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

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

No wonder you were latish with this ... amazing work ... wow, they are stunning. I love Dramatic Light and Texture ... you are great at focussing in faces ... so expressive with your work.

Oh my goodness Deb I'm VERY latish with a reply and I do apologize! I thought I'd already replied to this. But not much to say at this point on my end except I adore you of course and I always appreciate your detailed feedback.

Great Cat set ... espec Cat 1 (again a lovely close-up).

Oh thank you! I was really proud of my Cat icons and love the "Skillet Moon" series if for no other reason than I learned how to make a photo of my cast-iron fry pan as a layer that glowed with light. (Wish I remembered how I did it, alas.) And I do so love using closeups and Sarah offers so much in Normal Again.

Where I'm weak is full figures, pairings and groupings, and distant shots, things you're better at.

stunning concentration.

*blushes* Oh thank you dear! So much.

I already sent you a reply earlier to another post but I'm feeling very frustrated by this round. Just not feeling the same enthusiasm - I think the lack of a boundary, of having to make a specific claim, is making it harder for me. I can do a rainbow of anything and that means no boundaries. Not good for Little Miss ADD.

Also? Everything I make turns out sepia and/or blue. Sometimes violet. But rainbow? Not so much. And everything is an entirely different style to each other, another downfall when it comes to these things: lack of cohesiveness.