After nine weeks of disappearing with thanks to NaNoWriMo, school, laziness and distractions, it is no wonder I could not come up with a more festive (as in holidays) post. :D Still, happy holidays to everyone! ♥

20 - 1600x1200 (one 1200x1600 but wtf) light textures
40 - GLAY icons
38 - Tee icons


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( elected to lead, not to read )

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13 - stock icons*
25 - GLAY icons
4 - GLAY banners/headers

*re: the stock icons: okay, okay, so some have text and all that but they're stock 'cause they're from shots that I took using my own digicam and those shots are stock, so. XD


( sorry love )


( lonely days, we can fly )


( with the rest of the band hereunder )

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On an unrelated note, does anyone know of a service that's similar to Photobucket but...not Photobucket? Basically, I'm looking for a service that allows public album viewings, gallery-style displays and bulk uploads. Pretty much the old Photobucket sans recent developments re: size, bandwidth and quality. Any suggestions would be awesome! ♥

1 - Large light texture set
2 - Icon texture sets
10 - Fashion mag icons
10 - Dir en grey icons
15 - GLAY icons
9 - GLAY wallpapers (for each res)
4 - GLAY FO banners
1 - GLAY support bar


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( +2 icon textures )


( broken wings )


( can't touch this (doo dudu doo) )


( wild's soul )


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( +3 ship FOs )

And lastly, the support banner:

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By the way, if you guys have time, you should check out ice_cubed's profile layout. :3

1 - fashion header (900x300px)
2 - fashion FO banners
10 - fashion/stock icons
1 - Jiro wallpaper (9 different resolutions)
4 - GLAY FO banners
40 - GLAY icons


( fit for all your aquatic character journal needs! :D )


( with accompanying FO banners! )

( man, it's been some time since I've made icons like these! It felt...nice. :3 )



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( plus the rest of the band here! )


( naked king, you're forever star )

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This post is actually only a part of an originally bigger set I had in mind but I'm not very fond of making a very big post especially on graphics since that's going to take up a lot of bandwidth and cache and loading time so I tend to prefer the smaller posts. And, although I had intended to make more graphics today, Restaurant City (YES LOL I play that shit and ilit) released new features yesterday! So I think Imma take a quick break from PS to waste away in it. ♥ (And I just want to say that I wouldn't have bothered with the second Toshiya icon in the Dir set if he didn't look like Doc Manhattan in it. >.>;;)

Also, if you want to find out how the coloring/lighting of Icon no. 10 in the Dir set was done, I made a tutorial of it right here! :D

30 - Dir en grey icons
1 - Dir en grey FO banner
30 - GLAY icons


( In Toshiya's opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon. )


( HAY BRO )


( I can't think of a witty cut text save for, "Heeere's GLAAAY~" )

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Don't forget to check part 1!

65 more - Music Fair icons (feat. GLAY, Abingdon Boys School and Gackt from the 2009 June 06 episode)


( I never thought 'takkibisuto' is actually a word! )

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This post has a part 2 although that's particularly for the Music Fair icons since I have made a total of 130 icons which are basically re-colored, re-lighted, high contrast, decor-less icons of the guests. I was highly dependent on the caps my VLCSnap took and I did my best to fix the aspect ratio of the bases. ♥ Also, I'm sadly not very familiar with ABS so that's how the tags came about. I did my best to have an icon of each of the members, though!

And for the headers, if anyone is interested of using them but needing HTML/CSS help, don't hesitate to PM me, e-mail me or comment here about it. :D

6 - GLAY headers/banner things
65 - Music Fair icons (feat. GLAY, Abingdon Boys School and Gackt from the 2009 June 06 episode)


( Save for that one, the rest are from the TGV -Extra- gallery. )


( so many faces! )

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This post has been on the making for almost a month already, I swear. RL came in the way.

5 - Dir en grey icons
1 - Dir en grey banner thing (likely a header but)
1 - GLAY FO banner
9 - GLAY wallpaper
25 - GLAY icons


( they ought to NOT repeat this photoshoot style or I swear... )


( bigger hereunder )


( hashiru, hashiru, hashiruuu~~~ )


( bigger one )


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This isn't quite the post I was talking about when I left for the trip days ago but they are all from the trip and I thought I should share them to you guys. :D Even if you're not a graphic artist, well, you can still use them as wallpapers? XD

1 - big cloud texture set
1 - 100x100 light texture set
1 - big stone texture set


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ice_cubed has also undergone a change of layout (as can be noted from the icon) so go check it out! :D

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It's that time of the year again, gyz, wherein I shall be off and away from the city for a couple of days! They say most likely, we'll be there for around a week this time. :O So I guess you guys can look at this as a temporary-parting gift of sorts and I would have prepared something better if the news didn't arrive in short notice (and by short notice, I mean yesterday, I was told we'd be leaving on Monday and then suddenly, we might be leaving tomorrow. D:)

I intended to release more graphics along with these icons and wallpaper but if I push with that, I'm afraid I'll have to delay the release for a week and based on my experience, that usually just...leaves the graphics to stagnate in my HD. >.>;; If I'd had more time, as well, I swear this temp-parting post would not redundantly be of GLAY and Dir en grey alone but I swear, when I come back, I will prepare for a big non-fandom post.

Or at least, a post without GLAY or Dir. >.>;;

But for now, enjoy! And see you guys later~ :DDD

15 - GLAY icons
9 - Dir en grey wallpapers (I increased the number of resolutions.)


( It's mostly of Takuro BUT I'M NOT BEING BIASED and it's not my fault he's such a beautiful man. >.>;; )


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However, another GLAY icon set is imminent. Please do not bat your eyelashes on me.

26 - Tee Icons
50 - GLAY


( an icon for each occassion )


( lalala THE GREAT VACATION! I couldn't really understand what Teru was singing, then. >.>;; )

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I had wanted to make more GLAY icons but life is a disabler! First, my photoshop crashes my PC for the third time then my explorer randomly froze and then there was a quick loss of power in the neighborhood and all those happened while I was doing GLAY icons. >.> So I think I will just...take it as a sign to just finish everything in another icon batch?!

35 - Dir en grey icons
27 - GLAY icons


( There was a bit of catching up done. )


( How do you subtly depict sexiness? )

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I know I should have announced this way earlier (but I always have a stigma of announcing things too late so let's hope for the best? :D) but I have just recently escaped from school and am now just finding time to get on with my life. But as it is, my real monitor died last month and what I have now is an old CRT monitor with very poor colors and it has a tendency to turn magenta on a whim. :(

Because of that, ice_cubed will be pulling an indefinite hiatus until I get a better monitor...hopefully soon! :D Your good thoughts will be well-received.

♥

Man, creativity these days have been :/ no thanks to school. So before I start doing some icons, I thought I might pop a few bones for the moment.

4 - 1600x1200 textures
2 - Die and Kaoru wallpapers
1 - Kaoru wallpaper
1 - Die wallpaper

All wallpapers come in seven resolutions as always! And speaking of resolutions, I'm in very much need of your help again, guys. I did a similar poll last August 2007 and feel that I am very much outdated with the standards of today (I'm still stuck with 1024x768 until someone gives me a new LCD monitor or I buy myself a new LCD monitor) so if you guys might take a very small bit of your time to take this poll (which I will not cut, my apologies!!), it would be very much appreciated. :D Thank you!!

What is your preferred screen resolution?
	800x600
	1024x768
	1152x864
	1280x800
	1280x960
	1280x1024
	1440x900
	1600x1200
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If your preferred screen resolution, is not among
the choices, please comment it to the poll!
Thank you! ♥♥♥


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25 - 100x100 Light Textures


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Two days (at least two days here) before Christmas and it's always better late than never!!

50 more - Santa J-rockers!
(Bands/Artists: 12012, An Cafe, D'espairsRay, Gackt, Gilgamesh, Kiyoharu, L'Arc~en~Ciel, LiZ, MUCC, Nightmare, Screw, SuG, Sugizo, Yoshiki)

As always, if I interchanged any names again, please tell me and if you want moar Santa J-rockers, please comment with their names and faces. :DDD

Also, much thanks to dammitliz for helping me with the pictures and names for this set! You guys should go check out her Santa Johnny's Juniors for some pop-y fun. :DDD

And don't forget to check out the first batch of Santa J-rockers!


( It's like Jingle Bell Rock...only better! )

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An early Christmas present of sorts?? Minus the Dir en grey wallpaper that is and I had originally planned for this to be released along with a Miyavi icon set and another texture set but with the way things are going with my school life, I may have to postpone both until my Christmas break. D: So for now, here's part 1 of my supposed release!

7 - Dir en grey wallpapers (Edit; Now with 1280x800! Sry, bad HTML. >.>;;)
37 - Santa J-rockers! (Bands: 9mm parabellum bullet, alice nine., D, Dir en grey, GLAY, Kagrra,, SID, The GazettE) (Edit; Thanks to nana_rokku (after 58 comment parents? D:), I finally managed to right the wrong! :DDD I knew I couldn't get SID perfectly in one go... >.>;; Anyway, Santa Yuuya is up now!)

These are just some of the bands that I and dammitliz listen to (who I basically used as a basis (i.e. "Who else does Liz listen to...?") so I don't come out with just...9mm, Dir and GLAY. XD I'm not sure if anyone's already done it but I thought it'd be fun and it was actually more challenging than I'd prepared for it to be, lol. Implanting the santa hat onto their heads is easy enough but it's the picture hunting and more so, the name matching that made it a little more difficult. >.>;; So if you're looking for someone in particular and found that he's either misnamed (I am eyeing the 9mm boys as well as SID's Shinji and Yuya >.>;;), one J-rocker was double-iconned for the J-rocker you want or I completely neglected to icon him (which is likely if the band isn't 9mm, Dir or GLAY), just comment with your complaints! :D

For that matter and since Christmas really is all about unity, peace and harmony right?? The campaign doesn't end with Yuya(??)! If you have anyone you want iconned with a santa hat drilled into their heads, just comment with their name, band, and I'd love it if you added a picture of theirs -- the more recent, the better, the more they face front, the better. Pictures are also desired to be in normal lighting -- aka, no black and white, sepia tone, icey shades, etc because it'll make my life easier. XDDD

Also, I iconned whole bands and not like, just four members of a five-man band so unless specified, the Nao and the Kai you see here are, indeed, the Nao and the Kai that you think they are (by referring to the band list up there). Furthermore, some santa hats might look awkward and Kyo's was done on purpose. >.>;; If you want them redone, just comment. ♥


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( peace on earth, right? )

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I think I'll have another post coming up soonish. >.>;; Man, deprivation can do a lot.

50 - Dir en grey icons
35 - GLAY icons


( The recipe for today is...pairings! )


( Of course the internet is for porn...just ask Teru! )

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OLOOK A POST

OLOOK LIFE

Really sorry for the sudden absence! I did NaNoWriMo this month so that sort of sucked me into a void and I am now just able to make graphics and post since I've just finally finished my novel (yes, I pretty much just won thar :DDD). So here's a little warm up and, with thanks to Dir en grey's recent release, it's full of their images BUT I did make sure to add a bonus to non-Dir fans just so. :D

Also, CALLING ALL MYV FANS OUT THERE! I need to fulfill a request (I think you know who you are? D:) and have absolutely no idea which of Myv's many photoshoots to icon/make graphics of SO if you guys would be so kind as to link me to some of your favored shots of him, that will be magnificent for all of us. :DDD

20 - Large Tiny Text Brushes + Image Pack (widths ranging from 476 to 1024px)
7 - OT3 Die, Kaoru, Toshiya wallpaper (for all mah fellow OT3 supporters!)
4 - Dir en grey FO banners (two for the band, two for the OT3)
5 - Dir en grey headers (one for each member)
Edit; Updated Toshiya's header 'cause the first one had a typo. 8DDD


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( can we still be "friends"? )


( how heavy is blood? )

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