hsapiens | Iconfest!

Come on over and play!

lemonpunch is hosting an iconfest that runs through 26th May. This is your chance to request an icon or several. You can be very specific (linking to caps, requesting specific verbiage) or you can be more general.

If you're very lucky,

lemonpunch might fulfill your request. If you're unfamiliar with her work, you're in for a treat. She creates small masterpieces; what she does with color, lighting, & textures is magical. Also? She is the only other iconist I know who has made a boatload of Calvin & Hobbes icons so she HAS to be amazing.

If you're hoping that I will try my hand at your request, please link me to your request so I'm certain to see it. I'm trying to keep up but the post is already a little unwieldy; I can only imagine what'll look like in a week and a half.

Iconfest links: [rules/about] [promotions] [f.a.q.s] [the PROMPT page]

ETA: And, of course, MAKERS are invited, too! This is your chance to read through the prompts, find something familiar to tackle or try something completely outside of your comfort zone that you've never tried before.

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I'm going to admit defeat on this. :( I don't have the right kind of cap of Helen and I'm lost for how to make a modern screencap look like an ultraprocessed, altered portrait. Anyhow, this is as close as I have gotten:

I'm continuing to think about this and hopefully before the Fest is over I'll have solved the riddle. Right now, though, I don't see my way from where I am to where I want to be. Maybe someone else is also working on this prompt and will come up with something awesome?

I'm not publishing it there because I don't want my name attached to this when

lemonpunch makes up the big icon post at the end. :)

Wow! I understand not being satisfied with the result, but I really do love that. It's beautiful! What I was thinking of may have been impossible (or taken huge giant skillz). Either way, this is amazingly close.

I'm going to take it! If you don't want your name attached on the main post, does that mean I shouldn't credit in my user pics? I'm more than happy to! If you don't, I'll just make a little cryptic note. :D

I really do love it. Thank you!

It doesn't take giant skills, just bigger ones than I have. :) Hopefully since I posted here rather than there, someone with bigger ones than I will still fill it? (I think with as difficult as it is, it would be too easy to say, "whew! don't have to do that one!")

A cryptic note is fine with me. :) I don't care too much one way or the other about credit when I DO like the end result. I'm going to keep trying because now it's a challenge but I'm not experienced at blends; I can picture what I want but I don't know the steps between where I am and there. 'Course, I may finally get something I like in about 2 years...

Edited 2010-05-23 23:29 (UTC)

Hey, do you have a reasonably well-lit cap of Helen wearing a hat of some kind? I think I could make it work better with that.

Hmm... the only times I recall her wearing any kind of hat... twice in the pilot (a fedora in the rain, and a wide-brimmed hat in the 1880s), and she had a scarf at the beginning of "End of Nights."

This is her in a hat looking vintage. :D I wish the show would give a solid date for when she became brunette (she's brunette with Amelia Earhart, so before 1920-30). But still. :D

I must have seen the only hat episode then! The only caps I have for her are very dark and sans hat. I want to control all that hair so that she better matches the sleek Amelia. Hm. Back to square one. I can try to see if I can master the lighten technique and just merge Amelia with her hair. :|

I think so! I'll have to ask people with better memories than mine. :D But I don't think she's worn a hat outside of the pilot or the second season premiere headscarf (such an awesome scarf it was, too :D).

Oh, for God's sake, what am I thinking of? ~points to icon~ She wore a fedora in this episode, and it was gorgeous! I even have an image of it on my profile. Tsk. I have to see if I can find caps for it.

I found caps for you! Here... here... here... here... and I'm pretty sure those are all the caps of her well-lit. :D

Squeee! YES! Most especially that page of caps is *gorgeous* and give a good shot of more than just her face. That should be easier (for me) to match up with Amelia. Alright, I'll see what I can come up with.

Thank you! :)

I keep trying to imagine you coming up with something better and it's... hard. :D But I have faith you'll outdo yourself!

And those caps ARE so gorgeous. My God. I was going through: "I have to check every single page. For, uh,

hsapiens." And it's NOTHING compared to how beautiful Haunted is. Just, um, just FYI. It has Amanda Tapping in a white dress shirt, black vest, with a black tie. It's the hottest thing all year, in a season that included her undressing out of a wet white blouse.

You are too kind. I like the way Amelia works with the background but it would be nice for Helen to blend with her rather than looking like a layer plopped on top of Amelia and poorly feathered.

I wish I had caps half that great for SG-1! I really appreciate your diligence in finding caps. I know what a hardship it was looking at all those hot pics of Amanda. Your sacrifice will not go unnoticed. :D Amanda is a smart woman; she knows what her fans want and delivers it.

I know I'm using this icon a lot but it's by

narniacmr and it's just the most gorgeous icon of Sam that I can't help spamming with it.

I can understand that! I look forward to what you come up with. :D

Oh, it was such a trial. Such an ordeal! Woe! ;-D And the caps are so great because they come from great stock. They use special cameras for the special effects, so it leads to gorgeous stuff. She really does know what her fans want! The vest-tie combo first showed up in the webisodes, and she brought it back. Same with the mermaid character; they keep bringing her back in the series (including implication that she and Helen have some kinky sexual stuff between them :D)

That icon deserves to be overused! It's beautiful!

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