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Well, no progress on yuletart yet, but I did manage to draw the Iron Man icon. (In the end I simply ignored the nose/faceplate issue, just coloring it like the faceplate -- just assume that if Tony had a nose like that he'd be able to invent armor seamlessly covering it or something.)

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Four more people commented on the drawble post I made last week:
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The last post indicated that the combination of a hat with the handcuffs would be enough to make Neal!RatCreature recognizable for people. So I hope that worked.

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A Methos!RatCreature, and for once my icon's hair does not look worse or more unnatural than the canon version. I decided to show the skull facemask as the obvious prop, even though such a mask would not fit my avatar. Just pretend it would sit above the nose somehow, or something...

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And now the Erik!RatCreature.

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Magneto!RatCreature has been slightly trending ahead of Erik!RatCreature in my earlier poll so I finished that one first. But I'll probably finish the other too.

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I decided my existing X-Men icons of Cyclops and Wolverine aren't really suitable for X-Men First Class, and that I needed an Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto icon. The only problem is that I'm not sure whether to icon Magneto!RatCreature with the helmet, which has the advantage of being recognizable, but otoh helmets don't work that well with the ears, and ( Read more... )

My poor rat Leo (the one who has been struggling for some months now with antibiotics resistant myco) has stopped eating this weekend. I could coax him to eat a little bit of scrambled eggs today, but he hasn't been eating anything else since yesterday. If this continues, I will have to put him down very soon ( Read more... )