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These are for inspired20in20; this is the most difficult round ever for me. I struggled from beginning to 10 minutes ago. Literally took me about four days to do these (which is ridiculous considering I have all the time in the world to work on them. Inspiration was there, I'm just flawed to get something pretty going... Hope you all enjoy these as I worked seriously hard. I thank happy_harper13 & spg_spn_girls for the 'chin-up' comments.
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Explanations
01- This was my attempt at grain. It was a bit difficult to do, although so simple looking. I tried to get it 'grainy' without making it look LQ.
02- How did I make this icon? Magic. And a bit of help from happy_harper13.
03- This icon is simple to me. I love bright white textures (so much!) so using it in this icon felt like home.
04- The text is meh for me. I think I did it like this because it needed to feel manly. What is more manly than boxy text?
05- Oh January- you are so easy to icon, yet so hard sometimes. I haven't made Mad Men icons in ages, so I was a bit excited to icon you, but it wasn't my cup o' tea. B&W, you are my friend. The warp text was fun to do, considering, I never do filters to my text.
06- I spent close to around 30 minutes making this icon. Why do you ask? Because I was busy being distracted by McFassy interviews on the internet. However, it looks a bitt messy (the white texture is doing something odd, yet pretty). I wanted to add text, something along the lines of 'The Sirens Song', but I couldn't quite get the text to sit on the icon. It looks unnatural, so I went bare. :)
07- Look what I did- went to the evil 'layer'- luckily this cap works well. I wish I could get the white to burst more, but I was afraid it would get over-contrasted, and I'd rather not have that.
08- This icon isn't necessarily perfect, but I happened upon this look on accident. I loved the pink/purple mix with the black. It kind of fits the sultryness of Angel. Dark little thing.
09- January, you pretty girl. Sorry I mucked up your face!
10- Inspired by the textures over at planets-bend-between-us. One of my favorite textures from the batch! Wish the blue wasn't so dark, but my attempts to lighten it once I noticed it made it sort of too bright and crazy. Too bad, but hopefully it is passable (sorry if it is too dark...)
11- I gave him alien face. Sorry dear. But I loved the color differnce that I saw within the batch of icons I have.
12- I wanted to use this cap this scene because I loved the colors. Hopefully I made something interesting. Did I frame him right? I hope I did.
13- What?! Another blue icon? I know. I know. But hopefully I cropped it just right. I tried to put the monument just center. I love negative space with monochromatic looks.
14- Miss Angel showing off her wings. She was so pretty and deadly in this scene, so I went to the first pretty/deadly combo and I thought to Christina Aguilera's last album Bionic. The text is a large A, font is Kylie X Font.
15- This was one of those caps that I could easily do this effect with (Thank you Fassbender's beautiful profile!) The coloring is dull (compared to the colors it is surrounded by), but I love how the light looks around him. I wanted to put text on this icon, but I decided it was just too perfect without it (also, text and I are on a first name basis. We aren't bff's.)
16- Not much to say about this icon other than it's random in this batch. I liked the pattern of the walls most, which is why I felt compelled to use the cap. Not the stand out of the bunch, but it rounds it out... I guess.
17- Beast has some scary teeth, but for some reason, the teeth this coloring gave me was scary in a 'he must need a dentist' scary. I decided the brush of white would cover my boo-boo, and also brighten this icon even more. I decided to do a blurry smooth look.
18- Oh that blue again. Apparently this movie approves with blue. LOL! Framed the icon with goreplz's texture.
19- I think I've included this icon because it fit grain and frame. Maybe even light...gosh. I have literally struggled with this round, maybe that's the artistic thing to do. Struggle for the art! *dramatic fists* Or maybe it just means I suck. Eck- it's more blue too!
20- B&W- original... right? hehe. That about rounds it all out.
Alternates, Extras
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