engrained

engrained @ 2013-07-22T14:49:00

2013-07-22T19:49:52Z

Hey guys, I'm nominated for my Game of Thrones icons over at Magic Awards. Thank you so much anyone who voted for me, how sweet!!!! You should go vote for all of the amazing icons featured this year - there are some real stunners. Best of luck to everyone :) :) :)

thirteen

2013-06-18T02:25:55Z

Just a brief post for some things I've been playing with lately. I'll hopefully have a larger post soon!

twelve

2013-03-02T22:35:33Z

far away and close up challenge for 20inspirations
subject: lost

far away
1-5
6-10

close up
7-15
16-20

icons 2012

2013-01-13T20:44:15Z

ELEVEN

2012-11-03T08:03:39Z

* just a note, some of these are from a previous post that I made a few entries ago that I ended up deleting for personal reasons (haha, personal reasons meaning: I hated almost everything in the post and it was making my eyes bleed to look back on them tbh). also a lot of stragglers from the7days posts.

GAME OF THRONES
     1-5
     6-10
     11-15
     16-20

MISC TV
lost, homeland, friday night lights, fringe, american horror story, shameless

     26-30
     31-35

MOVIES
the dark knight rises, the tree of life, inglourious basterds, super 8, the royal tenenbaums, the hunger games, star trek

     36-40
     41-45
     46-50

TEN

2012-08-21T21:37:43Z

girls, lost, game of thrones, twin peaks, breaking bad, movies, celebs

Big batch coming at you. It's been a while!

TELEVISION

Girls 1-5

Lost 6-25





Game of Thrones 26-30


Twin Peaks 31-37



Breaking Bad 38-40


MOVIES

Blue Velvet 41-47


Becoming Jane 48-51


Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, There Will Be Blood) 52-56


Alien 57-60


Etc. (Big Fish, Planet Terror) 61-64


Celebs (ScarJo, Tom Hardy) 65-71

ask the maker

2012-07-17T20:18:09Z

Ask The Maker || My Thread

nine

2012-07-11T21:07:12Z

batman, spider-man, movies, lost

nolan batmans
    1-4
   5-7

batman returns
    8-11
  12-13

the amazing spider-man + cast
    14-17

misc movies
    18-21
    22-25
  26-27

lost
    28-31
  32-33

THANK YOU!!!!!!

2012-06-27T00:38:07Z

Thank you to everyone who voted for me!!!!

eight

2012-06-07T21:43:47Z

15 Game of Thrones "Valar Morghulis"

     1-5
     6-10
     11-15

seven

2012-06-05T22:28:48Z

final batch of icons for 20inspirations

grungy, shadows, contrast, wind, whisper

I started with an inspiration post, like the mods were doing. Just to be cool :)

colourmayfadetoastandtea pandavirusburymyregrett onlyechoes
longerthanwedoieatstickers motorizedcalikalie knooqi
examples of my favorite icons from other makes / styles i try to emulate / coloring i enjoy/envy

favorite icons by me / icons that are most evocative of my style

tumblr graphics

vetica / marinersubmariner

Apparently all you really need to know about me is that I like making Game of Thrones icons? I kid, I kid. But this is very GoT-heavy, ye be warned. I'm also going to yap a lot about icons because, hey, it's my last chance to! Sorry!

    01. Jack Shephard, Lost - I don't think I've made a Jack icon... ever? Not that I can think of. Which is strange because Jack is my second favorite Lost character (after Des). If there's one thing that's important to mention in an "about me" post, it's that I love Lost. More than I love most people. And Jack's journey in the sixth season is one of my favorite character arcs of all time. Nothing really captures the essence of that better than this moment. And I really like contrasting b&w with blue.
    02. Faux-livia Dunham, Fringe - Faux-livia!!! My favorite gal. I wanted to do some straight up face icons, since I've tended towards crazy blocking and textures lately. I'm really happy with the way this one turned out.
    03. Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad - I saw this picture on Tumblr and knew I had to make it an icon. I love Jesse Pinkman. SO MUCH. And what's better than a Jesse Pinkman mug shot? I knew it'd be a fun way to experiment with my blocky style.
    04. Inglourious Basterds - IB is one of my favorite movies, and I LOVE this scene, it might be my favorite in the movie. And I've always loved the colors and wanted to do something when them, graphis-wise. So that's what I did!
   05. Dany Targaryen, Game of Thrones - I'm on a Dany high lately. Love her. She's probably my favorite GoT character (even though "MY DRAAAGONS" has been cloying this season). And ngl, a lot of that is for superficial reasons, because her billowing hair and puckery lips are so fun to play with in PS. I had some crazy idea of putting her face over Drogo's because he's also some false start to her epic journey, which is more about herself than anyone else. Which sounds a little mental, but hopefully it translated okay.

   06. Mr. and Mrs. Coach, Friday Night Lights - Favorite married couple of all time. I want to be Tami Taylor someday. I honestly idolize these two idiots, i.e. they needed to be a part of this post somehow.
   07. Rashida Jones - Sheeds in nerd glasses, be still my heart. I barely did anything to this icon, but like the Taylors, she's an important enough person to me that she had to be included somehow by default. I've loved her for five solid years, and luckily her career just keeps getting better.
   08. Kate Austen, Lost - I know everyone and their mama has iconed this moment, and I doubt that my version holds up, but it's such a visually gorgeous scene that I couldn't resist. And indicative of when I first started really loving Kate. (Katers to the left.) When all is said and done, she's probably my favorite woman on the show (TIED WITH JULIET. IT PAINS ME TO THINK ABOUT CHOOSING.) Something about watching her churn through murky green water, ugghghhg. Soooo pretty. So icon-friendly!
   09. Clementine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Favorite movie of all time. Favorite performance of all time. Favorite movie character of all time. Needed to include her somehow. This is my favorite scene in the film. And it's impossible to make an ESOTSM icon without some crazy colors. Might as well honor my fave lady with my favorite icon style - insane blocking!
   10. Walter White, Breaking Bad - God, as horrible as this moment is, and as much as I fucking hate Walter White, I still love Walter White? Which is the whole dilemma of Breaking Bad, obviously! I don't really know if this shows off my style at all, but I was really inspired by some of the other icons in the inspiration post - how simple they are, but how heavily textured and stylized they can still be. I wanted to mimic that somehow.

    11. Arya Stark, Game of Thrones - This moment, when she says goodbye to her direwolf, is so sad and soooo beautiful in terms of colors. I don't feel like I make enough green icons, so I wanted to experiment a little. If you squint nice and hard you can actually see the wolf in there, too.
   12. Sansa Stark, Game of Thrones - (I warned you there would be a lot of GoT - sorry!) SANSA!!!!! Fave Sansa moment ever. This is when she came into her own, and the moment I started really feeling for her. I love the muted yellows/golds of King's Landing. They're so fun to play around with when I'm iconing. I wanted to shroud her in shadows to show how much of an outsider she is by this point.
   13. Desmond Hume, Lost - I really had to resist making this is a Desmond Hume post. Only one Desmond icon! WHO AM I? I love Des with all my heart, he will forever be my favorite Lost character. And The Constant is my favorite episode. So, tada, ABOUT ME.
   14. Kate Austen, Lost - Another gorgeous Kate moment. Definitely my fave Kate-centric episode, and boy oh boy does Evie look good all sweaty and in peril with a gun against her head. Too many awesome caps from this scene, so I included them all!
   15. Dany Targaryen, Game of Thrones - Dany and her dragons! NEED I SAY MORE? (I love this scene so much.. I get goosebumps every time I watch it.)

   16. Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Harry Potter - I had to include a little R/H action up in hurr. I love them, whatever. Little Lindsey learned how to ship through these fools. And I never get sick of those flustered Hermione caps.
   17. Sayid Jarrah, Lost - Never enough Sayid icons!! No but really, there are like none in existence, it's SAD. I wanted to make a Sayid icon while also utilizing my other favorite icon trick - repetition. Whenever I'm sad about how shitty an icon turned out, I shrink it and multiply and it almost always looks way better.
   18. Claire Littleton, Lost - This is an icon about hair. That's really all I have to say about it.
   19. Lincoln Lee, Fringe - It's going to make me sad if I talk about Lincoln too much, so I'm just going to stop right now ;_____; I hope we see you again somehow, Linc!!!
   20. Ian and Lip Gallagher, Shameless - I love this show. LOOOVE IT. Everyone should watch it!!! My favorite part (other than Fiona, who I cannot icon to save my life) is the Ian/Lip relationship. And I love this cap so much. The shadows! I really emphasized them, obviously, but they were there to begin with. Just a couple of idiots brothers :) :) :)

alts/extras

And with that... I'm done with my work for 20inspirations. I'm so sad to say goodbye to this place. It completely re-invigorated me as an icon maker. I can't even remember how I used to make things, the change has been so significant. The absolutely best part about it was the community aspect - getting to know all of you, getting compliments from icon makers I've admired for years. It really is the most special community I've ever been a part of. I hope we can all re-convene somewhere else. To start anew.

I'll miss it so much.

six

2012-06-01T20:42:52Z

fringe, lost, pushing daisies, breaking bad, buffy, game of thrones, avengers

fringe
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.

lost
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12.

misc. tv (pushing daisies, breaking bad, buffy, game of thrones)
13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
18. 19.

the avengers (hawkeye/black widow)
20. 21. 22. 23.

five

2012-05-15T22:14:46Z

the shining for 20inspirations

My art challenge for 20inspirations, I chose The Shining before I knew the challenge, and boy did I luck out. The movie itself is pretty artsy, and is inspired by a lot of art. For some reason Jeff Koons kept coming to mind when I first started coloring the caps, so I ran with that. I saw Jeff's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago when I was a teenager and it had a pretty profound effect on me. Not only is it super sexual, but it's full of pop culture, bright colors, other various obscenities. He's sort of like Andy Warhol on crack. The reason I related The Shining to Jeff Koons is based almost exclusively on this statue of his, which reminds me a lot of the infamous doggie blowjob scene. He uses so much color and so much pop, I really had a field day here.

    01. texture
    02. photo (i did NOT create this effect - i only colored a pre-existing piece of art by ~malevolentnate~ on devianart)
    03. texture
    04. bold
   05. photo

   06. textures
   07. texture
   08. photo
   09. texture
   10. collage

    11. photo
   12. texture
   13. photo
   14. texture
   15. texture

   16. texture
   17. texture
   18. scenery
   19. texture (i hate this motherfucking icon but whatever)
   20. outline

four

2012-04-18T15:36:59Z

desmond hume black & white for 20inspirations

My black and white challenge for 20inspirations, Featuring my favorite Lostie, Mr. Desmond Hume

    01. texture, frame
    02. photo
    03. photo
    04. negative
   05. shadow

   06. texture
   07. texture
   08. texture
   09. texture, vintage
   10. reunion

    11. texture, photograph
   12. juanxyo
   13. emblem
   14. sheer
   15. half

   16. raiindust
   17. texture
   18. duality
   19. texture
   20. texture

three

2012-02-28T08:01:56Z

juliet burke for 20inspirations + more

vibrant to pale | 20inspirations
claim: juliet burke (lost)

vibrant

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

01. texture
02. shock
03. lips
04. photo
05. texture
06. texture
07. texture
08. texture
09. fantasy
10. brilliant

pale

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

11. secret
12. mist
13. ivory
14. photo
15. quite
16. photo
17. texture
18. sand
19. texture
20. texture

shameless

21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

fringe (for elite_fringe)

26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

buffy the vampire slayer

31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

two

2012-01-30T08:59:24Z

tropes challenge for 20inspirations + more

Heterosexual Life Partners	Heterosexual Life Partners	The Gunslinger	Action Mom	First Kiss


Platonic Life Partners	Disappears Into Lights	Home Sweet Home	Lady In Red	Breakout Character


Love To Hate	Badass	Mind Screw	Break The Cutie	Rapunzel Hair


Shirtless Scene	Anti Hero	Heterosexual Life Partners	Big Damn Hero	Power Trio

alts/extras

     1-5
     6-10

     11-15
   16-18

   19-21

  22-23

     24-28

icons 2011

2012-01-10T23:06:44Z

You'll note that none of these icons are posted that this community. They're all in (recently) locked entries on my personal journal. I prefer it that way - I started this community to start afresh, as it were, so there they'll stay. That said, I really wanted to chart my progress in the last year, just to see how they've changed. (I think they've changed a lot!)

February

This was one of the first posts I've ever made where I remember being very proud. I was experimenting with composition and bold colors for one of the first times. I'm still pretty happy with this batch, though some of them are a little blurrier than I would normally prefer. The Desmond/Penny icons were for 20inspirations.

March

My Olivia Dunham claim for 20inspirations. This was one of those posts where I really liked half the post and really disliked the other half. The one thing I did get from this batch was a better sense of cropping. Some of my favorite crops I've ever done were in there.

June

Buffy season six for 20inspirations. The most controversial season, but the one when everyone was at the prime of Good Hair and Attractive Clothing (hence the reason I chose it). This was when I really started finding my lighter, texture-heavy niche. I wasn't a big fan of this post as a whole, and if I remember correctly I did it really quickly to make the challenge time, but it kick-started a few trends that I've carried on.

July

During my inevitable HP phase circa the release of the final movie. And another 20inspirations post (I only post icons for that challenge, if you hadn't noticed). The colors were really soft this time around, but it was another texture experiment. I also started using gradient layers, which I'm afraid I've come to abuse.

November

More Harry Potter. With some Twin Peaks, TVD and random movie icons strewn in. Probably my favorite icon post of the year. I really liked the way the HP icons turned out and I had a lot of fun with the Twin Peaks caps.

December

Never mind that Friday Night Lights is the prettiest show ever. It was impossible for me to go against the pretty natural lighting they use - it really lent itself to how I styled this batch. I liked the combination of composition and cropping I did here. It might be my most consistent post of the year.

one

2012-01-01T10:43:50Z

game of thrones for 20inspirations + more

For my story challenge for 20inspirations, I chose to focus on five members of the Stark family from Game of Thrones (Ned, Catelyn, Sansa, Jon and Arya) and their journey through the beginning of the first season.

    01. ned - texture, legend
    02. catelyn - photo
    03. sansa - graphic
    04. jon - texture
   05. arya - graphic

   06. ned - texture
   07. catelyn - texture, graphic
   08. sansa - texture, truth
   09. jon - texture
   10. arya - icon, texture

    11. ned - texture, graphic
   12. catelyn - texture
   13. sansa - twisted
   14. jon - texture, graphic
   15. arya - texture

   16. ned - texture, lies
   17. catelyn - texture, graphic
   18. sansa - texture, graphic
   19. jon - texture, vignette
   20. arya - fable

alternatives/extras




lost

fringe


american horror story


homeland

beginners


lord of the rings



- please comment and credit if you use - thanks!