Icon Meme

[kerravonsen]

This is going around again...
Meme instructions:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

astrogirl picked the following:
1.
I did this for icon_style challenge #2 "Windmills of your Mind", so I was all experimenty with circles. I thought it looked cool, so that's why I put the caption "cool" on it.

2.
A "Shiny!" icon done for icon_style challenge #5 "The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword"; lots of people have "Shiny!" icons, so I took the opportunity to make one, and I wanted to make it very SHINY, so I used the same techniques I'd gotten from a tutorial I'd followed for NAtional ARt MAking MOnth last year, to make something that looked like glass.
One of the nice things about icon_style is that it prompts me to make icons I might otherwise not have gotten around to making.

3.
This was done for icon_style challenge #9 "Mirror, Mirror" (noticing a theme here?) And another nice thing about icon_style is that it prompts me to make icons I wouldn't have even thought of making, like this one. But after I made it, I thought it would be useful as a Buffy icon, a "Buffyverse" icon (more useful than my old Giles icon) and a general "psychological" icon.

4.
And yet another icon_style challenge icon, done for challenge #10 "Fancy Frames". It was kind of backwards in creation, since I thought of the design and then made the fancy frame for it, rather than looking at a fancy frame and using it as the basis for the design. This was another one of those "I made it for me" icons; I wanted a food icon, since I'd seen other people's food icons being useful, so I made it up of some of my favourite (healthy) foods: nuts, noodle soup, and (herbal) tea.

5.
This one was also done for icon_style challenge #10, but this time the frame came first. Or maybe the image did, but it was a made-by-someone-else frame, anyway. The image itself is one of my favourite ever photos I took, in Paradise, New Zealand; yes, the place was called "Paradise". It was a farm, where some of the scenes from The Lord of the Rings trilogy were shot, and my friend and I went on an air-tour of LotR sites, and the little Cessna landed in a field there, and we walked around. It was beautiful. So I'm very glad I finally made an icon of it. I use it for "beautiful nature" subjects, or when I just want to use a pretty icon. Maybe I should retire my "Creation" icon, since this would cover it, too.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

{grin} She picked one of mine that was also for the Windmills challenge (and err, was disqualified, quite rightly, but I still liked it)

[kerravonsen]

I noticed. 8-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I really like the framing of the last one. How did you do it? Transparent black, burning, darkening?

[kerravonsen]

Well, the frame itself had transparency in it, that's why you can see things through the edge of it. The colouring of the frame was something I sort of stumbled upon; I was trying to decide what colour to make the frame, and picked a few colours from the picture, a dark green and a dark brown; and while I was trying to choose between them, I ended up with the brown in difference mode over the green, and liked the effect, and went with that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It works really well.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I'm amused that I managed to pick out a consistent theme without realizing it. :)

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[infiniteviking]

That last one is especially gorgeous. And I'm studying #2 as well... such a simple technique, it looks like, but so effective.

Up for the meme if you like -- it's fun how this one keeps coming around.

[kerravonsen]

That last one is especially gorgeous.
Thank you!

And I'm studying #2 as well... such a simple technique, it looks like, but so effective.
The tutorial I based it on: http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Make-A-Cool-Glass-metal-Sig-15783-1.html

Up for the meme if you like -- it's fun how this one keeps coming around.
Okay:

[infiniteviking]

You're welcome!

AWESOME tutorial.

Sorry for the late tag -- I posted the meme already!

[kerravonsen]

AWESOME tutorial.
It is, isn't it? 8-)