everything that ever happened or ever will...

icons!

pureskies — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:48:53 GMT

I'm supposed to be on internet lockdown, because I'm not able to watch the latest ep of Doctor Who until tomorrow (i'm slowly dying here.... OMG), but I thought I'd post some of my recent icons!

Included are my icons from the first 2 rounds of chuck20in20, as well as some various icon challenges from the last few weeks! I hope you enjoy!

Teasers:

01-46: Chuck
47-52: Miscellaneous (incl. Legend of the Seeker, Bones, HIMYM, Doctor Who + wallpaper)

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

40. 41. 42.

43. 44. 45.

46. 47. 48.

49. 50. 51.

52.

Wallpaper (Doctor Who)
[click to enlarge]

picspam: doctor who- 5.10 vincent and the doctor

pureskies — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:49:46 GMT

I know this is incredibly late, but I couldn't not picspam this episode. THIS EPISODE, I CAN'T EVEN.

picspam: doctor who- 5.07 amy's choice

pureskies — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:45:32 GMT

I'm still waiting for my heart to be unbroken after this week's ep :D but, also: HILARITY!!!!

And so many great quotes! (This is going to be waaay too long)

Amy: *hears TARDIS noise* No!
Rory: I know. Leaf blowers. Use a rake!!

*

The Doctor: You’ve swallowed a planet!
Amy: I’m pregnant!
The Doctor: You’re huge!
Amy: Yeah, I’m pregnant.
The Doctor: Look at you, when worlds collide!
Amy: Doctor, I’m pregnant!
The Doctor: Oh, look at you both, five years later! And you haven’t changed a bit! Apart from age... and size...
Amy: Oh, it’s good to see you, Doctor.
The Doctor: Are you pregnant?

*

The Doctor: You don’t get rid of your old pal The Doctor so easily!
Amy: Hmm, you came here by mistake, didn’t you?
The Doctor: Yeahh, bit of a mistake. But look, what a result. Look at this... bench. What a nice bench. What will they think of next?

*

The Doctor: So... what do you do around here to stave off the, you know...
Amy: Boredom?
The Doctor: Self-harm.

*

Amy: You had the same dream?
The Doctor: Basically.
Rory: You said it was a nightmare.
The Doctor: Did I say nightmare? No, more of a really good... mare.

*

The Doctor: Stop talking to me when I’m cross!

*

The Doctor: Now, we all know there’s an elephant in the room.
Amy: I have to be this size, I’m having a baby!
The Doctor: No, no. The hormones seem real, but no. Is nobody gonna mention Rory’s ponytail?
*The Doctor and Amy smirk*
The Doctor: You hold him down, I’ll cut it off?
Rory: This coming from the man in the bow tie?
The Doctor: Bow ties are cool.

*

The Doctor: Drop it! Drop all of it! I know who you are.
The Dream Lord: ‘Course you don’t.
The Doctor: ‘Course I do. No idea how you can be here, but there’s only one person in the universe who hates me as much as you do.

*weeps*

*

Rory: I’ll deal with this one, Chubbs.

*

The Dream Lord: You’re probably a vegetarian, aren’t you, you big flop-haired wuss?

*

The Doctor: Yeah, but are we disagreeing or competing?
Amy: Competing? Over what?
*The Doctor and Rory turn to look at her*
Amy: Ugh!
...
The Doctor: ... I can’t feel my feet. And.. other parts.
Rory: I think all my parts are basically fine.
The Doctor: Stop competing!

*

Amy: Here we go! Oh, my boys. My poncho boys. If we’re gonna die, let’s die looking like a Peruvian folk band.

*

Amy: I think the baby’s starting.
Rory: Honestly?
Amy: Would I make it up at a time like this?!
Rory: Well, you do have a history of...*Amy glares at him*... being very lovely.

*

Amy: Save him. You save everyone. You always do. It’s what you do.
The Doctor: Not always. I’m sorry.
Amy: Then what is the point of you?

*

Rory: *Amy hugs him* Oh. Oh right. This is good. I am liking this. Was it something I said? Could you tell me what it was so I can use it in emergencies and maybe birthdays?

*

Amy: But those things he said about you. You don’t think any of that’s true?
The Doctor: ... *changes subject*

*still weeping*

*
The Doctor: Where now? Or should I.. just pop down to the swimming pool for a few lengths?

picspam: doctor who- 5.06 the vampires of venice

pureskies — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:32:03 GMT

This is becoming a weekly thing! I just can't help it if this show has taken over my life.

kjvufolehfg!

pureskies — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:57:14 GMT

Wait, WHAT?!

I just got back from Sydney, and I find THIS waiting for me?! I don't know HOW I won best HIMYM icon maker, but I am completely honoured and blown away!!!!!! Seriously, thank you to anyone who voted, and congratulations to the wonderful and amazing earlydreams and llenka !! The fact that my icons were even considered on the same level as yours is just crazy talk! Love your work so hard!

XOXO!!

requests

pureskies — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:30:03 GMT

Hi everyone!! I've got the requests done! They were so much FUN, so thank you to all who requested!! If you saved a spot but didn't post any images yet, just comment to the request post and I'll get them in with the next batch!

I thought I'd quickly get these in before damnfineemile and I leave for Sydney! We're so excited, what an amazing 4 days it's gonna be! Any Aussies out there: anything we should see or do while we're there? (other than the obvious :D!)

All requests are shareable. If I didn't icon all of your images, I'm sorry, but they so weren't working for me!

01-06 Big Bang Theory, Psych & Merlin for boo
07-15 Billie Piper, David Tennant, Matt Smith & Karen Gillan for claidissa
16-21 Doctor Who (Eleven/Amy) & Big Bang Theory for midnight_27
22-31 Merlin/Legend of the Seeker crossovers for caffrey
32-41 Supernatural, Matt Bomer for dani_blondy
42-44 David Boreanaz & Emily Deschanel for spunkyar
45-61 Smallville, Supernatural & White Collar for llenka
62-65 Bones, Chuck & HIMYM *hugs* for snogged
66-67 Doctor Who (Eleven/Amy & Matt/Karen) wallpapers for santabutt
68-74 Doctor Who (5.05 Flesh and Stone) incl. animations

1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-20
21-24
25-28
29-32
33-36
37-40
41-44
45-48
47-52
53-56
57-60
61-64

1024x768 | 1280x800

1024x768 | 1280x800

67-70
71-74

picspam: doctor who- 5.05 flesh and stone

pureskies — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:36:21 GMT

I know, I know, why aren't I doing something more productive? BECAUSE DOCTOR WHO HAS IMPLODED MY BRAIN AND I NEEDED TO PICSPAM IT. It's NOT MY FAULT.

You may ask, "Now Kate, why is a full quarter of this picspam of the last five minutes of the episode?". But you already know the answer to that. COME ON, PEOPLE.

Anyway... I should sleep. Yet another part of my life this show has taken over.

icons, icons, icons!

pureskies — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:53:28 GMT

Before I start making requests and doing other stuff, I thought I’d post my latest icons! I had so much fun with these!! A lot of them are challenge entries, as always!

This post includes: Doctor Who (up to 5.04), Being Human, Chuck, Bones, HIMYM, Merlin, Dollhouse, Big Bang and True Blood.

Teasers:

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

40. 41. 42.

43. 44. 45.

46. 47. 48.

49. 50. 51.

And, as I posted this morning, it's my four year lj anniversary today! I'm celebrating, so see this post if you'd like requests, interest icons, tutorials, q's, anything you can think of!

anniversary

pureskies — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:30:49 GMT

IT'S MY FOUR YEAR LJ ANNIVERSARY TODAY!!!

How the time has flown! To celebrate, I'm taking requests, interest icons, tutorial requests, questions... anything you can think of if anyone's actually interested!!

doctor who icons

pureskies — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:33:59 GMT

Because Doctor Who is the greatest show in all of time and space, and because I should be doing assignments, I have icons. Judge me if you will.

Teasers:

01-27 Doctor Who (5x01-5x02)

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

picspam: doctor who- 5.01 the eleventh hour

pureskies — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:02:31 GMT

Picspam time! Simply because Doctor Who was absolutely amazing. And so beautiful to look at, I nearly wept. I barely touched the colours, they were already so gorgeous!

icons! omg, i know.

pureskies — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:03:12 GMT

Hello!!

Long time no post, I know, I know! I've decided to put all my icons up from the various challenges I've been entering over the past few months! Also, I clearly have some very serious assessment to do, so I'm procrastinating. I'm such a cliché!

Teasers:

Includes: Chuck, Merlin, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Dollhouse, Legend of the Seeker, Bones & Being Human.

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

40. 41. 42.

43. 44. 45.

46. 47. 48.

also, I really need some votes over at chuckelite, HERE and HERE. it'll just take a sec! thanks in advance!

pimping!

pureskies — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:33 GMT

APPLY → AFFILIATE → WATCH

APPLY → AFFILIATE → WATCH

icons

pureskies — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:23:55 GMT

Here's the second and final part of my Merlin claim over at iepisode! So what we've got here is 3 icons per episode of Merlin's 2nd season! (Season 1 is here)
Teasers:

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

icons

pureskies — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:34:25 GMT

I’ve made a new claim over at iepisode (i know, i know, i’m a glutton for punishment!), so I’m iconning both seasons of Merlin.

So here’s my first batch, 3 icons of each episode of season 1 of Merlin. Season 2 will follow shortly! Hope you enjoy!

Teasers:

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

picspam: top tens of '09

pureskies — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:09:41 GMT

pimping

pureskies — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:51:12 GMT

I know I'm getting annoying with this, but CHALLENGE 01 will begin on January 10! So, if you're interested (or know someone that would be) now's the time to apply! See you there!

APPLY | JOIN

pureskies — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:11:48 GMT

I'm waaaaaaaay bored, guys!

Any requests? For icons? For tutorials? Anything?

icons

pureskies — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:26:58 GMT

Icons! Finally! These are mostly entries to the various icon challenges I'm involved with, but I decided it was time to put them up!

Also, if I don't have a change to say it before December 25th- HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!!

Teasers:

01-06 Chuck
07-27 Merlin
28-30 Dollhouse
31-36 True Blood
37-42 Misc (HIMYM, BBT, etc)

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39.

40. 41. 42.

Please credit & comment if you're so inclined!

chuckelite chuckelite chuckelite

layout

pureskies — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:15:33 GMT

New layout!

This layout is ENTIRELY inspired by this amazing picspam by letsey_x , because I thought the colours were absolutely GORGEOUS! and I thought it'd look lovely as a background. Also, I feel bad when I exclude any of my fandoms so I've included them all! (hopefully: some are difficult to integrate into a colour category!)

So, yeah. Let's see how quick I get bored of this one :D Remember when it was 1 per week? Thank god I'm too lazy for that in my old age :D

picspams of the week

pureskies — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:06:11 GMT

pureskies — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:43:05 GMT

Hi all, I'm going to do another one of those annoying pimp posts! I just really want to build some interest if I'm going to be able to actually get the comm going!

APPLY | JOIN

tutorial

pureskies — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:01:22 GMT

Tutorial time!

gleek_boy asked me how I made my icons with the block colour background, so I made a quick tutorial to describe my simple process! Hope it helps someone out there!

Go from this to to

I like to colour my image first, then cut out out, and then minimize it to the size of the icon. However, you can do these steps in any order you want!

I start with my original image:

I duplicated the base layer 3 times, setting each to Screen at 100% opacity. This will differ for every image. You can use whatever colouring you want on the image, this is just what worked for the cap I used. When you're finished, merge all layers.

Now, I think everyone does background removal in a different way. The way I find to be the easiest, quickest and most versatile is the polygonal lasso tool. This is located on the Photoshop side bar. I use this to manually trace around the elements i want to delete from the image. I start by selecting what I don't want with the polygonal lasso tool:

I then delete the background I don't want:

I continued until my image looked like this:

Next I resized my cap and dragged it onto a 100x100 canvas, placing it where I wanted it:

Then I filled the background with a colour I thought matched the icon. Usually, I use the Eyedropper Tool to do this, so that the background colour is one already in the image (so I know they match and complement each other).

This next step is one I do for all my icons. I use the Dodge and Burn tools to add a bit of brightness/darkness to certain areas of my icons that need it. In this case, it doesn't make much difference, but I often use it to make my icons more interesting.

I then added this texture by music_fun, set to Soft Light at 60% opacity. I erased the areas that covered Chuck and Sarah.

I then added this (if you made this, or know who did, please let me know!) set to Soft Light at 40% opacity. I erased a little bit up the top so it was more subtle.

And there's your finished product!

And now, for a shameless pimp, please come any apply at chuckelite chuckelite chuckelite

Or, for a no-applications-necessary Chuck icon challenge comm, come and check out chuck_challenge

icons

pureskies — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:12:53 GMT

So I just finished my final batch of HIMYM icons for my claim at iepisode! This post includes 3 icons of each episode of Season 4. This batch was actually really kind of gruelling! But they’re done and I can’t help being half saddened and half relieved! This reminded me of the fact that multi-cam shows are REALLY tricky to icon!
Hope these ones round out my claim nicely!

Teasers:

1-72: HIMYM Season 4 for iepisode

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

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.

61. 62. 63.

64. 65. 66.

67. 68. 69.

70. 71. 72.

also, pimpage, because i'm totally shameless that way.
chuckelite! chuckelite! chuckelite!

pureskies — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:29:03 GMT

Hi guys! I finally started my Chuck community up! Please, please come and apply if you love Chuck! Or, even if you're not interested, if you could pimp us? That would be awesome!!!!