Round 4 of btvsats20in20: Normal Again - Buffy Summers (with a little help from her friends)

[red_satin_doll]

My entries for Round 4 of btvsats20in20 continue the theme of the latest entries from starry_night and midnightisclose: Buffy, Buffy and more Buffy. As kikimay once noted, "Buffy contains multitudes." Starry and Midnight's sets are very different in styles to each other, both wonderful. Check them out here and here.





ETA 11/25/2014: I accidentally broke all my links to these icons the other day so there are only a handful of extras; the actual entries have been restored.











VERY IMAGE HEAVY ICON GALLERY AHEAD. My entries plus a treasure-trove of alts and extras. If I didn't made you smile or break your heart, I did something wrong. You tell me. Constructive criticism and feedback are of the good. As always, all snaggable, let me know, don't steal, hotlink, plagerize, do stupid stuff that would break my heart etc and so forth.

10 Themes
Dramatic Light	Friendship	Eyes	Bite	Motion
Weapon	Lyrics	Death	Promo Picture	Textured Background
5 Category |SHAPES
Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Cat 4	Cat 5
5 Artist's Choice
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

Screencaps sourced from Pretty as a Picture, Buffyworld, and the sadly-defunct Screencap Paradise. Image of vintage bottle in Cat 2 courtesy of The Cuckoo Farm. Credit to bangel_4e and pickamix for the inspiration on the Weapon icon; many thank you's to both of them and to spikesredqueen for their advice and feedback; also to bangel_4e for once again graciously extending the deadline twice.

ETA: Credit to sweetiepebbles for the text brushes in the Bite and AC4 icons.

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Do I have alts and extras?  Is the Pope Italian? Polish? Infaliable? A closet case? Never mind. Last round I decided not to post my alts and extras "until after the voting was over"; I still have yet to do so and it didn't help or hurt my cause in any case.velvetwhip, snogged, spikesredqueen, teragramm and chasingdemons have all advised me to not be so anxious about competition and show off the pretties. So this time here's a full gallery exhibition, not including some miscellaneous banners and posters for a later date. Enjoy an amuse-bouche:

  (teasers)




                      1-5



                    6-9




           10-14

I had so much fun with the Buffy & Xander icons, you have no idea. (I used a photo of my stainless steel frypan because I couldn't find a cap that showed Buffy hitting him with the skillet.) "He had it coming, he had it coming / He only had himself to blame...."  (If you're about to say that so and so male character is soo much superior to Xander, however, I'm going to respectfully disagree with you. ALL the guys on the show do some stupid stuff. Yes, ALL.)


          15-21



Warning: "mature" language

22-28

If Fritz Lang had directed BtVS - the poster art:

      29-32

   33-34


35-41



42-47



48-54



55-60 The "Skillet Moon" series.




   61-66



67-71



72-77

78-82



83-87

Warning: possibly upsetting imagery below (88-90) or maybe it's just my overactive imagination on my personal Tilt o'Whirl o' Trauma (Pat.Pend.)

88-91

88-90 was going to be my "bite" entry  - can you see what I had in mind with these? It seemed like a really nifty concept- until it RL and suchforth made it a bit too upsetting even for me. I suspect someone else is going to love these, however.

92-94

I made a blood spattered version of 94, which just pushes past the PG rule of the comm. (So vague suggestive imagery in 88-90 drives me to upset but blood spatters are no prob? Explain me to me, please.) If you're interested in seeing those, let me know and I'll slip them to you under the table.

Comments

[bangel-4e.livejournal.com]

Wow, you keep getting better and better!!
The lights, blending and texture work in these are great!

Just..I can't see ac 2..it says image removed? :(

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you hon, it's such a compliment to know I'm improving.

The lights, blending and texture work in these are great!

My day has been made! *hugs* I really worked on light quality a lot because it's something I admire in the work of other folks - and do you remember when I entered round 1 I had no idea how to do a blend (or what a blend even was?)

And I just fixed AC2 thank you for the heads up! It looked fine when I hit post - I think sometimes PB is really finicky. It's been giving me all sorts of trouble lately.

I'm really glad you approve, I'm always nervous until I get the mod's blessing. :)

ETA to fix formatting. I would like to know why LJ is now only showing my default icon even when I chose another but oh well.

[bangel-4e.livejournal.com]

I remember! And I see you improving day by day...and I wish I could comment extensively on these as I always do but these days I find it hard to make time to comment on LJ :(

No worries! OH the default thing is happening to you too????? I thought it was just me ahahah

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

i don't know if it's significant that very little of the work on these was done in photobucket and almost entirely in ipiccy compared to rounds past?

Also, I didn't have to run to you for help on the template, did you notice? *LMAO* I think I'm starting to get the hang of them.

Thank you for cleaning up my tags - I didn't see one for normal again so I created it, and added the buffy tag just in case, knowing you'd give it a look-see.

the default thing is happening to you too????? I thought it was just me ahahah

It's been happening to me all day - I thought it was a flaw in the icon itself for some reason, glad to know it's not! (I suspect they'll take LJ down for a fix very soon, fingers crossed they work it out.

ETA: Once again I purposely tried to use another icon. no luck

[bangel-4e.livejournal.com]

It could be. Maybe the next step will be Photoshop :)

No problem about the tags. The rules say that the mods should do it, but sometimes member forget and do them themselves ahah :)
I don't mind anyway.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Maybe the next step will be Photoshop :)

DEFINITELY. My sweetie bought elements 12 (the annoying pop-ups to upgrade to 13 are alread appearing) and it's on both user sides of the Mac - so I can play around and load my photos on my side and not affect any of her stuff on the other. I played with it a little one day and realized there's effects there that I can achieve with the push of one button that takes me piling several effects atop each other in ipiccy to achieve. Can't wait to play in this sandbox!

[bangel-4e.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! I can't wait to see the results of that :)