My entries for Round 1 of btvsats20in20, plus extras: (The not really-real) Buffy Summers

[red_satin_doll]

ETA: bangel_4e notified me that my original entries for NS+Mono and Artists Choice 1 were not qualified so I've switched them out. Let me know what you think.

My first-ever 20in20 entries for Round 1 of btvsats20in20 were inspired by the Jo Chen's Cover art for "The Chain"; so I decided to claim Buffy Summers as my subject (no surprise) but with a twist: the "not really-real" versions that populate the Buffyverse: impersonators, dopplegangers, alt universe versions; Buffy reimagined in her own and in other people's dreams.

All icons made by me in ipiccy and Photobucket. Many thanks to bangel_4e and spikesredqueen for their patient and tireless hand-holding.





    Teasers

10 Themes
Strong	Favorite Moment	NS+Monochrome	Comics	Blending
Earth Tones	Provided Texture	Ex.Close Crop	Smile	Focused
5 Category |BLACK AND WHITE
Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Cat 4	Cat 5
5 Artist's Choice
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

Alts and extras to be posted separately.

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Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

These are OMG!STUPENDOUS! I am so impressed! Bravissima!



Gabrielle

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

OMG thank you! I'm bowing very very low so you can't see how deeply I'm blushing.

Just one thing - I hit the post button too soon and had to edit the entire post, so you might want to glance at it again, I don't know if you saw the correct entries or not.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Yup, I saw the same entries I am seeing now - great work!


Gabrielle

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Goodness...I'll see your red ripe tomato and raise you a red, red rose.
(Ok that's sounds weird and I know what I'm talking about.)

Thanks so much for all the kindness and support you've given me Gabrielle! You're a treasure.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

I like the Earth Tones one and the fifth artist choice.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I like the Earth Tones one and the fifth artist choice.

Thank you! Both were among the first ones I did for this set, and AC5 was literally the last entry I chose.

[spikesredqueen.livejournal.com]

These are excellent and great batch for your first entry at a 20in20!

My faves are ex close crop, strong, smile, focused, cat 1, 2, & 5, and ac 2, 3, and 5! Great work!!!!

[debris4spike]

Amazing is all I can say!

Strong is great - even though you can't see Buffy's face you can feel that stake going in.

Wow - what a brilliant concept for the NS/Monochrome ... I love it.

I don't think I have even seen that fractured effect that you used in Comics ... the image itself shows a "fractured" Buffy, so well worked. I love the contrasting pink colour of the lines.

That's a great font |(and use of it) in Earth Tones. I love the 50:50 crop as well.

The texture image - wow, that looks as if it took forever to make, yet is very effective.

I love the cut highlight on the B&W of extreme crop ... beautiful cropping ... such a sad image of our heroine, but beautifully tackled.

I love the soft colouring you have achieved in Focus ... again it has a lovely crop.

In the Cat's I love 1, 3, 5 ... such a great range of tonal feelings, but I love the image you chose for #2


Wow, great AC's ... I really love 3, 4 & 5 ... the colouring is stupendous!! AC4 is an amazing image, that I keep going back to look at. AC5 has just an amazing quality to it - both in the choice of image and then the colouring ... such a soft overall glow to it.

They are great - I am so pleased you did them ... and think I might as well withdraw mine from voting!!

Well done.

[endeni]

Oh, wow, the comics one is so awesome (and the variants too)! ;)

[kikimay]

You should totally read The Chain. It's the best issue ever.

This time I think that the white and black icons are the best. Especially Cat 1, 2 and 5. Also focused is very very pretty, I love the profile, and AC2 is maybe my favorite.

I can't wait to see the extras.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Wow! These turned out really cool!!

[punch-kicker15.livejournal.com]

These are gorgeous! I particularly like the coloring in the Artist's Choice ones, and the fractures in the Comics and Blended ones.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm surprised at how my first ten entries tended toward earth tones because I love richly saturated colors, as you can tell by the AC ones.

and the fractures in the Comics and Blended ones.

Thank you! I made the blended one at almost the last minute and I was really nervous about that one, I worried it was too unsophisticated - I had a couple of other ones for the catagory, but that icon just popped when I put it in the template table.

And the effect in the comics icons is photo montage in ipiccy - the day I first did that I felt like someone had handed me the key to a door I'd never been able to open before. And it was exactly what I wanted to emphasize the fracturing of identity and personality. Fun.

How are things going with your Summer of Giles fic, isn't tomorrow the deadline? Have you submitted it?

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thanks muchly, sweetheart! They're not so bad.

Friday June 6

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User audela referenced to your post from Friday June 6 (http://su-herald.livejournal.com/727469.html) saying: [...] Faith/Wes. M. [Images & videos] Icons: (The not really-real) Buffy Summers [...]

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'll have to keep my eyes open for it, thanks for the rec, and thank you for the feeback, sweetie!

I think you'll like some of the extras; your favorites in the B/W catagory are my favorites too. I debated for the longest time about putting the Amends icon with the NA ones but it just came out so beautifully - her hair and skin are so luminous. The color versions are just as beautiful. (I did some more from Amends I'm eager to show off.)

I'm glad you like focused, I really worked a lot on that one and worried it was too grainy. But sarah has such a fascinating face to play with, like a lady in a 15th century italian portrait.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The comics ones are two of my favorites I've ever done - I have more variants, but discovering the photo collage effect in ipiccy was like being handed the key to a door I'd never been able to open before. And it's a gorgeous image to start with anyway,

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Snagging AC#5 for realsies.

[endeni]

Sorry, butting in, but, oh, The Chain it's totally the best issue ever, I couldn't agree more. I don't read the comics anymore, I started season 8 and then get bored after "Retreat, Part II" but I'm so grateful I got to read The Chain, it just fixes everything about the Ats ep. "The Girl in Question". ^^

[chic-c.livejournal.com]

Amazing entry! These are really great and I'm glad you made it!
My favourite ones are: strong, monochrome, comics (awesome effect!), extreme close crop, smile, cat 1-2-5 and ac 1-2-5. <3

[bangel-4e.livejournal.com]

Amazing, wonderful entry hon!!! I absolutely love ns+monochrome (I love the texture used here), comics (so creative), extreme close crop, smile, cat 1-3 and all the ac ones..especially 1 with the blending..great work!

[kikimay]

Sarah has the greatest profile and a lot of that is due to her peculiar nose.

The Chain it's totally the best issue ever, I couldn't agree more. I don't read the comics anymore, I started season 8 and then get bored after "Retreat, Part II" but I'm so grateful I got to read The Chain, it just fixes everything about the Ats ep. "The Girl in Question". ^^

I totally agree. Best issue ever. I was so hopeful when I read it. It really seemed the anticipation of something incredibly good. And then they fucked up. Ugh.

[sweetiepebbles.livejournal.com]

I love your theme- very interesting!

My favorites are extreme close crop, focused, cat 1 and ac 2 :D

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

and think I might as well withdraw mine from voting!!

First things first - THERE WILL BE NO SUCH TALK IT WILL NOT DO *HUGS* (of course you're joking but still...*more hugs*)

When I asked for feedback I never imagined anything so wonderfully detailed as this THANK YOU so much sweetie! I have to go to work this weekend and don't have time to reply but I'm printing this out so I can read it during the day.

I love the comics one as well - so so much. Discovering the "photo collage" effect in ipiccy was like opening a door for me in terms of what I can do with icons.

I had to switch out AC1 and revised NS+Mono, I don't know if you've seen the new ones.
http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/43859.html

[endeni]

/And then they fucked up. Ugh./ - LOL, I'm not the only one who doesn't particularly care for the latter Buffy comics issues then...
Still, "The Chain" is totally my post-Chosen headcanon. *g*