Wolfbane Icons

Finally! Some of these were tied up in icontests, and had to wait quite a while for posting. Anyway, thirty-four classic icons, including Veronica Lake [9]; Fredric March [8]; Charles Laughton [7]; Jean Arthur [5]; Boris Karloff as Frankenstein [2]; Humphrey Bogart & Claude Rains [1]; Leslie Howard [1]; and Allen Jenkins [1].

( This way to the odd lot... )

I felt like writing a tutorial, so you get a tutorial. *g* Recently I've come across remarks by some very talented icon makers who say they hate working with black-and-white images, so I thought my experience with classic-film B&W might be useful to someone. If this gets a good reaction, I may write more along these lines from time to time.

( The Dingus )

I've been producing so many icons lately that you're going to see at least a few batches in the near future. To start with, here's a little post-Valentine candy featuring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. There are five icons of each of them separately, and ten of them together.

( The beauty and the beast... sorry, couldn't resist. )

I made no X-Men icons during the very busy month of October, but I did manage to eke out forty classic film icons. Coming from me, you can be sure there's plenty of leftover Halloween candy in this batch. *g*

Contents: [8] Mary Pickford; [3] Myrna Loy; [4] Deborah Kerr; [6] Tyrone Power; [9] Boris Karloff; [4] Frankenstein; [2] Bela Lugosi (Dracula); [1] The Wolf Man; [1] Humphrey Bogart (The Return of Doctor X); [1] Peter Cushing; [1] Arsenic and Old Lace.

( When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you... )

There should be more Tyrone Power and Deborah Kerr icons in the future. I still have several bases for each that I've been too busy to get to yet.

I've hit a stride with my icons; out of the thirty-eight in this selection that were entered in icontests, roughly half of them placed. The award banners are now on display in my trophy case. Including some previously unreleased extras, there are a total of 53 icons here: 40 classics and 13 X-Men. Enjoy!

( Classics: 9 Grace Kelly, 6 Humphrey Bogart, 4 Gary Cooper, 4 Olivia De Havilland, 4 My Man Godfrey, 3 James Cagney, 2 Cary Grant, 2 Barry Fitzgerald, 2 Anna May Wong, 1 Fredric March, 1 Danny Kaye, 1 Pat O'Brien, 1 Audrey Hepburn )

( X-Men: 7 Wolverine, 2 Beast, 1 Cyclops, 1 Magneto, 1 Storm, 1 Angel )

I've only done a handful of icons so far this month, but I can tell you already that my next assortment will include Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the subjects of a current icontest challenge. Wish me luck with them! *g*

Well, here it is--the whole heap of general icons I turned out during the month of March. Some of these will have been seen as entries in icontests such as classicicontest or classics_stills--but the majority of them are completely new.

( Our lives are made in these small hours... )

Nothing like an update to the Cagney gallery at Simply Classics to get the creative juices flowing. Here are twelve icons featuring James, his dames, and just a bit of Humphrey Bogart. The pairing icons are probably some early Valentine's Day fluff; but on the whole, I think this is one of the prettiest batches of icons I've produced.

By the way, I should note that the first icon is mainly an attempt to break Aspen's brain by disguising Jimmy as Philip Marlowe. *g*

( And because I'm feeling pifflative, the icons are accompanied by highly opinionated commentary. )

A Game of Chess is another Bogart wallpaper, or rather a Casablanca Rick&Louis item. Now, other than having the effect of a nicely vintage newspaper scan, this one probably doesn't look like much--unless you realize what wasn't in the original picture. (Here's a hint: it was inspired by one of beloved_tree's icons.) This is my first halfway decent attempt at such an insertion, and it's still far from perfect, but let's see what the rest of you think. I hope it's at least good for a chuckle.

Then there's God Bless America. No, it's not Independence Day--it's just me finally achieving my ambition of creating a really patriotic Cagney wallpaper. Prodigious thanks to roses_for_ann for scanning a thoroughly Adorable picture from Yankee Doodle Dandy.

A couple more Humphrey Bogart wallpapers for beloved_tree. The first is Night, which I'm pleased with. The second is Butterfly, which is a bit odd, but sort of pretty.

My treatment for agitation, as usual, is digital art. Three wallpapers today: one Cagney, and a couple more Bogie gifts for beloved_tree, which I think are both a vast improvement over the last one.

Bogart 1 is a shiny minimalist pastel. I really like how it turned out; it looks more like a painting than a photo. Protected by Bogart is one I'm not quite as pleased with artistically--but I love the idea of it. I'll definitely have to do a Cagney one on the same theme.

Then, of course, we have The Public Enemy, with Jamesey as the incredibly cute but disturbing Tom Powers.