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74 multifandom icons

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:15:43 GMT

Merlin, for inspired20in20, round 23 - genre
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
adventure
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
comedy, drama
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
drama, fatasy
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
fantasy, romance

Amy Pond (Doctor Who), for 20inspirations, round 25
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
blocking, stock, pastel, down the rabbit hole, minimalist
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
vibrant, border, faceless, retro, chiaroscuro
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
obscure crops
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Buffy Icon Battle for theiconquest
41. 42. 43 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64.

tasteislife March Activity
65. 66. 67. 68.69
70. 71. 72. 73. 74.

01-20, 67, 74: Merlin
21-40, 66: Doctor Who
41-64, 69, 73: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
65-00: Firefly
69-00: Lady Gaga
70-00: Game of Thrones
71-00: Tom Hiddleston
72-00: Secret Diary of a Call Girl

40 icons (Merlin & Sherlock)

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:14:11 GMT

Merlin, for 20inspirations - round 23: far & close
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

sherlick battle icons for theiconquest
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

40 Icons

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:45:39 GMT

The Vampire Diaries for inspired20in20, round 19: forbidden love
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Amy Pond (Doctor Who) for 20inspirations, round 22: mood ring
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

202 light textures

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:37:28 GMT

Soft Colours - 202 light textures

82 icons

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:20:18 GMT

Once Upon A Time for inspired20in20
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

2012 multifandom for 20inspirations
the avengers (x2), doctor who (clara who), downton abbey (the wedding!!), doctor who (goodbye ponds)
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
doctor who (x2), elementary (x2), game of thrones
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
the hollow crown, merlin (x2), parade's end (x2)
31. 32. 33. 34 35.
a raoyal affair, sherlock (x2), skyfall, the hour
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Alias & Downton Abbey Battles for theiconquest
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
76. 77. 78. 79. 80.
81. 82.

First icon post of 2013 :)

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:10:46 GMT

theiconquest - chapter 5, side quest 1
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

bestof_icons - 2012 icon remake
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33.

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:34:26 GMT

ICON NOMINATIONS - JOIN IN! | MY THREAD

Best of 2012 - Icon Remakes

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:45:37 GMT

88 Icons

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:10:09 GMT

Merlin, for inspired20in20 - Nostalgia

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Firefly, for 20inspirations - Vibrant to Pale
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Multifandom Battle Icons, for theiconquest
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
76. 77. 78.

Random Merlin s5 Icons
79. 80. 81. 82. 83.
84. 85. 86.

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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:44:09 GMT

holiday love meme 2012

20 Firefly icons

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:24:31 GMT

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

01-20: Firefly, for inspired20in20

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27 multifandom icons

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:24:07 GMT

01. 02. 03. 04.
react / composed / reinvent / influence

05. 06. 07. 08.
texture / reinvent / texture / texture

09. 10. 11. 12.
texture / icon / muse / echo

13. 14. 15. 16.
spark / react / insight / icon

17. 18. 19. 20.
icon / texture / icon / icon

21. 22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

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01-05: Alias
06-11: Buffy the vampire Slayer
12-18: Firefly
19-20: Merlin
21/27: The Hour
22: The Borgias
23: Doctor Who
24-25: Mad Men
26: Sherlock

icons 01 to 20 are remakes of some of my older icons (2007!!) made for inspired20in20

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:49:39 GMT

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FONTS :)

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:26:01 GMT

I was asked for a list of my fave fonts over at my tumblr, and I figured I should share them with you guys too :D

AW Conqueror	Baskerville
Biro	Bon Iver
Bullion	Cubano
Danze	Facet
Frontage	Georgia
Goudy Old Style	Henry
I Have Been Waiting For You	IM Fell Types
Intro	Johanna
Lane B	League Gothic
Metropolis	Mido
Nouvelle Vague	Novecento
Origami	Otama.ep
Perspective	Pullman
Quad	Rex
Ribbon	Riot Squad
St Marie	Twentieth Century

Download links (free) posted when available. I'm sorry I can't help yo find free downloads for the others.

27 icons

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:54:50 GMT

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27.

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01-03: The Borgias
04-20, 23: Doctor Who
21, 26: Merlin
22: Harry Potter
24: The Hollow Crown
25, 27: The Avengers

20 Doctor Who Icons

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:49:00 GMT

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

01-20: Doctor Who for inspired20in20

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72 Multifandom icons

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:16:28 GMT

for theiconquest challenge 3
01. 02. 03. 04.
Amy Pond (Doctor Who) Little Amelia → Kissogram / Chuck Bartowski (Chuck) Nerd → Agent Carmichael

05. 06. 07. 08.
The Doctor (Doctor Who) New Doctor → New New Doctor / Bad things happen when I wear black tie → Bow ties are cool

09. 10. 11. 12.
Donna Noble (Doctor Who) The Ruanaway Bride → Doctor!Donna / Gwen Cooper (Torchwood) PC Cooper → Bazooka wielding Gwen

13. 14. 15. 16.
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) The Smartest Witch → We wouldn't last a day without her / Jack & Gwen (Torchwood) What do you think, do you want to join up? → Every time you turn up it always goes wrong.

17. 18. 19. 20.
Martha Jones Doctor Who Doctor-in-training → Freelance alien fighter / Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) Shop-girl → Defender of the Earth

21.22. 23. 24.
Sarah Walker (Chuck) Spy → Spy AND Mrs Carmichael / Sydney Bristow (Alias) SD-6 Agent → CIA Double Agent

25. 26.
Henry (The Hollow Crown) Prince Hal → Henry V

Alternates
27. 28. 29. 30.

Battlestar Galactica battle for theiconquest
31. 32. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37. 38.
39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45.

Harry Potter battle for theiconquest
46. 47. 48. 49.
50. 51. 52. 53.
54. 55. 56. 57.
58. 59. 60. 61.
62. 63. 64. 65.

Villains for the7days
66. 67. 68. 69.
70. 71. 72.

01-02, 05-10, 17-20, 30: Doctor Who
03-04, 21-22: Chuck
11-12, 15-16, 28-29: Torchwood
13-14, 27, 46-65, 68, 70: Harry Potter
23-24: Alias
25-26: The Hollow Crown
31-45: Battlestar Galactica
66: Sherlock
67: Merlin
69: The Avengers
71: Game of Thrones
72: Buffy the vampire Slayer

47 icons

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:19:43 GMT

theiconquest Chapter 3 - Sidequest 1 - Gradations
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Alternates
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

trope_overdosed challenge #28 - 1 fandom, 10 tropes - Harry Potter

31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
Now Or Never Kiss | Power Trio | A Nazi by Any Other Name | Living Legend | Teen Genius

36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
Evil Counterpart | Official Couple Ordeal Syndrome | Meaningful Name | Badass Teacher | Ambiguously Evil

the7days challenge 002 - Palettes
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47.

01-30: Firefly
31-40: Harry Potter
41-47: The Vampire Diaries

Edit: Any IconQuesters in for a Merlin battle with me :)

79 Multifandom Icons

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:23:29 GMT

01. 02.
Arthur & Morgana, Merlin
friends to enemies

03. 04.
Harry, Harry Potter Series
getting his first wand to defeating lord voldemort

05. 06.
Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones
lost princess to khaleesi

07. 08.
Ayra Stark, Game of Thrones
carefree child to runaway

09. 10.
Spike, Buffy the vampire Slayer
human poet to mass murdering vampire

11. 12.
Buffy Summers, Buffy the vampire Slayer
clueless mean girl to leader

13. 14.
Merlin, Merlin
young boy to powerful sorcerer

15. 16.
Arthur Pendragon, Merlin
royal prat to king of camelot

17. 18.
Sansa Stark, Game of Thrones
carefree to prisoner

19. 20.
Caroline Forbes, The Vampire Diaries
human to vampire

21. 22.
Caroline Forbes, The Vampire Diaries
human to vampire

23. 24.
Morgana, Merlin
uther's ward to powerful witch

25. 26.
Gwen, Merlin
handmaiden to queen of camelot

27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37. 38.
39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45. 46.
47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54.
55. 56. 57. 58.
59. 60. 61. 62.
63. 64. 65. 66.
67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74.
75. 76. 77. 78.
79.

01-26: Multifandom for theiconquest (Merlin, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Buffy, Vampire Diaries)
27-46: Downton Abbey icon battle
47-62: Emma & Pride and Prejudice icon battle
63-72: Multifandom icon battle (Doctor Who, Sherlock, Merlin, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter)
73-79: Multifandom for the7days (The Avengers, Buffy, Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Chuck, Alias, Firefly)

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24 Icons - Merlin & Sherlock

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:02:54 GMT

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Alternates
12. 12. 12. 12.

01-10: Sherlock for theiconquest
11-20: Merlin for theiconquest
21-22: Merlin
23-24: Sherlock

32 Icons - Doctor Who & Harry Potter

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:24:18 GMT

theiconquest Chapter 2 - Mentors
takethewords's complex icons, love of the ninth doctor and Billie Piper's face.
01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

theiconquest Chapter 1 - Colour Palette - Wizard
00. 00. 00. 00. 00.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Alternates
31. 32.

01-20: Doctor Who
21-32: Harry Potter

42 Icons (Merlin & Doctor Who)

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:11:35 GMT

inspired20in20 - Morgana
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

inspirations
01. Evil spirits can't harm you when you stand inside a circle.
02. Dream
03. Mirror
04. Red
05. To protect yourself from witches, wear a blue bead.
06. Red
07. If you stare into a mirror flanked by two white candles, you will see the spirit of a loved one who has passed away.
08. Broken glass, pieces of glass means good luck.
09. Pulling out a gray or white hair will cause ten more to grow in its place.
10. Dream
11. Wish
12. A knife as a gift from a lover means that the love will soon end.
13. Window
14. Dark
15. Mirror
16. Chill
17. Photograph
18. If you stare into a mirror flanked by two white candles, you will see the spirit of a loved one who has passed away.
19. Dark
20. Dream

Alternates
21. 22. 23. 24.

theiconquest Doctor Who Battle (see the full post here)
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42.

01-24: Merlin (Morgana)
25-42: Doctor Who

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10 Icons

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:54:50 GMT

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10.

all made for theiconquest (Chapter 2, Sidequest 1)
01-04: Harry Potter
05-08: Sherlock
09-10: The Hour

Ask the Maker 3 - Tutorials #5 & 6

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:20:28 GMT

requested by lalonde

Prepping the base image
These steps are nothing ground breaking, but allow me to get bring out the natural colours and up the contrast of the original cap.

1. Resize Cap (I made mine 500px large)
2. Create curves layer, set to AUTO (this evens out the contrast and colouring)
3. Duplicate background layer, set to screen
4. Duplicate screen layer, set to soft light
5. Create Vibrance layer, set vibrance to + 50 (this will pump up the colours a little)
6. The cap a little dark, so create a curves layer and
7. Create another Vibrance layer, set vibrance to +30
8. Set forground colour to black, create gradient layer (starting at the bottom) and set to soft light, 50% opacity. (I like adding a simple black gradient, I find it adds some depth to the cap)
9. Set forground colour to white, create gradient layer (starting at the top) and set to soft light, 15% opacity. (I like adding a simple black gradient, I find it adds some depth to the cap). Merge all your layers.

Colours!
10. This image is really too yellow and I want to give it a pinky-soft-vintage-somewhat girly look. Create a #f8d1e4 color fill layer and set to soft light.

11. Moar pink is needed! And we need to fix the contrast a little. Create a #c18ea7 colour fill layer, set to soft light (with soft light colour layers, if you pick a light tone, it will colour and brighten your cap, of you pick a dark tone it will colour and darken it - once I have picked a colour, I like playing around with the tones to achieve a contrast & colour I like best).

12. To make the pinks pop out and add some overall pink to the other areas, create a channel mixer layer. Red, Red +104

13. To up the contrast, create a Levels layer, RGB 9 1,00 255

14. To slightly tone down the yellows, create a colour balance layer, blue +10

15. To make the icon more monochromatic, create a #f8d1e4 color fill layer, set to colour, 30% opacity

16. To balance out some contrast, create a levels layer, RGB 28 1,00 255

Merge, sharpen, resize & crop!

1. Sharpen, resize to 500px wide

2. Create Auto curves layer to even out contrast & colour

3. Duplicate base layer, drag to top, set to screen

4. Duplicate screen layer, set to soft light, 80% opacity

5. Create vibrance layer, vibrance +60

6. Create a curves layer to brighten things up

7. Set foreground colour to black, create a simple gradient (starting from the bottom), set to soft light, 50% opacity (this will add some contrast to the bottom of the cap)

8. Merge layer, duplicate base. Go to Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise (strength 8, preserve details 7, colour noise 28%, sharpen details 5). Lower opacity to 45%.

9. Create gradient map layer, set to soft light

10. Create a #344b19 colour fill layer, set to soft light

11. Create a #3e4017 colour fill layer, set to colour, 10% opacity

12. Create a #7a6637 colour fill layer, set to soft light

13. Texture: I used this texture by slayground, set to screen. Resize & crop

* As always, this is meant to be a guide, please do not copy exactly! :)
My Ask The Maker's thread is here if you would like to ask me anything :D

Ask the Maker 3 - Tutorial #4 Downton Abbey

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:03:38 GMT

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requested by nottiem

Prepping the base image
These steps are nothing ground breaking, but allow me to get bring out the natural colours and up the contrast of the original cap.

1. Resize Cap (I made mine 500px large)

2. Create curves layer, set to AUTO (this evens out the contrast and colouring)

3. Duplicate background layer, set to screen

4. Duplicate screen layer, set to soft light

5. Create Vibrance layer, set vibrance to 50 (this will pump up the colours a little)

6. The castle & faces are still a little dark, so create a curves layer and

7. Create another Vibrance layer, set vibrance to 30

8. Set foreground colour to black, create gradient layer (starting at the bottom) and set to soft light, 50% opacity. (I like adding a simple black gradient, I find it adds some depth to the cap)

9. Set foreground colour to white, create gradient layer (starting at the top) and set to soft light, 15% opacity. (I like adding a simple black gradient, I find it adds some depth to the cap). Merge all your layers.

Creating more space
10. I like this image, but I find it lacks some space above their heads. 'Rebuilding' the top part of the castle would be really complicated, so we'll cropped part of it out. The image is about 360pixels wide. Go to canvas size and add more canvas at the top, making your image a square (mine is now 360x360 - I made the background black simply to make things clearer, I would normally use the colour picker to match the background to the sky)

11. Now, select the top part of the sky (where it's blank), and copy/paste into a new layer. Go to File > Free Transform. When the transform handles appear drag upwards and downwards to cover up part of the image. (I suck at explaining, I hope the images help...)

12. Gaussian Blur your new sky layer to even it out (Here, I blurred at 45pixels, this depends on your image, you need it to be blurry enough to make it uniform, but not to much for it to show the line between your original cap and added canvas)

13. Lower the opacity of your blurred layer and with a round brush, erase the parts that cover what you want to see (here Mary, Matthew & the castle). The type of rush you need to use depends on how much detail you need to reveal by erasing parts of this layer. Here, it's pretty easy. The characters are on a light background and there is plenty of sky, so I used a size 40 brush with 0% hardness and then upped the hardness around the heads. (If you need to cut out more detail, up the hardness and lower the brush size.) this is the final effect and a view of my blurred layer.
Once you are done, merge your layers.

Colours!!
14. Time for colouring. First of all that sky is way too white. Create a Selective colouring layer. Whites: Cyan 100 Black 100.

15. We're going to be making this quite blue, I felt that it suited the scene. Create a #3f689b colour fill, set to soft light.

16. Set forground colour to black, create gradient layer (starting at the bottom) and set to soft light, 50% opacity.

17. To add some depth and light, select your bakcground layer and create a new layer. With a small round brush, add some colour blobs. Set layer to screen, 45% opacity.

18. Create a second layer and paint more blobs on it. Set to Soft Light.

19. Let's make the colours pop even more by creating a Vibrance layer and setting vibrance to 77. (This made Matthew's face and hands go a little red, so I erased the vibrance layer in those parts with a very small round brush.)

20. To up the contrast, create a Levels layer with RGB 11 1,00 255

Merge all, sharpen and resize :)

* As always, this is meant to be a guide, please do not copy exactly! :)

My Ask The Maker's thread is here if you would like to ask me anything :D