Hadn't guesses that the last one was yours ... but thought the others were .
I did a LOT of variations of the Buffy one, the red Willow icon was a happy medium - not the most stylized nor realistic of the batch. I think I like extremes of stylization more than most people do? (I think you do as well, with your black and white line drawing icons.) The last one I also had abstracted versions of, but I just loved the way her eye looked in that one, the very clean black and white of it.
I thought someone might think the Joyce was mine - it looks very much like other icons I have done, and I admired the perfect balance of darks and lights in it. I did wonder if it was yours. What about the naturalistic Spike icon?
any much work would have lost the image, so it was more of a "crop & tidy" than icon making!
Exactly, the image is already fantastic, adding anything is gilding the lily. I tried to do an Angel icon much like yours, except cropping much closer to the face. I couldn't do it. Male faces and bodies are hard for me - I get uncomfortable or disinterested very quickly. And I might think the actor very handsome or have enjoyed the performance and admire them. But working with stills is another matter.
OTOH, Rua's Spike icon that looked like a painting had me staring at it, wanting to know how that look was achieved. I admire people who can capture men in their icons, I'm just not there yet.
you are great are experimenting with colours and tones
Oh thanks! But some of the time I spend playing with color variations could perhaps be better spent on learning how to improve the clarity of my images, doing layers and textures and so forth. Or it could be more profitably spent doing housework....Nah.
I was working on some 20in20 as well and they had to have text, so I just carried on with the words.
I feel your pain! I was working on three different challenges at the same time and got really confused what I was doing for what sometimes!
And I just peeked at your icons - YAY! Wonderful work. I shall leave my thoughts on your journal tonight or tomorrow, promise.
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Date: 2014-05-27 06:59 pm (UTC)I did a LOT of variations of the Buffy one, the red Willow icon was a happy medium - not the most stylized nor realistic of the batch. I think I like extremes of stylization more than most people do? (I think you do as well, with your black and white line drawing icons.) The last one I also had abstracted versions of, but I just loved the way her eye looked in that one, the very clean black and white of it.
I thought someone might think the Joyce was mine - it looks very much like other icons I have done, and I admired the perfect balance of darks and lights in it. I did wonder if it was yours. What about the naturalistic Spike icon?
any much work would have lost the image, so it was more of a "crop & tidy" than icon making!
Exactly, the image is already fantastic, adding anything is gilding the lily. I tried to do an Angel icon much like yours, except cropping much closer to the face. I couldn't do it. Male faces and bodies are hard for me - I get uncomfortable or disinterested very quickly. And I might think the actor very handsome or have enjoyed the performance and admire them. But working with stills is another matter.
OTOH, Rua's Spike icon that looked like a painting had me staring at it, wanting to know how that look was achieved. I admire people who can capture men in their icons, I'm just not there yet.
you are great are experimenting with colours and tones
Oh thanks! But some of the time I spend playing with color variations could perhaps be better spent on learning how to improve the clarity of my images, doing layers and textures and so forth. Or it could be more profitably spent doing housework....Nah.
I was working on some 20in20 as well and they had to have text, so I just carried on with the words.
I feel your pain! I was working on three different challenges at the same time and got really confused what I was doing for what sometimes!
And I just peeked at your icons - YAY! Wonderful work. I shall leave my thoughts on your journal tonight or tomorrow, promise.