My Entries for Round 3 of btvsats20in20: TARA MACLAY, A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS

[red_satin_doll]

My original claim for this round of btvsats20in20 was Tara in S4, but starry_night kindly allowed me to expand that.






    Teasers

10 Themes
Full Body	Minimalism	Heartbreak	Yellow	Matching Background
Fear	Grunge	Favourite	Touch	Mod’s Choice
5 Category |MAGNIFYING GLASS
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 will follow in a separate post and oh boy do I have alts.

Comments - including honest critiques - welcome. (You can't be harder on these than I am.) If you're wondering what I was aiming for with the Fear icon, my inspiration was clockwork_hart1's Tough Love Tara-POV fic "Shadows and Light".

My mom is coming for a week long visit tomorrow so if I do not reply to comments, that's why.

starry_night if you need to disqualify my entries, I understand and that's ok. I'm really not fussed about that. I learned a lot, and quality time spent with Tara Maclay is NEVER time wasted.

I would love to make more Tara icons, and more Willow/Tara icons. Oh goodness I could go on forever. But I've realized two things: 1) 20in20 isn't a good fit for me. 15 would be more like it. I have alternate versions but I run out of steam and then realize I have to come up with five more new ones. Ugh.

2) that my days of icon making are numbered. My new bifocals make it so much harder than before, slower; and I find myself thinking in terms of banners and large artworks as a consequence. The icons for Full Body, Touch, Cat 1 and Cat3 all started life as larger artworks. Which I will show off in another post because....

3) I FINALLY made artwork from the final scene in Dead Things that I'm happy with. (Thanks, ipiccy!)

Comments

[lokifan]

Full Body, Mod's Choice and AC4 are my favourites, but it's a lovely set all-round.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you sweetie! Those are definitely three of my favorites too (I almost left out Mod's Choice and AC 4 but just couldn't), but I'm glad they work together. I'm super-pleased with how the set came out overall.