics gallery were hosted on Ever Grande City and Slateport City.

sig log

CURRENTLY TAKING REQUESTS | I figured I could use some practice with using CSS here on PC, so if you want a sig from me, fill out the form below and post it.

IMAGES: [Link to them here]
LINKS: [Format them like this: [url="www.url.com"]linktexthere[/url]]
OTHER TEXT: [Type the exact text here]
COLOR SCHEME: [Provide some colors, or just leave this blank and I'll pick for you]
OTHER INFO: [Anything else you want to specify]

These will be majorly freeform, so I can't promise that every signature I make will be complicated or simple. It largely depends on the images and text, among other things. I'll make sure to meet your expectations though.
(There's no waiting list, since I doubt this will be popular considering the activity of A&D, but if I owe a few people some signaures already it would be a good idea to wait before asking for one yourself.)

If you would like a thread or blog layout from me, you're in luck, because I'll actually be willing to do them from time to time. PM me about it and we'll work out the details.

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PERSONAL SIG | [OCT 2015]

SPPF -

SKYPE

terrorbyte39

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TSVs

2637 (OR), 1175 (Y)

- Pokemon Trade Page - TBT -

credit

icon edited by me, signature edited by me

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TRAINER INFO

Anton: 5000-4000-2564 (OR & Y IGN: KB3)

CURRENT SIG | [NOV 2015 - ??]​

MYYSTOGAN | VM + PM

HOVER TEXT

SKYPE

terrorbyte39

OR/Y TSVs

2637 (OR), 1175 (Y)

TRAINER INFO

Anton: 5000-4000-2564 (OR & Y IGN: KB3)

CREDIT

all icons made by me; signature coded by me

Click the links ->

SPECIAL SET | This is a forumset I did for the lovely Jinx, as a little thanks for being my mentor :-]

[CSS SIG TWO VERSIONS: FULL & CLEARED]​

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SPECIAL SET | Requested by sshimsleepin. They wanted a signature a while ago, so I decided to make something custom for them ;-]
(The signature image itself was also put together by me.)
(Actual signature version looks better than the one shown in this thread, since I have other css going on here as well.)

SHHIMSLEEPIN ✖

CREDIT

signature by myystogan

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LINK - LINK - LINK - LINK

✖ D r e a m E a t e r

SHHIMSLEEPIN ✖

CREDIT

signature by myystogan

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✖ D r e a m E a t e r
✖ D r e a m E a t e r
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+ SOURCES

IMAGES & TEXTURES & BRUSHES & ETC
Check out [this page] for a complete, up-to-date list of sources.

ICON FANART CREDIT
A Google Doc containing fanart credit for my icons can be found [here]. (Some sources are still missing, so if you know who the artist of a particular image or two is, please contact me asap.) Every single icon listed in that document is one that features fanart; everything else was made with official art.

DISCLAIMER
All of the resources I use to make my graphics were not created by me unless otherwise stated. They were created by other artists, and were taken from the sources listed above. Links can be provided upon request.

+ UPDATES
- DEC 16 2015 | Ilex Forest Header Set
- JAN 17 2016 | Icon Dump #1 & Music Collection LP Intro Pages
- MAR 12 2016 | Icon Dump #2
- DATE | POST LINK
- DATE | POST LINK

THANKS FOR VISITING

THANKS FOR VISITING

Note: Before using anything, check out my policies first. They can be found at the bottom of the header image's text box.

 

[JustJeff]

Amazing amazing! Hoho! I really favor some of your work. Especially those Comedic icons. The Shikamaru one really had me going to tell you the truth. And not only the icons, the Signature and Gif Section is something I also find quite astonishing. My favorite has to be 'Nekoma' Gif. It just looks so threatening and the theme is just so enhanced! Astounding! As for the rest of the gallery, I gatta say I don't favor them that much. The Large Pieces and Wallpaper, are pretty messy and repetitive. And the only Tag that stands out to me has to be the 'Lost in Wonderland' one. But nonetheless, see'ing a graphic gallery always brings joy to me. Keep up the awesome work and hope 2 see more! I may not like all your work, but you got a Fan here~! Hoo-Ahh!

C+C? i'll try!
~ Some of your work are great, but I can't really tell what's going on in some of them. It just looks like a tangled complex. The subject gets blended in w/ the background, becoming it, and not standing out.
~ For the Nekoma Gif, I think you should take out that loading thing (what is it even doing there? lol) and make the cat's eye's move in a different repeating pattern. Look left, then right, then at you, and repeat! It'll improve the 'devious look' it already has. It just looks so amazing!
~ Less repeating in general. so many repeats man! D:

 

[myystogan]

Spoiler: Post response (put in a spoiler because it's a bit lengthy)

Amazing amazing! Hoho! I really favor some of your work. Especially those Comedic icons. The Shikamaru one really had me going to tell you the truth. And not only the icons, the Signature and Gif Section is something I also find quite astonishing. My favorite has to be 'Nekoma' Gif. It just looks so threatening and the theme is just so enhanced! Astounding! As for the rest of the gallery, I gatta say I don't favor them that much. The Large Pieces and Wallpaper, are pretty messy and repetitive. And the only Tag that stands out to me has to be the 'Lost in Wonderland' one. But nonetheless, see'ing a graphic gallery always brings joy to me. Keep up the awesome work and hope 2 see more! I may not like all your work, but you got a Fan here~! Hoo-Ahh!

Comedic icons are my pride and joy, haha. Glad you like them ;-]
And about the tags, I'm honestly not a fan of my own signatures either, lol (generally speaking, since I have a few personal favorites, including that Wonderland one). I've pretty much moved on from signature-making other than an odd piece or two every other week at the most, since they're kind of a chore for me to do and I tend to not work that well with tag sizes. I got more fond of icons and LPs.

I'll address what you said about the LPs and wallpapers after the next quote -

C+C? i'll try!
~ Some of your work are great, but I can't really tell what's going on in some of them. It just looks like a tangled complex. The subject gets blended in w/ the background, becoming it, and not standing out.
~ For the Nekoma Gif, I think you should take out that loading thing (what is it even doing there? lol) and make the cat's eye's move in a different repeating pattern. Look left, then right, then at you, and repeat! It'll improve the 'devious look' it already has. It just looks so amazing!
~ Less repeating in general. so many repeats man! D:

That's true, my work can definitely be overly complex. I guess my reason for that is just personal preference; I do prefer my own single, standalone pieces to be visually chaotic. I get a bit too excited when I see a huge blank canvas to work with, and I start thinking of how I can fill up everything, lmao. I suppose complexity has become "my style" throughout the years, though I do agree it can be a flaw.
Fortunately I'll be doing more LP collections in the future, and I'll have more chances to work with space in different ways. I can guarantee more variety ;-]

And oh my god I'm laughing so hard here because YOU EXPOSED ME, the loading GIF is mainly there because of my space-filling tendencies. (Though to be fair I made that as a shop example for my banner style that features two overlay GIFs, and that meant linking two separate GIFs together.)

What do you mean by repeats? You mean in my icons, where I use the same technique multiple times?
Because I try not to repeat concepts in my LPs... I mean, I'll use the same textures here and there, and some graphic directions are similar, but I think I switch it up often enough. Not sure what you mean with repeats x_x

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UPDATE

A banner set I completed for someone a while ago:

Coincidentally I read JustJeff's post before doing that set and so I decided to take a more simplistic approach here, haha.

 

[Loki]

Oh my goodness I've been waiting for you to open up a gallery here and I apologize for not getting around to making a comment before now-- I wanted to do justice to such a beautiful collection with more than just a list of adjectives haha! It's all sort of long winded since I can't be concise to save my life. So I'll put my comments under a spoiler as well-

Spoiler:

I'll start with what I like about tags- and that is that you have an uncanny ability to meld your stocks into the effects around them-- all your pieces feel natural, for lack of a better word. The focal never sticks out in a jarring way or betrays the fact that it wasn't originally designed to be the way it looks in your pieces. Not sure if I conveyed that right, but I find that the most admirable of your work since blending the focal in with the rest of the tag was always what I struggled with when I did graphics myself!

I'm also a huge fan of your color choices-- my favorites including "The Journey Begins", https://i.imgur.com/6OsZ8Dx.png, and the gumi tags sans the matroshyka one. I remember being particularly impressed with the lugia/ho-oh tag when I saw it on your gallery on another forum, and was instantly compelled to save it into my inspirations folder. The combinations of the renders, the texture, the lighting effects and the type-- it's literally all perfect and the double focal pulled off so effortlessly!

Your icons I also love- for more reasons than the fact that the first section are all one piece, which in and of itself is a reason to love all of them. But what's great is that you don't just slap on some color adjustments and call it a day. Each icon is unique and has a bit of your own flair and style to it. I particularly love the Pumpkin Brooke, Sanji/Bepo, and the blue and pink Kageyama icon. But there's so many more I can hardly begin to name them all-- and I just scrolled down to the big icons and I'm in love with the Faulkner, B&W Sableye/Banette, and the Eagle/Akashi icon... I'd better stop naming them because the list is getting too long LOL but dang this is a true goldmine of quality.

On that note, I do agree with JustJeff-- some of your pieces, particularly the ones with the c4d renders, are extremely busy. Going into what I'm not so keen on in your work, I concede that in some tags I don't think that the mess of renders particularly detracts from anything- like the Zebra tag is very nicely done and I think the usage is executed brilliantly there. But the very first tag, "Fury" loses some of its focus due to the excess of renders splashed around-- the focal has the exact same values as the renders, so when you don't have color or contrast or negative space to set the focal apart from the rest of the background it all just kind of flattens out and I have to go looking for the guy I'm supposed to be looking at. The text is even kind of hard to find if not for the bit of blue. The monochromatic colors just may not be my style though, so that piece I admit is not my cup of tea from any angle. I'm not too big on the color choice in the Deidara Manga piece either-- and I can't say I like the addition of scan lines much... The checkered bits are a really great idea-- but I think a change in color palette, like making the dark blue a cyan instead to complete the 3D look would help a lot.

I like your latest banner as well, but I'm not sure about the effects on the text. All of the other edges seem pretty solid, so I don't like how soft the inner shadow on "Ilex Forest" is. I feel like it would've been better if you'd zeroed the choke and taken down the size a bit. And perhaps chosen a font with sharper corners, to match the angular feel of the background on the upper piece. I like the rounded corners of the font you chose on the transparent version, which I feel is the superior version over all-- but yeah- just those two places to nit pick. Otherwise I love the second version in particular-- the leaves and the clipped layer under the celebi and his shrine are wonderful touches!

I would comment on the other stuff like your typography since hand drawn art is more where my expertise lies these days-- but I confess I've always been rubbish at typography and this post is already criminal in length LOL-- so I will save my comments for the other sections like the wallpapers etc another day!

And of course, since I haven't actually done any serious graphics in 5 years I'm not exactly sure what the aesthetic is nowadays so all my thoughts are probably comparable to that of an old granny typing away on her Dell 1999 running Windows BC. But overall I love your work, and am excited to see a gallery like this!

 

[JustJeff]

Can't say I hate them~ ☞(◕‿◕)☞
and wow! have some self confidence there buddy~ Lol I always take a lean and chill way whenever I use Photoshop. i think it makes better pieces tbh~ Don't hold me up on that tho :P

ohoho! All i read was more pieces from you! I'll be looking out for that~
Call me detective Jeff ✌(◕‿-)✌
I gatta say that its just taking a piece, adding little or a few things to add, and oh hey,Ii just made 2 icons! And vice-versa. I see two of the same piece in one, and the latter isn't that well blended. I think that needs a bit touching~

And your latest piece! I like it i like it! The 2nd banner looks pretty legit. A thumbs up from me~!

 

[myystogan]

Hoo boy, lots to address/quote here. Hopefully I don't forget anything I wanted to say. Really appreciate the comments, guys :-]

Oh my goodness I've been waiting for you to open up a gallery here and I apologize for not getting around to making a comment before now-- I wanted to do justice to such a beautiful collection with more than just a list of adjectives haha! It's all sort of long winded since I can't be concise to save my life. So I'll put my comments under a spoiler as well-

Aw, don't be sorry! Because I'm actually feeling pretty sorry right now, since your post is so much more eloquent compared to the post I left in your gallery... I couldn't say much since I can't critique drawings to save my life, haha.

I'll start with what I like about tags- and that is that you have an uncanny ability to meld your stocks into the effects around them-- all your pieces feel natural, for lack of a better word. The focal never sticks out in a jarring way or betrays the fact that it wasn't originally designed to be the way it looks in your pieces. Not sure if I conveyed that right, but I find that the most admirable of your work since blending the focal in with the rest of the tag was always what I struggled with when I did graphics myself!

I'm also a huge fan of your color choices-- my favorites including "The Journey Begins", https://i.imgur.com/6OsZ8Dx.png, and the gumi tags sans the matroshyka one. I remember being particularly impressed with the lugia/ho-oh tag when I saw it on your gallery on another forum, and was instantly compelled to save it into my inspirations folder. The combinations of the renders, the texture, the lighting effects and the type-- it's literally all perfect and the double focal pulled off so effortlessly!

Thank you for the kind words! And I feel so honored that a banner of mine ended up in your inspiration folder omg.
Though I have to say, when I made that Lugia/Ho-Oh banner for that contest back on EGC (iirc) I was extremely satisfied with it, but now when I look at it.... I see so many things that could be better, lol. The gray background pisses me off a bit now, and the size just seems so awkward now. It's crazy.
So, going on a bit of an unrelated note, I'd say it's definitely true that an artist is rarely truly satisfied with an old work, haha. But on the bright side, it happens because we all end up getting better as time flies by.

Your icons I also love- for more reasons than the fact that the first section are all one piece, which in and of itself is a reason to love all of them. But what's great is that you don't just slap on some color adjustments and call it a day. Each icon is unique and has a bit of your own flair and style to it. I particularly love the Pumpkin Brooke, Sanji/Bepo, and the blue and pink Kageyama icon. But there's so many more I can hardly begin to name them all-- and I just scrolled down to the big icons and I'm in love with the Faulkner, B&W Sableye/Banette, and the Eagle/Akashi icon... I'd better stop naming them because the list is getting too long LOL but dang this is a true goldmine of quality.

Yeah, that OP set is totally one of my best, haha. The ideas flowed out so easily and I just had so much to work with. Glad you liked it!
And I'm really glad people notice that; I do try my best to make my icons unique, so I spend quite a bit of time on composition to make each one stand out. I just got so tired of the blandness of cropping and *changing the color a bit*, so I branched out into more complex icon making, and I'd say that was the turning point for me. I feel like my "style" finally cemented after that, haha. I also wholeheartedly blame my need for complexity on this.

On that note, I do agree with JustJeff-- some of your pieces, particularly the ones with the c4d renders, are extremely busy. Going into what I'm not so keen on in your work, I concede that in some tags I don't think that the mess of renders particularly detracts from anything- like the Zebra tag is very nicely done and I think the usage is executed brilliantly there. But the very first tag, "Fury" loses some of its focus due to the excess of renders splashed around-- the focal has the exact same values as the renders, so when you don't have color or contrast or negative space to set the focal apart from the rest of the background it all just kind of flattens out and I have to go looking for the guy I'm supposed to be looking at. The text is even kind of hard to find if not for the bit of blue. The monochromatic colors just may not be my style though, so that piece I admit is not my cup of tea from any angle. I'm not too big on the color choice in the Deidara Manga piece either-- and I can't say I like the addition of scan lines much... The checkered bits are a really great idea-- but I think a change in color palette, like making the dark blue a cyan instead to complete the 3D look would help a lot.

I agree. Imo that tag collection as a whole contains the most "technical flaws" out of any graphic collection up there in the OP, majorly due to my weird sense of experimentation AND COMPLETE LACK OF SENSE OF DEPTH. (Though admittedly that's why I'm still pretty fond of my tags despite all that's wrong with them, haha. I find that my own personal taste is often very different from my audience, which I find to be interesting.)
Anyways, that first tag in particular is what happened when I tried to apply the gradient map concepts I use for iconing to tags. Needless to say, the execution fell short. I think I remember being a bit lazy with it, actually. That honestly kills me a lot in the end. My go-to solution is often just piling more and more C4D's and etc, so I'm trying to alleviate my dependence on them a bit.

I like your latest banner as well, but I'm not sure about the effects on the text. All of the other edges seem pretty solid, so I don't like how soft the inner shadow on "Ilex Forest" is. I feel like it would've been better if you'd zeroed the choke and taken down the size a bit. And perhaps chosen a font with sharper corners, to match the angular feel of the background on the upper piece. I like the rounded corners of the font you chose on the transparent version, which I feel is the superior version over all-- but yeah- just those two places to nit pick. Otherwise I love the second version in particular-- the leaves and the clipped layer under the celebi and his shrine are wonderful touches!

Funnily enough, I thought about removing the inner shadow completely or just changing it a bit after looking at the final product, but the person who asked for the set from me really liked the pieces already... so I ended up keeping that to myself, haha. But yeah, thank you for pointing those things out to me! It'll definitely give me something to think about when doing pieces like that in the future. I do tend to be a bit bland with text effects, which is somewhat ironic now that I think about it.

I would comment on the other stuff like your typography since hand drawn art is more where my expertise lies these days-- but I confess I've always been rubbish at typography and this post is already criminal in length LOL-- so I will save my comments for the other sections like the wallpapers etc another day!

Ahh yes, save it until after I give you a comment as good as this one! This was a great read and I enjoyed every bit of it. You reminded me of the reason why I open as many galleries as I can; it's always nice to know people like your work and care enough to lend some c+c as well \o/
And of course another reason is because it's always nice to know I can make people laugh with what I type in my icons, or even provide people with some eye candy, haha.
I appreciate your time, Loki ;-]

Can't say I hate them~ ☞(◕‿◕)☞
and wow! have some self confidence there buddy~ Lol I always take a lean and chill way whenever I use Photoshop. i think it makes better pieces tbh~ Don't hold me up on that tho :P

ohoho! All i read was more pieces from you! I'll be looking out for that~
Call me detective Jeff ✌(◕‿-)✌
I gatta say that its just taking a piece, adding little or a few things to add, and oh hey,Ii just made 2 icons! And vice-versa. I see two of the same piece in one, and the latter isn't that well blended. I think that needs a bit touching~

And your latest piece! I like it i like it! The 2nd banner looks pretty legit. A thumbs up from me~!

That seems to be high praise, coming from you ;-]
Just kidding! Though I gotta say, it's somewhat strange to hear "have some self confidence there". Admittedly I'm probably too confident in my skills, so much that I used to be a bit worried I'd come off as too arrogant when talking about myself in update posts in my other galleries LOL. I just like to consider critique seriously, since I do love to learn how people view my work. Honestly speaking, some of the things you pointed out earlier were critiques I'd never gotten before, so I really appreciate it!

So thanks again for the feedback; I can't wait for some more graphics from you as well ;-]

 

[myystogan]

UPDATE
About time! Though tbh I normally update on a monthly/every two month basis so this isn't exactly late at all lmao.

ICONS
[10] LIFE IS STRANGE (Max, Chloe, Warren)
[03] GIRLS' GENERATION - YOU THINK (Taeyeon, Seohyun, Tiffany)
[09] GIRLS' GENERATION - MR.MR. (Yoona, Hyoyeon, Jessica, Yuri, Sooyoung, Sunny)
[22] RWBY (Yang, Ruby, Neo, Mercury, Cinder, Pyrrha, Blake, Weiss, Nora, Coco, Jaune, Lie Ren)
[01] STEVEN UNIVERSE (Amethyst)
[10] TWICE (Momo, Nayeon, Jihyo, Dahyun, Mina, Chaeyoung, Sana, Jungyeon, Tzuyu)
[07] STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (Rey, Finn, Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, misc stormtroopers)
[26] MISC MUSICIANS (Janelle Monae, Lorde, FKA Twigs, M.I.A., EXID, Rihanna, Esperanza Spalding)
[88] TOTAL

The top half of this icon dump is so colorful that it looks like a unicorn barfed over my computer screen. Just saying. Though once I got close to the end I started getting addicted to putting textures on Exclusion again. I got rid of that habit years ago because the colorful/shiny look was the trendy thing, but... yeah, I always preferred making grungy stuff. I'll be switching between a lot of styles in the future, it seems. As if I don't already.

Spoiler:

Some other stuff I plan to icon within this year hopefully: Fairy Tail, Haikyuu S2, Noragami, K, and misc female groups/celebs.

LP COLLECTION: MUSIC
I started a LP (large piece) collection for graphics related to some of my favorite artists/songs/albums. I only have the introduction pages done atm. (Click the thumbnails below to view.)


In the end, those pages will be the most simplistic, haha.
Next LPs will be done by my next update, if things go my way. Literally every time I opened PS the past month, all I could do was make icons. fml

 

[Pebbles]

i love your icons/avatars
they really nice and cute and just awesome​

 

[Loki]

Everytime you update I'm just so amazed at everything. I feel like I have more of a grasp on how this magical eye candy dump happens every few weeks now thanks to your amazing tutorial which I learned a TON from (so thank you for such a great tutorial!!) but I still just-- am speechless at how polished everything looks when you're done with it.

These are my particular favorites- great colors and composition:

and

Always glad to meet another ONE OK ROCK fan!! Seeing this reminds me of how said I am that I missed their live at my favorite club tonight though LOL orz

 

[myystogan]

First off, thanks for the comments, you two! I actually was going to reply to the both of you when I had my next update up but then I realized my updating schedule isn't consistent at all, lmao. And I don't like waiting as long as a month to reply, since that way it kinda seems like I don't appreciate comments - which is totally not the case!

i love your icons/avatars
they really nice and cute and just awesome​

Thanks so much, Pebbles! Your work is very nice as well; I'll have to swing by your thread and leave all my thoughts there once you update \o/
(Looking forward to it, haha.)

Everytime you update I'm just so amazed at everything. I feel like I have more of a grasp on how this magical eye candy dump happens every few weeks now thanks to your amazing tutorial which I learned a TON from (so thank you for such a great tutorial!!) but I still just-- am speechless at how polished everything looks when you're done with it.

These are my particular favorites- great colors and composition:

and

Always glad to meet another ONE OK ROCK fan!! Seeing this reminds me of how said I am that I missed their live at my favorite club tonight though LOL orz

Gee, thanks so much! I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful; I still think I was vague about everything but there wasn't much I could do about that due to time :'-[
ALTHOUGH I am planning on including little step-by-step process GIFs of some icons from every single one of my batches from now on, since I always get asks about my composition process, haha. That should help with the whole "peering inside my brain / thought process" thing ;-]

And YES I love ONE OK ROCK! They have yet to release any disappointing music imo. Now that 35XXXV is on Spotify I've been listening to it all the time.
It sucks that you happened to miss them; I heard that they're really awesome live x_x
Going to one of their events would totally be a great experience, ahhh.

 

[myystogan]

UPDATE
I'M ON A ROLL. It used to take me 3 months to make ~60 icons. I'm serious. I wish I could share my newfound icon efficiency secrets to my younger self.

ICONS
[02] FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST (Edward, Lust)
[19] NORAGAMI (Kofuku, Hiyori, Yato, Bishamon, Yukine, Kazuma)
[23] K (Yashiro, Fushimi, Yata, Anna, Kuroh, Nagare, Yukari, Sukuna, Iwafune, Munakata)
[03] TRANSISTOR (Red)
[25] THE 100 (Monty, Miller, Clarke, Bellamy, Raven, Jasper, Octavia, Lexa, Lincoln)
[13] HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (Annalise, Eve, Asher, Michaela, Connor, Laurel, Oliver)
[85] TOTAL

Random notes
- K and Noragami screencaps have great colors! Can't say the same for The 100, though; I had to do a bunch of weird crap to get any sort of color to come out. (The original greens were on point though, I give it that.)
- I suck at close cropping. I almost never practice it since I'm always big on composition. If the close crop icons in this dump didn't have some type of texture layering on them, they'd be boring as hell, lol.
- I still can't believe I made 5 icons out of ONE SCENE. My brain's probably trying to tell me I'm so goddamn thirsty for a ship but I still try to deny it.
- Forget Teen Wolf, HTGAWM has one of the prettiest casts ever. Quote me on that.
- Next time around I'm doing Haikyuu, The Walking Dead, Agent Carter, Empire, and a few other misc fandoms. Anticipate it ;-]

PREVIEWS

Spoiler: 85 icons (2 are GIF icons)

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST X2 | NORAGAMI X4

NORAGAMI X12

NORAGAMI X3 | K: RETURN OF KINGS X3

K: RETURN OF KINGS X18

K: RETURN OF KINGS X2 | TRANSISTOR X3 | THE 100 X1

THE 100 X 24

HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER X13

In addition to that dump up there I completed a bunch of LPs the past months, but I decided I'd hold off on posting those until I have the whole collection completed. ALTHOUGH one of those LPs is currently my new gallery OP header, so I'll be sharing it first! Here is the full-sized version of my FKA Twigs manipulation:

(Click the thumbnail)
I am OBSESSED with Twigs, and if you haven't listened to her M3LLI55X EP yet, I have nothing to say to you!!