40. Icon Battle with xafirah

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

xafirah challenged me to a Supernatural icon battle. We each chose a lucky number of caps: thirteen.

xafirah
vs.
hsapiens

Caps chosen by xafirah
xafirah 1-5
hsapiens 1-5

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xafirah 6-9
hsapiens 6-9

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xafirah 10-13
hsapiens 10-13

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Caps chosen by hsapiens
xafirah 14-18
hsapiens 14-18

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xafirah 19-22
hsapiens 19-22

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xafirah 23-26
hsapiens 23-26

If you snag any icons by xafirah, please be certain to credit her!

I'm sure you want to check out more of xafirah's work, y/y? She has a lovely, new icon journal here: cato_neimoidia. If you haven't seen her work previously, you're in for a treat.

Xafirah's Entry Here

I made an obscene number of alternates which I'll post separately.

Comments

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

oh, wow, so many pretties! By both of you. Monsterbusters is utterly perfect, and I needed a Lisa icon. Snagging those for sure.

[master-kogane.livejournal.com]

Absolutely stunning Anna icons; I can't decide which one(s) to take!

The other icons are also beautiful of course, there just aren't nearly enough icons of Anna, heh.

[impalalove]

I love your icons! :D

[morgentau.livejournal.com]

Brilliant as always. Especially love



which I'm sooo going to use!

[txduck.livejournal.com]

beautiful work

[beeej.livejournal.com]

Wow. Really, really wow. :)

[superbadgirl]

Very interesting to see the different approaches to the same cap. They're all very lovely!

[teevee-etc.livejournal.com]

Wow, great battle with amazing icons. So wanna see more of your battles :D

[xafirah.livejournal.com]

There's so much I want to write and I don't know what to begin with...
First of all - thank you for... well, everything! Beginning with agreeing to an icon battle, choosing fantastic caps, posting the results in your journal and generally being very kind to me.
The halo userhead is from me :) You totally deserve it and Castiel approves.

Now to the icons... They're all great (I didn't expect otherwise). My favourite icons of yours are: 14 (perfect everything), 15 (best coloring of all of them, great choice of font), 24 (I love font & text! I think this icon and my version of it are great example of our colouring differences - my icons are more pink and yours are more yellow. When I made Crowley icon I was quite happy with my coloring and when I saw yours... my jaw fell on the floor ;)).
I had most problems with 18 - it was very dark and it didn't look good when I tried to lighten it up. I don't know how you managed to make it so bright and without any grainy spots. For me - it seemed impossible.
21 was also hard. I hate to icon sad faces/moments especially when I know someone in the cap is dying. Your icon has lots of emotions in it - I love it.
I didn't know what to do with 25 either. Especially I hated the Impala in the back. I don't know why, but it (she?) looks too white on any icons I make (see 6 too). It's probably because of sunlight but it looks a bit weird to me.

I'm still laughing at 6 - Dean's facial expression. And Sam's giant jaw :D. Sorry for choosing this screencap - I seriously thought it would be good for "negative space", not close crops ;).

[sidriel.livejournal.com]

Very nice results of the battle! Stunning icons :]

[casett.livejournal.com]

You guys are amazing! Every one a little gem.

The black and white ones from each of you are outstanding.

Supernatural caps are so difficult and you make them look easy.

Awesome!

[mrscastielftw.livejournal.com]

All of the icons are utterly amazing!

Awesome work!

[winterfish.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are all so gorgeous! It's really interesting seeing the different approaches. Such fantastic work on all of these!

[princesslanie.livejournal.com]

so nice. i grabbed #22. i'll credit when i use it, thanks.

[lenaaa-creation.livejournal.com]

aaaaahhh, these are amazing! love, love them all!

[mysticwaters.livejournal.com]

These are gorgeous! Snagged a few, thanks!

[horrible-tomato.livejournal.com]

wow, those are awesome!!! saved a bunch to enjoy every day =)

[nygoldfish54.livejournal.com]

omg. stealing. will credit. ♥

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Snagged 24 - great job.

[mark-pierre.livejournal.com]

They're all stunning! It's simply impossible to choose!