New banner and default icon

[strangetomato]

I was messing around in Photoshop (working on a couple of recolours of various separates that I like) and I decided to make myself a new default icon. It's simple, but it says so much. I was really trying to make another one with Ripp flipping you the bird, and I found a useable pose from the hula dance, but the finger looks weird and too big. I'll probably pick away at it again later and see if I can do anything with it. I think it would be really funny.

While I was playing around with those Ripp hula dance screencaps, I decided to make a new banner too. It's also very simple, with just the title (it's nice to have that there again), and Ripp showing it off. I like the purple better than the colours I had there before, because purple is just pretty like that.

Fresh new things for a fresh new year!

Comments

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ripp, you so fine! *growls* :D

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

Ripp makes everything look good <3

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

Not to imply that the banner wouldn't be great without Ripp there :P

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, it would just be a plain purple background without him, wouldn't it?

Everything is better with a little Ripp in it. *nods*

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

Heehee, of course :D

[silvainsims.livejournal.com]

I am not going to say what I just thought. (I will, however, lol and revel in my dirty mind.)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Heehee. I thought it too. (This is why the icon is a good default for me.)

Perhaps I should say that everything is even better with a lot of Ripp in it, hmmm?

[silvainsims.livejournal.com]

Snrk. Probably true. *mind is very firmly entrenched in the gutter now*

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I love the new banner! It's clean, simple... and it has Ripp! :D

[applesafter.livejournal.com]

very nice strange_tomato!

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I LOVE it. Ripp makes everything delicious. EVERYTHING.

(And you've been messing around with your icons too! You've had like three different ones in a week. :P )

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Nice icon! Yup, it surely represents what Ripp's thinking about 95% of the time :D.

The banner is lovely too. Sometimes, the simplest things look way better than what we expect them.

[silvainsims.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love that shade of purple. Very nice banner, I like it. And the icon made me laugh, it's so very Ripp.

[catladymeow.livejournal.com]

Love them both. Purple is my favorite color too. And it has Ripp!! That makes it even better.

[hannahspring.livejournal.com]

Love purple. The best color EVER. Also, Ripp is my favorite character so you can't go wrong with this combination. Well done!

[nimi4.livejournal.com]

That soft purple blends well with the beige/orange and is very pleasing to the eyes. Ripp in his red shirt is very pleasing to the eyes too :D

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

I love the possibilities of what he could be saying. "I am great at Woohoo." "Woohoo is fantastic, you should do it more." "Want Woohoo?" "That sounds sexy." "Kinky!" Aah, I love Ripp.

The new banner definitely focusses the story more on Ripp. It's also peaceful.
(He also looks like a presenter on Wheel of Fortune..."And the letters that are revealed are...")

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes... those are all excellent possibilities. I also like the flippant "Go woohoo yourself."

Well, in many ways the story does focus on Ripp. If any one character was to be singled out as central to the story, it's Ripp. Most all of the different characters find a common connection through Ripp, more or less (to varying degrees of separation), and he was the first and is the most significant link between the Smith and Grunt families (though Buck followed shortly after). That's the heart of the story: the interaction between the Grunts and the Smiths/Curiouses.

I just like the simplicity of it. And I may as well wear my favouritism on my sleeve, right? ;)

I like how active that pose is. It's amazing what you can find if you dig through all the animations. I'm always finding something new.