Iconic

[rowyn]

sandratayler's birthday was last Thursday, January 27, a fact howardtayler kindly made known to all her fans. ;)

Some months earlier, I'd done a picture for Mrs. Tayler -- "Gripe" -- and she'd turned it into an icon. Ever since then, I'd wanted to do some other icons for her, partly because, frankly, she doesn't have much need for one about griping. :)

So I used her birthday as an excuse to do a crop of icons, which she has since cheerfully uploaded to her journal. You can see the icons at icon-size here.

Or, if you'd like to see the full-size originals I did ('cause I like to work large, y'know), you can







The thick black ink lines don't look that good at full size, but they help make the features stand out once shrunk down to 100x100. When I was doing icons for oceansedge I used varying shades of red and brown for the "ink lines" which gave a nicer overall effect, I think. Wish I'd remembered that for these. Ah well. I'm pretty pleased with them -- and more importantly, so is Mrs. Tayler. :)

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Very nice, the black lines work well for the icons, although yes, I do like the red and brown you used in mine..

(BTW I finally got around to updating my icons page - so that you're properly credited... - sorry I was so lax for so long :)

nice icons

[jimmy-hollaman.livejournal.com]

Personal favorite is the suprised one....

[level-head.livejournal.com]

The last one ("Tough", is it?) looks very much as I recall Ms. Tayler looking. You've captured her particularly well here, I think.

But we were having serious conversations. ];-)

===|==============/ Level Head

Re: nice icons

[rowyn]

Thank you! My favorite is "Thoughtful". :)

[rowyn]

Thank you! And no problem about the icons page. :)

[rowyn]

I think that "tough" and "in motion" were the ones where I was actually looking at your photo while I tried to draw her. for the others (I didn't want to do every one at the same angle) I had to struggle to extrapolate what might be right.