Rizu's icons are SEXAY as always; my only concrit would be possibly doing a light smart sharpen when you're done because they seem a bit blurry with the airbush-style shading, and removing tones after you color. ): I always leave mine in as a base guideline for shading, but things always look much cleaner when there's no tones. o/

I absolutely adore your use of rich colors, especially how you never go overboard with brightness. (Though you just had to prove me wrong with using sea-green cyan in the first icon. XD It worls well though with the overall darkness.)

You always incorporate patterns beautifully in the background without behind overwhelming. They add a very nice, very subtle touch without bringing much attention forward.

Blah blah blah my only other gripe is text bubbles. Most of your icons don't have them anymore but icons always look cleaner when you remove speech bubbles. X3

ALL IN ALL: SEXY AS ALWAYS, TEACH ME YOUR RICH COLORING WAYS MASTER, DONCHA WISH YO ICONS WERE HAWT LIKE RIZU'S.

Pff, you keep talking like that I'm gonna get a swelled head or somethin'. Sheesh~ ♥

I really should try removing tons... on the ones like the first icon it's kind of intimidating, but for whatever dumb reason it never occurred to me to fiddle around with that sort of technique on more clean line art ones... hmm...

And, oh, yes, speech bubbles. XD After that RP!S, I could never forget speech bubbles. I personally like to leave them be, usually, well- if they in any way go on to the lineart, rather than erase them and redraw it, since I'm not so hot in the redrawing portion, and I've just never minded them much. Ones like- *ho hum, hunts for examples* this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/Raigekijin/Bleach%20Avatars%20II/Noitora159.png) and this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/Raigekijin/Bleach%20Avatars%20II/Ulquiorra10-1.png) I make especially for the speech bubble content... and ones like this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/Raigekijin/Kuroshitsuji%20Avatars/Joker11.png) or that (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/Raigekijin/Kuroshitsuji%20Avatars/Blanco04.png) I just don't mind the bubbles being there... but I guess that in the end is just going to boil down to user/maker pref. on the oh so highly debatable topic of speech bubble appropriateness... *snerk?*

ALL IN ALL: thank you for the sexy nice review, baby! I will get to reviewing others when I am operating on more than one hour of sleep... for the fail.

PFFFFFFFFFT Fane is there to pop it, if need be. ):

lawl well pen tool is your friend, as is a 5px brush and a pressure-sensitive tablet. :3 Pen tool makes everything easier anyways, especially on larger pieces.

Haha that secret was crazy. ): But I kinda get where they were coming from too. See, the first two? That's fine! They're meaningful and legible. I think the secret-maker was just raging about the bubbles because sometimes you leave them in, where it's too much redrawing and such, but you can't read the text in them or it's cut off.

The latter two? Are WONDERFUL ways to incorporate speech bubbles. Like, seriously. If you did that more often people wouldn't even know they were speech bubbles. It adds to the overall feeling of the icon and gives it a bit more depth, I really like both. :> Especially the Joker one; it adds a splash of my favorite color and really stands out/blends well with the other colors. *w*

...I only have four icons with speech bubbles and they're all tiny like this one ahahaha.

LOL oh god I need to... go to bed as well orz; Hello 6AM.

PFFT YOURSELF STOP TALKING ICON LOGISTICS WITH ME AND GO TO BED, WOMAN!

LOL NO JUST TO SPITE YOU I'M STAYING AWAKE ALL DAY

Goddamnit, Jamie!

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