Be prepared, once you start using layers and brushes and gradients and all the other tools you step into another universe and time flies!
Oh boy, because I already have 800+ icons I've made just with my limited bag of tricks (and the more I do, the more I realize just how limited my toolkit is. Especially when it comes to fonts!)
The Dawn & Tara icon I'm using is another one of my favorites of those I've made, but again it was one of those "made itself" icons. The "san carmen" effect in PB is one of my favorites.
this week is even worse, no ideas at all.
I'm at least inspired by the World on Fire challenge, but the Love for a Vampire challenge at slayerstillness this week? not so much (as in, at all.) And it's not that I don't love the characters, it's just that I don't feel the same inspiration.
I've been trying to make some Willow icons recently and I've noticed that it's a lot harder for me than with Buffy. I have made a ridiculous amount of Buffy icons, once I get going the ideas just flow, but with Willow, it's like I'm forcing myself. And she was the character I identified with most in the early seasons. Which is why I have a lot of respect for fans who do art or write fic about characters they wouldn't normally because they are not their favorites, and do it well.
Oh and you've got a buffy in afterlife icon - I've made a whole bunch of her from that episode. BREAK MY HEART INTO A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, WHY DON'CHA? Srsly - the beginning of S6 just breaks my heart for Buffy - all that horrible trauma and she tries to hide it and brush it aside for her friends sake, and to be able to function, and people get down on her for that? I cannot wrap my head around that.
The day I am able to handle a fraction of her trauma a tenth as well as she does.....
*ahem* Sorry, I got carried away by my Buffy-love.
I have slayerstillness in my f-list but I always forget to check their icontests. (oops)
Am I the only person who gets slayerstillness and otherworldlyrics confused? I did btvs_hush once and one time only; two icontest comms is more than I can probably handle.
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Date: 2014-03-13 05:22 pm (UTC)Oh boy, because I already have 800+ icons I've made just with my limited bag of tricks (and the more I do, the more I realize just how limited my toolkit is. Especially when it comes to fonts!)
The Dawn & Tara icon I'm using is another one of my favorites of those I've made, but again it was one of those "made itself" icons. The "san carmen" effect in PB is one of my favorites.
this week is even worse, no ideas at all.
I'm at least inspired by the World on Fire challenge, but the Love for a Vampire challenge at slayerstillness this week? not so much (as in, at all.) And it's not that I don't love the characters, it's just that I don't feel the same inspiration.
I've been trying to make some Willow icons recently and I've noticed that it's a lot harder for me than with Buffy. I have made a ridiculous amount of Buffy icons, once I get going the ideas just flow, but with Willow, it's like I'm forcing myself. And she was the character I identified with most in the early seasons. Which is why I have a lot of respect for fans who do art or write fic about characters they wouldn't normally because they are not their favorites, and do it well.
Oh and you've got a buffy in afterlife icon - I've made a whole bunch of her from that episode. BREAK MY HEART INTO A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, WHY DON'CHA? Srsly - the beginning of S6 just breaks my heart for Buffy - all that horrible trauma and she tries to hide it and brush it aside for her friends sake, and to be able to function, and people get down on her for that? I cannot wrap my head around that.
The day I am able to handle a fraction of her trauma a tenth as well as she does.....
*ahem* Sorry, I got carried away by my Buffy-love.
I have slayerstillness in my f-list but I always forget to check their icontests. (oops)
Am I the only person who gets slayerstillness and otherworldlyrics confused? I did btvs_hush once and one time only; two icontest comms is more than I can probably handle.