What's this? I'm still alive? And making an actual post? Yeah, it's been a while. School is, as they say, kicking my ass. I'm in a momentary lull between several soul-crushing projects, so I'm taking the opportunity to post some of the stuff I've been making sporadically over the last few months. Lots of flotsam and jetsam from icontests and such.

P.S. My kitty owns your SOUL!! (#101-103)

001-024 . Friday Night Lights
025-044 . Lost
045-059 . Pushing Daisies
060-074 . Australia
075-094 . Misc (Atonement/Stock)
095-112 . Stock (My photos)
[3] Pushing Daisies Banners

Teasers:




( WWRD...What Would Riggins Do? )

Starring Judy Garland and James Mason
Caps: 1500
Size: 768x432
Samples and Links beneath the cut.



( Sing 'Melancholy Baby!' )

If you haven't heard the song "The Man That Got Away," please, do yourself a favor and download it now. It hasn't been called one of the greatest musical numbers in motion picture history for nothing.

Also, a crappy You Tube video of it: here, but you'll get the general idea of its awesomeness.

I know. Not new icons. School just started and my schedule just imploded into negative free time. But I thought I'd use the little I do have to do an instructional post.

Warning! This is especially for images that are overall too much of a dull yellow. Made mostly to get a semi-realistic skin tone. It's gonna look really odd with normal caps...like an explosion of neon blue. Examples of caps in the cut.

Go from this:
to this:

Made with CS2. NO SELECTIVE COLORING. Presumably translatable. 7 steps.

( No hablo French. )

Also made with this tut:

Hola, it is me! This and the next post or so should be fairly random, as I'm in a bunch of different LIMS & icontests and need to burn off the entries, but of course that's nothing new for me. And in an effort to broaden my iconing canon (though I can hardly call it that), I present my first ever icons for The Wire, which is an amazing show and you should totally go watch it now (unless you have a low tolerance for excessive violence, language and bureaucracy).

001-015 . Amelie
016-045 . Pushing Daisies
046-063 . The Wire
064-103 . Disney

Teasers:




( This is a pie shop, not an herbal crack den. )

Caps: 1250

Size: 768x432


( Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy. )

Starring: Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell
Caps: 1850
Size: 616x464

( Walter, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way. )

I can't help it. I adore this movie.

Caps: 1915
Size: 768x432


( Supermodel Documentary Hour! )

Starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker
Caps: 700
Size: 680x512

( Samples & Link )

I present to you a buffet of iconage wrought from several different icontests/fits of boredom. Someone finally capped higher quality stills of the Hairspray trailer (!), so there are a few here from that (click the "hairspray" tag to see the other set), but I think I'll wait 'til it comes out on DVD to make my own caps and really go crazy, maybe even do a mood theme.

About half the Ugly Betty stuff is from the weird/awesome/creepy new promo pics, but they're not particularly spoilery (unless you'd be shocked to see Henry wearing argyle again *gasp*). Feel free to resize the banners or add text or whatever.

Comment//credit, all that stuff. Yay, etiquette!

001-015 . Classic Actors/Actresses
016-060 . Disney Misc (challenge entries/variations)
061-075 . Hairspray
076-105 . Ugly Betty (Lims Entries/New Promos)
[03] . Ugly Betty Headers
[02] . Stock Headers

Teasers:




( What 'do' can compare with mine today? )

**ATTENTION: (11.09.07) Caps are now fixed! If you downloaded before this date, feel free to do it again. They're a little bigger and a lot less pixelated.

Bringing Up Baby
Caps: 1650
Size: 576x432
Samples and links beneath the cut.


( Oh, you've torn your coat. )