LJ icon musing

[dvandom]

It occurred to me today that I don't really have an icon appropriate to "sad". Mind you, I don't make a lot of sad/regretful posts, nor do I draw a lot of characters who'd be appropriate (and almost all of my icons come from my own art).

Still, with 34 icons in place, I do cover most stuff pretty well already. Looking at each of the icons (you should be able to see them all via my User Info page):

• Akiko - Happy, superheroics
  
• ASH - Topic-specific
  
• Beeba - Pondering, pedantic, thoughtful (it's the one on this post)
  
• Blue Goji - Angry, kaiju, crossovers
  
• Channel - Retro transformers (my token animated icon)
  
• Channel Classic - Transformers reviews
  
• Channel TFA - Transformers reviews, data tracking or statistics geekery
  
• ChannelRH - TF reviews, also encouragement/optimism/thumbs up
  
• Davan - Angry, Something Positive
  
• Domo-kun - Nothing in particular
  
• Goggles - Mad science, Girl Genius, "I have a weird idea"
  
• GUIRON - kaiju
  
• iCon - Mac-related stuff
  
• kiryu - kaiju, Crucible City (no longer relevant), neem
  
• Laelapis - kaiju, angry
  
• Legodzilla - kaiju, Monsterpocalypse kitbashing, Lego
  
• Miki - Disturbed, dubious
  
• Myrmidon - superheroics, Crucible City, DCAU
  
• Narbonic - Mad science, Dave Conspiracy (There Is No Conspiracy)
  
• Nishimura - Scion, confident, happy
  
• Ovals - Ribald, also art process
  
• peep - Kiddie stuff, catching up with people
  
• Reverb - Transformers, spooky stuff
  
• Shescream - Bitch, please!
  
• Skwirl - Power outage grousing (yes, I decided this needed an icon)
  
• Spuckler - WTF?
  
• Super Optimus - Comics/Transformers, crossovers
  
• Tix - Attacktix, kitbashing, a sort of "meh" face
  
• Tribarrel Chibi - Cuteness, travel, my car, Pixar's Cars
  
• TribarrelA - TF: Animated stuff
  
• TribarrelC - Transformers stuff
  
• UniMurr - Something Positive, crossovers, contentment
  
• Unity - Jagermonstering, crossovers, showing off
  
• ZandarinOops - Oops.
  

Yeah, I have a lot of kaiju icons right now. And a lot of angry ones, but that's in part because kaiju icons tend to be appropriate to anger as well. Plenty of Transformers icons as well, but I do make lot of TF art. Might ditch the TribarrelA and TribarrelC ones to make room for others next. I can't think of any existing art I've done that would work for sad...even my parody of Megatokyo's "Sad Girl in Snow" is more pensive than anything.

Comments

[alroderick.livejournal.com]

What about the one from your previous post, the mini you made of yourself? I think that it looks rather glum, with he slightly angled eyebrows, and fogged-up glasses to conceal the tears. Cheer up, little guy!

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

That's the "Tix" one.