Orion of Icons #5

[__orionlady]

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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[__orionlady]

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

Sarah and Emily are very gorgeous, yes! Although season 1 Sara looks a little ratty compared to this season, and Tempe looks like a little girl sometimes, which makes her hard to icon XD I'm so glad Sara gets more involved in the story, I think her current story as it is could stand alone as it's own show and still be really intriguing and suspenseful. I wonder also if I might start to like K-Man :o He seemed pretty concerned about her <3 Have you started watching Bones full-time yet? *wink*

Thanks for posting that link, too. I'm going to be busy iconing this week :D

♥

[jackaholic]

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

Sara definitely gets more involved in the story. I love her story at the moment because I think she's great with fake-nice K-Man :P And yes, I actually agree that he might be genuinely concerned about her, which is kinda adorable. That's not to say that the K-Man is anything other than a ruthless bastard :D I wont spoil anything, but the two meet up again later on and they don't exactly declare their undying love ;) He becomes a really complicated character, Kellerman, I cant wait till you see how it all unfolds ♥

And yep, i've started watching Bones properly on channel 7! I'm all caught up so i'm very happy :) I love it, its not PB, but it doesn't try to be. As far as formula crime shows go, (and i've watched pretty much all of them), its becoming one of my favorites ♥

[__orionlady]

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