Icons

[vilakins]

Here are the four icons I submitted to the icon_style circles challenge. Please comment and credit if you take one.

Liberator with red planet (Blake's 7)

Vila seeing the light (Blake's 7)

Vala Mal Doran with stargate halo (SG1)

Sylar in a snow globe (Heroes)

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

THanks, I'll take the Liberator one. I love the composition.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's yours! :-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

They really are good :)

I found this one much harder... and the one I actually liked best was (quite rightly) ruled ineligible, so I'm keeping it for myself...

But - as I said on a different challenge where I got a first with one I thought wasn't as good as usual - I can never ever tell which of mine people will like.

[trixieleitz]

I'll take Saint Vala, even though I've only seen a handful of her episodes. Very clever composition - she wouldn't look out of place in a stained-glass window!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I've taken the Vila one. Thank you

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I've been admiring that one since I saw it chez kerravonsen last night!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I like the liberator one and Vala looks like she has stepped off a painting.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

The Liberator one is very pretty and the Vala is very well done - though being a Farscape fan, rather than SG, my first thought was 'Aeryn !'

I do think that Vila looks more a like a deer caught in the headlights, than someone undergoing a revelation. That's just the pic itself, not your icon. And it is Vila, so that's more likely to be his reaction.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to have it too if you both don't mind sharing. Would you like some text on it to make it a bit different?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I played around a bit with the colours of the stargate to make it look golden, like the halos in Russian icons.

Vala is a great character, rather a rogue but with a child's enormous joie de vivre and curiosity, and who knew Claudia Black was a comedian? I love Vala and will miss her (I only have 2 or 3 eps left to watch).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

It was a hard challenge. I was going to do a bubbles icon since I saw a tutorial on how to make them, but I never got round to it. Is that the icon there? It has arcs and they're partial circles! :-)

So true; I like this one and no one else seems to. I never know which of my fics people will like either. :-P

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yay! Poor Vila. [points at own icon]

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She's a very different character in SG1 so I don't think of her as Aeryn any more (and I love her), but Mitchell is still a bit Crichtonish.

No, you're quite right, it's S4 Vila and I did indeed turn the same screencap into just that at least a year ago [see icon]. The idea I had in mind was the old joke "Is that a light at the end of the tunnel (ie hope for something better), or a train coming?" Knowing B7...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

THanks! The background for Vala came out rather like the halos in Russian icons. :-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

No, the penguin's an old one :)

It's this muppety one (it was singing 'windmills of your mind' in the original show, so I HAD to...)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

She does have such a fabulous face...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Very pretty!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She so does! It's interesting, strong, intelligent, and IMO very beautiful.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

That's very kind, but I'm always waiting for LJ to dole out another icon space so that I can use one of my next five ideas... I delete old ones occasionally, to make room for more, but invariably the perfect opportunity for the deleted icon crops up within the next week.

[trixieleitz]

I found some of Claudia's performance as Aeryn funny in a dry way, although that might have just been the snark ;) Not the thigh-slapping mischief I've seen her get up to as Vala, though.

[trixieleitz]

Agreed, on every count :)