These are icons I have made for anyone to use here on Livejournal or on other blogging sites, forums etc. There's no need to ask if you can grab them, but please consider the following:

- Leave a comment noting which icons you took, so I know what kind of icons I should concentrate on making in the future.

- Credit swanboat_icons, so other people can find here.

- Sometimes there are special instructions for certain sets, for example if original artwork has been used. Please follow them.

- Don't direct-link, it kills my bandwidth and that means no more icons. Save to your own space.

I hope you enjoy my work! :)

It's been such a long time since I've posted here, and I certainly didn't plan to stay awake tonight making icons. But then the sad news of Patrick McGoohan's death reached me and... this is something I had planned to do soon anyway, since I've been watching the series with a couple of friends lately.

35 the Prisoner icons
(and if you still want more, there are older ones to be found by clicking that tag)

( walk on the grass )

If it weren't for galadrielstills, faramir_stills and snape_stillness you wouldn't be getting new icons by me at all.

( 15 challenge entries )

Well, what do you know? Call it recycling or call it inspiration (finally?), but I was cleaning (yes, again) old folders and came across these slogans I had once used at my fanlistings collective that suddenly asked to be iconized. These were made tongue-in-cheek: I do love the hobby and the community! :)


( 12 icons behind the cut )

Yes, it's an update! I just realized I never posted here some LOST icons I made ages ago. These are basically all Libby or Libby with other characters.

( I once was lost but now I'm found )

As you might have noticed, I haven't continued the wallpaper series. I simply can't find the time to do much playing with Photoshop these days, as much as I would love to. My apologies. :(

I've taken over managing galadrielstills from dear elanordh. We're having a bit of a celebration over there right now - if you're an icon maker, please consider participating. :)

Herea are the very few icons I've made lately: some Faramir and some Galadriel.

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05 06 07

02 was placed 2nd and 03 3rd at faramir_stills and 06 was placed 3rd at galadrielstills.

So yeah. I made the wallpaper weeks ago and then forgot to post it. *headdesk* Also, there's no Finnish version this time, because the official translation of this poem doesn't include the word "heart" so I thought why bother. My apologies!

wallpaper calendar for April 08/the Hearts of the Fellowship 2: Peregrin Took (Photo taken in 2008 at my home, quote from the chapter "A Short Cut to Mushrooms".)

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I personally dislike these kind of multi fandom icon posts, but I've been making so few icons lately that if I don't post them right now, I will forget to do that altogether. My apologies for the inconvenience.

( 16 icons behind the cut )

New cover art for Robin Hobb's books.
If you use these, please make sure you credit Jackie Morris! Thank you!
Previews:


More here at thePlenty.net.

1 wallpaper and three textless icons (as I have no words!) - might be considered spoilery if you're really trying not to know anything about the movie.

( all lies lead to the truth )

Very hasty ents for lindahoyland (everyone is free to grab them, though :)).

01 02 03

04 05 06

Late again, but here it is, the next calendar wallpaper and the one to start a new series. I did some math as soon as a I realized my initial plan to group some of the valar together in order to make them fit into a 12-month calendar would fail (because those folks demanded to get their own space, big egos and all that stuff! ;)). And well, what do you get when you take three months (I gave Melkor a month too because I have a soft heart like that) out of a year?
Well. If someone says "Tolkien and nine", what do you think of first? Yes, I was lazy and predictable and decided to continue on with the Fellowship. And I even had an abandoned icon-idea to develop as wallpapers: here is one Legolas icon that I made based on it, but I never continued the series. Maybe I will post a batch of icons once this year of wallapers is complete.
Anyway, to make this a bit more challenging for myself, I decided not to use any actor pictures from the movies OR otherwise. Instead I'm trying to use photos I've taken myself or maybe stuff I'm going to scan etc. Once again, half the work was done by the amazing mata090680 who created the brush set I use for the actual calendar parts.

I'm trying not to ramble too long about this project, so let's get to where it started. There's a passage in LOTR that describes the Fellowship during their journey along Anduin and it starts like this: "The heart of Legolas was running under the stars of a summer night in some northern glade amid the beech-woods; Gimli was fingering gold in his mind, and wondering if it were fit to be wrought into the housing of the Lady's gift. " The plan is quite simply to choose a quote about the heart of every member of the Fellowship and build the wallpaper based on that theme. An added bonus for these months will be a Finnish version alongside the English one so that if you know "Neo-Quenya" or wish to practise it, here's something for you too.

wallpaper calendar for April 08/the Hearts of the Fellowship 1: Legolas Greenleaf (Photo taken in 2004 from a ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, quote from the chapter "The White Rider")

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I need to run to work in a sec, so I didn't have time to make more/actually work on these, but I just couldn't let the first official poster to slip by!

Now that the valarpaper calendar is complete, I thought I should look back and repost them as icons. I'm still quite pleased with some of them, and some of them are just as awful as when I threw them together quickly. It's weird to think that I've been using Photoshop CS 2 instead of the good old v. 7 only from Tulkas onwards - it feels so familiar already.



( I can't find the place I started / I can only guess how it will end )

Valarpaper for March 2008 - Yavanna
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Yavanna Kementári, Giver of Fruits and Queen of the Earth is the spouse of Mr. July, Aulë. She is the one responsible for the Kelvar and the Olvar of Arda. The Two Lamps were created by Aulë at her request, and after their destruction, she sang into being the Two Trees of Valinor. When she learned that Aulë had created dwarves, she feared for all the growing things dear to her and especially trees, and together with Manwë discovered the ents in the Great Music.
Yavanna is here portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania in the 1999 movie A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I just finished re-designing the fanlisting for the album Talk On Corners by the Corrs and I added some icons to it... thought I should share them here too in case there are fans out there. :)

( and her friends they talk on corners, they could never comprehend )

Valarpaper for February 2008 - Ulmo


Mr. February, Ulmo, is probably my favourite vala. He is the Lord of Waters and among the greatest in power, ranked only behind Melkor and Manwë. Before Arda was greated, Ulmo delighted in making music, and so his waters are said to carry the echo of the Music of the Ainur. He doesn't dwell anywhere for long and only goes to Valinor in times of great need. Instead his presence can be found in any sea, lake and river in Arda. Unlike the other Valar, he never abandoned Middle-earth and its peoples and actually played quite an active role many times during the history of Arda.
Ulmo is here portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond from LOST.

Valarpaper for January 2008 - Varda

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Varda, The Queen of the Stars, is the spouse of mr. December, Manwë. She is the most loved Vala by the Elves of Middle-earth, for she created and kindled the stars that awoke the Elves.
Varda is here portrayed here by Cate Blanchett (well hello, who did you think I would pick? :D) - the photo is from a recent Madame Figaro photoshoot.

(No S/R fans here huh?)
Here's a trio of Snape icons that did rather well in the latest snape_stillness - I hope you enjoy these.
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( + behind the cut some older entries )
As always, all my Snape graphics can be found at the archive.

Okay so this is the third time I'm making HP song icons from the Corrs' Home album - only this time it's not Snape I have in mind. You can probably tell I love that album a lot. :D Anyway, this set is something I've had in mind for a looong time, and I was waiting for good quality caps from OotP to surface before making it (and even so I eventually had to manip one scene.) I chose this particular song Dimming of the Day because I think it sits nicely on the fence between the canon and the fanon. ;)




( Dimming of the Day - 17 Sirius/Remus icons )

Another bunch of graphics I've never posted here (or anywhere else for that matter).
Viggo, horses, the Prisoner, Snape & other Potter stuff and banners for Pete. Sorry these are so random, but I had to post these now or they would never have seen daylight again. :D


( 22 icons + some banners )