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

[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. ;)