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__orionlady

Orion of Icons #5

Mar 16, 2007 10:43

Yay finally i'm done, and i'm pretty happy with some of them.

[11] 24 (Charles/Martha, requested by ladyofavalon77)
[15] Prison Break
[10] Bones
[2] Sarah Wayne Callies

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jackaholic March 17 2007, 23:06:31 UTC

You made more icons! ♥

I really do love your style, everything is so... the same... at the moment, so your ones are really refreshingly different :D
I agree with pretty much all your favourites, but I also adore #26 and 33. The picture in 33 is so cute!

All your Sara and Tempe icons are beautiful ♥ They're both such gorgeous actresses! Sara's got a great story in next weeks PB, and she becomes a lot more involved in the main plot as time goes on. You're gonna love it :D

The sig banners are gorgeous too! The Kellerman one cracked me up :)

Ooh, also, I nearly forgot... check this out! - http://dryope.livejournal.com/328607.html

__orionlady March 18 2007, 02:34:23 UTC

Hey! :D

I agree, I don't mind the current 'in' style, but it gets a little boring when 90% of icon tutorials in communities are basically sharpening and making icons high contrast, to the point where some of them look just....disgusting. Admittedly, they're pretty easy to do :P (high contrast, vibrant colours, a line of tiny text and you're done hehe), but I love something different. Clear but smooth, and I love rich and pretty colours & gradients (my feminine side hehe). It took me an hour and a half to make the icon i'm using now. And while there are some instances of head hitting desk, most of the time the challenge is pretty fun, expecially when the result is good ;)

I still prefer the style that was popular a few years ago though. _ila and colorstoobright (among others) were my inspiration to make icons. Stuff like 3 sequentially coloured boxes, 10px of face down one side of the icon (like #26) and a range of cool stuff like that, that didn't have just the cap in it, was really the best stage of icon history, imo :D ( ... )

jackaholic March 19 2007, 21:05:35 UTC

I agree about the popular icons, some I love, some I don't. I think the main problem with the current style of overcontrasting/colouring is that everyone's moniters/screens are different. I know i've made icons which look great on my computer, but because i've got a really high resolution and colour scheme thingy, when I check on another computer, they look horrendous! I know a lot of icon makers who have the same problem. That's why some icons look disgusting... rest assured they look completely different on the computer of the person who actually made them! :( I've been using a lot of selective coloring lately, so I know that my icons are gonna look crappy on some moniters, but they look pretty on mine so I cant help it! :P ( ... )

__orionlady March 19 2007, 23:02:31 UTC

Yeah lol i've noticed that too. All the icons I made with my 17" CRT look really rough on my 19" widescreen because the resolution on this monitor doesn't go very high (like an 1152x864 equivalent I think). Colours are pretty much the same for me though. I should actually check them on my brothers screen lol.

Yay for Bones :D I freely admit it's not the greatest thing going around, but there's a remotely respectable character in Tempe and a great ship with Booth. Hodgins is pretty cool too :P

__orionlady March 18 2007, 02:38:26 UTC

Um, for some reason the username came out wrong. I meant _ila_

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