face claim tutorial

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So, feeling quite frustrated over the dreaded face claim? Don’t know whom to claim? Or, just don’t know where to even begin searching? Well, you’re in luck! Because this is a face claim tutorial.

First of all, the best place to get a face claim or icons of a face claim is Livejournal. Not photobucket, facebook, myspace, and whatever lame picture gathering site. Also, a great place to gather good pictures of a face claim is pixiv.

What is Livejournal? Well, it’s a blog/journal/diary website, which is where a lot of graphic artists love to spread their graphics to the public view. A Livejournal Community is a community for either one or more fandom’s of those users who mod the community. An example of a community would be: Bubblemilk.

Now, let’s break it down, shall we? Once clicking the link to Bubblemilk, the first thing to do in an icon hunt is to go to the Tags section. This is located usually up on the top or on either left or right side of the screen. In this case, Bubblemilk has the tag list on top of the page where the user can see it. Alright, click Tags.

This leads us to either a long or short list of fandom’s those graphic artist’s made icons of. In this case, Bubblemilk has a long list of fandom’s that are already in icon form. So, let’s choose a fandom, shall we? I choose Code Geass, which has a decent amount of posts: 57 uses. And thus, this leads us to pages of livejournal posts with Code Geass. Now, let’s choose a random post to view like this one

We are lead to some code geass icons. But, what’s this? What if the user doesn’t know the name of the character they see? A great place to find out is myanimelist. Just search the anime you are interested in the search area (located on the upper right hand corner) and voila! The page leads you to the anime you’re interested in, with a list of character names that appear in that anime. For example; Code Geass characters.

Other great Livejournal communities to hit up are:
• Starsoft
• Electronism
• Sucias
• Logicaltrue
• Colormeter
• Innovators
• Incestualicons

Now, that’s not all the communities on Livejournal. There are more than what has been posted on here. How to find them? Simple. Under Interests on Livejournal, just type in the area of interest. Let’s search Code Geass again. Once that is typed in and searched, a page full of communities of that interest pops up. And there we go! More communities to search through, with so much time.

And that is how to find a face claim.