Arts and Crafts Post!

[muji]

After yesterday's shenanigans, I think it might be time for another icons/graphics post. Tag in with things that you want/need, and then people who can make them go to town!

(Do not be afraid of making shitty/basic ones. My iconmaking skills are impressively crappy, but hilarious.)

Have fun with it! And don't forget to answer today's DE, too!

Comments

[muji]

An icon for Iris, primarily text based, with "How can you not love rainbows?"

:D!

Here's a few I whipped up!

[leeshajoy]

Re: Here's a few I whipped up!

[muji]

Oh my god beautiful.

Re: Here's a few I whipped up!

[leeshajoy]

Glad to know that spending my entire tax refund on Adobe CS6 was worthwhile. ^.^

Re: Here's a few I whipped up!

[misslucyjane]

Gorgeous!

[fairy_fixit]

Who is Iris's PB? There's an idea I want to try out.

[the_cupbearer]

That would be the amazingly talented Christina Hendricks, I believe.

[fairy_fixit]

That vivid shade of red hinted in that direction, but I wasn't quite sure. Thanks!

[muji]

This is correct! :D

[fairy_fixit]

Bwah!



I should have probably made the rainbow a bit fainter so the text is more readable, but I've already spent an hour on it. I still have the XCF file, so I could fix it quickly. In theory.

FIXED!

[bjornwilde]

Is it bad of me that my eye follows the rainbow to interesting places?

[fairy_fixit]

It's the magic of carefully placed lines and colors and composition that I masterfully crafted didn't think too much about (except what looked right). DAMMIT STOP HAVING BOY EYES AND LOOK AT THAT MAGNIFICENT RED HAIR. /redhead-bias

[gavin62truck]

Amused and honored that something Tommy said made it into icon form. XD

[a1enzo]

Before November, I shall need quite a lot of new icons to replace old ones. Enzo will be graduating around Hallowe'en, so he'll have the new uniform, plus he just plain needs to look his age (or even a little older so I can keep these in use for some time). As usual, I like to get different icons from different artists, so if anyone would like to contribute one or two, I would appreciate it immensely.

[never_shall_yield]

I need someone to explain to me how to make gifs.

Good Lord, I need gifs.

[cook_the_rude]

Take a gif from an online source, go to ezgif.com, cut to a square, resize to 100 x 100 and then optimise to see if you can get to under40k -- 10 years on, and the original size limit from LJ is still in effect. But never mind. If You can point me to GIFs you want and can wait until tomorrow I can do it for you on my computer, but today I'm still on my iPad and it just won't work.

[never_shall_yield]

Oh, I love you right now.

I will have a play, and see how I do! If I can't manage it (I am a tech idiot), I will no doubt be back to beg help. Thank you! <33

[cook_the_rude]

You will be less enthusiastic when the damn thingy will refuse to shrink your very favourite GIFs, but in some cases I might be able to help tomorrow, as I have another program to edit GIFs with which I can take out half the frames, slow the others down, and thus reduce the size while keeping the gif -- most that you find on tumblr etc. are far too high-quality.

[never_shall_yield]

...seeing as I understood very little of what you just said, I imagine I will be back, yes. We will see! Thank you. :D

[the_cupbearer]

This conversation, given the account names involved, is hilarious to me.

[never_shall_yield]

*snorfle* Totally did not notice that. HA. :D

[damncompass]

I would absolutely love some sort of Joshua/Helena 'shippy icon. (or two)

I can provide galleries of screencaps for your edification.

I can also repay in (possibly crappy) fic?

[alchemistseraph]

Well, sure, I'll give it a go. Screencaps would be lovely!

[damncompass]

This is the screencaps site that I usually use. (It's hella extensive, so, er, have fun 'watching' Warehouse 13?)

Helena's in Season 2 episodes 1 (Time Will Tell), 7 (For the Team), 9 (Vendetta), 10 (Where and When), and 11 (Buried). Joshua's in 1 (Time Will Tell) and 13 (On the second page, but it's called Secret Santa).

THANK YOU. :D :D I will totally write you fic, if you'd like something.

[the_cupbearer]

Ahahahaha, um. I will gladly accept fic, but oh man I hope my icons are not too silly/stupid. >> (You will see why I say this when I post the one I'm almost finished with.)

[damncompass]

*gigglefit* Tell me what you like, and I can whip something up for you. :D

Also, I love silly icons. :D :D :D. Helena and Joshua just kinda beg silly icons.

[the_cupbearer]

So, that is the only one I'm done with just yet, so tell me if it is shippy enough before I finish the others?

[damncompass]

eeeee! Adorbs! :D :D :D I love it!

[the_cupbearer]

Okay! Other one finally done which I hope is also okay. And here is the other one since the link won't work for me to do it the other way.

[damncompass]

I forgot to thank you! They are awesome!

*hugs* Thank you much. :D

Anything in particular I can write for you?

[alchemistseraph]

Uhhhhhhhhh...

IDK, something happy and fluffy. Really, I will adore anything, I love having written stuff. And I am le awful at giving prompts. Maybe Joshua and Helena?

[bjornwilde]

I'm pretty good with icons, though I wouldn't mind suggestions for nasty looking white dragons. I've already seen the one from Deathly Hallows (a bit too decrepit) and the dragon from 47 Ronin is tempting though maybe too Asian. I'd love a realistic or 3D feel to it rather than a drawing.

Also, if anyone has suggestions for an action figure of a woman in tech looking armor, I've a bit of a bug to make a custom figure for Val.

Actually, wait a minute, if anyone has any ideas for a realistic looking hyena/human hybrid, let me know. Andrea doesn't go fully animal when she shifts and I haven't had any luck with other shape shifters that look hyena like. Some Grimm Wesen are very close but not quite there.

[jothra]

If you try Google image search for Dungeons and Dragons white dragons, you'll probably find something you like.

White dragons are evil in D&D, so.

[bjornwilde]

That is a very nice dragon and much better than the previous white dragons D&D has produced before.

[fairy_fixit]

Normally I can fill icon requests quite easily, but busy! I might fill a request anyway.

Anyhow, I have a request of my own for a long haired blonde mechanic. Big eyes are a must, so I am guessing something cartoony is necessary. I have found Winry Rockbell, but her ears are a problem (Fairy Fixit's are pointed and usually squished beneath her hat. or maybe the downturned ears are a family trait, as is the tendency to wear hats in the first place. IDEK)

[the_cupbearer]

You might also go with a human PB--Amanda Seyfried and Emily Browning come to mind--and once you get the images you want, edit the pictures using something like pixlr.com, to drag some ear-points out.

[fairy_fixit]

ooo, pixlr! In case I am separated from my image editors *bookmarks*

[no_vampires_plz]

This may be of interest to some icon makers: GraphicStock.com is offering a 7-day free trial in which you can download as many royalty-free stock images as you like.

[moonandstar]

Garyn's the only one I ever feel as though I'm lacking in PBs for. The fact that Morrowind's screenshots are a bit too distant to capture any sort of facial expression and that Skyrim's screenshots don't work on my computer for some reason doesn't help much. Which leaves...I dunno, Google Image search and/or DeviantArt-type places? Which I've tried and scrounged up less than I was hoping for (i.e. stuff that's good). Anybody have any ideas?

[mnr_splinter]

You know you want this guy to have more George Takei icons.
You do.

[ceitfianna]

I just realized that I don't have any icons of Charles hugging anyone even though he seems to do that a lot or squeezing someone's hand. I feel like he must do both of them in canon but no one's iconned them.

Help me find an icon though it doesn't have to be from XMFC, James McAvoy hugging or squeezing someone's hand would work as well. I'll look for this myself as well but if anyone's finds something, let me know.