September Classic Icons

[jordannamorgan]

Part II of my September icon output, with forty-two icons.

1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	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

Identification and comments:

01-03: Paul Newman. He was an accidental choice for star of the week at classicicontest; I got him confused with Steve McQueen, who had been requested. Since I'd already gone to the trouble of digging up pictures of Newman, I decided to use him a couple of weeks later.

04-07: Steve McQueen. #5 won first place, but personally I like #4 much better.

08-09: For a behind-the-scenes challenge, here is makeup artist Perc Westmore working on Jimmy Cagney's donkey head for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Cagney can be seen observing him in the second of the pair.

10-11: Following up the previous two, a couple bonus icons of Cagney mugging as Bottom. Squee, indeed.

12-21: The allegedly legendary James Dean; his movies don't interest me, but his photos at least provided a lot of useful icon fodder. #12 won third place. I was actually trying to be metaphorical with #19 (James Dean and a tornado--two forces with brief but intense lives).

22-24: I made these icons to demonstrate the use of my Technogothic icon textures. They respectively feature Humphrey Bogart, Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes), and Boris Karloff (as the Frankenstein Monster).

25-26: For a "sidekicks" challenge, two icons featuring Allen Jenkins as Cagney's faithful stooge. I would have made one with Frank McHugh, but I thought Allen deserved some credit for a change and it would have taken me an hour to dig out suitable screencaps.

27-34: Ginger Rogers. As with James Dean, I'm indifferent to her, but I like how a few of the icons turned out.

35-39: Lionel Barrymore. #35 won second place. I did the colorizing of #37.

40-42: Three icons for the theme of fall or falling, featuring Harold Lloyd, Bette Davis (in Of Human Bondage), and Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn (in Holiday). #41 and #42 respectively won first and third place.


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Comments

[agonia-bordo.livejournal.com]

Great icons! Kinda atmospheric!!

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks!

[phantomminuet.livejournal.com]

Steve McQueen rocks!

[jordannamorgan]

:)

[meagan-chelsea.livejournal.com]

these are gorgeous! ^.^

[jordannamorgan]

Thank you! :)

[unique-wonder.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! :)
I love 10,27+40 the most.

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks! :)

I like #10 myself... *g*

[agentadvocate.livejournal.com]

Damn.

13, 17 & 19 (especially) are incredibly well done. I'm rather indifferent about him as well, but he does command a certain emotion in all photographs, which is an asset for icon makers ^^

22, 23 (great great great) & 24 are all coming with me
& for the record, I laughed because you made Cagney *squee*.

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks very much! :)

James Cagney squee is one of my great joys in life. :D

[spock74.livejournal.com]

Basil Rathbone! Nice!

[jordannamorgan]

Thank you. :)

[silvretine.livejournal.com]

Excellent work!

[jordannamorgan]

Thank you. :)

[weathergirllj.livejournal.com]

Copied no. 5 which I preferred to no. 4. *lol* It's all in the eye of the beholder!

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks! :) I'm not surprised--I often prefer icons that other people don't. *shrug*

[stillsparkling.livejournal.com]

Taking no. 27 because I love the look of it. Great work on all of those! :-)

[jordannamorgan]

Thank you! :)

[sakka.livejournal.com]

Who would guess that I took #40? :P

I also snagged 27, 28, and 32. Thank you :)

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks! :)

[dizzy-duck.livejournal.com]

Oh, Paul! Oh, Steve! Oh, Jimmy! I'm snagging several with thanks and credit to you. If only you were a Montgomery Clift fan, my life would complete. (It's so hard to find Monty icons!)

Thanks so much -- they are all gorgeous. :-)

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks very much! :)

I must admit that Clift is one actor I wouldn't make icons of. But you might like to look through the old entries at classicicontest--one of the members has submitted some icons of him over the last year.

[dizzy-duck.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for the tip!

And thanks again for the icons! *points*

[jordannamorgan]

You're quite welcome. :)

[ladynazgul2211.livejournal.com]

OMG! STEEEEEEVE! Took those and will credit. :D

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks! :)

[ifavorfire.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.:)Snagging all of Steve McQueen (been looking all over for some of him,2 of Paul Newman,and all of James Dean (<3):)

May I ask where you found the etxture you used on #1,please?:)

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks! :)

That texture is from meleada.

[ifavorfire.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[jordannamorgan]

Thanks! Glad you like! :)