Comments | ratcreature: what is iconic for White Collar?

ratcreature

what is iconic for White Collar?

Jul 14, 2011 21:40

I'd have liked a White Collar icon for a while now, but I'm not sure what I could do to make an icon recognizable. My icons more or less depend on having my avatar successfully cosplay a character, but wearing a suit and a hat is hardly unique, and aside from the tracking anklet (which I'm not sure would be recognizable at icon size) there aren't ( Read more... )

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miss_porcupine July 14 2011, 19:46:16 UTC

Neal's hat?

Also, the print advertisements with Matt Bomer looking all sexy and sleek... while a handcuff dangles from his wrist. That might work, although I'm not sure how it would play out at 100x100.

ratcreature July 14 2011, 19:59:38 UTC

I'm not sure my drawing style is suited to making a special style of hat clear. I could do maybe a promo pic pose, like what I did when someone asked for a drawble with them as anthropomorphic rats, which is not that different, though it would have to work size-reduced.

miss_porcupine July 14 2011, 20:03:33 UTC

I think you could maybe handle this?

ratcreature July 14 2011, 20:09:56 UTC

Nice! I don't think I have seen that before (I rarely seek out promo pictures), but yeah, something like that might work.

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madripoor_rose July 14 2011, 19:49:07 UTC

Maybe if you could work two characters in...alternating gif? A 'Peter' ratcreature showing a fbi badge and a 'Neal' ratcreature in the hat?

ratcreature July 14 2011, 20:01:56 UTC

I'm not that fond of animated icons. I have a few, but mostly when it is some kind of pun-type of thing, like my talent/enthusiasm icon or my zen?/or not icon.

madripoor_rose July 14 2011, 20:04:50 UTC

Ah. I was thinking it would be hard to squeeze the two characters into a single icon 'panel'.

ratcreature July 14 2011, 20:11:54 UTC

I have done that for a couple of my icons, like the Numb3rs one or the Sam&Dean one *points left*, but then mostly just the torsos fit, if costume is still supposed to be somewhat clear.

sholio July 14 2011, 20:22:14 UTC

Yeah, that's actually something that I've run into in trying to pick out a limited subset of icons for WC, because I usually like to have a sort of generic "representative" icon in a fandom if possible (like the Atlantis icon I'm using here) and WC doesn't really lend itself to that.

Maybe two rat creatures back-to-back, a Neal with a hat and a Peter with a gun and badge? Or Neal, i.e. a ratcreature in a hat, breaking into a safe or making a painting?

ratcreature July 14 2011, 20:29:11 UTC

I'm not sure the painting thing would be specific enough, unless I could make clear that there is a forgery/copying going on. A safe might work as a prop. If you look for objects to represent WC maybe the music box would work?