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Made to Order: WInners of the Otherworldlyric challenge 171 and my entries

May 09, 2014 23:22

Congratulations to rua1412 and kwritten for their winning icons in otherworldlyric challenge #171 ("Origins")! Two of the three winners were my personal vote-getters and I'm not saying which. (Unless you ask nicely and offer bribes.)

The deadline for the current otherworldlyric challenge #172 "Watching Me Fall" is Friday, May9th - which is tonight in my part of the world. With apologies for ( Read more... )

setting: s5, art gallery, wickedbish, char: buffybot, char: tara maclay, f is for feminist, setting: s6, comm: otherworldlyrics, fandom: btvs, pairing: willow/tara, icon(ic) thinky thoughts, setting: s2, char: buffy summers, slayers, char: willow rosenberg, icon challenge, char: kendra, form: icons

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velvetwhip May 10 2014, 03:29:27 UTC

Your icons are very fine, my friend. They are. It's so obvious you put real thought into them and that alone is commendable, leaving aside your artistic gifts, which have plenty of merit of their own.

How funny that we like such different seasons. 1-3 are my favorites. Hee. But I still think you're awesome-in-a-jar.

Gabrielle

red_satin_doll May 10 2014, 03:34:53 UTC

Someday I will figure out the secret of HOW you manage to read everything I post almost before I hit the post button! (Well, actually I just edited the post a little, but still...)

Thank you so much for your kind words!

How funny that we like such different seasons. 1-3 are my favorites. Hee.

I'll pretend to be shocked *LOL* But really isn't that the idea, that variety is the spice of fandom?

And I think you're pretty damn wonderful yourself.

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red_satin_doll May 12 2014, 19:05:13 UTC

but I'm trying to improve my text skills in these days ^_^

I wouldn't have guessed! Text can be a great deal of fun but I have spent more time trying to get that right lately than almost any other element.

I loved the effects on your Grave icon btw - the way it looks something like an old photograph or a newspaper clipping of two people tossed in a maelstrom, that is itself tossed by the wind - gritty and ethereal at the same time, worn and windy. And I liked seeing your Chosen icon next to my TL one - I almost selected that moment in Chosen but didn't, so they feel like sister icons.

And congratulations again on the well-deserved win!

snogged May 10 2014, 14:32:14 UTC

I think your icons look pretty darn cool, sweetie. Keep working at it and you never know what will happen!

red_satin_doll May 12 2014, 19:07:17 UTC

Keep working at it and you never know what will happen!

Well what happened TODAY was that photobucket gave me an error message on three different projects when I hit "save" and lost everything *le sigh*.....

chic_c May 10 2014, 15:09:31 UTC

Your entries are beautiful, especially #2 with the text wrapped around the hands, I admire your patience!
The Willow/Tara icons are heartbreaking, TL is a difficult episode to icon.
Sad yay for Kendra, she needs more icon-love.
And you made gorgeous Buffy-in-a-coffin icons! <3

ETA Been away from LJ I had to skip OTW challenges, hope to be back soon. :)

red_satin_doll May 12 2014, 19:19:41 UTC

I admire your patience!

a.k.a. "procrastination" of which I have achieved mastery....

But thank you very much for your compliments, sweetie! I wasn't overly pleased with this set, but I think I like the W/T ones more each time I look at them. And yes, a very difficult episode - which means I'll probably do more sometime soon! It's such a feminine episode - centered around Buffy, Dawn, Willow and Tara, and they are the heart of season 5.

Sad yay for Kendra, she needs more icon-love.

This was a follow-up to my Nikki icon I posted to the first OWL challenge I entered #162 http://otherworldlyric.livejournal.com/222404.html
and also a shout out to lanoyee, who is the keeper of the flame re: Kendra. I also have a textless version, which is better I think:

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chic_c May 14 2014, 16:45:38 UTC

The textless version of the Kendra icon is even more beautiful, I like the contrast between the delicate colours and the black frame. :)
And the Nikki one is great too, the theme of dead slayers is very sad but fascinating.

May is a difficult month, too busy at work I can't read or play with PS, but I'd love to do something for nekid_spike as Darla is the guest and she has the most fantabulous outfits. :D

I've never tried slayerstillness, hopefully someday... oh, BTW there's a new comm btvsats20in20, I'll be watching it for now because 20in20s are not my thing ATM, but you should totally try it! <3

red_satin_doll May 14 2014, 18:10:41 UTC

The textless version of the Kendra icon is even more beautiful, I like the contrast between the delicate colours and the black frame. :) And the Nikki one is great too, the theme of dead slayers is very sad but fascinating.

The textless version is much better and fortunately I did that one first; I wouldn't have added text but it was an experiment for the challenge. I have no idea how I actually managed the color-matching in photobucket that time.

I actually have been meaning to post the icons I did for that challenge for some time, as well as the ones I didn't submit. I did some of Xin Rong but wasn't happy with any of them. The image quality is so poor, with the entire scene in FFL shot in red. someday I might try it again. I've been wanting to talk about the subject of dead slayers for some time but it's very "fraught" and difficult to do.

Have you tried btvs_hush? I only have the once, but it seems like different people participate in that from OWL, based on what I see style-wise. And debris4spike told me about that new comm the other ( ... )

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