Durinthiam

Ok so I've been locked away behind Photoshop and Vegas for the past...god knows how many hours, working on my new project Ready Steady Boom! a weekly game review. Beginning with Battlefield Bad Company 2 Watch It!

As there are far too many :+fav: messages for me to get back to with a reply. I'm going to say a big big big BIIIIIIIIIIIG thank you to everyone who has :+fav:'ed my emote, and a :glomp: has to go out to `TimberClipse (https://www.deviantart.com/timberclipse) for suggesting one of my emotes as a Daily Deviation!!! :thumb153478914:

*snip* "The Intricate Art of Emoticons (Or: How I Lost My Mind To The Pencil Tool) Over the years, I have personally developed my skills as an Emoticonist from horribly editing the good old vBulletin emotes, to emulating the phpBB inverted pear style (minus the irratating white halo obviously!) until now I have settled on my own (steadfast) ways of shading and animation. What I aim to do with this article, is give fresh faced 256 colour Emoticonists a bit of an insight into the finer thinkings of making a cute little fella that people want to use on their forums, in dAmn or on their journals." Aye, I just submitted a bit of a news article