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November Classic Icons
Here's the November classics roundup: thirty-five icons featuring Danny Kaye, Peter Cushing, James Cagney, George Sanders (the Saint), Cyd Charisse, Claude Rains, Marlon Brando, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Basil Rathbone, and Rosalind Russell.
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01-09: One of my great personal favorites, Danny Kaye--respectively appearing in The Inspector General, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, A Song is Born, Wonder Man, Up in Arms, "The Muppet Show", and a trio of unknown publicity pics/live performances. (Another of my icons won first place in the Danny Kaye challenge, but I decided to keep that one for myself. *g*)
10-15: Peter Cushing as the wise and soulful but very dynamic Doctor Van Helsing in Hammer's horror classics, Horror of Dracula and Brides of Dracula. These were made for a challenge with the theme of "heroes", in which #8 won an award for Best Coloring.
16-20: James Cagney in The Oklahoma Kid, G-Men, and Winner Take All. These were for the heroes challenge as well--Cagney and Cushing being the only two actors who are also real-life heroes to me. (It's an amusing irony that when the oft-sterotyped Cagney finally did go carting around a tommy gun on screen, it was as a lawman, not a gangster.)
20-24: George Sanders as Simon Templar, the Saint. Somewhat to my surprise, the rather playful #19 took first place in the heroes challenge. It was quite pleasing to see one of my all-time favorite literary characters receive such appreciation. In this case, I'd like to think it was more the subject than my craftsmanship!
25-28: Cyd Charisse. I'm not a fan, but since I had saved the pictures for the challenge anyway, I rather indifferently made these four icons.
29-31: The inimitable Claude Rains, submitted for a "letter R" challenge. #27 (colorized by me) won first place.
32-34: Marlon Brando--albeit mostly in stylized muscle shots. #30 won a mod's choice.
35-36: Boris Karloff. These are just variations on two of the icons I made for Halloween back in October.
37: Edward G. Robinson as Wolf Larsen in The Sea Wolf. Again, the colorization is my work.
38: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. A somewhat odd but interesting icon, attempting on my part to visually express the theme of mystery literature.
39: Rosalind Russell flexing her girlpower in His Girl Friday. My colorizing yet again. (Of course I'm totally biased, but I still maintain that the 1931 original--The Front Page with Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, Edward Everett Horton, and Adolphe Menjou--is better and funnier than its far more famous remake.)
40: A bonus icon. This is actually a bit of digital scenery from "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne", which finds the protagonists arriving at a vampire's castle. I thought the image would be appealing to some as a sort of fairytale scene.
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Description and Comments:
01-09: One of my great personal favorites, Danny Kaye--respectively appearing in The Inspector General, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, A Song is Born, Wonder Man, Up in Arms, "The Muppet Show", and a trio of unknown publicity pics/live performances. (Another of my icons won first place in the Danny Kaye challenge, but I decided to keep that one for myself. *g*)
10-15: Peter Cushing as the wise and soulful but very dynamic Doctor Van Helsing in Hammer's horror classics, Horror of Dracula and Brides of Dracula. These were made for a challenge with the theme of "heroes", in which #8 won an award for Best Coloring.
16-20: James Cagney in The Oklahoma Kid, G-Men, and Winner Take All. These were for the heroes challenge as well--Cagney and Cushing being the only two actors who are also real-life heroes to me. (It's an amusing irony that when the oft-sterotyped Cagney finally did go carting around a tommy gun on screen, it was as a lawman, not a gangster.)
20-24: George Sanders as Simon Templar, the Saint. Somewhat to my surprise, the rather playful #19 took first place in the heroes challenge. It was quite pleasing to see one of my all-time favorite literary characters receive such appreciation. In this case, I'd like to think it was more the subject than my craftsmanship!
25-28: Cyd Charisse. I'm not a fan, but since I had saved the pictures for the challenge anyway, I rather indifferently made these four icons.
29-31: The inimitable Claude Rains, submitted for a "letter R" challenge. #27 (colorized by me) won first place.
32-34: Marlon Brando--albeit mostly in stylized muscle shots. #30 won a mod's choice.
35-36: Boris Karloff. These are just variations on two of the icons I made for Halloween back in October.
37: Edward G. Robinson as Wolf Larsen in The Sea Wolf. Again, the colorization is my work.
38: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. A somewhat odd but interesting icon, attempting on my part to visually express the theme of mystery literature.
39: Rosalind Russell flexing her girlpower in His Girl Friday. My colorizing yet again. (Of course I'm totally biased, but I still maintain that the 1931 original--The Front Page with Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, Edward Everett Horton, and Adolphe Menjou--is better and funnier than its far more famous remake.)
40: A bonus icon. This is actually a bit of digital scenery from "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne", which finds the protagonists arriving at a vampire's castle. I thought the image would be appealing to some as a sort of fairytale scene.
If you enjoy my work and would like to show appreciation for it, I welcome tips in the form of Dreamwidth Points. (Enter my username "jordannamorgan" as the account you're buying for.)
For the mutant-fan viewers of this journal, a batch of X-Men icons should be forthcoming in less than two weeks. They will mostly feature Cyclops and Storm, the two characters I have lately partaken of challenges for.
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Since it earned a first-place, I suppose I didn't do too shabbily with it at that. ;D
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My favourites are #4,11,14,19,27,31+39. Great work!
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Colorizing is fun--and sometimes it's so easy that I almost feel like just doing that is a copout. *g*
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The world needs to see more of Peter Cushing. He's one of the two men I admire most in all the world.
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obsessedenamoured with him myself. :)no subject
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Actually, in #11, Van Helsing is holding onto a chain or a post to pull himself upright. He's just been attacked and, ah... nipped in the neck... by the vampire baron in "Brides of Dracula". Hence the meaning in the caption.
(His method of treating the bite is a legendary scene in the realm of classic horror. Utterly amazing. And it's something I relished exploring in my as-yet unperfected fanfic novella based on the Hammer Draculas, which has been waiting to see daylight for about... eight years now. *facepalm*)
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