Two anime series and a classic-film sleuth. These wallpapers were all made for fan_flashworks prompts.

( Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Detective Conan, and Sherlock Holmes. )

Two new small texture sets: a new twist on my ScratchGrunge series, and a woodgrain-patterned set.

( Preview and download here! )

I must apologize for what's been rather a lack of icons on this icon journal of late. I have been concentrating more on writing recently--and it also doesn't help that the icontests I took part in, which were my main creative motivation, all seem to have dried up! (But on the upside, I have a ton of pictures from Halloween Horror Nights 2009 just waiting to be chopped into textures. Among other things, there will definitely be more Ghost Lights textures coming. *g*)

It's been a while! However, I have still been making icons, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than a few months ago. I now have an accumulation of twenty-two classic movie icons (to be followed by an equal number of X-Men icons).

Here are the classics, starring: Merle Oberon [7]; Harold Lloyd [6]; Lauren Bacall [4]; Jane Wyman [2]; Basil Rathbone [1]; Jean Harlow [1]; and Joan Blondell [1].

( Exotic beauties... and Harold. And Sherlock Holmes. )

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.

( Several are personal favorites from my birthday month. )

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.

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

( Starring James Dean, Ginger Rogers, Lionel Barrymore, and many more... )

Well, I promised some Abbott & Costello icons in this batch, but I'm afraid the moderator of the icontest they were entered in has gone absent. (Hopefully she's alright!) I was really hoping to see how they would place, so I'm going to wait another month and see if she returns to put the challenge through its vote. If not, I will definitely post them in early September.

In the meantime, we have forty-eight icons: (11) Jimmy Stewart; (8) Carole Lombard; (7) Joan Blondell; (6) Gene Tierney; (4) Sydney Greenstreet; (2) Boris Karloff; (2) Audrey Hepburn; (2) Margaret Lindsay; (1) Vivien Leigh; (1) Danny Kaye; (1) Leslie Howard; (1) Edward G. Robinson; (1) Basil Rathbone; (1) Vampyra. Sorry, no X-Men icons this time around--due mostly to a lack of interesting challenges in those communities in the last month.

( If it seems like a lot of girls... it is. That's what I got to work with. )

Today I present ten iconological specimens: five each of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and My Man Godfrey (Carole Lombard/William Powell). I'm very happy with some of these. They all required a fair amount of work, so I'd really appreciate comments, even if you don't take any of them.

( All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. )