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[taotrooper]

The good news: In clamp2share, Card Captor Sakura manga raws!!! OMG OMG. I've wanted them for ages, and now I won't have to scan my volumes ever again. The icons I could make with these~~

The bad (for me) news: They started with the Magic Knight Rayearth cover lot now. Eagle. Next one will be Lantis, and so on. There's no justice T___T

ETA: This comic strip amuses me

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[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

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CCS RAWS!!! ♥♥♥♥♥

[hungrybookworm.livejournal.com]

Heheh, Eagle looks like he's eating mash potato with peas -_-

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

nah, esos 2 no saldran en las tapas, pero si Hikaru, y luego el personaje 'importante' que saldra en Celes.... Suu? Hokuto? quien mas falta? no se, pero esos 2 seguro que no, no seria justo, de cada mundo nunca han salido todos en las tapas...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

No sé yo, que personajes que sólo han salido en tres páginas y no han vuelto han tenido portada por ser pretty (hola Kendappa!)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Most fans think he's having popcorn.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! SO AWESOME.

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

ops! pero igual sale mas luego, si van a Nihon.... ademsa fue por 'igualar', 2 de Celes, 2 de Nihon... Yo 'creo' que no tendran tapa esos... pero con Clmap nunca se sabe XDDDD

[soifon.livejournal.com]

Awww but Eagle and Lantis = ♥

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I'm not into iconmaking nearly as much as you are, but still... asdfhjkd;; good scans! ♥ ♥ ♥

No more scanning my poor volumes or crappy photos from me.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for any purpose is also great! Besides the icons, and being able to check what people literally say provided I have a way to consult the phrase with, I'm glad as well for shrine images (oh, Eriol, when was the last time I updated you?) and website layouts. I just thought icons first because I signed up for an icon theme set ages ago (no, not the Eriol ones, some other for the general series) and it's convenient.

But I'm glad because not only I can do good(*) icons, but everyone else. Of course, 90% will still be of Sakura, but yeah.





(*) Good meaning "as good as I can make them", because I can't color icons well for shit.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Not for me, though. Must be a taste thing, since I found MKR!Eagle too dull, and Lantis too stoic-faced and IMHO, his brother >>>> him... mmm Zagato. For my taste in characters and bishounen, I mean. They're pretty to look at and all, but they never ticked me and I was never interested in their love triangle/threesome with Hikaru.

Now, in TRC? Dunno, at least Eagle is more interesting as a character because he's ambiguously moral, but I can't stand that world in general.

Then again, I like and dislike different kinds of characters most people do. The extremely serious/quiet, dark-haired, tall guys normally put me to sleep no matter how hot they're considered. My radar is broken XD

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

... you're right, layous! :O *remembers she has a fansite in cryogenic sleep*

I think I will make icons, but mostly for myself. Even when I share them, my approach to icons is more "what would I like to use?" than going for artistic/technical talent. I really admire people who can use Photoshop to the most, but I go for the simpler stuff myself. That's I love having good scans that don't need a lot of work. ^_^

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I think my approach with iconmaking is the same I have with any other fandom activity I'm into. It comes out of three primordial reasons:
a) It's something I adore that most people don't care about, so there's a void when it comes to it. Therefore, I feel the horrible need to fill it, whether other fans are interested or not, because making it exist makes me as happy as seeing it exist from someone else. Example: minor character icons, gen or unpopular pairing fic.
b) Even if it's rather popular or fairly so, I want to show my love and the way *I* see it to the world. Example: my Eriol shrine, kimihiro.net.
c) I just feel creative or funny. Example: crack crossovers, pretty icons for icontests, bad jokes and memes applied to fandom (see: Clow-cola, mokona manjuu manip, Fay/Good Omens, Kyle/All Your Base, or Drosselmeyer/Rocks Fall).

It's kind of funny these days I'm not doing much CLAMP icons, and when I get inspired it's old or semi-obscure fandoms (I think it's #a and #b kicking in). Still, I do my best for them to look as nice as icontest icons.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I think that's the best approach, really. ^_^ The whole point of fandom is (should be?) having fun with stuff you love.

I guess I just don't care so much about icons because I know I'm better at writing, so my best efforts go to fic. With icons it's more like an "oooh shiny" feeling. I still want something that looks nice, sure, but I don't feel the need to work as hard as I did for icontests (and I very rarely ended up using the ones I made for contests, anyway...). If they're for my personal use I'm perfectly happy with a nice cropping and a border, heh.

[soifon.livejournal.com]

Aww that's too bad. But Zagato is might hawt as well ^_~ ♥ I usually go for the more popular pairings I guess :/