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bjornwilde ([personal profile] bjornwilde) wrote in [community profile] ways_back_room2017-01-20 05:26 am
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Friday DE: Icons and fic

So what are your sources for icons, PBs and/or astetic types?

Alternately, tag in with pups to write fic for and we'll give you an image as a prompt, either from their icons, a Google image source, or whatever other image. 
i_am_your_host: (phantom)

[personal profile] i_am_your_host 2017-01-20 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I make my own icons, so aside from googling for images to use, I look through Alan Cumming's Instagram and Twitter. Such a chore, I know.

And yes, please, I would love a prompt for Emcee. (But might not be able to get to it until later tonight.)
camwyn: Me in a bomber jacket and jeans standing next to a green two-man North Andover Flight Academy helicopter. (Default)

[personal profile] camwyn 2017-01-20 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
http://thedailies.grimfandango.org/ has been a good source of PBs for me in the past. Mostly I make my own icons, though.
i_am_your_host: (dimples)

[personal profile] i_am_your_host 2017-01-21 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
For Eliot: this suit.
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[personal profile] nolittlevoice 2017-01-20 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I make most of mine just from googling images, but I've got a few from pb_updates over on insanejournal, since uh...that's where I used to get them years ago and I don't know where the cool kids are getting icons these days. >_>

And of course Bossuet has a couple that Pilf made! :D
Edited 2017-01-20 15:52 (UTC)
notmygrandfather: boy with small smile (Default)

[personal profile] notmygrandfather 2017-01-22 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I still use [insanejournal.com profile] pb_updates when I'm looking for new PBs. When I already have a PB in mind, sometimes their memories (saved by name) are useful, but usually not. (The only active mod *coughmecough* doesn't add posts to the memories regularly.)

When I know who I'm looking for, I'll search their name in the interests on DW and IJ, then google. I'm pretty bad at making icons, but I can do so for animated/comic characters if all else fails.
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[personal profile] cottoncandypink 2017-01-20 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I tend to make my own icons, and keep it simple. But right now, the only pup I have with icons I don't totally hate is Xephos. I hate every one of Wilford's icons, because getting them for him is impossible. And I haven't bothered to really do any iconing for Mark and Dodger at all.
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[personal profile] death_gone_mad 2017-01-20 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Amascut's PB, Yasmin Abd ElAziz, has recently discovered the joys of selfies. Yay! I still have to recolor her hair, of course. I found her via google search.

Fairy Fixit is more difficult given that she has inhuman proportions, especially when it comes to her eyes and her ingame model is sorta lame. So with her its either pictures of Winry Rockbell, Amanda Seyfried, or aesthetic things like moths or carved ivory or tools. There might be pictures of Lisa Kudrow and/or fungi in the future.
Edited 2017-01-20 18:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ceitfianna 2017-01-20 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I usually start with Hollow Art and when it comes to odder images, tend to make them myself after doing some searching. As I really like having images for things or places and those don't tend to be iconned by other people.

I'd love some prompts for any of mine.
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[personal profile] doesitbotheryou 2017-01-20 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] have_no_mercy 2017-01-20 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I make most of my own icons and just use screencaps and the like. I'd love to use the instagram of Tess' actress, but she and Tess are like polar opposites style-wise.
yinyangwizard: (Awesome Magic Superpowers)

[personal profile] yinyangwizard 2017-01-21 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Seimei's are mostly pictures of Mansai Nomura, or fanart.

YT's pictures are all versions of her from DeviantArt by various artists, except for her one PB and the one(s) for Stella. Other than her being petite, blond, and blue-eyed, I'm fine leaving her appearance up to people's imagination.
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[personal profile] mightbeagoodone 2017-01-21 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
I follow some icon comms on DW and on LJ, though I often end up making my own too from screencaps or the like. Luckily my PBs are both pretty and willing to be photographed often, so there are often a lot of resources out there.

I can dig up links if anyone would like.
cameoflage: Picture of a Borg cube being unusually polite (and bilingual) about the assimilation thing, as Canadians tend to be. (Canadian Borg)

[personal profile] cameoflage 2017-01-21 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Over on InsaneJournal, since that's apparently where all the icon makers hang out, I've accumulated memberships for quite a few friends-only icon communities and I use pb_updates and find_icons as places to start looking.