Double rainbow! :O

Haha that is really clever, Galla. I like it.

@ Gaius - Oh good, I'm getting those freckles, I'll just have to create an avi for them later as I am in the middle of a new one now. Rare to meet a person whose favorite color is yellow. Do you mean primary yellow? Or like citrine yellow? Or dusty yellow? I hope you had a good party right before college, what year are you and what major?

As for my work...it is really complex but essentially our medical group decided to pull out of a job at the last minute due to ethical concerns and so there is a huge uproar and it is very unpleasant. I'm just keeping my head low and hope to avoid any fallout.

@ Gallagher - Yay for stalkage! Sexy McSexybutt, huh? Okaaaaay. *grins* Hahaha! Well what can I say about your rainbow avi? I can do nothing but sigh. *sighs* That is so clever and tight. Not sloppy, really perfected. I have seen your avatars and that is what makes them stand out. I am not sure if you spend a lot of time or if that is just a natural touch you have like the assured brushstrokes that come quickly to a master artist, but for the most part your avatars are finely polished to the tiniest degree. Do you have a particular secret or tip you would like to share with us?

I'm bad at coplays too, I don't even attempt them. You should have seen my ninja turtle, it was so funny. XD

Well I am working on an avatar right now. It's turning out dark lilac and gray. We'll see if it stays that way.

Oh Galla, that rainbow is so sexy. So jealous. D:

I sure wish I could afford more commons. D: It's getting hard to keep up with all the items now.

As long as they don't kill you, Gally, I'll be happy with them. >w>

Don't worry, we're spreading the common love around. I get to work on a big one this time. :3 OH THE COLORS!!!

Well, either way, as long as you don't die of recolours, Gally, I'll be happy. :3

*starts nomming on your snake tail* >w>

No less than 80 colors on my item, Galla! **salutes back**

I actually do not have many commons. I am going to go and look at them now and start up a collection. As for baseless avatars *wibble* I'll have to see if I can try that. o_O

I really recommend commons. I think they are worth the investment because they can go into so many avatars. The newer ones that are part of sets I feel are almost DI quality (and some appeal to me even more than the DIs) and all of them are just so flexible because they come in so many colors.

Oh wow. I noticed you didn't have any arms before, but I didn't really think too hard about it. I think it was the backgrounds making it feel crowded. Now that I look a lot closer at all the details, though, that's way cool how you put your avi together.

Yeah, going baseless and skinless is really fun. It's just a lot of work. I need more practice going baseless first before I can add the skinless aspect as well. >w>

How does one go baseless? o_O If someone could instruct me I would be very appreciative!

Headbands, wow!! Gotta look for those. And I am just now finding out about some very nice hairstyles in the salon. Hmmm...I must say it never occurred to me to put bangs behind a skin, what a great idea. But I am not very innovative...I know I do the same things over and over. So wow, breaking out here would be very nice.

Glad to see these discussions, thank you Lucid, Gallagher, Arikana and others for popping into the thread, it's quite an eye-opener.

In the avatar editor, under the male/female bases tabs, the very last options are blank. Click that and it will remove your base completely. C:

Yep, just good old primary yellow, although lighter and/or more greenish yellows are nice as well. I didn't think it was that rare. Less common than blue or black though I guess.

Vacation was fun. Not as much me time as I'd have liked, but I got to spend a lot of quality time with friends. I'm a third year math major, still with no real career plans in mind. I just like solving puzzles is all. xD

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I'd hate to be in the middle of an ethical issue like that. That would be tough. I've had an interest in the medical field since high school though. What kind of work do you do?

Ari...here's challenge 3...it's kind interesting, although it feels as though something is missing around the feet. I just can't figure out what to use.

Yeah, I'm not a fan with how this one turned out. :( I feel it's a bit dissonant, imo. Not sure how to help improve it though. D:

Yeah I wish I could tweak it better. I like the actual avatar but it's the back of her that seems off...

Ok first on the baseless avatar, thank you Lucid!. I am going to try that right away. That just sounds like such a fun challenge! The thought of no arms is mind boggling. I keep looking at your avi Gallagher...ever read God Emperor of Dune?

@ Gaius - Math major, I just have to say wow, I really admire that. I used to love math so much, I only did college calculus though, I really did not have time to go on since I had a really tight schedule. I'm a neurologist, my field of interest is epilepsy, I did a 2 year fellowship in neurophysiology and now I am doing remote intraoperative monitoring.

@ Kali - That is a strong amount of blue at the bottom, but I like the green and yellow and blue you did otherwise!

I felt there needed to be some blue on the bottom. Since the feet were so white it felt like something was needed.

Woo. Avatar number four of six using the Deu backgrounds is complete. :D

Interesting...I REALLY need to get those hairs.

Yeah, you should. I love using the cosmic hair. <3

I still need to add the Salon items to my quest list.

I totally overuse the cosmic hairs and wolf bangs SO much. But I could care less, I love 'em all to death. <3 Even though none of them look like my real life hair. :P

I started this avatar with the intent to use the cosmic hair and/or wolf bangs to get multicolored hair. I ended up bald instead. XD That's how my avatar process usually goes though. I give myself a personal challenge and then completely deviate from it after playing around with stuff for a while.

Yeah, that's how I work, too, when I'm making avatars. Things evolve a lot from what I plan to do. XD

I'm a lot more likely to stick to a challenge if somebody else gives it to me, because they're expecting to see it! I can give myself challenges like "use this item in this color along with that other item in that color" and then halfway through end up taking one or both items off and replacing them with something that fits where I was going with the avatar a lot better. But then it ends up not being challenging because I stray back to my usual style! D:

Yeah, I can't even keep to other people's challenges most of them time, if I do keep to it they'll either be butt ugly or I just give up on the challenge. :c

Which is why I just like creating avatars on a whim revolving around one or two items/colours/etc. only. >w<

It seems people either really like math or really hate it, probably because it comes a lot more quickly to some than others. And that's a fascinating field of study! Neuroscience is my main reason for being interested in medicine! I was a psychology major for a brief time, but I don't like the program at my school much, so I switched. Epilepsy would be fascinating to study.

I like math for it's simplicity as a language across the world. Despite it's complexity at times, if you show a math problem to someone half way around the world, they can still have a chance to understand it. (Whether or not they can solve it is another issue.)

If you ever meet any extraterrestrials, show them a geometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem to determine if they are intelligent.

But seriously, yes, math is a beautiful universal language. Notation may vary, but because of its grounds in logic and basis from the laws of physics, it can be understood in a similar way across cultures.

Yeah, math is awesome. I'm a bit rusty with it as I've not practised it in some time, but I'm still decent at it. :3

This is so true for me. I just go back to my usual. Oh well, but it does not have to be all a bad thing. It is sort of like comfort food for me, lol.


@ Gaius - Neuroscience is very interesting. It gets a bit wooly in places, but I suppose really advanced math is like that too. Epilepsy is a phenomenally interesting subject but for me, I like EEG best of all. The one naturally follows the other, but EEG interpretation is an art involving complex pattern recognition. Fun!


Back on the topic of avatars, Arikana I love the new look! I had no idea that hair existed.

Kali you are right, those Salon items are really important!