Helloooooooooo mah darlins'! Yes, this post is, like, weeks in coming or something, but I'll make it up to you. Cookies are on the left, Spunk Ransom and his sexiness is on the right. Your pic. ;D

Oh, and first, a wee bit of pimpin' - check out oneweekofdazzle. lion_lamb's celebrating 5000 members over there. Contests and celebrations and general goodiness are to come in the next 7 days. Check it out, bbz.

(Oh, BTW, belward bb, the result of your awesome idea - you know the one - will be in my next post. ;D )

And now, get in touch with your sixth sense - your lulz sense, that is - because IT'S CAPSLOCK AND DAZZLE TIME FOR THE TWILIGHTERS.

(Remember, don't take this post seriously, it's lulz time. the more capslock comments in response, the better!)


( DAZZLING TWILIGHT MACROS UNDER THE CUT )

ICON TRUTH MEME - my thread

Go ahead, bbz. Click the first link to learn what it's all about, then click that second one and tell me everything you love and hate about my icons. Gushing, constructive criticism and brutal honesty are completely welcome. Just make sure you log out first. ;D

Oh, and my next post here is almost ready. Basically it's my own lack of time and tedious work on a top secret animated macro that's kept me from posting already.

Sorry if these aren't up to my usual quality, it's past midnight here and I just got back from a trip to Ohio. But I just had to make these now, because NEW TWILIGHT FOOTAGE FTW. (Oh, and flist, I'm so sorry, I haven't checked my journal yet for comments, I'll reply to all new ones first chance I get after some sleep! ;D )

Anyways:

+20 Twilight MTV clip icons
+1 Twilight request wallpaper (both in 1280x800 and 1024x768)

Teasers:


Usual rules apply: Comment, credit, hotlinking is evil, ask before you alter anything unless you're just resizing.

( *yawn* I need sleep... )

lali_sweety requested a tutorial for this icon:

While I did in fact have the psd for this, it turned out that I had flattened lots of the essential layers, basically rendering the psd useless. Long story short, I can't remember exactly what I did, but after a bit of experimenting, I made a copy that's pretty darn close, if I say so myself. So here we go:

( tutorial for the blending )

Done with blending! Wheeeeeee. Merge the image layer with your background layer, crop, resize, whatever, in your method of choice. Just as long as it ends up as 100x100. Mine's like this:



( tutorial for the coloring )

Sooooo, finished New Moon on Thursday, started Eclipse today. I'm trying to drag it out as much as possible so that the wait for BD won't be too hard. ;D

Special thanks goes to Snow Patrol for this post; basically all this stuff is the product of listening to their music again all week.

Anyways, the loot:
+38 Twilight icons (Mostly E/B, with some general silliness/Dorito love thrown in. ;D )
+4 Twilight banners/headers
+6 Twilight wallpapers (all in both 1280x800 & 1024x768)

Usual rules apply: Comment, please credit, don't ever hotlink, don't alter without my permission.

Teasers:


( And after I have traveled so far, we'd set the fire to the third bar )

THE TWILIGHT TEASER TRAILER IS OUT. NOW. OH. MY. GOD.

*AHEM.* Okay, so, (obvious) contents of the post:

+27 Twilight teaser trailer icons (all E/B, pretty much)
+4 Twilight teaser trailer banners

Usual rules apply: Comment, credit, don't ever hotlink, don't alter without my permission.

(Yeah, they're all pretty much black-and-white, and perhaps they're not up to my usual standard, but, um, my fingers were shaking too badly from excitement to type in any selective coloring stuff. Kthnxbai.)

Teasers:

( Anyone else think RPattz looks and sounds kinda like a Jake Ryan/James Dean hybrid in the trailer? Ah, he's smokin' hot, so we'll allow it. )

Yay, another tutorial! First one for me this year, I think?

Anyways, this is a tutorial I just posted at severalplums , so I figured I should post it here. severalplums is a great icontest comm where if you win, you post a tutorial for the winning icon. I didn't get first place, but I got a mod's invitation to post a tutorial anyway! So go and check the comm out, it's a very original idea and a fun one too. :)

In 9 steps, we're going from to

Made with Photoshop CS3, involves no selective coloring, so it could be translatable, I suppose. :)

( right this waaaaaay )

Randomish collection, most of which made during spring break.

1-19: Sparrabeth, as per request ;)
20-29: Harry Potter, all made from one of the latest HBP stills
30-40: Random stock
41-46: James McAvoy
47-51: Some of my latest entries at keira_lims , with a variant of the last one

Teasers:


( don't question why she needs to be so free, she'll tell you it's the only way to be )

Okay. This is a crapload treasure trove of icons I've entered in icontests over the past ten months. Yep, ten months. Since I'm attempting to organize what's left of my hard drive since I lost most of my pics and art, I found these and figured I should let them see the light of day. And they're sorta-kinda-maybe in chronological order, so if you notice any big differences in quality/style/what-have-you as you scroll down, don't be alarmed. (Once I fully replenish my pic collection, I'll make some stuff for a more current, hopefully better icon post.)

+83 PotC icons (Willabeth, Sparrabeth, General - it's all mixed up!)
+13 Atonement icons
+5 Pride and Prejudice icons

Usual rules apply: Comment, credit, don't hotlink or alter without my permission, etc.

Teasers:


( *shuffles off to bed* I'll cross-post to other comms tomorrow... )

(Yes, yes, I should have made one of these posts a long time ago. Yes, I'm working on another graphics post for sometime in the future. No, no graphics in this post.)

Anyways, this is the post where you ask questions if you have them, where I list my affiliates, and where you ask to affiliate if you want to.... that's it. :)

Each icon is made by an affiliate of mine, and clicking a particular icon will take you to that particular talented affiliate. If you'd like to be added to the list and for me to use a specific icon of yours as the link, just show me which. :)

( affiliates list )