November Classic Icons

[jordannamorgan]

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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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

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.


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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.

Comments

[unique-wonder.livejournal.com]

These are really good- you have a real knack for colourising pictures. :D
My favourites are #4,11,14,19,27,31+39. Great work!

[jordannamorgan]

Thank you!

Colorizing is fun--and sometimes it's so easy that I almost feel like just doing that is a copout. *g*