abyss_valkyrie | Entries tagged with meme

What's the best icon tutorial you've seen? One you keep coming back to and look at and try to get better at? asked by

tinny

I do make most of my icons using a trial and error method but when I first started trying to make animated icons, I used YT and LJ tutorials for reference a lot. For blending too, I tried following some good ones but I couldn't really follow along because my brain melts when I see layer masks and other cool features being used,lol.

THIS tutorial by

aurora_amethyst has been on my list to try and I did but like I said,I'm not good at using a lot of features,so I couldn't use the tutorial a 100%, though I did like 90% of it. Also the choice of screencap probably made it different too. But I learned how to use gradient maps so that's pretty awesome!
Here's what I got. I wanted to adjust the face colouring using selective colour but I kind of wanted to keep the original result here. I'll give it a go another time and see where I get to!:D

For a few others that I like:

THIS falling petals tutorial on LJ is absolutely one of my favourites.

THIS very pretty colouring tutorial where I mainly started learning to use selective colour from (but still can't get the pretty effect mei_ling7 did) is another favourite of mine.

For blocking and blending I do check in on THIS tutorial a lot because I cannot get these effects a 100% and the example icons are just so beautiful!

The December posting meme is open for questions HERE, I'd love to answer questions, fandom and non-fandom related questions.

What are your five favorite animated series or movies? asked by

sakana17

AAHHH!Well well, now this is...a difficult choice to make! Only 5?! Haha, I'll absolutely try to narrow it down. I do find myself more inclined to watch animated series rather than movies so I think I'll probably focus more on those here.
Here we go from my top 5 to 1:

Cinderella 3-A twist in time:

This movie is just such a lovely, comforting movie. It's dramatic and totally shows us so much more of the prince and Cinderella's magical love, Anastasia's sweet character and of course the iconic scene of the prince jumping out of the window!XD I wasn't always the biggest fan of Cinderella, sure I liked the cartoon but not like I used to rewatch it and all. This 3rd part came out of nowhere and became a favourite!

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The December posting meme is open for questions HERE, I'd love to answer questions, fandom and non-fandom related questions.

What do your first and most recent fandoms have in common? asked by

solo

My first fandom was Harry Potter and fandom-wise I'd say it's 'The Untamed'. Well, those are two very different fandoms, indeed! :D But once I started thinking,wow, there's quite a lot of things I'd say are common.

But I think one common factor is that they're heavily fantasy based. Magic, spells, duels are the obvious ones.

Going a little deeper, there's a separation system- 4 houses in Harry Potter, the 5 great clans in The Untamed.
The main character - Harry in HP, Wei Wuxian in The Untamed-is dark-haired.

They are also orphans and are taken in by others. Both the 'mother figure' role that they should have gotten love and affection from pretty much hated them.
Both stories have traitors who were like best friends ( Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter & Jin Guangyao in The Untamed) whose actions led to those very friends to die.

On a brighter side- TRIOS! The golden trio of Harry, Hermione and Ron are one of my absolute favourites in any fandom. In The Untamed we have Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli-The Yunmeng trio. Though the ends of each trio are vastly different, both have a special place in my heart. Have 2 pics!

Sooooo, yeah, that was quite a bit of analysis for my brain. Keep the questions coming, guys over here. Ask me twice even, if you like!:D

What's your favorite coloring technique for making icons? asked by

aurora_amethyst .

Sorry, this was supposed to be yesterday's but I couldn't get time so here it is. :D

Soft and saturated colouring. When I say this, I mean somewhat pastel colours but the overall icon to not be muted, though muted colouring is one of the techniques I enjoy doing. I like it when the colours overall give an impression of pastel look but the subjects stand out and the overall icon still has distinct colours visible. I’ll add some examples to get an idea, haha!

sietepecados

magicrubbish

aurora_amethyst

violateraindrop

tinny

I also really love contrast in colours, where the colours are either complementary or just not at all a shade close to each other. Here are some pretties!

geckoholic

tinny

luminousdaze

neonspiderwebs

r_tt_n

Top 5 PIXAR animation movies?asked by

sunshine304
Sooo, believe it or not, I have watched maybe like 8-9 Pixar animated movies in my entire life, so this list was not difficult to make at all. XD

( From my top 5 to 1 here are the pixar animation movies I liked )

You can go here and ask me questions and add any date or leave it without date. If you are also doing this meme, drop me the link,I'd love to ask.

What's the first fandom you ever made icons for? asked by

trobadora

My first fandom for making icons was BBC Merlin. I used to be in other fandoms but I used to write and draw. Icon making was not something I had found out until around 2014. At the time I came across merlinstills on livejournal through some other comms and since I had finished watching Merlin then,it was perfect! It used to be a very active community among many Merlin fans. The challenges were weekly and later bi-weekly until LJ kind of started falling away. Gosh, just talking about this comm makes me so nostalgic!

One of my favourite things in this community was how ideas were switched up, sometimes we'd have cast-centered challenges, or AU challenges, battles etc. apart from the usual thematic challenges.

I went through some of my old icons of Merlin to showcase here. Wow! In some ways my style has changed a lot, but when I see some icons, I feel like there are some constants-like my love for lighting lol!

Some icons from oldest to newest:

01-05
( Like only...35 more icons, yes, I got a bit carried away.Oops. )

Haha,I saw

geckoholic doing it and apparently others are doing it too?! So why not join in?! XD I copied this!!!

I'm soliciting questions for this year's December posting meme - your chance to ask me an interesting (or boring - I don't judge), impertinent, unusual or usual question! Can be about a fannish opinion or headcanon, about me, a top 5, or my thoughts on anything that strikes your fancy. Please pick a day and give me a topic!

Claim a day:

Dec 6 -What's the first fandom you ever made icons for?

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Got this from

tinny and thought I'd give it a try!
Edited to add the links!
Without Googling, name a song with one of the following in the title: a place, a food, a drink, an animal, a number, a color, a girl's name, a boy's name, a profession, a vehicle.

Song Title (Artist)
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Place:Scotland (The Lumineers).The opening song of Reign!:D
Food: Ice cream (Blackpink)
Drink: Tequila (Jax Jones, Europa,Raye & Martin something)
Animal: Eye of the tiger (Don't remember,lmao)
Number: 16 shots (forgot!)
Color: Blue jeans (Lana Del Rey)
Girl's Name: Maria(Hwasa)
Boy's Name: I don't know...T_T
A Profession: Call the police (G girls)
A Vehicle: The wheels on the bus (Don't know!) I really can't remember any other song WHY WHY!!!?

BONUS:
Place: Casablanca (Saad Lamjarred) It's in French & Made in India (Alisha Chinai) Can't believe I remembered this song suddenly from my childhood!XD