filtering color for grays

Hi everyone! Maybe I should be asking if anyone is still around. :P And if you are, I hope you've all been doing well. Please say hello if you're still here! ♥

First, I just want to apologize for being away for so long. Things have been hectic the past few years, and I honestly don't know how time managed to past so fast. It boggles my mind whenever I think about how much has happened and yet how short that span of time feels. But I think about this place all the time and how I really miss you all - seriously. ;_;

The site is currently offline - a few of you have emailed me asking about the goodies and wanting to download (or re-download them due to computer crashes and such). I'm really sorry about this, and if there's anyone who really needs some of the stuff, feel free to let me know and I'll see about emailing them to you or uploading what you need somewhere temporarily.

The good news is I've been working hard on doing the site overhaul during every bit of free time I have. I'm hoping to have the site back up by the end of June, but I'm really aiming for earlier than that. And once that's done, I'll be back into the swing of making more goodies for you all. :D

I'll be sure to post again when the site has relaunched. In the meantime, I went ahead and created a Twitter account to post some updates and stay in touch. I'm still really unfamiliar with Twitter so forgive me if I do something weird, but I hope to see some of you there. :) I also added a Facebook page, though the activity there would probably be fairly low until the site pops back online. Likes are very much loved of course. It's new and lonely with 0 likes at the moment. :P

I can't wait until this place goes back to normal, because it's just not normal for me to not do something creative...

Not a graphics post + a dash of spam. If you haven't heard from me either via my site, emails, comments, replies, wherever... it's likely because:

1. I'm away for work (have been since right after the texture challenge reveal post). Which also means no graphic updates from me for at least another 2-3 weeks, because I won't have access to Photoshop or my computer (which means any graphics stuff) until then.

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is currently attached to me wherever I go and it's taking priority in whatever free time I may have at the moment (as is probably the case for many of you, I assume). :p If any of you are reading or doing posts on it, feel free to drop me links to them. I'm immensely curious about what others think of the book so far.

Be back here with stuff as soon as I can! There are a couple of important emails from you guys that I will get back to ASAP though. You'll hear from me very soon.

Color Textures Fun Challenge revealing time! Lots of wonderful textures and colors... it's so much fun to look at what you guys came up with. :D To all you icon makers, you get 29 different sets of textures (submitted by 17 people) to play with all at once. It's like Christmas. ;)

Originally, I was going to sort these by color but then it turned out not to be very practical since the colors went all over the place. Hee! All the better, I say. A couple of people, I think, also may have misunderstood the terms of challenge, so a few sets came out having a range of more than one color. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough on that point... but I'm including them in the list anyway since they were already made and, well, how can I not? They're goodies! :p

Enjoy, and don't forget to comment on their respective posts! I'm sure they'd love to hear what you think.

( The Color Textures Gallery! )

I had wanted to try something different, so I set up some odd specifications and limitations for making this particular batch of icons. Basically, I gave myself 4 rules. If I were to use textures, it has to be from this set (I randomly picked an old one of mine). No text allowed, including tiny ones. I'd use only the Naruto manga chapter b/w covers for the icons. And finally, I can't rotate any of the pictures, do multiple/duplicate cropping of the pictures, or combine any of them either. *_* Sooo, this is the style I ended up with. I wish I could say they turned out better than I hoped, but at least it was a somewhat interesting experience.

*Last 2 icons are just old ones thrown in with this lot and not part of the aforementioned "personal challenge" exercise.

06. 27. 10.

( I ship Kiba and Hanabi )

Remember my Fun Scribbles & Decorations set? These were made pretty much right after that one, except I was iffy about posting them back then because of the huge crazy dashed lines fad thing... which may seem weird to some that I didn't want to post them when it was popular and instead chose to post them now that the fad has long died down. :p Anyhow, these are all in varying sizes... many of which are large enough for banners, headers, etc. Have fun with it!

Preview: (44 brushes total)


( Download link and the usual... )

NOTE: For those participating in the COLOR TEXTURES FUN CHALLENGE, the submission deadline has been extended for 3 extra days due to several people being pressed for time. The new deadline is now on Friday, July 6th at 11pm. This will be the only extension, so get it in by then! :)