Some new icons

[regshoe]

snowflake_challenge #10 is to create a fanwork. The challenge post encourages us to consider all sorts of different types of fanworks, not just fic, and since most of the fanworks I create are fic I thought I'd try something different and make some icons! Now, I am not very good at making icons, but I like making them, and I firmly believe in doing things that bring fannish joy even if one isn't very good at them; also the ability to have multiple icons and match them to the post or comment is one of my favourite things about Dreamwidth, but I don't think I really make the most of it, and clearly having a wider range of icons will help me to do so.

This is from the cover illustration of the edition of The Last of the Wine that I read a while ago, because I totally need a Mary Renault icon. I think those lambdas are upside down—unless it varies? I don't actually know the Greek alphabet—but never mind:



This line from The Flight of the Heron delights me and I've wanted an icon with it for ages. Ideal for all sorts of Ewen/Keith posts and comments :D



The text here is a line from the Jacobite song 'Both Sides the Tweed'. I like it a lot (I have also used it as a fic title before), and I foresee wide applicability to D. K. Broster books and other historical fandoms:



And a Tolkien icon! The background is my own photograph of the Ridgeway, which seemed like an appropriate Road to use here:

Comments

[flamingsword]

I think your icon-making and mine are about neck and neck! Thankfully I don’t have to care what the haters think, and can be creative and make icons with weird negative space issues if I want to! 😆😅😆

[muccamukk]

The ridgeway one is lovely. It's so easy to see it in Tolkein's mind.

[regshoe]

Absolutely! And your bat icon is excellent. :D

[regshoe]

Aww, thank you :)

[sanguinity]

Certainly not philanthropy!

:-D

[flamingsword]

Thank you!

[regshoe]

:D

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Ooh, is that a Clan Cameron tartan in the FotH icon? (Ignoring the whole ahistoricality of clan tartan thing...) xD

[regshoe]

It is—it's my Clan Cameron tartan scarf :D

[tei]

Huh, I had to look it up but the wikipedia page on the letter, at least, says that in the early alphabet the orientation of lambda varied!

[hyarrowen]

All of them are lovely, and the Cameron tartan one just put the biggest smile on my face. Dear Keith.

[scintilla10]

Aww, these are great!

And YES, we should be celebrating fannish joy at all levels of skill! <3

[regshoe]

Huh, there you go, then!

[regshoe]

Aww. Dear Keith indeed <3

[regshoe]

Thank you :D

[luzula]

I am wearing mine at the moment! : D

Congratulations on your new icons.

[regshoe]

Aww, yay :D And thank you.

[dr_zook]

I firmly believe in doing things that bring fannish joy even if one isn't very good at them - that's such an important reminder, thank you! I also love what you did there, especially with your own scarf, ha! ♥

[regshoe]

:)

Thank you—I had been trying to think of what background to use with that quote for a while, and then I thought of the scarf... :D