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]

No worries, I love every single version of that image - including the alts I didn't post AND the banner versions. (Oh yes, there are banner versions and they are awesome, if I do say so myself.) Putting together two of my favorite images of season 1 buffy and willow was a "why didn't I think of that sooner?" moment. Choosing the entry version was perhaps the single hardest decision this round.

But ultimately I think you really used the better version. I just love the white in chosen icon.


http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/red_satin_doll/51574655/260253/260253_900.png

YAAASS! *__* More! This is amazing! I never thought about the parallels of Buffy and Willow standing in front of each others and plus you PUT THERE THE QUOTE FROM THE HOURS. FAVORITE MOVIE! MY FEELINGS!!

And thanks! I linked some really insightful metas in my tumblr. I wanted to keep it cool and just reblog cool graphics and artworks but I kinda ranted a bit especially today XD

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I just love the white in chosen icon.

Thank you hon. I'm trying to use textures in new ways (new to me anyhow) and I loved the facets that one gave. But I love the smoother simpler versions too. My beloved Muse liked the version you did, maybe I should have gone with that?

I keep thinking I need to be more interesting, more layered but then I think, maybe I should have gone simpler? IDK I just love that image a ton.

plus you PUT THERE THE QUOTE FROM THE HOURS. FAVORITE MOVIE! MY FEELINGS!!

I had you in mind especially when I did that because I remembered our conversations. :) My Cat 5 icon, the "indie drama one" was inspired partly by the hours so I thought of your when I made it. I tried to put the quote in it but couldn't make it legible in icon size; I plan to fix that in the larger version.

And yes, there are more pretties coming up, ma'am.

And re: your tumblr I haven't seen the episode Billy and yet I had no problem following the conversation between you and drusillathekiller. (those are the sort of conversations that make me think about getting tumblr but I can barely handle what I've got as it is. *lol*) And also demandingbillydolls comments about S6 that you reflagged (YES thank you) - and the Leslie/Ben love. CANNOT get enough. They are my functional happy canon ship and Spuffy are my fucked up canon ship and I love them both in different ways.

I wanted to keep it cool and just reblog cool graphics and artworks but I kinda ranted a bit

YOUR RANT IS A RIGHTEOUS RANT DON'T STOP.

[kikimay]

Thank you hon. I'm trying to use textures in new ways (new to me anyhow) and I loved the facets that one gave. But I love the smoother simpler versions too. My beloved Muse liked the version you did, maybe I should have gone with that?

Ultimately I think you made the right choice. I really like the version you picked and I think it's one of the best icons in the round (It's really, really hard to choose! I hope I did good. I always try to be fair but also appreciate something from every artist? Because you all have great styles) Plus I really like that shade of pink XDD

I think that - generally - simpler is better. Or, at least, that's how I feel even in RL (I'm a big fan of modern houses or ancient Sicilian ones but very simple) But I love how you keep your work so layered and complex and personally I especially loved the comparisons with Buffy and Willow standing right in front of each other. I think you should do more large artwork also because complex images need their space, but I'm so fond of icons. Miniature pretties. <3

Also maybe you should join Tumblr? I don't know, I just think that the fans would love your art and more artworks and Tumblr is all about pretty graphics. Maybe it's the right place for you more than me! XD But it does take a lot of time because when you get there you want to see everything and there's so much prettiness around.

Leslie and Ben are adorable, honestly! I just love the fact that Ben is smart, good looking, super-funny and a real nerd (Not those nerd jokes we often see on tv) and he doesn't feel "less mainly" because he has an amazing and powerful wife, but he actually admires her strenght. But I also like the other couples like Andy and April and ... wait, did you see S6? I won't add anything. Still, great characters. I also saw that Amy Pohler wrote a book and actually I would like to read that. Parks and Rec is beautiful! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

(And yes, Angel fucks up so much when it comes to women)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I think you should do more large artwork also because complex images need their space,

http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/75690.html :D