beatrice_otter | Entries tagged with icon

For those of you who don't know, the official comic book tie-in writers (IDW) are doing a series of Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover comic books. With lots and lots of different covers with really cool cover art to entice die-hard fans to buy multiple copies of each book. Here are some icons made of the first few covers!

Picard and the Eleventh Doctor, with the Enterprise and the TARDIS

Picard and the Eleventh Doctor, with the Enterprise and the TARDIS

the TARDIS trio on the bridge of the Enterprise.

( 23 more icons under the cut! )

So, a few months back I made my first icons, out of Honor Harrington book covers. (Nothing fancy, just cropping them to 100x100, pretty much.) In the process, I discovered that the French editions are coming out with some absolutely gorgeous cover art, that I want as wall art. (You can see the originals here, at the artist's deviantart.) And going back and checking revealed several more covers that weren't there last time I checked! So. Here are nine more HH icons.

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I just made my first icons ever! Not bad, with only Paint and the utility that comes with my digital camera. I have all of the American covers except the original Field of Dishonor, I think (because I loathe that cover). Two of these were made for me by my mother a while back. And I used some of the French covers because the new artist they have doing them is awesome, seriously, they should put those babies on the American editions. All are shareable, please comment and credit.

Teasers:

On Basilisk Station

( Honor Harrington is Awesome )

Really, I do. But the thing is, I have very specific tastes when it comes to icons. (Hey, my parents are professional photographers--I grew up with photographic art all around me, I got picky about it.) First, they have to be relatively simple. Nothing too busy. It's only 100x100 pixels, people, you get too much stuff in there and it just looks cluttered and muddy. I don't like it when people use weird filters and coloring and stuff--it almost always detracts from the impact of the image. I want that sucker to pop. I like dramatic images and vibrant colors. Contrasts with light and shadow. If there's text, it's got to be awesome text with a reason for being on that icon, and also text that resonates with something I'm likely to want to be talking about in a post that icon could be used with. The image itself needs to be, well, iconic. Striking. Memorable. Not just another headshot of a character or screencap from a random scene in a random episode. If it's a specific moment, that moment needs to be obvious and a critical moment. If it's a character shot, it needs to capture the essence of that character or say something about him or her. Above all, not generic. This is all the stuff an icon has to be before I even give it a second glance, regardless of fandom or anything else about it. (I do occasionally go for a humorous icon, but not for this fandom.)

What am I looking for specifically in a Terminator icon? I want it to be of Cameron, Sarah, or John, or some combination of the three of them. I want it to be kickass, not angsty. I absolutely do not want any romantic/shippy stuff. Some shows I ship, some I'm pure gen, some I waffle on; my Terminator love if pure gen.

I've spent the last several weeks looking at every icon post listed on

judgment_daily and haven't found anything.

So, remember a few weeks before Christmas when I posted about the icons I wanted, and how they were all images that just needed to be cropped and resized but my graphics skills weren't up to the task?

My parents are professional photographers, and their studio Haugen's Galleri has been completely digital for over five years now. So they've got these incredible cameras and computers and graphics programs, and it took Mom like two seconds per image to make them into icons. She threw in an image from my High School senior portraits, too. (Yeah, I know it's been eight years since they were taken, but I haven't changed that much and it's not like you can see my face anyway.) It's my new default icon. Isn't it pretty?

Anyway, here they are:
My Senior Portrait

1633 by Eric Flint

Batman Begins

and

Brother Cadfael

Honor Harrington

and

Comment on this post. I will choose seven userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

This is interesting to me because, while I have no real talent for creating visual arts, I am very picky about what I like (this comes from being the child of two excellent professional photographers).

antennapedia ( picked these seven: )

By the way: if anyone knows where I can find good Batman Begins or Brother Cadfael icons, I would appreciate it.