♥[Insane Love]♥ - An Avatar Rating Thread

Avatar Raters

Here at the ♥[Insane Love]♥ we will be rating avatars of every kind. Come if you're dressed or need suggestions. We are here to help you make your avi better. Please, we have a few rules before we get started. Our rates are our opinions, and please don't get upset if you don't like it. We don't discriminate here or judge based on person. Cricket and I have both very different tastes which help with the rating process, but if you get rated low, don't get mad at us and start drama in here please. We are only telling you our opinion. Don't be rude to anyone or create drama because this is a drama-free zone. Now that the rules are cleared up, when you come into the thread, you can ask to be rated. When you ask, either cricket, myself, or both of us will rate you. Each week, we will be hosting our favorite avatars of the week. Two people will win each week (cricket chooses one and I choose one).

NOTE: INSANE CRICKET AND LOVEHATE are the ONLY ONES RATING IN THIS THREAD!

The Raters

[L]ove[H]ate

About her coming soon...

Insane Cricket

Insane Cricket lives in Missouri, in a city just outside of Kansas City. He is a small-town bug with a big-city heart but wouldn't give up where he lives for the world.

Cricket dislikes being called 'Insane' even though it's the first part of his username. His username is a personal joke regarding an annual cricket infestation that occurs in his basement.

He's addicted to roleplaying, loves to change his avatar a lot, loves to write, likes to draw (even though he's not any good at it), and is absolutely addicted to taking photographs with his digital camera. He lives with his grandmother, mother, boyfriend creature, and a vast array of pets that he loves very muchly.

He is to the point, so don't take it personally when he's blunt with you. Honesty is the best policy in his mind.

How Love Rates

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Likes

♥Lots of color.
♥Bright avis.
♥Layering.
♥Use of eye color and hair color.
♥Matching.

Dislikes

◘Cluttered avis.
◘Astral Halos, Cresent Moons, Backgrounds except the sun and clouds.
◘Avis with two or less color combinations.
◘To see lots of skin!
◘Non-matching colors.
◘Hair that blends in especially the long hair.

How Cricket Rates

Likes
◊ Originality
◊ Colors that blend well together
◊ Clever use of layers
◊ Clever use of those awkward items that are hard to fit into an outfit
◊ A happy medium between CIs, EIs, and commons
◊ Cosplays - but only when done well and with a creative twist
◊ Items that compliment each other
◊ Hair and eyes that go together nicely with the outfit

Dislikes
◊ Cluttered avatars
◊ Avatars that are too busy (like having a microphone and the headset on at once)
◊ Misuse of the red/black combination
◊ Avatars that mostly revolve around rares
◊ Unoriginal/generic avatars
◊ Overdone cosplays
◊ Boring avatars
◊ Avatars that just don't make sense

Love's Avatar of the Week

Information

-->I choose the avis every thursday.
-->I choose avis based on my own opinion, and I will explain why I choose them.
-->People that I choose may not necessarily have posted in this thread. I am a full time exchanger as well, and own a charity.
-->Don't discriminate against the winner of the week. Instead give them your support and learn from their style.

Cricket's Avatar of the Week

January 30th - February 6th


Majhra!

In my opinion, one of the best avatars I've ever seen in my nine months here on Menewsha.

In this avatar, Majhra displays the ability to draw attention away from the large fan, making her avatar the center rather than the CI, which is no easy feat. I believe this is accomplished by using the brighter white on the avatar, which steals the eyes away from the fan, without making it invisible. The different shades of gold flatter each other, and the reds are simply divine. Truly an oriental beauty!

Congratulations, Majhra!

Information

~I will choose a new avatar every Friday.
~I will not choose an avatar based on anyone's preference but my own.
~I do not play favorites. If I hate your guts but you have a pretty avatar, I will tell you so. If you are my friend, I won't choose you just because we're friends. This is about style, not emotional bonds with other people.
~I will explain my reasoning for each of my selections.
~I will pick the avatar of the week from any thread I happen to visit, it doesn't have to be from this thread.
~Don't throw a fit if you don't win. If you insist on knowing why you weren't chosen, then calmly ask in the thread and I will tell you.

Past Winners of Love's AOTW

January 15th-21st

Yume`

January 22nd-28th

Eserel

January 29th-February 4th

Elwing

Cricket's Past Selections

January 2009
January 16th - 22nd


Intoxicate

Risque

Reserved for Love, no. 1.

Cricket
Reserved
One

Reserved for Love, no. 2.

Cricket
Reserved
Two

*cuts ribbon*

We are open and ready to rate you people!

-Cuts ribbon to own half of thread- Come one! Come all! Let us... Um... I don't know what would rhyme. D:

:3
Hi guys!
Looks great!
Rate me?

Haha cricket you're amazing. Uh, I rated you already. So cricket can do the honors.

Eserel: I like the balance of color, though down at the ankles I start getting a little confused. There's a hint of green but the ties of the pants fall down over it making it look kind of dirty, almost. Like dust or some other grime has gotten on the socks.

I like the use of the 'makeup' glitch. But the hair I don't really like, I think the bun takes away from the orchid and the tiara. So maybe the version of that hair without the bun.

All that being said, I give you a 15/20. I do like it, but it could be improved upon. ^_^

Love: Um, Cricket's confused... How, exactly, is he amazing? o.O

I don't know, you just are. Deal with it.

But! What if I don't want to be amazing!? (Please don't comment on the ugly avatar. It will uh, be uncluttered in a minute or two. ;;>.>...)

:3 thanks for the rate!

Um, you're welcome? Lol. ^^;; -Peeks out from behind concrete block- Glad you can take critique. XD

<shrug>
Its not my worst
i've gotten some dumb stuff before
I dont like the color blue
3/10
its ridiculous
and as long as i like it i'm happy

That kinda confused me other than I now know that you don't like blue and that as long as you like your avatar you're happy. @[email protected]

XD
lol
you got the gist of it sorta
I like blue,
just some people are so blah at rating
And if there is a color that they dont like on an avvie
they will doc that person for having that color
Get it now?

Agreed. I like my avi and think it's balanced perfectly although no one notices it at all...

But 3/10 is like really RIDIC! o.0 I'd be like, I don't like you... -10/10