1000 watchers!
So yes, a bit after its second birthday, Crysella has got over 1000 watchers! I'm very grateful to all of you for your support, especially to those who has been sticking with me since 2007 when my graphics were still mediocre. Unfortunately my banner composition skill is still made of fail so we are stuck with a bizarre banner with a beautifully smiling Sakura but ugly background and handwriting and texture usage and everything...yeah. Hopefully you are not regretting watching this comm now. *laughs*
I don't know if the 1000 mark is that big of an achievement or if my graphic making (...or maybe I should just call it specifically manga colouring from now on) skill is good enough but to me, the most important thing is to always seek for improvement. I just can't seem to be completely satisfied with my works no matter when; perhaps, the most satisfying achievement to me in the end is to see how my icons and colourings getting better posts after posts. Cheesy sounding, I know, but it's honest from my heart |D; It still leaves a big smile on my face whenever I compare my 2007 icons to the freshly baked ones. That said, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who took the time to leave a comment and give me suggestions in the previous meme! I apologize that I didn't have time to reply to them, but I did read them all (and probably can recite them by heart now...okay maybe not to that extent.). You guys are always so kind :)
Among all those suggestions I got from the meme last time, I have mostly been working on my cropping. It's still far from perfect or what you call "creative," but at least I can promise that next batch will have more variety than my usual plain boring head-crops...hopefully.
Ooooooh right. I forgot to say this right at the beginning for those who have been reading all these lines just for the...requests lol. Sorry, I'm not taking any requests this time as school finals are coming up really soon (and I absolutely, definitely, mistakelessly must do well on them this time otherwise evil parents would shut down my internet OmO;;), and then I'll be on vacation during Christmas break without access to Photoshop or SAI and possibly my tablet too. I will see if conditions allow me to open a request post sometime in late December or early January.
That aside, I have modified the community layout and profile, check them out if you are interested! The layout is still coded by meek at toyhouse, while the profile code was done by me this time. The golden community header features Alice, Oz and Gilbert from Pandora Hearts and the profile header features Elliot, Reo and Oz from the same series, both which I've fallen in love with at first sight and are illustrated by the talent mangaka Mochizuki Jun. (...my graphic journal has just turned into a Pandora shrine. Whoops.)
Lastly, as thank you gift to you all for reading the 3489987423 lines above (or to make this post less pointless), you can have a tiny preview of my upcoming batch in December (♥):
I also started an Olimpos colouring months ago (you read it right; months ago), but lost the motivation to finish it as I realized the shading on their hair was a real mess...and I'm too afraid to redo it again because all those strands give me nightmares Σ(゜д゜|||)
Maybe I will eventually finish it some three years later. Idk. I really like the page myself (and the manga itself, although I'm desperately lacking scans orz) and even spent two hours just to shop away the speech bubbles ;w;
Ennnnnd of post. Hopefully this doesn't bore you too much. xD;