you must listen and learn the secrets of flowers..

[arbuus]

ICONS
[1-21] gilmore girls
[22-23] heroes
[24-26] milo ventimiglia
[27] hayden panettiere
[28-45] lord of the rings
[46-52] misc celebrities (heath ledger, james mcavoy, patric dempsey, robin tunney, kate beckinsale, simon pegg)

CHALLENGE ENTRIES
[53-84] icontest entries

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Comments

[xeyra]

These are really lovely and many of them very original. I love your use of text and textures and brushes. I do think some of your LOTR ones are a tad bit too yellow (34 and 36-38), but the coloring is otherwise very beautiful and soft and in the LOTR icons case, with a certain dreamy quality to it. There are so many gorgeous icons in this batch, it's difficult to know where to start. Some of my favorites are 2, 7 ,10 (this one is just 'wow'; incredible cropping and coloring and use of brushes and it's definitely my favorite in this batch), 22, 27, 41/42 (I haven't seen this cap iconed often), 43 and 44 (wonderful colors and cropping in these), 46-49, 62 (text looks great), 63, 66, 67, 69-71 (Ewan!!!!), 75, 78, 79, 80 and 82. Will snag lots, I'm sure. And credit will, of course, be given when I use them. :)

[arbuus]

whoa, that's a very detailed comment and thank you very much for it! it's nice to know that my work is appreciated =)
yes, the 'a-bit-too-yellow' thing came up in my previous post as well, the thing is that i used this certain technique and #28-38 are the leftovers from that period (so to speak) but now i've discovered a new colouring which makes the icons a lovely shade of blue (you can see that one the gg icons #8-21 and lotr #40-44)
and #10 is one of my own favourites as well, but i was a bit worried that it might feel a bit empty, that it could use some text in the bottom, but since i couldn't figure out what to write, i left it like that.
and as for #41-42 i just looked up all the scenes that took place in a forest of some kind, either lothlorien or fangorn or the escaping the orcs at the end of the first film. and that's one of them =)

[faithstar7]

I was thinking "wow these are awesome, some of the best I've seen in awhile" and then I realized they were yours and though "well of course!". :D

[faithstar7]

thought NOT though, can't type today :p

[arbuus]

hehe, i feel so flattered.. thank you!

[xunderstatedx]

my lord these are so pretty, lovely milo

[arbuus]

hehe, i'm glad you like them =)

[arbuus]

oh yeah, i made a type-o when i was making the icon, but i discovered it when i submitted it to dom_lims and then i remade it and i guess i just posted the wrong link in this post =)
fixed now and i'm glad you like these!

[lady_iz]

I just love your style... so creative!

[arbuus]

thank you =)