21. 86 Icons: SG-1, SG-1 Actors, Babylon 5

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

44 Stargate SG-1
10 Teryl Rothery & Michael Shanks as themselves or other roles
07 Eureka
25 Babylon 5

TEASERS:


Overall, not my favorite set. I haven't had much icon fu for the past month and I can see it in my lack of textures on a lot of these. However, these Janet Fraiser (SG-1) and Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5) icons have been burning a metaphorical hole in my pocket since right before I hit my slump so I'm posting regardless. EDIT: I didn't mean to imply people should bolster my ego. There are icons within this batch that I like. As a set, though, I'm less pleased than I'd like to be. Too many of these seem like something I could have made 8 months ago; I prefer to feel as if I'm improving.


SG-1
1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45


BEYOND STARGATE: Teryl Rothery and Michael Shanks
46-50

51-55


Special thanks to evil_moopie for the excellent screen caps of Janet and Sam and the lovely pics of Teryl!

EUREKA:
56-60

61-65


BABYLON 5:
66-70

71-75

76-80

81-85

86-90


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Comments

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

I looooove your not-your-favorite-work. :D I took a bunch for the next time I need to refresh my user pics... 1, 5, 12 (just so lovely; it looks flowery to me for some reason, without a single flower in the shot. Kind of sixties), 13 (love the texture on her skin), 15, 18, 25, 27, 28, and 35.

I didn't take them (I already had, like, ten saved :D), but "Lucky Fork" and "Pair o' Jacks" are genius. ;-D

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

You are way too kind. :) 12 is one I *do* like because it's just so cheerful; it's one I made prior to hitting my slump. I'm glad 13 works for you. It's from Beneath the Surface and it's such a great shot of Amanda but the color has driven me batty. *HOURS* of color correction. :| The original is dark and very orange. I've tried that icon 3 different times and this was the best of the lot but I'm still not happy. The parts that I like were already present in the pic. *shrug*

[evil-moopie.livejournal.com]

46! *tackles you*

[evil-moopie.livejournal.com]

*cough*

I mean, the rest are lovely, too - even if you're not personally sold on this batch. But 46 made me basically lick the screen, so. :)

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Stealing the slashy J/D one :)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Yay! :D

[sheepfairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVE these! I'm snagging 57 and 90, and I would be taking more if not for my depressing lack of icon space. Thank you so much for making these!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Oooooo! I like your Allison icon. :) I understand the limitations of icon space -- that realty is dear -- and really appreciate your commenting. Thank you!

[ireth-e.livejournal.com]

Pretty icons!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

OMG, you're so good at this! I snagged and credited the "Thud" one from B5.

Could I make a request? If you don't do it, no sweat, but: I would love one of Ivanova saying "All love is unrequited".

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Awwww *hugs* I will certainly try. I'm in the midst of a frustrating slump right now so I make no promises for its quality. I assume you just want Susan in it, right? No other characters?

[mysticalweather.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you thank you for the Daniel/Janet icons!!!

*snags them with glee*

~Misty

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

You're quite welcome. :D

[thor-i-lover.livejournal.com]

Yay!! You're a big genius for me!! #79 is wow! ♥♥ ♥♥ ♥♥
Very good job!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were a Babylon 5 fan, too! Very cool.

er, do I want to know what's up with smoked bananas? *grin*

[ctheinvisible17.livejournal.com]

Wee! Stargate icons! And you like Doctor Who, Torchwood, and QAF on top of that. Man, you are so awesome. *laughs*

Snagging #'s 4, 7, 36, 38, and 51 with credit. Thank you!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I have impeccable taste. I see that you do, too. :) All excellent shows. Or, at least, they had elements of greatness even when the writers let us down at times.

Enjoy!

[casett.livejournal.com]

Lovely stuff! Your not so good is still some of the best.

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that is truly too kind. I appreciate the compliment. I love the softness of that Jack icon. :D

[6beforelunch.livejournal.com]

Great icons! I snagged #25, will credit. :)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[capra124.livejournal.com]

Even if these are some of your worst, they're still great. I appreciate those who can create such wonderful icons, since I have no talent to do so whatsoever.

I snagged 36-39, 58, and 65.

Thanks!!!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The kind words are muchly appreciated. :D

[sheryden.livejournal.com]

I snagged #7 and #36. Nice work!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fragglebo.livejournal.com]

Saved a bunch of SG1 icons - they are so pretty! Thank you!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

*snort* Excellent icon, yo!

Enjoy. :D

[helenkacan.livejournal.com]

Taking lots and lots and lots (of course, will credit), mostly J/D, MS and the last one (subtext, my ass).

But I also have an unfulfilled (like, forever) desire to have the almost kiss between Talia and Ivanova (the way it should have been!). If I beg, will you please make me one??? I am a total non-icon making person (unless I use piccies I've taken myself and just crop/resize, you know).

I guess it's just a co-incidence that I renewed my acct today and added extra userpics. [There are no co-incidences in life. Hee!]

Most appreciative hugs,
Helenka

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to try to make the icon for you but I do have one problem: I don't have that cap in my collection. I only have caps that have been used in babylon5contest's challenges. Do you have a link to the cap you're hoping to have capped? Or the screencap itself? That'll help me immensely.

I'm thrilled to help you fill your extra icon space. :D

[bluemeridian]

Mmmmm, snurched #6, in which the color balance is wonderful, #15, because it made me laugh, and #25, because it is so very pretty. I love the highlights in that last one, and the isolation implied by the cropping. This may be a slump for you, but I still think the first and last I took are exceptional. :)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you. I edited my note because I didn't want anyone to think that I'm asking for ego-stroking. I guess it's more a sense of stagnation than anything leading to my dissatisfaction. I need to break out of my rut. :)

*HUGS*

[memento1.livejournal.com]

Now, I can very much understand artistic slumps, having been in several myself, but these are amazing. I can't even list why they're all so amazing, but some of my favorites are 10, 14 (whoa 14!), 16, 30 (which just made me laugh out loud), 35, 39 (look at the green-and-tan! Look at it! It's a perfect color combo), 41, and 44. I think 41 is my favorite. The color, the spin, the brightness...it's just hypnotizing!

Also, thank you again for the selective color tut!! I dared try some selective coloring recently and for the first time I felt like I knew what I was doing and liked the outcome! I proceeded the ruin the icon by throwing poo at it (figuratively), but I was oh-so-thrilled to have conquered Selective Coloring at last. At that's all due to you!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your very kind words! 41 was a total lark for me. I'm not fond of the circular swirl blur trend mostly because I see everyone do it. I wanted to focus on the activity amongst the three of them and make the surroundings "melt away" the way it would have been for the characters involved so I tried it. I understand the appeal -- it's kind of cool to give up control in some ways -- but I never could decide if the swirls achieved what I wanted or if the smears distracted from the terrible, terrible moment as Teal'c kills Amaunet to save Daniel.

You're so very welcome for the tutorial! I'm thrilled to the Nth degree that you found it useful. I have no idea if what I do is the best way but it's what I figured out for working with it from the 200+ recipes that I tried. I'm very, very glad that it works for you! And I've now seen your icons so you won't convince me that you threw poo at the icon. ;)

[luzitasg1.livejournal.com]

Great stuff! Esp. love 9 & 10 (very hot Daniel) and 24 (great image of Janet).

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Daniel is so very hot. You'd never know he's my favorite character given how little I icon him compared to other characters but he's so hot that it's hard to get something I think is "worthy" of his hotness. *shrug*

I was blessed with an amazing selection of excellent images of Janet for this round, thanks to the very generous evil_moopie.

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

Man, even your "not good" ones are still some of the best. Wheee, pretty new icons! I took a bunch...now off to try and find slots for them. Oy! Too many icons, not nearly enough room.

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* You are so very good for my ego. Are you telling me that you're now hurting for icon space? No more bragging about your twenty-something empty slots? Welcome to the club! I think this makes a true, hard-core LJer. ;)

[paddies.livejournal.com]

Awww...I'm late to the party (I'm not playing much on LJ these days), but I had to let you know that these icons are absolutely gorgeous! :x:x:x

The colors are especially beautiful... amazing work! :-)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Eep! I was sort of hoping this one had flown under your radar. :|I don't think this is my best work nor is it demonstrating anything *new* that I've learned. Ah well, thank you kindly for the compliments.

So what are you doing if you aren't playing on LJ? Still lost in the world of Stephanie Plum? Having a real life? Stalking Gale?

[withpins.livejournal.com]

These are spectacularly awesome! Snagging 15, 30, 33, 37, and 38. Will credit!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you. :D I know how precious icon real estate is so I hope any you choose to use earn their keep.

[paian]

This is you without icon fu, huh? *g*

Wonderful sets. I especially love those two shirtless MS ones from '24,' and the last BSG one (subtext -- great caption).

I'll be snagging lots of SG-1 ones. :-)

(Oooh, I get to use comment editing for the first time! I was logged in as jd_commentfic when I opened this entry, and tried logging out and back in and pasting the comment I'd written, and ended up repeating the whole comment. I'm happy to see that the editing thingie lets you switch icons, too -- sometimes I've deleted and re-posted comments just to use a more appropriate icon, so yay. *g*)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

You are clearly too good to me, m'dear, but I appreciate it very much. *g* I look at the work of my favorite icon makers and wish I could do that or that I had thought of that or ... well, you get the picture. Those caps from 24 are a devil for me to work with so I'm glad they meet approval, though the subject matter renders them incapable of being anything other than appealing. ;)

I was always a huge Lyta fan but I wish we'd been able to have her AND the Ivanova/Talia story. *sigh* Alas, Ms. Thompson wanted out and there was nothing for it.

This was your first time comment editing? As soon as I knew it was possible, I began editing my every comment solely because I could! FINALLY a chance to fix the typos that evade my proof-reading. :)

*HUGS*

[avidrosette.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are wonderful - lush and strong and decisive. They project such confidence and style. If these fall short in your mind, it can only be in comparison to a platonic ideal of an icon set that exists in your imagination; they certainly shine next to any group I've seen in the real world. :-)

Taking all the Jacks and Daniels. I particularly adore 1, 2, 6, and 9. In 6, you just control every single pixel in the frame, don't you; it's as clean and luminous as anything I've seen. And 9 is a brilliant and somehow subtly witty interpretation of that iconic cap. ::boggles:: Also taking 22, 23, and 25, which are all beautiful and original. I love the coloring in 23, especially the contrast between the red-orange of the lips and turquoise cast of the reflected light around the eyes, chin, and hair. And I love 36, just the sheer joy you capture in that moment. Gorgeous set!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

*blush* You are really far too kind. :) I'm sorry to be so late in replying; I've been away from the computer at home and swamped at work and with holidays and my being overwhelmed by the required sociability...well, suffice to say I'm so behind on LJ that it's rather embarrassing.

I completely love how #23 came out and it was a complete accident. Those colors and the lighting weren't obvious when I started playing but they just popped out when I was putzing around and I didn't really *do* anything. That's all Teryl's wonderful expression and the coloring AND lighting is a happy accident. I love that icon to pieces, though. :) I wish I could recreate it in new icons but so far attempts have failed. As for #36, there's hardly any way for that moment to turn out as anything other than wonderful, you know? The actors weren't yet aware of the slashy potential and they played it like two people who cared and, and, and...it's just one of my happiest t.v. moments. *sigh*

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

Taking #46 from this batch. :-)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tori-alexander.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I'm taking 15 and 37. They're absolutely perfect. ^__^

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

*g* Thank you! :)