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setsuntamew) wrote2024-12-31 04:46 pm
setsuntamew) wrote2024-12-31 04:46 pm
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ending 2024 with a bang~
I love how I was like "I'm probably not gonna update again before the new year" and then decided to fuck it up, because I got lost in Photoshop and wanted to brag about it :D
ANYWAY. Back in 2011, I decided to get back into making freebies/requestables/customs/whatever the hell you wanna call them, because I was feeling overworked and nostalgic for a better time (the height of the GreatestJournal graphics scene, I guess). I had a good couple of months there before my laptop had a massive hard drive failure and I lost all the new stuff I'd made D:
SO THAT SUCKED.
and tbh it was a combination of that loss + working 80+ hour weeks in the hell of food service that took me away from making icons in general. My early 20s were rough, y'all!!! This was also when I wasn't writing much and basically on an unintentional hiatus from a lot of fandom things besides attending 1 or 2 cons a year to see friends. So that also sucked.
Anyway! Because of all that, I switched over to pretty much only making fandom icons/graphics/etc, because I had limited free time, the LJ graphics scene was slowing down, and I just didn't have the inspiration for anything else anymore. But since I am burdened by the gift and/or curse of nostalgia, I eventually got back into making sparkle icons last year~~~
AND SOOOOOOOO that leads us to today. I'm finally removed enough from the heartbreak of losing the originals...which only took 13+ years....whatever, I'm cool XD I decided to try my hand at recreating one of the icons I lost, and honestly? I'm pretty damn proud of it!
I think I got very close to the original, even if it's not a picture perfect copy. I have a bunch of others I'd like to tackle, but this is a good start :D
AND WITH THAT, HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR REALZ THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANYWAY. Back in 2011, I decided to get back into making freebies/requestables/customs/whatever the hell you wanna call them, because I was feeling overworked and nostalgic for a better time (the height of the GreatestJournal graphics scene, I guess). I had a good couple of months there before my laptop had a massive hard drive failure and I lost all the new stuff I'd made D:
SO THAT SUCKED.
and tbh it was a combination of that loss + working 80+ hour weeks in the hell of food service that took me away from making icons in general. My early 20s were rough, y'all!!! This was also when I wasn't writing much and basically on an unintentional hiatus from a lot of fandom things besides attending 1 or 2 cons a year to see friends. So that also sucked.
Anyway! Because of all that, I switched over to pretty much only making fandom icons/graphics/etc, because I had limited free time, the LJ graphics scene was slowing down, and I just didn't have the inspiration for anything else anymore. But since I am burdened by the gift and/or curse of nostalgia, I eventually got back into making sparkle icons last year~~~
AND SOOOOOOOO that leads us to today. I'm finally removed enough from the heartbreak of losing the originals...which only took 13+ years....whatever, I'm cool XD I decided to try my hand at recreating one of the icons I lost, and honestly? I'm pretty damn proud of it!
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I think I got very close to the original, even if it's not a picture perfect copy. I have a bunch of others I'd like to tackle, but this is a good start :D
AND WITH THAT, HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR REALZ THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!