Well, here it is--the whole heap of general icons I turned out during the month of March. Some of these will have been seen as entries in icontests such as classicicontest or classics_stills--but the majority of them are completely new.

( Our lives are made in these small hours... )

beloved_tree has inspired me with the idea of making humorous presidential-campaign icons featuring classic film characters. Here are my first ten, from her suggestions and my own ideas. They include James Cagney and friends, Danny Kaye, William Powell/Myrna Loy, and Claude Rains.

( Our Vintage Party candidates... )

I was making some stylistic experiments for a new fanlisting layout. Don't ask me how this led to icons; it just did. So here are five icons starring James Cagney as the delightfully deranged Tom Powers. Befitting the source film, they're rather grim and grungy and monochromatic.

( I wish you was a wishin' well... )

My treatment for agitation, as usual, is digital art. Three wallpapers today: one Cagney, and a couple more Bogie gifts for beloved_tree, which I think are both a vast improvement over the last one.

Bogart 1 is a shiny minimalist pastel. I really like how it turned out; it looks more like a painting than a photo. Protected by Bogart is one I'm not quite as ( Read more... )