Feigenbaum, The Master of Chaos

it's that moment in life when you touch it and realize

2008-07-15T00:29:00Z

So I'm finally posting the icons that I've had for months, just stored up because they didn't fit or something. I'll be honest and say this is a pretty mixed batch, but I hope you can get something out of it. Thanks to those who stuck with this comm through the long silence! I hope I haven't posted any of these icons before; I really need to work on my system of telling!

Preview:

Breakdown:
01-06 Movies (LoTR, AeonFlux, Enchanted, Fantastic Four)
07-12 Avatar the Last Airbender (mostly Sokka/Yue. No idea how that happened; I'm kind of a Tokka girl.)
13-14 Brick
15-25 Television (BtVS, Freaks and Geeks, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, Pushing Daisies, Torchwood, Skins)
26-29 Actresses (Michelle Trachtenberg, Natalie Portman, Hayden Panettiere)
30-52 Gossip Girl (+GG Actresses)
53-62 Heroes

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62.

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you will never fade away from me

2008-03-15T00:56:22Z

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-46 Buffyverse
47-47 SMG

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47.

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the words that you said are somehow stuck in my mouth

2007-12-16T20:09:12Z

Preview:

Breakdown:
01-36 Gossip Girl

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.

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Been a Long Time Coming

2007-12-03T17:17:25Z

Hey everyone, sorry for the delay! Lj's comment system has been faulty for me for a couple of months. If you left me a note, I'm sorry; I probably didn't get it.

Preview:

Breakdown:
01-05 Angel
06-35 Buffy
36-61 Gossip Girl
61-67 Veronica Mars

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66. 67.

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New Icon Post

2007-07-05T00:20:32Z

I'm leaving for six weeks (no icons from me for a month and a half, guys!) so I figured I'd post all my icons before I left. Icons contain slash and spoilers for Heroes and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-30 Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
31-38 Michelle Trachtenberg
39-42 Sarah Michelle Gellar
43-47 Misc (Sugar Rush, Pretty in Pink, Scene Queen)
48-103 Heroes

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66. 67. 68.
69. 70. 71. 72.
73. 74. 75. 76.
77. 78. 79. 80.
81. 82. 83. 84.
85. 86. 87. 88.
89. 90. 91. 92.
93. 94. 95. 96.
97. 98. 99. 100.
101. 102. 103.

Rules:
Credit oravannahka NOT _feigenbaum_
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Tell me if you're nomming my icons as it gives me warm fuzzies.
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Coming soon(ish): Nothing. Six weeks of nothing, people!

64 Multi-fandom Icons

2007-06-24T19:55:56Z

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-33 Various Television (Six Feet Under, Alias, Angel, CSI, Skins, Supernatural, Smallville, The Office, Veronica Mars)
34-43 Various Movies (American Pie, Brick, Harry Potter, The Lookout, Mullholland Drive, Spider Man 3)
44-64 Various Actors (Anna Paquin, Cate Blanchett, Dita Von Teese, Eliza Dushku, Justin Timberlake, Melissa George, Naomi Watts, Scarlett Johansson)

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.

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Coming Soon: Buffy and Heroes

Heroes Tutorial

2007-06-19T18:41:02Z

From to

A tutorial for welldoyouwantto. I used Photoshop CS 2. It's kind of complicated.

I didn't keep all the layers for the icon but...

Preface: So, I'm big on the whole "even if you follow a trend/tutorial you should still sort of know what the heck each step does" thing. Yes, I know, that's such a pain. But, basically, you should never follow a tutorial exactly. Okay? Okay.

Step One: Get Your Base
I grabbed a cap from The Striped Wall from the Heroes episode "Five Years Gone." It features the very pretty Mohinder Suresh in the future in the oval office. Then crop it to 100x100 (or 80x100 or whatever if you feel like it)

Here we go:

As you can see, that is not a square like in the icon. The thing is, I wanted a more interesting crop. So I took the smudge brush at 60% opacity and smudged the green color up and around until...

Step Two: Lighting
Luckilly, the cap was already pretty well lit. I wanted more brightness/contrast, however. You can do this using levels, curves, brightness/contrast, fill layers, or just plain screen and softlight layers. I think on the original I did a mixture of all of those but, for the sake of ease, I just used a curves layer on this one. Just remember different caps mean that different ways of lighting are better.

I made a new curves layer and made a dot. Clicked the dot and set the setting to "Input: 155, Output: 234." Made another dot on the line below the first dot and set that to "Input: 69, Output: 168." The icon looks like...

Step Three: Fill Layers
Here's the big thing with the coloring. I made a new layer, set to Exclusion (100% Opacity) and filled it with NOT the typical blue/green coloring but with a dark brown/red color (2f0700).

Now I wanted this to be more green so I made a new layer and filled it with a light green/yellow (dde6b3) and set it to Multiply (100% Opacity). The image wasn't clear enough so I dragged the fill underneath the Curves layer.

Step Four: Selective Coloring
Okay, fun times with selective coloring. I love selective coloring; the key is not to overdo things. The poor setting has gotten a lot of abuse with the blue/oversaturated trend thing.

Selective Color Settings:
Red:
C: -100
M: -50
Y: 100
K: 0
Yellow:
C: -100
M: -32
Y: 37
K: 0

Step Five: Textures
To get the background grunge I took textures from peoplemachines and cropped them all into 100x100 squares. I inverted one of them so that the three looked like:

Set the first two to Screen and the last to Multiply. I erased the parts of the texture over Mohinder with a fuzzy eraser at 50% opacity so that the texture was still there but not oppressively.

Step Six: Saturation
New Hue/Saturation layer. I just bumped the Saturation up to 14.

Step Six: Soft Light

Okay, now go all the way back down and take your 100x100 base. Duplicate that and drag the layer on top. Set that to Soft Light. Duplicate the Soft Light Layer. Now erase everything that isn't Mohinder on the second layer. Set the second layer to 50% Opacity.

Step Seven: Selective Coloring Part Two
Time to make things a tad more interesting!

Selective Coloring Settings:
Reds:
C: -20
M: 15
Y: 22
K: 0
Yellows:
C: -34
M: 21
Y: 8
K: 0
Whites:
C: 0
M: 0
Y: 0
K: -100
Neutrals:
C: 13
M:-10
Y: 13
K: -33
Blacks:
C: -20
M: 100
Y: 30
K: 31

The end! Not perfect, but pretty close. Here's an overview of the layers if you're still confused:

Feel free to ask questions if you're still unsure about something. Hope this helped!

Coming Soon: Big Damn Multifandom Post

50 Buffy-related Icons

2007-06-05T19:43:54Z

Sorry this took so long, everyone!

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-20 Buffy
21-37 SMG
38-50 Michelle Trachtenberg

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50.

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67 Heroes Icons

2007-05-10T02:53:51Z

Okay, so remember how I promised SMG and Skins and BtVS icons? Well... how do I put this? I kind of lied. I decided to do a purely Heroes post. Sorry?

WARNINGS: Post contains spoilers for ALL shown Heroes episodes in the USA.
Icons may have slashy subtext (and one of the icons is slightly less... subtext-y).

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-67 Heroes

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66.
EDIT (forgot one!): 67.

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Coming soon(ish): Skins, SMG, Michelle Trachtenberg, more Heroes, VMars S1, X-menand BtVS! (but... no promises.)

Don't forget that Donna's taking requests here.

_feigenbaum_ @ 2007-05-04T16:33:00

2007-05-04T20:34:15Z

I want to try making some icons tonight, since I haven't made any in awhile and I kinda have the urge. I think I need the stress relief and creative release. But I don't know what to icon. So...

I'M TAKING ICON REQUESTS

...or at the very least suggestions. I don't expect that I'll get many, so feel free to request more than 1. If you can be specific, that would be great...for example: character, scene, etc. I mean, I know I could icon Supernatural or BtVS...but I need more specific inspiration than that. And if it is not from one of my fandoms, please provide an image, as I may not be familiar with the show/movie/character/etc Thanks!!

ETA: Ok, hate me if you wish, since I can't seem to follow through on any of this stuff these days. But I'm not going to be able to fill these right now. Things just got too insanely busy. I'll get back to everyone as soon as things cool down and I find the time. Sorry.

62 Television Icons - Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Black Donnellys, Ugly Betty

2007-04-25T18:57:28Z

HEROES AND OTHER TELEVISION SHOWS ICONS

May contain spoilers.

Icons tend to get better as the number increases. This is due to the fact that later numbers = later icons.

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-43 Heroes
44-56 Friday Night Lights
57-60 The Black Donnellys
61-62 Ugly Betty

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62.

Rules:
Credit oravannahka NOT _feigenbaum_
Comment, please!
Tell me if you're nomming my icons as it makes me happy
Do NOT hotlink or steal or edit… if you want something changed, tell me.
Do NOT post on xanga/myspace

Coming soon(ish): Skins, Runaways, SMG and BtVS!

New Layout

2007-04-20T00:42:02Z

Hey everybody!

I made _feigenbaum_ a new layout and header. (about time!)

... and by "made," I mean "tweaked codes from _excentric_."

Layout features SMG, KBell, and Hayden Panettiere.

Check it out! The numbers = affiliates because I like linking to our affils.

_feigenbaum_ _feigenbaum_ _feigenbaum_

((icons coming soonish)

100 ICONS: AtS, BtVS, SMG, MT, Assorted Actresses

2007-04-12T01:09:05Z

Wow, didn't realize how long it'd been since I posted icons! (Or that I had this many)

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-08 Angel: the Series
09-55 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
56-76 Sarah Michelle Gellar
77-88 Michelle Trachtenberg
88-100 Assorted Actresses (Nora Zehetner, Zooey Deschanel, Sandra Oh, Billie Piper, Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Larissa Wilson, Kate Winslet)
+ 3 Headers (My So-Called Life, Kate Winslet, Michelle Trachtenberg)

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66. 67. 68.
69. 70. 71. 72.
73. 74. 75. 76.
77. 78. 79. 80.
81. 82. 83. 84.
85. 86. 87. 88.
89. 90. 91. 92.
93. 94. 95. 96.
97. 98. 99. 100.

Rules:
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Comment, please!
Tell me if you're nomming my icons as it gives me warm fuzzies.
DO NOT HOTLINK or STEAL or EDIT
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Coming soon(ish): Heroes, Skins, Random Television, and more SMG and BtVS!

BtVS + Heroes + Skins

2007-02-28T04:07:13Z

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-20 Buffy (a couple of AtS)
21-48 Heroes
49-58 Skins

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
30. 31. 32. 33.
35. 36. 37. 38.
39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45. 46.
47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54.
55. 56. 57. 58.

29 and 34 don't exist because I made an error while numbering.

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28 Actress Icons

2007-02-14T22:38:29Z

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-13 Michelle Trachtenberg
14-20 Sarah Michelle Gellar
21-23 Rashida Jones, Nora Zehetner, Olivia Hallinan
24-27 Kristen Bell
28-28 Zooey Deschanel

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.

Rules:
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Up next: Heroes and BtVS (no, really this time.)

_feigenbaum_ @ 2006-12-11T00:18:00

2006-12-11T00:18:09Z

Preview:

Breakdown:
00-16 Marie Antoinette
17-29 Brick
30-35 Joseph Gordon Levitt (photoshoots, Escargot)
36-39 Emily Blunt
40-00 Mena Suvari
41-48 Michelle Trachtenberg

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
HEADER | WALLPAPER

17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35.
HEADER | FO BANNER

36. 37. 38. 39.
BANNER

40. 41. 42. 43.
44. 45. 46. 47.
48.
WALLPAPER

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Up next: Heroes and BtVS