Celebrating Sikh Smiley Art by Mai Harinder Kaur Ji

Suggest a smiley lead me here so...
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Tears of joy.
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The intellect of the mind is like a drunken elephant. Whatever one utters is totally false, the most false of the false. - Guru Nanak, 351

Back in January of this year, something drove me to put sikhism into google, and i browsed a few sites, I had no idea what exactly I was looking for, I read a few postings on a few forums, some of the forums seemed very uhmm 'punjabi'? if that makes sense, rather than sikhi, I remember looking at a posting and noted that it was full of little smiling sikh faces, and it was the fun and chardi kala spirit and lack of taking itself too seriously that led me here, so thank you Maiji, if it were not for your adorable smiling faces that can lend itself to changing the tone of a whole post (in the positive), I would probably still be going round in circles, your smileys saved me! you have no idea how important they are to show people that this forum is gentle and sweet, Maiji, your smileys are the Patashas in our amrit!

Bhagat Singh ji. A smiling crying smiley? That should be do-able. I did make some just crying - not joyfully - and they were just too sad.

harry ji: This made my day! I have put a lot of time and thought and work into these lil pictures and they mean a lot to me. I so much want them to bring joy to others. Did you know each one has a name and a story? I haven't told this; perhaps someday I will. You might notice that Didi is the musician of the group. Her lil brother tries, but just doesn't have her talent. Maybe when he gets a bit older.
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Of course, there's more...
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Just for an idea for Tears of Joy!

Aman Singh ji, those are good. I was thinking more along the lines of the one on the left. Except a bit more happy and with more tears.

Here, I did a smiley to illustrate... and then I got carried away. Lol
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Mai ji, hope you are inspired by them to do more cool smileys. If I may be of further service, let me know.

I find the one on the left which i will call '5 smileys in a dark cave' quite disturbing, actually it could also be '5 smileys who live in a doughnut', i also quite like wincing hedgehog smiley,

Haha Harry ji, true. They do look like smileys in caves and doughnuts. I bet you find that broken smiley disturbing too, he died and spilled his guts (well at least he died happy). Now if you ask me, I was trying to portray bliss, experience of oneness, etc.
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PS
The same smiley is disturbing, the same smiley is about bliss.

ermm your blissful smiley looks more like a fried egg with a mono brow

You are right he does. I guess he is blissful because he does not mind being a fried egg with a mono brow or a dead guy with spilled guts.

What else do these look like?

Hmm, that hedgehog one looks like he's having a trip... a hippy!