To my dear chum =ARTPOP-13!
Happy Birthday, I hope you have a spectacular day! To help along the celebrations, here's your EC Music in giantmote form! With a :la:llipop since you love candy! I do hope you love this too!

I really wanted to try out bubble dithering, so I used this as a guinea pig and rather liked it. What do you guys think?

And a quick sorry to everyone who has to comment and fav on my work while I leave theirs sat in my message box. Revision is too much to bear on top of dA duties. But, no excuses, I shall get some done this weekend, I hope.

Time to complete: Around 1 hour 30
Programs used: Paint.NET
Fuel: Imagine Dragons and Green Tea

I promise this year I will be a better emoticonist. 2012 was the practice run, 2013 onwards is the real deal

Minnow, a really cool 14-year-old from this book I used to love. Sadly, I don't think you can find it around anymore, but I still have my first edition!

_{I did make this on the day, I just couldn't be bothered to upload xD}

About this:
Any pointers welcome, I spent a lot of time on this and I'd love to improve it!
Used a lot of tips from *Kiwinuptuo's tutorials!

The original scene is from Tangled

<sub>So after the Friday I had, I took some time to calm down. Saturday morning a series of happiness ensued:
Mum: Are you okay, Beth, you weren't talking to your friends last night and you're up before 11am.
Me: Nope.
Mum: Was it _______ again?
Me: Yeppy.
Mum: Oh. Well I confiscated this Nerf gun off a kid the other day, want to set up a shooting range with cushions?
Me: YES PLEASE MUM <3
> Spent half an hour machine-gunning cushions
> Found out my Perler beads had arrived in the mail, started making perler ECs
> Discovered that, with my new set of Perlers, I now have 50 shades of grey beads
> Thought I couldn't make Sugar
> Found turquoise, made Sugar
> Watched Tangled, felt inspired
> My Kinder Egg surprise turned out to be a badass turtle, mofos!
> Was happy enough to return to online land
> Found out this legend was back:
> Squeed at all the emotes in my message centre
> Discovered this in my inbox:
> Practically melted when I saw my friends' usernames in my message centre

IN SUMMARY, I HAVE HAD ONE BLOOMING GOOD DAY

Hence, come near me today and I may hug you. Very tightly.</sub>

Please no one kill me for uploading this late
Anyway, here's my gift for =litecrush from the #EmoteSecretSanta 3.0! It was a fun ride, one in which I had a lot of trouble, but I'm happy with the result, I guess. And I can't wait to participate in the next one and do even better!

Nurse, get the garlic!

For the #WeEmote pixel event. Theme was 'The Unwanted Guest'.

Ah, what the heck, I think it'll make a pretty cute #TheEMTC entry!

I decided that, for Gabby's birthday, I should get all the emotes together to say a big hooray for her ageing, to show that, even though she's left the emote community and dA, the emotes still love her very much!

However, emotes being emotes they didn't actually do what I told them to. I said 'Three, two, one, CHEESE!', and they all simultaneously pulled stupid faces at the camera, then scampered off after I'd taken the picture, meaning this was the only shot I had.

I don't even know how Bookworm, Sammy and a freaking Pikachu got in there either!

After much editing, hence the delay, I managed to get the picture to a suitable standard, because, I hate to say it, but some of the emotes were 'mooning' the camera. Naughty little things. I had to photoshop other emote's faces onto their arse cheeks, explaining why some faces look similar.

Anyway, happy birthday_{for two days ago}Gabby! We all miss you very much!

Today, 11/11, is Remembrance Day in Britain and elsewhere in the world.
If you don't have it where you come from, I'll explain:

At 11 O' clock exactly upon this day, the entirety of Britain falls silent for two minutes in remembrance of the soldiers who lost their lives fighting for us in the many wars from WW1 onwards.
The poppy represents this day, since they were the first things to grow in the fields of battle after WW1 ended.

Hence, Bookworm's swapped her clover for a poppy, and has magically created a huge poppy from red petals

I bet they consider this a date.

Quick livestream to show =SnowSniffer how I make emotes. He requested Bookworm as a la and Snowy as a dummy

Dummy by ~InvaderZaeon
La by ~sereneworx

Requests are still being finished, as well as a huge birthday gift I need to complete. I'm not being paid for any of this, so I can be late, right?
THIS IS WHY MY REQUESTS ARE FOR FRIENDS ONLY NOW BECAUSE OHMILAWD I CAN'T ANIMATE

Day 11, your favourite food, NaNoEmo Day 1.

Chocolate chip flapjack

_{Altered shading style so it's not just bloody blobs of shades anymore}

The other week I had to do a speech for my entire year (represented here by three emotes). The expectation of me was to stand up and be amazing and make everyone feel small in my presence. Instead, I ended up trembling and quaking and _{they were so scary ;-;}

I'm not that happy with the way this came out. I drew it ages ago, and so began emoting it before I changed my eye style. I didn't have much time to tweak it either, as a new idea came along. Oh well, I may redo it in future if I'm stuck for ideas.