Describe Three Icons Meme
Snagged this meme from shadowserenity (who is one of the most amazing icon-artists and all around best people on LJ that I know):
Comment and I will choose three of your userpics and you have to explain them in a post asking the same of your flisters. Also, feel free to choose three of my own icons and ask me to explain them.
These are the three userpics of mine that she selected:
by calixa
I remember when I got this icon (one of my very first on LJ). calixa offered to make icons for interested people on her flist that would be drawn from terms on their interests (and, of course, she was slammed with requests!). I was one of the lucky recipients. As you can see, she chose my interest in the the tudors for her inspiration. This icon is particularly beloved, not only for its beauty and its generous creator, but also because it depicts Elizabeth of York (consort to Henry VII) from the dynastic mural commissioned of Hans Holbein in 1536 (which was sadly destroyed in the Whitehall fire of the 17th century, but survives in a copy from that period).
by me
This icon was inspired by the song "Far Too Canadian" by Spirit of the West, a Celtic/punk band I followed a lot in my grad school days. Very political music, e.g.:
I'm so content to stand in line
Wait and see, pass the time
Talk a streak, fall asleep, wake up late, whine and weep
I kiss the hand that slaps me senseless
I'm so accepting, I am so defenseless
I am far too Canadian
I am far too Canadian
The icon also visually pleases me (though the text didn't come out perfectly) because the leaf is a PaintShop Pro Tube that simply worked perfectly for what I was trying to do.
also by me
SMOF is an old fannish acronym for "Secret Masters of Fandom" (used to refer to people who organized cons and the like). I tended to use this icon for when I was updating galacticanews because I thought it was very appropriate. As to how the icon, itself, came to be? I was just playing around with learning mask layers and this image of Six and Doral, trying to lay down some text that would look like graffiti on a wall behind them. That failed, but I liked the end result nonetheless, so I've kept it around.
Comment and I will choose three of your userpics and you have to explain them in a post asking the same of your flisters. Also, feel free to choose three of my own icons and ask me to explain them.
These are the three userpics of mine that she selected:
by calixa
I remember when I got this icon (one of my very first on LJ). calixa offered to make icons for interested people on her flist that would be drawn from terms on their interests (and, of course, she was slammed with requests!). I was one of the lucky recipients. As you can see, she chose my interest in the the tudors for her inspiration. This icon is particularly beloved, not only for its beauty and its generous creator, but also because it depicts Elizabeth of York (consort to Henry VII) from the dynastic mural commissioned of Hans Holbein in 1536 (which was sadly destroyed in the Whitehall fire of the 17th century, but survives in a copy from that period).
by me
This icon was inspired by the song "Far Too Canadian" by Spirit of the West, a Celtic/punk band I followed a lot in my grad school days. Very political music, e.g.:
I'm so content to stand in line
Wait and see, pass the time
Talk a streak, fall asleep, wake up late, whine and weep
I kiss the hand that slaps me senseless
I'm so accepting, I am so defenseless
I am far too Canadian
I am far too Canadian
The icon also visually pleases me (though the text didn't come out perfectly) because the leaf is a PaintShop Pro Tube that simply worked perfectly for what I was trying to do.
also by me
SMOF is an old fannish acronym for "Secret Masters of Fandom" (used to refer to people who organized cons and the like). I tended to use this icon for when I was updating galacticanews because I thought it was very appropriate. As to how the icon, itself, came to be? I was just playing around with learning mask layers and this image of Six and Doral, trying to lay down some text that would look like graffiti on a wall behind them. That failed, but I liked the end result nonetheless, so I've kept it around.