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// credit to 
calrissian18 or booshsploosh
// feedback is always welcome and appreciated - that means concrit, my friends!
// enjoy!
// resources
[39] X-Men: First Class - Erik Lehnsherr (20in20 + 20 alts)
[1] Avengers
10 THEMES
Hair PornDespairCharacter StealMonsterScenery
Extreme Neg. SpaceClose CropBlockingComplexUnusual Crop
5 CATEGORY - Colors of the Rainbow - teh suck, grr
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5 ARTIST CHOICE
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ALTERNATES
FORGIVE MY RAMBLING & EDITORIALIZING AND FEEL FREE TO IGNORE IT!
#1 Hair Porn - It ended up not fitting the prompt too well after I resized it. d'oh. I really only ended up using it here rather than as an AC because I had to smudge out the top of the hair myself. The screencap cut off the top of his head but it didn't end up looking too unnatural so I kept it here!
#2 Despair - I knew other people had done Erik Lensherr in this comm before and even for this round and there are a few obvious scenes for 'despair' but I don't think this one has been used before so I snatched it up because it fit so well. I ended up using two levels - I started with the bottom panel and wanted to do those sleek blurred and vertical lines up to the top, Example (hover for credit):
(but I don't really know how to do that - I think it's just smudging up but *shrugs* I don't know that). I ended up not even attempting because I didn't feel you could see enough details with how small the image was but I didn't want to scrap it because I love the gesture Erik is making so I made the second level with more detail.
#3 Character Steal - I had this idea as soon as I decided who I was going to use for my character steal. I wanted to have Steve's back overlap into the other image or his shield overlap into the boxing room but it ended up looking... yucky and too bulky, so I scrapped it. I had a lot of trouble with the lighting on this one too, grr.
#4 Monster - As you can see *ahem* I had A LOT of different ideas for this. I'm not sure I like the one I actually ended up using. I kind of like it black & white and I love my AC two for it so at least I knew I did it right the once.
#5 Scenery - Simple enough. I had two caps that were perfect for the inspiration 'scenery' so I crammed them both into the same icon. I don't particularly like the outcome but I do like that I'm trying new things! \o/
#6 Extreme Negative Space - *sigh* I could have done better. I love negative space and I don't think you can tell from this icon.
#7 Close Crop - I LOVE this icon! - hence all the alts. *g* It was utterly accidental. I was going for the Red in my Category icons and this happened. The COLORS - the colors!1!!1
#8 Blocking - Meh. I think I've burned myself out on blocking. I have no idea what, how or why with it anymore. *cries*
#9 Complex - Accident, accident, accident but I LOVE it! I should make more accidents happen!11! Strike that. Unsafe. I do believe it is my absolute FAVORTIE of the bunch!
#10 Unusual Crop - aadskjf. I don't know. I just don't know. I suck at picking the not-obvious crop. *headdesk* I FINALLY came up with this and knew text was needed because otherwise the eyes would shoot to all the obvious flaws in the icon, which was so not okay, but I didn't really have anything to say. GAH! At least the font is pretty, right? *flails*
#11 Category: Red - Why can I NOT do this category challenge?! I give up! *collapses* I don't like a single one of these, grr.
#12 Category: Orange - I don't know. *headdesk* Seriously, monochrome is teh suck. At least this one isn't boring as all get out, LOL. It is a little washed out though. *le sigh*
#13 Category: Yellow - Bored. I'm bored, bored, bored. But it is very yellow (and kind of green - GAWD, I suck). I picked another cap that spoke to its category color at least.
#14 Category: Green - Boooring. Yes, I know.
#15 Category: Blue - There were so many caps that just spoke to blue. So much so that it almost felt like cheating. Given that, I decided to keep it simple.
#16 Artist's Choice One - I am win. I love this icon. I love the complexity of Emma's prison in the cap and the simplicity and thinness of the text and I love that I actually had something worthwhile to pin on that man's back. *snorts* I wish it was more colorful, of course - the COLORS - but it's still rather lovely, I think.
#17 Artist's Choice Two - I like the text placement here - it looks much better without the whole sentence. I've been trying to improooove on not only that but font choice. I think I have. A bit. Maybe. LOL.
#18 Artist's Choice Three - The whole idea for this icon, texture, multiple image, etc., was shamelessly stolen from a recent challenge entry in iconflashes. Their icon looks better, of course - I don't know who made it, the whole nature of the thing is that it's anonymous. I kind of just wanted to see if I could repeat the process (and I could! If poorly) and I knew I wanted to use it with Erik in the X-Men outfit because the colors of the texture worked so well with it!
#19 Artist's Choice Four - This is pretty much an alt for extreme negative space. It was my original idea for that prompt and I... sort of like it, LOL.
#20 Artist's Choice Five - I like the opposing colors here and the rotation of the top level. Not too shabs.
calrissian18 or booshsploosh
// feedback is always welcome and appreciated - that means concrit, my friends!
// enjoy!
// resources
[39] X-Men: First Class - Erik Lehnsherr (20in20 + 20 alts)
[1] Avengers
10 THEMES
Hair PornDespairCharacter StealMonsterScenery
Extreme Neg. SpaceClose CropBlockingComplexUnusual Crop
5 CATEGORY - Colors of the Rainbow - teh suck, grr
onetwothreefourfive
5 ARTIST CHOICE
onetwothreefourfive
ALTERNATES
FORGIVE MY RAMBLING & EDITORIALIZING AND FEEL FREE TO IGNORE IT!
#1 Hair Porn - It ended up not fitting the prompt too well after I resized it. d'oh. I really only ended up using it here rather than as an AC because I had to smudge out the top of the hair myself. The screencap cut off the top of his head but it didn't end up looking too unnatural so I kept it here!
#2 Despair - I knew other people had done Erik Lensherr in this comm before and even for this round and there are a few obvious scenes for 'despair' but I don't think this one has been used before so I snatched it up because it fit so well. I ended up using two levels - I started with the bottom panel and wanted to do those sleek blurred and vertical lines up to the top, Example (hover for credit):
(but I don't really know how to do that - I think it's just smudging up but *shrugs* I don't know that). I ended up not even attempting because I didn't feel you could see enough details with how small the image was but I didn't want to scrap it because I love the gesture Erik is making so I made the second level with more detail.
#3 Character Steal - I had this idea as soon as I decided who I was going to use for my character steal. I wanted to have Steve's back overlap into the other image or his shield overlap into the boxing room but it ended up looking... yucky and too bulky, so I scrapped it. I had a lot of trouble with the lighting on this one too, grr.
#4 Monster - As you can see *ahem* I had A LOT of different ideas for this. I'm not sure I like the one I actually ended up using. I kind of like it black & white and I love my AC two for it so at least I knew I did it right the once.
#5 Scenery - Simple enough. I had two caps that were perfect for the inspiration 'scenery' so I crammed them both into the same icon. I don't particularly like the outcome but I do like that I'm trying new things! \o/
#6 Extreme Negative Space - *sigh* I could have done better. I love negative space and I don't think you can tell from this icon.
#7 Close Crop - I LOVE this icon! - hence all the alts. *g* It was utterly accidental. I was going for the Red in my Category icons and this happened. The COLORS - the colors!1!!1
#8 Blocking - Meh. I think I've burned myself out on blocking. I have no idea what, how or why with it anymore. *cries*
#9 Complex - Accident, accident, accident but I LOVE it! I should make more accidents happen!11! Strike that. Unsafe. I do believe it is my absolute FAVORTIE of the bunch!
#10 Unusual Crop - aadskjf. I don't know. I just don't know. I suck at picking the not-obvious crop. *headdesk* I FINALLY came up with this and knew text was needed because otherwise the eyes would shoot to all the obvious flaws in the icon, which was so not okay, but I didn't really have anything to say. GAH! At least the font is pretty, right? *flails*
#11 Category: Red - Why can I NOT do this category challenge?! I give up! *collapses* I don't like a single one of these, grr.
#12 Category: Orange - I don't know. *headdesk* Seriously, monochrome is teh suck. At least this one isn't boring as all get out, LOL. It is a little washed out though. *le sigh*
#13 Category: Yellow - Bored. I'm bored, bored, bored. But it is very yellow (and kind of green - GAWD, I suck). I picked another cap that spoke to its category color at least.
#14 Category: Green - Boooring. Yes, I know.
#15 Category: Blue - There were so many caps that just spoke to blue. So much so that it almost felt like cheating. Given that, I decided to keep it simple.
#16 Artist's Choice One - I am win. I love this icon. I love the complexity of Emma's prison in the cap and the simplicity and thinness of the text and I love that I actually had something worthwhile to pin on that man's back. *snorts* I wish it was more colorful, of course - the COLORS - but it's still rather lovely, I think.
#17 Artist's Choice Two - I like the text placement here - it looks much better without the whole sentence. I've been trying to improooove on not only that but font choice. I think I have. A bit. Maybe. LOL.
#18 Artist's Choice Three - The whole idea for this icon, texture, multiple image, etc., was shamelessly stolen from a recent challenge entry in iconflashes. Their icon looks better, of course - I don't know who made it, the whole nature of the thing is that it's anonymous. I kind of just wanted to see if I could repeat the process (and I could! If poorly) and I knew I wanted to use it with Erik in the X-Men outfit because the colors of the texture worked so well with it!
#19 Artist's Choice Four - This is pretty much an alt for extreme negative space. It was my original idea for that prompt and I... sort of like it, LOL.
#20 Artist's Choice Five - I like the opposing colors here and the rotation of the top level. Not too shabs.