[Umaeril]

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!

[Kali_Namir]

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

[Arikana]

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

[Kali_Namir]

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

[Arikana]

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

[Kali_Namir]

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

[Arikana]

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

[Lucid:]

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.

[Arikana]

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

[Lucid:]

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:

[Arikana]

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<

[Gaius]

Originally Posted by Umaeril

@ 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.

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.

[Arikana]

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.)

[Gaius]

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.

[Arikana]

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

[Umaeril]

Originally Posted by Lucid:

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:

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!