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(imaginaire)

Mar 15 2008, 10:32 AM

_{skye. asian. nineteen. gimp.
be prepared for a wave of korean artists in graphics. during the time i disappeared from tda, i have roughly 2000 more pictures that have gone unused. >_<

avatars.

banners.

blends.

AWARDS.
[not by me]

Crash Into Me - Featured Sig by Dani
Hidden Designers - AOTW6 2nd place by +ĦĐ. AznFX
Hidden Designers - LAOTF2 3rd place by Squiddo
PC - Sophomore Artist
PC - Requests Challenge by ZiggyStardust
rcR - Intermediate
rcR - Accomplished
rcR - Master
rcR - best at banners
TDA - LGMS Cycle Two Honorable Mention by BitterSweetFlames
TDA - Junior MC by Caren
TDA - Feb YBW by Violet
TDA - Senior by Violet
TDA - Staff by Caren
Vesperarium - Journeyman by Enough4
Vesperarium - Novice by Enough4
Vesperarium - Ace by Enough4
Vesperarium - Breaking Dawn Bets - First Place by insighttoangela
.pandemonium- Fifth Form by airloved.

RESOURCES.
[if i left you off, shoot me a pm!]

Colorfilter
RedHeadStock
Obsidian Dawn
Ocumencia
Screencaps and Image Packs
Staphylae
Swimchick

tutorials.
o1. o2.}

Violet

Mar 15 2008, 10:35 AM

Ahha! First post!

You make the painted style work for you, Skye. And the colouring, the placement, the text?! *swoons* Brilliant stuff. You've improved so much since becoming Junior, and even more since you started with graphics. Keep it up!

fantôme

Mar 15 2008, 10:46 AM

_{SECOND!

skye, you're style really rocks. It's so smooth and well blended and colored. Your sense of text rocks too. KEEP IT UP PEANUT BUTTER!}

a.perfect.lie

Mar 15 2008, 10:46 AM

your gallery is really gorgeous
i love the fourth banner, the combination of those dark colors with pink is fabulous <3
the one one the skulls is great too, i like the 'shaded' text

.flystella

Mar 15 2008, 10:50 AM

_{SKYE!!! you should be a senior. :nods: your banners are made of win. and the coloring is so... unique. but the good kind of unique. not napolean dynomite unique. because no matter how awesome that movie was, it always had the underlying sense that he was going to like become satan. make some more stuff(other than banners) so i can put some whipped ceam on them. and then eat them.}

fatal_intoxication

Mar 15 2008, 11:27 AM

I think I may have lurked in your gallery at rcr xD
the way that you colour your graphics makes me envious
the things you do in psp seriously i wish i could do =p
i like that signature at the top -prods it-

invisibleforest

Mar 15 2008, 11:50 AM

Skye! Your coloring is immensely awesome and I love your style. Your graphics have improved loads and and yeah that says it all

*glomps*

<33

Alora

Mar 15 2008, 12:07 PM

Shall I tell you why I love you more than most?

You use PSPX, and prove that you can get such astounding colouring in your graphics! This new style you in, keep it!! I love the colouring you're achieving out it, it's really amazing! Keep it up, hun!

love machine

Mar 15 2008, 12:22 PM

dude you've developed such a nice style! that coco blend is total love! i saw it in the graphic a day thread and died! fo rizzle! keep up the awesome amounts of awesomeness!

Caren

Mar 15 2008, 12:27 PM

SKYE!!! Dang, I had the first post on your last gallery. Oh well, you're awesome, you already know that I stalk you too. I adore the painter look and your coloring is bangin! You keep producing more graphics for me to stalk.

Paisley

Mar 15 2008, 12:34 PM

^{YOU'RE A JUNIOR?! Dude, I totally thought you were a Senior...--waitsimpatientlyforApril-- I know who I'm nominating! Anyway: You've got a groovy thing going here, with your painting-esque style. It's really innovative and refreshing. Nice to see someone not going with the trends --hidesmygallery--. I want to squisheleth your graphics!

xx Apple}

Abyssica

Mar 15 2008, 01:22 PM

skye, i LOVE your stuff.
your coloring is so cool, and PHWOAH! how do you DO that with no selective color?!?

you're totally awesome and your style is so completely unique!
-my yoda powers sense a promotion soon-

amanda.la

Mar 15 2008, 01:23 PM

wait... wow. this stuff is so beautiful!
the blending is great and the colors are just so bright and wonderful!
great, great, great work!

<3
p.s. my show choir is performing selections from aida for the spring concert! such fun music

tableau

Mar 15 2008, 01:47 PM

Your gallery's really good, and I love the psychadelic-vintage coloring twist you've got on some of your graphics. This is lovely, in all aspects of the word. Great gallery!

aziraphale

Mar 15 2008, 01:51 PM

skye=awesome.

i mean, LOOKIE!!!!! the style youre developing is totally working, cant wait to see more shinies and pretties <3333

and also, HAPPY 17THHHHHHHHHHHH! <333

karina

Mar 15 2008, 02:20 PM

Your banners are awesome

prongsie

Mar 15 2008, 06:43 PM

_{betch, plz. don't lie and say you don't have selective colouring.
...D:
how can your banners be so colourful yet still have that angst to them?! INGENIOUS, utterly INGENIOUS.
D:

ily.}

abinya

Mar 15 2008, 06:49 PM

Skye, your stuff is amazing. You have improved so much since I first saw you when I started. I love your colouring. In no time you'll be promoted

akeyana

Mar 15 2008, 06:50 PM

you've improved so much since you got promoted! your style is

. and the colouring + text + everything? (dies) especially the colouring; and you don't even have selective colour - (dies again). (glomps your gallery and takes up residence here)

&& HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY! <3

p.s. i am so nominating you for a promotion. (waits for end of march to roll around)

Ladywolf

Mar 15 2008, 07:13 PM

Skye how on earth do you get that amazing coloring!! And without selective coloring?!? Girl, you are too amazing for your own good. Seriously, you are so gonna get promoted soon! Your style is so unique, and versatile! I love your gallery!

~Steph

P.S. Happy birthday! I'll be back later this week with that critique you asked for, but I seriously have no idea how I'm gonna be able to critique your amazing work

theClash

Mar 15 2008, 08:13 PM

owhhh, i lovee your banners! the coloring and the images you incorporated. fantastic work! hope to see more of blends

Enough4

Mar 15 2008, 08:25 PM

your banners are ridiculously amazing, stunning work!

Bobby Dazzler

Mar 15 2008, 09:31 PM

Wow, is it even possible to do that without selective colouring? Obviously it is as you don't have it, but unless I'd have seen it like this, I wouldn't have believed it

Amazing gallery Skye, truly amazing

Beautifully colourised, beyond lovely

I totally thought you were a senior btw, but since you're not, you will be in no time at all, I really think that

Amazing work! Nothing else to it

(imaginaire)

Mar 15 2008, 09:34 PM

_{oh joy... -tackles comments-

Violet- really? it's swoon worthy? -pictures potter puppet pals at this exact moment for some reason...- thank you! -hugglesglomps-

lily_evans_for_life- thank you hafsa! trying to see how long i can last with this style (hopefully a LONG time).

in_shock- i'm addicted to drop shadow. more than half the graphics here have it...-winches- thanks karen!

.flystella- i realized if i replied to these earlier, i would have had to type your old username. and senior? -ohmy: you sure you typed that right? and napolean dynamite as satan? then hell's one scary place. even scarier with napolean as satan. -scarred for life trying to picture it- god must be laughing hysterically right about now. i'll try to make icons. SOON. promise.

fatal_intoxication- -prods back- nat. seriously. you know more stuff on psp than i do. i've seen your gallery. don't deny it.

invisibleforest- suzie! -glomps- thanks! (your coloring rocks too you know!)

Alora- i DID try photoshop for a little while with selective coloring...didn't work so well. i'll stick to my curves and midtones thank you very much. thanks!

silv3r_ic3- lubi. died for that blend?! it took hours to make cause i kept deleting layers, adding layers, and finally realizing how much blends just stink.

Caren- sorry you couldn't get first on this too! -huggles- i'm sure my graphics like all your stalking eyes. (sounds more nasty than i intended. )

Paisley- APPLE! senior? nope. still junior. it's the green...very deceptive. and btw. you do NOT go by trends. i can tell your graphics apart from anyone else's. so THERE.

Abyssica- YODA TINA! -tries to picture and fails miserably- it's all in the midtones and curves. knows that yoda should.

amanda.la- thanks! your show choir is performing it? can i join yours instead? ours is just doing sound of music/popular from wicked/ and all this other random junk. -sneaks off to your school-

tableau- thank you! -glomps with hugs and confetti-

angel_on_d_outside- thanks val! (you're starting to remind me of dory and her obsession with squishy things... )

karina- thanks! -hugs-

prongsie- cause i'm a colorfully angsty person? (not so much... ) so you can boosh somewhere else mary.

abinya- i wish. thanks hun! -huggles-

akeyana- you know...all these 'a' usernames are starting to confuse me... -glomps back and calls security to move persons to away from graphics-

Ladywolf- no problem about the critique. i've still got mine to do after everyone finishes up with their [glomp] comments and gets back to mean hard critique. thanks steph! -GLOMPS-

theClash- oh thank you! i'll work on blends when i have enough time and when no one can hear me screaming at psp for acting up and not coming out properly.

Enough4- thanks so much! -hugs-

Kate- aww! thanks hun! psh no. not senior. -squishes-

i'm quite surprised no one has mentioned my image placement on banners that all end up almost exactly in the same spot (the people, i mean). seriously. draw a straight line down and the people are right there. funny thing is...they just end that way, i didn't plan them to do that. and i wonder if i went over the allowed smiley count...}

hedwidgeon

Mar 15 2008, 11:33 PM

_{WHOAMYGOSHSKYEYOUMUSTTEACHUSHOWTODOTHESEWONDERFULTHINGSYOUDO.
(especially us selective-coloring deprived people.)

NOBUTSERIOUSLY.

I mean, I remember the days when you were a member and i was like hmm... i like where she's going with this and now i'm like WHOAMYGOSHTHISISSOFREAKINGCOOLI'MGONNADIE.

yeah. your style is developing into something really really pretty and unique, and it totally works so well on all of your graphics. i mean, wow, the coloring and image placement everywhere is just really really cool. you must teach us how you do it. YOU MUST I SAY!!

...and there was something else i wanted to say, but it totally slipped my mind. MUSTA BEEN YOUR AWESOME TALENTS THAT CHASED IT OUT.

oh, i remember now. I think your stuff is getting really senior worthy...}

ilovemyflute

Mar 15 2008, 11:33 PM

Skye, you are made of awesome!

To do all of that without selective coloring?!
I tried making something in PSP once... but it didn't work out so well XD.
Anyways I love your gallery!

oncefound

Mar 16 2008, 12:01 AM

Wow! I am in awe of how well you use the resources in PSP. Seriously, you are like ten times better at coloring in PSP than I am.

Anyway, your style is really developing into something beautiful, so keep it up! I can't wait to see more from you.

hayley jade

Mar 16 2008, 11:43 AM

Oi, Skye! You rock! At everything, and I bow down to you even more for doing it all without selective coloring

. That's pretty dang amazing. Your banners are gorgeous and your blend is so unique and prettiful. I really hope you get promoted this time around, because you really deserve it

. *huggles*

~Beth

GryffindorGirl153

Mar 16 2008, 06:48 PM

first, i'd like to say that your banners are GORGEOUS.
i love your colouring, and everything else

your blend is beautiful aswell,
which makes me envy you

just_lovely

Mar 16 2008, 11:53 PM

You definitely have the painted effect mastered, whether in your banners or in your blends

! Also, your coloring is

. Seriously, a promotion is on your way soon <3.

ShadowKisses

Mar 17 2008, 04:47 AM

soooooooooooomeeeonnnnnnnne is getting a promotion sooooooooooooon...
can't wait to say itoldjaso.

you're seriously made of awesome.
your colouring is out of this world.
your style just screams you.
your blending is luuurvley.
<3

(imaginaire)

Mar 17 2008, 12:33 PM

hedwidgeon- are you asking for a tut? any specific one you want me to do it on?

silly heddy.

lovemyflute-

yeah. i can't even figure out how to erase in ps. that's how much i suck and stick only to psp.

thanks luff!

twilightave-

when you USED to use psp, you still kicked everyone's tush.

thanks hun! <333

lotrfan185- awww! thanks hun! -glomps-

GryffindorGirl153- envy me?

thank you for the lovely comment! -squee hug-

just_lovely- mastered? far from it....

aw! thanks luff! -huggles-

ShadowKisses- psh.

thanks saba! -glomps-

argetlam shadeslayer

Mar 17 2008, 04:53 PM

_{Dude, Skye, you most definitely don't even NEED selective-coloring. With coloring like that, you could make anyone with PS want PSP. Seriously, your style has developed so beautifully, and your coloring is absolutely gorgeous. It's just so smooth and vintage-y.

A promotion soon, I sense there will be, young padawan. (Even though, graphically, you'd be, like, a Jedi knight or Sith lord or something. Okay, I'll stop talking now.... )

But yeah, back to my original point. You know, before I lost myself looking at your scrummy banners. STOP BEING AWESOME. Just kidding.

emma.}

MissHailee

Mar 18 2008, 12:15 AM

and no-i do not have selective coloring.

Roonil Wazlib

Mar 18 2008, 04:04 AM

so i just have to say *fangirl squese* over that sig u have at the moment; it is love. you have such a unieque style, and what you do with text >.< wow - i think my fav banner is the picture frame one "timeless" its very very good and suites your style well. keep up the great work

wanderlust.

Mar 18 2008, 09:38 AM

I really like your graphics. This especially. You have a really cool style and I can't wait to see more.

amour.toujours

Mar 19 2008, 11:37 PM

ha, your banners pwn and I have just noticed you dont even use selective color!!

Love the coloring, you should make tutorials for them

(imaginaire)

Mar 24 2008, 05:42 PM

argetlam shadeslayer EMMA!

I TAKE SITH LORD! BWAHAHAHA!

HA. i'd eat your graphics any day.

MissHailee psh. you're amazing! staff? oh no. that won't be for a long time yet! must first learn how to make halfway decent avatars/sigs/blends first! and overzealous fangirls are awesome! (i fangirl everyone.)

thanks for the lovely comment! -hug-

Roonil Wazlib

thank you! -bowsdowntoalmightygraphicartist- -SQUEE-

Aphrodite GRACIAS! (cause thank you in english is getting boring.

) -huggles-

Vany DANKE! (i think that's correct)...

one day when i get the time to make a tut...(it's all the same anyways. once you know one graphic, you know the secret to all of them).

-is very predictable-

Pink_Pastel

Mar 25 2008, 03:33 PM

thiiiis is amazinggg! i loooove it1 &the nateserenadan one. gooosh your graphics are sooooo beautiful. i'm surprised you're merley a junior artist. & that i have NOT cmnted your gallery! *checks wait did i...? i dunno. lol. but really - you're AWEsome.

.flystella

Mar 26 2008, 04:13 PM

_{SKYE PIE! after 'bout a week, i'm here. let's have a mini party over my... i can't think of the word.

so anyways,

icons or lackthereof. i can't say much about your icon skillz with only four of them but i will do my best. the cuts are slightly repetitive. *slightly* and i'm not sure why but the text just seems... off? but the coloring is so totally awesomesauce.

8/10

signature-header thing i seriously like adore this. no joke. and i'm really jealous of your mad blending skillz. they're pretty sweet. and the coloring is completely gorgeous.

10/10

bannersmortal i'm still jealous of your blending. it's so... flawless and so skye. that makes me sound like some hippie. not that there's anything wrong with hippies. the text is awesome but it might've been even better if you had put it between the two people; because when it's on the far right it makes the whole banner a bit unbalanced. the coloring seems slightly too orange. at least on their skin otherwise it's pretty!

throw my world away blending = <3 not even kidding. the coloring is much less orange too! gold star! and we all know: gold stars > mary. the small quote thing - if it's long enough to be called a quote - fits the mood perfectly! the title's font just seems too... curly? idk. and slightly too small.

rekindle i'll admit i'm a sucker for paintbrush effects. and your blending. but the right girl seems a lot more sharp than the left one and it makes the transition a bit strange. and they're orange but not too orange! + gold star! one more thing; everything's things paintbrush-y and then there's the font. it's just too sharp, not pixelly just too sharp for the banner itself. and seeing as i've never used the paintbrush effect(btw, what effect on psp do you use? because i can't seem to figure it out) i don't know if using the effect on the text would work. expeirimentation!

believe in looking i love this. moving on.

hope for freedom perhaps make the title *slightly* larger?

timeless i just don't like scriptina. personal opinion thing. honest. and they seem orange again. this time just a *bit* too orange not like BAM I LOVE ORANGES.

harry potter banner because i'm too lazy to make it larger to read the text. this time harry's too orange(he's got a case of jaundis! there.) and hermione's not orange. so clashing skin tones = lemonade in eye only much much less painful. okay bad anagram... thing. it just seems a bit too busy; and the text is hard to read. i'd suggest moving it on the other side of the banner you'd have more room.

lonely cast of one i'm normally not a fan of a lot of difference but you m'dear are one of a kind. and the text is pretty snazzy too.

8.9/10

blends
the gods love nubria...? this seems to have a LOT of difference. it looks like an x-ray but it's got skulls. which means it fits. (see what i mean by 'i can't be mean'?) but text = love.

time for mourning i love this. a lot. i'm just more of a cool-colored person.

i know the truth WOWZA. i love this. too much. only two *minor* things. \
a. the white text seems to stand out too much; a creamier color would've done wonders.
b. and the big harry seems to be much cooler colored in comparision to the other two. unless he was desaturated. than 'tis okay.

9/10

END

favourite piece this!
least-favourite piece clickme.
sub-total score 35.9/40 = A - i like to round
bonus points number of gold stars; 2 x 2 = 4 pts.
answer to question five; "MELLA." + 1/2 pts.
answer to question eight; "-can not make me choose!-...a pimpin' pirate. duh." + 2 pts

final score 35.9 + 6.5 = 42.4 = A++!

if i was unclear on anything just PM me, find me on the thread that would've been called TST.}

(imaginaire)

Mar 26 2008, 08:15 PM

Pink_Pastel aww! thanks hun! -hug-

.flystella

that's like...WOAH CRITIQUE! (and now i have reasons to throw certain graphics out!

) I used to make bluish banners but now they all turn out orange. I'll keep that in mind. -glomp- the rekindle banner...i was debating whether or not to kick it into the bucket a couple days ago. the white text and hair blending was throwing me of (still is). -kicks to garbage- it's not really a paintbrush effect, more a blur effect. (go to adjust-->add/remove noise-->edge preserving smooth and mess around with that option a bit). and the harry potter banner, harry's face was green and hermione's was pale -boohiss- i just got too lazy to change the coloring after 10 layers of facial adjustments. -lazy me-

blends...
gods love nubia. -laugh- i'm obsessed with a bit of difference but midtones just come out that way. and the whole thing is actually on burn. (which i rarely use in the first place). and in the potter blend, big harry did get desaturated cause he looked funky with green face harry and white face harry. i'll work on text (i think i was mad how the blend was turning out so i slapped on text -whistle-) love how you score critiques! and DUH. of course Mella is better. (mary's going to come in now and kick me...) thanks so much for the critique! you helped LOADS!!!! you get a bagillionkazillion gold stars! <333 ILY!

ShadowKisses

Mar 31 2008, 05:35 PM

ITOLDJASO!

congraaaaaaats on the promotion Skye, your colouring is just insane and without selective colouring, too! [This just blows me away. Amazing.] You're bursting with talent, and your style is completely recognisable.

congrats again hun!

amour.toujours

Mar 31 2008, 05:45 PM

congrats on the promo, skye, so deserved!!

19sixtynine

Mar 31 2008, 05:46 PM

Congrats, dollface

Totally deserved.

ciaoxbella

Mar 31 2008, 06:01 PM

_{SKYE!
CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS!
This promotion was so deserved
Your graphics are loff}

hedwidgeon

Mar 31 2008, 06:08 PM

_{SKYE IS A SENIOR!!! your style has just BOOMED into something amazing, honestly this wasn't much of a surprise but you still deserved it times a million.}

Redemption

Mar 31 2008, 07:05 PM

OMFG! OMFG! OMFG! You're going to give me a heart attack Skye!
CONGRATS ON THE PROMO! *rubs eyes* WHOA! This is all so fast!
Very well deserved Skye.

Keep it up!

Lyzettyne

Mar 31 2008, 07:57 PM

CONGRATS!

Your stuff is just so shiny and smooth...this was well deserved!

.flystella

Mar 31 2008, 08:00 PM

_{SKYE PIE!

:KNEW IT:
:KNEW IT:
:KNEW IT:

SO LET'S GO CELEBRATE!
IT'LL BE STARY, MELLA AND SKYE!}

aziraphale

Mar 31 2008, 08:36 PM

senior skye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
congrats loff, you so deserved this one, your pieces are all lovely n the style youre developing is just gorgeous!!! keep pwning XD

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