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

Preview:
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Comments

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeees*

[ladyofavalon77]

These are AMAZING!! And you picked all my favorite scenes. Oh I love you so much right now :D And the humourous ones of charles! *giggles* I even poke fun at him now and then!

I watch Prison Break too so I saved the Sara ones...she's SO pretty in the pics that you chose!

"sup, playa?" *giggles* I loved what you did with #29 and an OTP icon!! I don't have one of those yet so definitely uploaded it right away. Then my favorite scene of the whole season!! And ANOTHER beautiful Martha icon!!! *dies*

You are the best!! *tons of hugs and chocolate*

Re: *squeeeeeeeeeeeeees*

[__orionlady]

lol thanks :)

A lot of the first caps that you posted (the ones that jackaholic posted HD of)...I couldn't really get anything to happen with them. (34) was the one that came out well enough to show, and even now you can see that it's probably the worst of the entire post (imo - look at that awful alien martha face!!!), so i'm sorry that I couldn't get any done from those caps :/

It also dawned on me that you may want these icons as...um.. exclusively yours? Never having done requests before I totally forgot about it, but if you'd like to have your own? then i'll get straight to work!

Glad you enjoyed them :)

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[ladyofavalon77]

Awww sorry about that...I'll try touching them up :) I LOVE all of them though...#34 STILL has a perfect glow about it so uploaded anyway :D Did you see the one I touched up in my gallery? It's like the first one in the line of pictures. Not sure if that's better for your purposes :)

And no need to be exclusively mine! I'd love for others to show off your work too!! No one seems to like M/C so they end up being exclusively mine anyway *giggles*

Your icon post came just in time...my birthday is Sunday...what a great way to start the celebration off!

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[__orionlady]

lol it's not your fault :D I spend about 5 minutes touching up and they still didn't seem to come out. I think it has something to do with Jean being so pale and Greg being a little overtanned and redish. I tried compensating for that in #34, but Martha came out a little too orange XD

Happy Birthday! :) (well you'd be asleep now I think, but when you wake up...) Glad I could be among the first to give you your pressie ;)

[loving_nancy]

snagged #20. i really love the coloring of your icons! :)

<33
Nikayla

[jackaholic]

You made more icons! ♥

I really do love your style, everything is so... the same... at the moment, so your ones are really refreshingly different :D
I agree with pretty much all your favourites, but I also adore #26 and 33. The picture in 33 is so cute!

All your Sara and Tempe icons are beautiful ♥ They're both such gorgeous actresses! Sara's got a great story in next weeks PB, and she becomes a lot more involved in the main plot as time goes on. You're gonna love it :D

The sig banners are gorgeous too! The Kellerman one cracked me up :)

Ooh, also, I nearly forgot... check this out! - http://dryope.livejournal.com/328607.html

[__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

[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

[__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

[__generik]

28, 28, 28! Oh hahaha. I love it. Snagging and the other ones are lovely but I do like Aaron/Martha. :P

Thanks and will credit!

[sunrunnersioned]

LOL-i died at #5---by the way I'm so friending you! hope ya don't mind! will credit if I steal any!