I don't know how you all make graphics so quickly, but I am very jealous! It takes me forever just to get one graphic done, I try new things with everything I do...

@Nurr: I love all of your icons, that style is simply gorgeous! Also that HP banner where you blended two HP scenes is epic, I kind of want to steal it =)

@Shadowcat: Your colors are wonderful! I adore the seemingly simple graphics you make with the large letters, I have never been good with text and that is why I don't really use it often....

@Enno: I love all the bright colors, it makes me smile just to look at them <33

@Ara: you know how much I love your graphics and to see them in abundance is great All those icons... I don't know how you do it and I especially love the bits of Akudemy you have going on xP

@AF: I love all the musicness you have going on, that blue blend is beautiful... blue is my favorite color so my eye is naturally drawn to it and I agree that Frodo blend is awesome!

@JF: The Princess and the Frog! I love it =) I also enjoy all the history graphics you have, it makes me want to go watch the history channel xP

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<b>JF/teh Goatcloset</b>, have you ever been to Gettysburg? I went there about two years ago for a vacation as it's only 2 hours from where I live and I must say that all of the spirt walks/tours of buildings were really really awesome. We had the most beautiful days too, the skies were so blue and it was just amazing. I really recommend going if you haven't, and it's something to see if you come to the states.

<b>Nurreh</b>, haha, I'm just trying to keep up with all of your icons... which in itself is a daunting task... I think I'm going to be sick of making graphics after the GMC. As for the retouches, I am addicted to skin smoothing in PSP and Lothy taught me a trick or two to get everything look smooth and pretty...

<b>Pandabandana</b>, I practically kill myself looking for pics and turning them into icons, I can literally spend HOURS sometimes and then of course uploading them takes forever because Tinypic only allows you to upload 5 images @ a time... Huzzah for Akudemy! They shall slowly take over the forum... I'm so in love with the two of them that it's insane xD

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I creeped! And everything looks amazing guys, really some fantastic and classy looking stuff this round. I love the sparkles and glittery looks that a good majority of the stuff has, very airy and ethereal. And AF always brings a splash of the darkness, I love the grunge on your stuff darling. I can never get grunge to look right...

Hopefully I'll be able to overload you all with car stuff next time. I was gone for the majority of this round.

[Not sure I used things for all of these, but these are the ones I have saved so..]

Images
Sweet and Talented
SXC
newsie__nympho in screencap_me
daydreaming
Sonic Biro
Wikipedia
Google

dA~
SandraSublime
francescalindt
Alraunie-stock
Kiho-chan
Lady-Himiko

Textures/Brushes
Amatorka-Stock
crazykira-resources
RebeccaCallaway
XtheffviigirlX
megalomaniaCi
Rinkurai

~comments to follow in the next few days when I have the time to properly look at everything. first reaction there's amazing stuff from everyone <3 [and thank you Nurr & Panda ]~

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Nurr ~ That's an insane amount of icons No idea how you get so many, that are so good Wow. Yay for chuck! Especially the first Casey one. All the Chuck/Zachary Levi graphics are brilliant

Panda ~ 30 Seconds to Mars & Prince of Persia! <3 They make me very happy I love the mix of colour & black and white images on some of the blends like this. Everything is brilliant

Shadowcat ~ I love the colouring, and the big &s xD Your graphics always inspire me, though when I try to replicate it, it never looks as good as yours. This and this are my favourites Ooh,and This Aha. I just love it. No idea specically why, but it's awesome ::D

Ara ~ The variety in your icons is crazy I love the randomness, and the colours are amazing <3 Especially the sparkly eyes I love sparkles This is so true and this as well as being generally awesome, has lyrics from one of my current favourite songs so yay

AF ~ Paramore & this = <3 Brilliant I love the grunge style and the colours on this are awesome.

JF ~ Firstly, I loved the challenges. They were awesome. I tried to stick to doing them during the day, as that's part of the challenge, but didn't quite manage it at the end
Secondly, the Princess and the Frog icons etc are awesome And I love the Jack stuff, especially This.. It's so simple, but it just makes me laugh xD & I adore this. I love road pictures xD and the colours are gorgeous

/enno loves the variety of colouring in the graphics.
/enno also needs more adjectives

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Thank you all for the lovely comments <3



It would be really amazing if you could fly over here and come to Gettysburg with me, it would be quite fun and I just adore the Ghost Tours they've got. Perhaps that would be something to plan for.

Thanks for all your lovely comments, guys! * gles* Apparently all those icon communities did me some good. Sad that I was kind of out of commission for the weekend though, so I couldn't do all the Chuck stuff I wanted to do. More ideas for next time, I guess, haha.

@JF: Well, if you ever get over here let me know, and I'll help you find everywhere. And then when I get over there, you can tell me the best spots to go and such. Sound good?


Panneth: Such an eclectic group! I see you're all about the lovely ladies though, eh? Everything's great, but I especially love the way you did the OC blends!

Skitty: Those are freaking awesome blends. ...And banners. And icons.





Enno: Fweeeee! Nathan Fillion AND Chuck! Oh my gosh. I just love all the Chuck banners. Can I steal? I wants. I wants Captain Awesome and his lovely brother in law and his lovely bromance with Casey. And you have NIIIINE! I love Nine! I miss Nine. People forget about him way too much. JossVerse! JossVerse! Wheee! AND MERLIN!

...In case you couldn't tell, I hadn't seen a lot of your stuff since you put it up. And got quite excited.

Ara: BRIGHT AND SPARKLY. I like bright and sparkly. And I really love the food icons. Splashing apples forever.

AF: Awww, I love all the LotR stuff! The Sam banner especially is just beautiful. I think that would be the word for your stuff. Beautiful.

JF: Phew, that's a lot of bookmarks and retouches! Um, Horse With No Name blend is gorgeous. So simple, and America lyrics are awesome. This is gorgeous and I love all the Jack stuff.

(Also, as far as judging challenges goes, how are you planning on doing that?)


Thank you Lothy for setting it all up! You allowed me to express all the BBC miniseries love I've been feeling and I had a blast, as always.

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@JF: Aww, that is no fun. I watch the History Channel every now and again and I love it! Do you watch online or through DVDs then?

@Enno: I saw Prince of Persia and loved it and of course I had to show some 30STM love! I <3 Jared Leto muchly xP And you picked one of my favorite graphics as well, I just got lucky on that one that it looked so good

@Nurr: Haha, yes I think women are beautiful and much easier to make pretty graphics than men sometimes! Plus they have more awesome photoshoots and more of them xP Thank you, the OC blends were fun!

Thanks to all

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