icons meme
The usual rules:
1. Comment to this entry saying - 'Today we're cancelling the apocalypse' - and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!
Here are the three userpics tinnny chose :D
Chidi, The Good Place
This is a fun one! It's one of my older userpics (and an older icon in general, dating back to July? August? 2018). It's Chidi from The Good Place, a character I related to quite a bit. I am pretty sure I was inspired by this awesome icon by zackkaddy but mine is nowhere as good (obviously). I do love the simplicity of this one, particularly the soft blues all around, but text... has never been my forte. I like to think it still works as a whole and that it's pretty cute. FWIW, this wasn't probably the face he made when Eleanor called him yet it just fit the text quite well that I had to use it for this.
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Josh and Donna, The West Wing
From one of my oldest userpics to one of the most recent... I made this J/D icon for the TV Tropes challenge (see here). I recently decided to switch my TWW icons up and felt like I could use a different non-CJ icon... finding TWW icons I like is difficult (there isn't a lot out there! Most of the ones I find and like have that Photobucket watermark... or just hurt in these times). I liked this one because it's ~~simple (my brand, essentially) but I like the trio of colors in it: the screencap itself had that yellow/brown and that pink from Donna's shirt so I just played with them a bit more. That frame texture has been one of my favorites lately and I think it gives the icon a bit of oomph that, at the very least, it kind of highlighted the momentousness of the Big Damn Kiss trope and of this long-awaited moment.
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Crowley and Aziraphale, Good Omens
This icon is also fairly recent from February... which feels like it was two years ago at this point. I made this starting from one of the icons I made for the Five Layers challenge at elitesimplicity earlier this year... Basically expanding what I would've probably done had I had no limit as to how many layers I could use, adding a couple of gradients and a bunch of light textures, haha. (For reference, this is the original five-layer icon.) I am a recent Good Omens fan and I really loved this first scene -- I found the gesture of Aziraphale extending his wing adorable. I think I've had the icon in both LJ and DW at one point but at the moment it's just over on DW. (I need to add a few more icons over there.)
It was fun reminiscing about these icons and I probably could've said a bunch more things, hehe. (And if you're interested in learning more about my userpics in either LJ or DW, drop me a comment!)
And please drop me a comment if you want to do this :D
1. Comment to this entry saying - 'Today we're cancelling the apocalypse' - and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!
Here are the three userpics tinnny chose :D
Chidi, The Good Place
This is a fun one! It's one of my older userpics (and an older icon in general, dating back to July? August? 2018). It's Chidi from The Good Place, a character I related to quite a bit. I am pretty sure I was inspired by this awesome icon by zackkaddy but mine is nowhere as good (obviously). I do love the simplicity of this one, particularly the soft blues all around, but text... has never been my forte. I like to think it still works as a whole and that it's pretty cute. FWIW, this wasn't probably the face he made when Eleanor called him yet it just fit the text quite well that I had to use it for this.
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Josh and Donna, The West Wing
From one of my oldest userpics to one of the most recent... I made this J/D icon for the TV Tropes challenge (see here). I recently decided to switch my TWW icons up and felt like I could use a different non-CJ icon... finding TWW icons I like is difficult (there isn't a lot out there! Most of the ones I find and like have that Photobucket watermark... or just hurt in these times). I liked this one because it's ~~simple (my brand, essentially) but I like the trio of colors in it: the screencap itself had that yellow/brown and that pink from Donna's shirt so I just played with them a bit more. That frame texture has been one of my favorites lately and I think it gives the icon a bit of oomph that, at the very least, it kind of highlighted the momentousness of the Big Damn Kiss trope and of this long-awaited moment.
*******
Crowley and Aziraphale, Good Omens
This icon is also fairly recent from February... which feels like it was two years ago at this point. I made this starting from one of the icons I made for the Five Layers challenge at elitesimplicity earlier this year... Basically expanding what I would've probably done had I had no limit as to how many layers I could use, adding a couple of gradients and a bunch of light textures, haha. (For reference, this is the original five-layer icon.) I am a recent Good Omens fan and I really loved this first scene -- I found the gesture of Aziraphale extending his wing adorable. I think I've had the icon in both LJ and DW at one point but at the moment it's just over on DW. (I need to add a few more icons over there.)
It was fun reminiscing about these icons and I probably could've said a bunch more things, hehe. (And if you're interested in learning more about my userpics in either LJ or DW, drop me a comment!)
And please drop me a comment if you want to do this :D