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I made some Gankutsuou icons! Finally. Only four, though ^^;; This show is so freaking pretty!

01: 02: 03: 04:

01 and 02 are from episode 15, because I'm an utter sucker for the Count having maybeactuallyreal!feelings for Albert. The kanji in 03 and 04 reads hakushaku ("Count"). I managed to find the right rank of nobility under the second kanji with the reading "haku" that I looked up in my ginormous kanji dictionary! XD There were like seventeen entries for "haku" scattered throughout it so I really lucked out.

And lemme tell you what I went through to get that text XD I thought "There's no way I'll find these in my random kanji brushes, so I might as well just write them myself." So after spending a long time writing them in Photoshop *perfectionist powers activate!* they still ended up looking like kanji written by a gaijin who doesn't really use a tablet that often. So I had the brilliant idea of just switching my keyboard to hiragana and writing the word out in Pages. I did that neat little press-enter-and-convert-to-kanji thing, made the font huge, screencapped it, and plopped it into Photoshop. Much easier XD

:3 *sense of accomplishment*

Date: 2010-06-15 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caitirin.livejournal.com
You did such an amazing job, baby!! These look wicked awesome!

Date: 2010-06-15 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com
n______n Thank you so much! *snuggles*

Date: 2010-06-17 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coastal-spirit.livejournal.com
These are gorgeous! And I love the process you went through to make your kanji meet your standards of perfection. I do think that perfectionist trait is somewhat hereditary, but I would have probably put my foot through the computer screen thrown up my hands in defeat before figuring it out. Taking them all. :}

Edit: My favorites are the last two, and my very favorite the last one.
Edited Date: 2010-06-17 09:48 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-06-19 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com
Heee, thank you ^_^ I was surprisingly patient with the kanji-making process for some reason this time, which is odd because icon-making that doesn't cooperate has a tendency to make me homicidal like few other creative things XD

I really like the last one too :3 Thank you again!

Date: 2010-06-22 01:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coastal-spirit.livejournal.com
which is odd because icon-making that doesn't cooperate has a tendency to make me homicidal like few other creative things

Me, too! And wallpaper. Of course, I think that 3/4 of my frustration stems from the fact that I forget how to use Photoshop properly, or that I don't know how to use some function of it at all, or that something that previously worked refuses to work this time. Heh. -_-;;

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Date: 2010-06-26 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mienaikitsune.livejournal.com
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Finally! Studio versions of NINE SPIRAL and JUSTIFIED! *_*

Re: A(nother) present for you

Date: 2010-06-26 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com
Whoa, cool! Thank you so much! :D

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