We've all got 'em, some use 'em, and some even collect 'em... In this thread I suggest to those of us who collect emoticons that we can share them with each other. P.S.: Please only post emoticons that look good on any background colour... This: rather than this: And, please, none of that white fluff left over from a bad removal of a white background. Like this: Do feel free to post unfinished projects of you own, like this one of mine: And anything you might have found since we last had one of these threads.
Around the net, threads like this one, tweaking something that exists to make a point of your own, make them from scratch... the possibilities are endless! This, for instance, Is something I found somewhere and then made into a MIB-flasher emoticon.
His hands have been glued to the window and he can't get them off!!! Overall I like them, but there are a few that annoy me. I particularly hate when it is used in response to another person's post (as opposed to a ridiculous news headline or something). It is just rude and childish. It is simple, but I really like
^tweaking them is just (very) small scale photomanipulation -use PS or The Gimp or whatever you have. Or you can draw them in whichever app you have to draw in.
I love Smilies. I look at them as a modern revival of hieroglyphics. Some of my favorites include: And, of course: I've been drawing that one in birthday cards for decades. At some point it occurred to me to scan it and use it online, too.