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10/27/2005: GIP
In my recent poll on icon ideas the Kill-Kill-Kill!RatCreature icon came out on top, so following popular demand (well okay, three votes compared to two for bouncing Tigger!RatCreature and one for grim Robin!RatCreature, so maybe "popular" may be stretching it a bit... *grin*), I now present my 41st icon:
I can't stress enough how supremely dorky it feels to pose in your bedroom with a large stick in front of a digital camera set on autotimer, because you just can't get the position and foreshortening of your avatar's arms and hands for your axe-murderer icon right and are trying to get photo references. Still worse however is, that even if you got a halfway decent pose in a photo (not easy, btw, when you have to find a secure place for the camera that also allows you to position yourself in the few seconds the timer gives you so that your whole body really is in the picture) all that won't help you. Because, surprise, surprise, your cartoon avatar looks rather different from you, for example it has this huge nose that extends into the space where your arms were in your reference pose, also it doesn't actually has proper shoulders, joints or proportions like you do.
Perhaps I ought to look at modeling clay, to create miniature 3D avatars with the right features (not that I am any good at creating tiny clay models *snort*), however being lazy I settled instead merely for one of the slightly less crappy attempts I had produced after far too many sketches, both complete and partial, of my alter ego holding an axe, regardless of its remaining problems.
Well, at least by the end I was in the right mindset for the "kill! kill! kill!" icon, so that's something I guess.
Other random things that pop into my head when I look at this icon: What is it with those truly awful non-standard LJ community symbols?! You know, the tiny picture indicating a community in front of an LJ name that's normally like this: 
, however for some inexplicable reason there apparently exists an option to change it into a randomly colored and/or pulsating/blinking thing, or other garish, tiny pictures that people think symbolize their community better. ::shudder::
