Double Dutchess

This is the first post with my contributions for this year's Spring round of seasonal_spuffy, which ended last Monday. And an excellent round it was too! So many wonderful and creative contributions. You can find links to all the goodies in this index post.

The theme of the round was "Enemies with Benefits", and I made three banners for this theme to participate in the banner poll. They didn't stand a chance against the competition (so many great banners!), but as always, it was fun to participate.

The first three banners below were the ones I entered for the contest (I only made a very slight improvement to the third one). The last two are variations that I didn't enter.
( Banners under the cut. )

Apologies for hardly commenting on anyone's posts, life is too busy right now  I did find the time this weekend to take part in the technical fan art challenge over at BuffyForums and fill another square in my buffyversebingo card (prompt "diary").



Click here for the full-sized wallpaper (1920x1080).

Credits: Screencaps are from https://hdbuffy.tumblr.com/, brushes are from daydreaming, here.

This is the first of three catching up posts, adding some stuff I posted elsewhere to my own LJ.

I made this Illyria wallpaper for a technical art challenge at Buffyforums, focusing on the use of the pen tool. it was my first attempt at using the pen tool, so that's one of the reasons why it looks a bit rough. (The other reason is that it was a rush job, as always.)



Full-size version here.

Credits: Illyria screencaps by me. Octopus photo by Brian Gratwicke.

For my posting day at seasonal_spuffy, I made a series of manips and wallpapers based on Grease. The carnival theme of the round reminded me of one of the last scenes of the movie, with Sandy and Danny singing "You're the one that I want" in the fun house. So I made a couple of Grease manips in which I recast Buffy as Sandy and Spike as Danny. I'll try to combine as many of them as I can in one big (huge) post, so I won't clutter up people's feeds too much.

The first one was a Spuffified version of the album cover of the Grease soundtrack.

Spuffy is the word
It's got groove it's got meaning
Spuffy is the time, is the place, is the motion
Now, Spuffy is the way we are feeling

( Spuffy album cover behind the cut )

Then I did three manips + wallpapers based on screengrabs from "You're the one that I want".

( Danger ahead behind the cut )
( More danger ahead behind the cut )
( Shake shack and more behind the cut )