Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get grey.

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starry_night — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 08:13:08 GMT

So these are my last icons of the year. Just a little post of entries from various icontests.
I wish you all a very Happy New Year and I hope 2017 treats you well :)

Fandoms: Angel, Buffy, Doctor Who & The Hunger Games

Angel | Buffy
[1-5]
Buffy | Doctor Who
[6-10]
Doctor Who | The Hunger Games
[11-15]
The Hunger Games
[16-17]

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starry_night — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:32:12 GMT

Charmed (season 2) for charmed20in20

themes

orange	darkness	solid background	provided texture	negative profile


smile	alive	in motion	face	text

category – shades of autumn

cat 1	cat 2	cat 3	cat 4	cat 5

artist’s choice

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

[1-4]

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starry_night — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 07:51:10 GMT

Oh wow, I just realised how long it's been since I made icons! I'm gonna be so rusty when I pick up again cos I think I've forgotten how to icon lol.
Anywho, here's a few I made earlier in the year.

Fandoms: Alias, Angel, Agents of SHIELD, Buffy, Castle, Charmed, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Spartacus & True Blood

Alias | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
[1-5]
Angel
[6-10]
Buffy | Castle | Charmed | Harry Potter
[11-15]
The Hunger Games | Spartacus | True Blood
[16-19]

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starry_night — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:40:53 GMT

Alias for 10in30

[1-5]
[6-10]

[11]

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Couple of promos

starry_night — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:42:38 GMT

Hey guys, if you're looking for more icon challenges, check out a couple of LIMS communities that have been revived by the lovely hermionesparkle

lims_btvs
Sign up here

lims_gilmore
SIgn up here

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starry_night — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 06:17:16 GMT

Angel for 10in30

[1-5]
[6-10]

Alternates
[11-14]

Textures Used

burnedbreads // mercurycode @ DA // fyeahkpopedits @ DA // halfdemonbitch @ DA // lookslikerain

cemacstock @ DA // raiindust // rodiennes @ DA // violateraindrop // innocent_lexys

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starry_night — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:03:46 GMT

My latest batch from the Doctor Who icon battle over at icontalking where we made one icon for each episode of Season 9 + the Christmas Special - check out all the entries HERE.

Also, some icons from challenges that I never finished. Fandoms are Doctor Who and Reign.

Doctor Who Battle Icons
[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-13]

Alts + Extras
Doctor Who
[14-18]
[19-23]
[24-28]
Reign
[29-33]
[34-36]

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Icon Tutorial #1 - Cain (SPN)

starry_night — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:17:03 GMT

How to make: &
~~Otherwise known as the worst tutorial ever written and just ignore how crap it is~~

This is for the lovely bangel_4e who wanted some tips on adding shadows to icons. I hope it's at least a little helpful :)

Original cap I used.

Now for the icon...Technically, this icon is pretty simple since there's only one actual adjustment layer (curves) and it will be workable in pretty much any program.

Step 1. I started with a solid background in #e27558 (kind of a dull orange shade). Then I cut out Cain from the cap, resized him and placed on the base layer.

For cutting I tend to use the lasso tool with some feathering to cut out the subject and then use a round eraser brush to fix up the edges.
With this one I did have to fix up the lower part of his leg because part of Dean was in the cap. I used a combination of the clone tool and paintbrush to sort of make it look like his leg and foot.

As you can see this is ridiculously dark (I hate SPN caps ~~sometimes~~ most of the time!).

Step 2. I added some brightness by duplicating the Cain layer 3 times setting each copy to screen. I then erased some parts that ended up too bright to get something like this.

Slightly better, but still needs a little something more so I added a curves layer to add some more red and decrease the blues. Then I duplicated the solid base layer and moved it to the top, setting at Soft Light (100% opacity).

Step 3. Almost there...now for the shadow. To add the shadow I duplicated the original image layer and applied a Gaussian Blur to give it a soft look (usually a radius of 1-2). Then I placed this layer behind the original image layer and rotated until I liked the positioning. I also resized the shadow layer so it's smaller than your subject.

Once you've got this layer where you want it, play around with the layer properties - this one was set to Darken (50% opacity) but I find Soft Light can also work nicely for a subtle "natural" shadow. If you prefer a sharper shadow, skip the Gaussian Blur or lower the radius and play around with opacity and properties.

Voilà! Fairly straightforward, right?

PART TWO - THE TEXT

So for some reason, I decided I wanted to use this icon for a "quote" theme in a 20in20, which meant text...also known as the bane of my existence!
And then, because I'm completely crazy I decided to make it "fancy looking" - seriously, I don't know what was going through my mind. Anywho, despite being a little fiddly, the text was actually pretty simple too.

I used these two fonts in really small sizes (yep, the banner looking things are a font):
~ Bergamot Ornaments - I used lower case b & c to get the shapes
~ Times New Roman

For the white banner parts I resized them right down and positioned to my liking. Then I added the wording in Times New Roman picking a colour similar to the background but slightly lighter and positioned this so it fit in the banner shapes. This is where it got fiddly as each line and each banner was a separate layer and I did have to rotate the word layers slightly to fit.

The finished product:

I hope this made some sense but please let me know if you have any questions :)

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starry_night — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 07:43:10 GMT

Hey everyone, I could really use your help with voting here at charmed20in20 . There's only 2 polls so it won't take long and I'd really appreciate it. Thanks :)
And the icons....

Abaddon & Cain (Supernatural) for spn20_20

themes

b&w vs color	host swap	quote	sharp	not English


guess who	seductive	favorite scene	rage	half face

Category – White to black

1	2	3	4	5

artist’s choice

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

[1-3]

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starry_night — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:20:01 GMT

Still not really loving these. But I can only stare at them for so long before I actually throw them away so here they are.
Bright side is that I love this comm idea, especially since I've been struggling a lot lately with making a full set of 20.

Buffy Summers (BtVS S2) for 10in30

[1-5]
[6-10]

Alternate
[11]

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starry_night — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 09:00:32 GMT

Assorted Old Hollywood for guesswho20in20 (Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneuve, Paul Newman & Steve McQueen)
This was a special round where we had a choice of a current celeb or an Old Hollywood celeb.
If we chose the latter (as I did) we could icon any of the old-school celebs in the list.

I'm not overly happy with a lot of these - I think I've lost my muse again :(

10 THEMES

Vertical Slats	Lace	Brown	Texture Crazy	Lighthearted


Repetitive Pattern	Behind, Solid BG	Overwhelming Light	Gritty	Stewark Texture

CATEGORY - Close, B&W, Fade.

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

[1-2]

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starry_night — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:13:04 GMT

With a new year comes a new layout…or so I decided, lol. And also my final batch of icons from 2015. Fandoms are Doctor Who, Ripper Street & Supernatural.
Icons 24-41 are from the icon battle held at icontalking (plus alts) - check out the other entries here

Doctor Who
[1-5]
[6-10]
Doctor Who | Ripper Street
[11-15]
Riper Street | Supernatural
[16-20]
Supernatural
[21-25]
[26-30]
[31-35]
[36-40]
[41]

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starry_night — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:47:55 GMT

Alex Parrish (Quantico) for tvcharacter20

10 THEMES

anxious	badass	behind the scenes	big text	celebration


close up	cold	hair porn	painted	technology

Category - Holiday Colors

#1-red	#2-green	#3-silver	#4-gold	#5-white

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

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starry_night — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:39:25 GMT

And some more assorted icons from this year - this batch is sort of a mixed bag of fandoms from through the year.

Fandoms: Agent Carter, Alias, Agents of SHIELD, Dollhouse, Downton Abbey, Firefly, Forever, The Borgias, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Elementary, Friends, Gilmore Girls, How to Get Away With Murder, Grimm, Gotham, iZombie, Leverage, Killjoys, The Librarians, The 100, Sense8, Selfie, Orphan Black, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Hour, The Tudors, The Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars, The Walking Dead, Suits, Spartacus, Teen Wolf, Stardust

Agent Carter | Alias
[1-5]
Alias | Agents of SHIELD | Dollhouse
[6-10]
Downton Abbey | Firefly | Forever | The Borgias
[11-15]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Elementary | Friends | Gilmore Girls | How to Get Away With Murder
[16-20]
Grimm | Gotham
[21-25]
iZombie | Leverage
[26-30]
Killjoys | The Librarians | The 100
[31-35]
Sense8 | Selfie | Orphan Black
[36-40]
Miss Fisher | Mad Men | The Hour | The Tudors | The Vampire Diaries
[41-45]
Veronica Mars | The Walking Dead
[46-50]
Spartacus | Suits | Teen Wolf
[51-55]
Stardust
[56-60]
Stardust
[61]

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starry_night — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:55:41 GMT

Assorted icon post (Reign, OUAT, Arrow, Forever) - despite telling myself I'd post them more regularly, these are just a few of the many I have left to post for the year...oops!

Reign
[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]
[21-25]
[26-30]
Reign | Once Upon A Time
[31-35]
Once Upon A Time
[36-40]
Arrow
[41-45]
Arrow | Forever
[46-50]

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starry_night — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:32:00 GMT

Hoban "Wash" Washburne (Firefly) for character_draw

10 THEMES

Touch	Lyrics	Fear	Playful	Smile


Bright	No Face	Fall Colors	Outside	Multi-Level

5 CATEGORY - De-Magnified

01	02	03	04	05

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

01	02	03	04	05

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starry_night — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:48:59 GMT

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey for pirates20in20

10 THEMES

Another role	B&W + color	Full body + wide crop	Looking away	Plus one


One eye	Profile + monochrome	Provided font	Solid background	Two colours

5 CATEGORY - Texture

Flower bomb	Frame me	I'm a designer	Solringen	Wings of freedom

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

[1]

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starry_night — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:16:51 GMT

Bobbi Morse (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) for character20n20

10 THEMES

Center Text	Cold	Favorite Feature	First & Last	Nemisis


Numbers	Outside	Times Three*	Vibrant	White

CATEGORY (Autumn Color Palette)

one	two	three	four	five

ARTIST'S CHOICE

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

*Times Three = Negative space, black & white, textures

[1-2]

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starry_night — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:28:20 GMT

Alias episode Parity (1x03) for episodes20in20

10 THEMES
visible texture	black & white + text	negative space	close crop	quote

2 boxes	yellow	last scene	partner in crime	looking up/down

5 CATEGORY / WARM COLORS
Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Cat 4	Cat 5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

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starry_night — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:30:48 GMT

Supernatural episodes, 2x01 In My Time of Dying & 3x01 The Magnificent Seven for spn20_20

themes

No face	Frame	Tiny Text	Full body	Spooky


Red	Emotional	Opening Scene	Villain	Negative space+ text

Category – Different Techniques

Deco Textures	Close Crop	Monochrome	Black & White	Neg. Space

artist’s choice

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

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starry_night — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:47:46 GMT

Assorted TV shows for tvcharacter20

10 THEMES

book adaptation	canceled	dream OTP	family	good vs. evil


no face	orange/black	recent	spooky	under-appreciated

Category - RIP

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

[1-3]

1st row: Pretty Little Liars, Firefly, Alias, The Americans, Buffy
2nd row: The Americans, Doctor Who, Gotham, Supernatural, The Americans
3rd row: Alias, Angel, Spartacus, Supernatural x2
4th row: Alias, Pretty Little Liars, Gotham, Buffy, Firefly
Alts: The Americans x2, Alias

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starry_night — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:12:27 GMT

Sarah Hyland for guesswho20in20

10 THEMES

Triangle	Smack	Big/Small	Faceless	Dreamy


Duotone	Yellow B/G	Hands	Unexpected	Video Inspiration

CATEGORY - Shades of Color

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

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starry_night — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 02:37:41 GMT

ATS episode, Judgement (2x01) for btvsats20in20
Cassandra Cillian (The Librarians) for hbic20in20

For btvsats20in20

10 Themes
Orange	Unusual Crop	Truth	Sepia+Profile	Retro

Hot	Crossover	Contrast	Angry	Yellow+Blue

5 Category \|WHITE DECORATION
Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Cat 4	Cat 5

5 Artist's Choice
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

For hbic20in20

10 THEMES

gradient background	hat	green	mouth	water


animal	profile	top-half	promo	expression

5 CATEGORY - Living Just As Free As My Hair

cat #1	cat #2	cat #3	cat #4	cat #5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

[1-5]

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Couple of Promos!

starry_night — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:30:24 GMT

lims_movie lims_movie lims_movie
Session 27 is Stardust
SIGN UPS // RULES// HEADER/BANNER CHALLENGE

tvlims tvlims tvlims

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starry_night — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:34:01 GMT

A Buffyverse icon dump – [26] icons

These first ones were made for the Buffy icon battle hosted by starkwars. Check out the other amazing icons at the reveal post here.

[1-4]
[5-8]
[9-12]

OTHERS
[13-17]
[18-22]
[23-26]

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