btvsats20in20 ROUND 8: "Wiffy" (Buffy Summers & Willow Rosenberg)

[red_satin_doll]

ETA: My entries for Round 8 of btvsats20in20. I forgot to link back to the comm when I posted this last night/this morning, sorry!

I had initially meant to stick to a "Buffyverse in Wonderland" theme but my guiding inspiration this round turned out to be the Pop Art theme and the Category theme "movie genres". My Category icons were inspired more by movie posters than by the films themselves.

MANY kudos, kisses and roses to my wonderous Muse, velvetwhip for all her help, ideas, support and inspiration. I can't begin to thank her adequately.

TEASERS:
   

10 Themes
Pop Art	Family	Food	Grey*	Duplicate
Name	Stolen Claim	Wild	Monochrome+Text	Evil
5 Category |MOVIES
Cat 1 Sci-Fi Thriller	Cat 2 Romantic Comedy	Cat 3 Bergman Drama	Cat 4 Slapstick Comedy	Cat 5 Indie Prestige Drama
5 Artist's Choice
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

One of my goals this round was to include images from all seven seasons of the series. I don't ship "Wiffy"  (or "Billow", take your pick) sexually / romantically - but if it's a choice between that and hatin' on the ladies, I'll chose the love. (It's astonishing to me how often fans of one character hate on the other.) I certainly "ship" their friendship - the most important friendship in the Buffyverse - something fierce.

* The look of my "Grey" icon was inspired by spikesredqueen's gorgeous entry in her Lorne set.

"Stolen Claim" can be considered "Chosen" or "Bangel", works either way.

Some alts, not including banner versions:

    1 - 4
4 was almost my Stolen Claim entry; I went back and forth on that one a lot.  I don't do many romantically het shippy icons so I'm pleased with how it turned out.


  5 - 9

10 - 14
I loved making these "movie posters". For the "prestige drama" I wanted to include text from the movie "The Hours" (Always the years, always the love, always the hours) but couldn't get it as I wanted. I like #5 just as much as my Cat 1 icon for the clarity of Buffy's face, but the entry version is more "atmospheric".

  15 -18
My Evil icon could have fit very nicely into the movie genre set as "Horror film" (think schlocky 1980's slasher flick VHS graphic art.) "Dark Willow" seemed too obvious a direction to go for the Evil theme.

  19 -24

   25 -29
I couldn't resist making a personalized icon for beer_good_foamy, who wrote the best-evah meta essay in praise of Beer Bad.


30 - 36

37 - 43

No, you don't need this many alts of this image, but that's ok - I do.

Comments

[kikimay]

I love your alts so much!

I must say, I kinda love more the alts for monochrome + text (Although I do believe that you probably chose the most original and pretty one for the contest) still I really like 30, 32, 34 a lot. I also like 22 a lot and 23 (very original, I'd like to see more of this) and while I think that 21 is very intersting conceptually - parallels are my kink! - I think that a complex image like that should work better in a large artwork.

I also really like the Bangel alts 3 and 4 and 5 because Buffy's face is too pretty.

Talking about the actual icons in the contest my most favorite is grey and, you know me, I don't like black and white icons generally, but this one is so pretty and soft. Most beautiful.

I also like pop art, stolen claim is cute because Angel gets the pink (yay!) monochrome + text, indie prestige drama and AC4.

[niki1988.livejournal.com]

Love ur style, girl!
Any chance u can do Willow/angel and Willow/Angelus

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I am so glad that you tackled the Buffy/Willow friendship for this round. I think that's very awesome of you and I'm glad you shared your alts with us as well.

The standouts for me are Food, Grey, Name, your movie poster set, and your AC set. Willow's facial expression in "Wild" is so adorably scrunched up. I had forgotten that she'd even made that face. :)

Well done, sweetie!

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

These are extraordinary! I know you already knew that I felt that way, but it never hurts to say it again!!!!


Gabrielle

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

These are neat, as always - and wow, one of my own too, thanks! :)

I especially like 30-43 - they both have such expressive faces, and you really bring that out.

23-29 March 2015

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[rbfvid.livejournal.com]

Terrific icons!
(Unrelated note - I wonder how did Buffy/Willow became so obscure ship nowdays, given all Wiffy material that canon offers.)