red_satin_doll: (Wiffy Hug - Primeval)
red_satin_doll ([personal profile] red_satin_doll) wrote2015-03-30 02:36 am

My banners for Whedon Elite Challenge 113

Congratulations to [livejournal.com profile] fassy, [livejournal.com profile] rua1412 and [livejournal.com profile] sietepecados on their gorgeous entries!

Banners after the cut:

3rdplacetierua1412banner533x338_byrsd_WErd113_final.png (Teaser)




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3rdplacetierua1412banner533x338_byrsd_WErd113_final.png




3rdplacetiesietepecadosbannerforWErd113_533x338_byrsd_FINALVERSION2.png


The theme was "concealed" - a face had to be concealed by an object (hand, hair, etc), and I extended the theme with one of the final images from "Anne", when Buffy's face is half-revealed as Joyce opens the front door. The plain space of the door was a perfect field for text, but I added a woodgrain texture and let part of it cover Buffy's face as well, so she's concealed twice-over in the image. The woodgrain on her face looks more like a torn piece of gauze curtain.

I think I'm getting faster at these -  I knocked them out in a night; the hardest part was not the textures or the text but the frames around the icons themselves. I wanted a touch of "elegance" in the frames and font style to contrast the coarse woodgrain.