Hello LJ world
Dec. 21st, 2014 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
double_dutchessAlways doing the unfashionable thing, I finally gave myself an LJ account as a Christmas present. A very cheap present it was too, because I don't expect to be posting enough to merit a paid account.
I know BtVS fandom on LJ is no longer thriving as it once was, but I still look forward to making new online friends, connecting to existing ones, and getting better access to all the Buffy (or actually, mostly Spike) related goodness that can be found on LJ. I like all of BtVS and AtS, but Spike is the main reason for me to be in the Buffy fandom.
Due to a severe lack of time outside the holidays I won't be posting much, apart from the occasional vid or image. I don't manage to make more than 2 or at most 3 vids a year, but I still have some old stuff that I intend to post occasionally to make up for my lack of productivity. Also, I will do my best to comment on other people's work, but I'm afraid I won't have time to write anything longer or more thoughtful than your basic variations on "I like it".
Anyway, LJ here I come!
I know BtVS fandom on LJ is no longer thriving as it once was, but I still look forward to making new online friends, connecting to existing ones, and getting better access to all the Buffy (or actually, mostly Spike) related goodness that can be found on LJ. I like all of BtVS and AtS, but Spike is the main reason for me to be in the Buffy fandom.
Due to a severe lack of time outside the holidays I won't be posting much, apart from the occasional vid or image. I don't manage to make more than 2 or at most 3 vids a year, but I still have some old stuff that I intend to post occasionally to make up for my lack of productivity. Also, I will do my best to comment on other people's work, but I'm afraid I won't have time to write anything longer or more thoughtful than your basic variations on "I like it".
Anyway, LJ here I come!
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Date: 2014-12-30 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-31 12:11 am (UTC)I've tried to make some other comics icons but none have come out to my liking - except the variant versions of the Chain icon, actually, with and without the "photo collage" effect in ipiccy. No one else uses it so I've sort of made it one of my signature effects but it has to be used sparingly. It's perfect on images that look like drawings of paintings not (ironically) like photographs.
I made it for Round 1 of
which incidentally go very well with the Prophecy girl icon
I didn't notice that before - great eye! Wow. It;s funny I LOVE cool colors and deep jewel tones, blue and greens and purple is my favorite; but when it comes to icons I tend to make more in warm tones, there's something about warm colors that attracts the eye especially when you're working that small.
ETA: my alts for the chain icon and all the round 1 icons are in my PB album btw:
http://s133.photobucket.com/user/RedSatinDoll/library/BUFFY/Buffy%20ICONS/Btvsats20in20?sort=6&page=1
Of the alt versions I especially like this pale blue one: http://s133.photobucket.com/user/RedSatinDoll/media/BUFFY/Buffy%20ICONS/Btvsats20in20/thechainipiccy_zpsca8401a6.png.html?sort=6&o=16
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Date: 2014-12-31 01:00 am (UTC)I noticed you had a few "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" icons in that album, and I've snagged one of them just in case -- I've been thinking about making a vid to a song of that title, and I could use the icon to go with it. It's likely that I will never get around to making that vid, but if I do, at least I'll already have the icon. (I'll be archiving it offline.)
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Date: 2014-12-31 04:23 am (UTC)THANK YOU, and I agree. There's a darker brown version of that one but in this instance the cool one does work better given the context. That was made when I was first learning ipiccy and have no idea how I made it and couldn't reproduce it later, alas. (Do you suppose I write things down as I work? Of course not.)
I noticed you had a few "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" icons in that album, and I've snagged one of them just in case
*SQUEES* Those icons are my first true "blends"! I made them from images I had left lying around after btvsats20in20 (the same round I made The Chain icon); and the strange blue "floral" pattern in some of them is a texture I made with a photograph I took of an almost empty jar of homemade yogurt. (really)
I was actually inspired to include the text because of an unfinished post-series fic I'd been working on at the time, my favorite line from it in which Giles is observing Buffy: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci in blue denim, with mischief and murder in her eyes."
By all means, use them - and if you ever do display the icons and/or the vid somewhere online let me know. I love that
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Date: 2015-01-02 12:54 am (UTC)Thank you, and I will! But I have to warn you, I have many vid ideas and way too little time to execute them, so most likely it's never going to happen :-(