Friday DE: Icons and fic

[bjornwilde]

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. 

Comments

[i_am_your_host]

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.)

[bjornwilde]

Good luck!

[camwyn]

http://thedailies.grimfandango.org/ has been a good source of PBs for me in the past. Mostly I make my own icons, though.

[bjornwilde]

I usually make my own icons, hunting down images from Google or Tumblr once I have a face or fandom to pick from. Hollow Art can be a good resource, also. Lately I've been wanting more vague/aesthetic type icons for some pups; suggestions of attitude or the like rather than a face.

I'm open for prompts for Sabine and/or Eliot I think.

[i_am_your_host]

For Eliot: this suit.

[nolittlevoice]

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

[bjornwilde]

pb_updates is a good resource! Especially if you have the time to dig through their tags.

[notmygrandfather]

Yeah, I still use 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.

[cottoncandypink]

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.

[death_gone_mad]

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.

[ceitfianna]

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.

[doesitbotheryou]

For William: Old timey hot air balloons.

[have_no_mercy]

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]

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.

[mightbeagoodone]

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]

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.