p.s.

[karenor]

yay i won an icon challenge at ros_stillness! second place, and a tie at that, but still. :)

for this icon:

and here's my pretty banner:

Comments

[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, that is so pretty! What are the lyrics/words from? And can I use it? Hee.

[karenor.livejournal.com]

thanks!

the lyrics are from the Folk Implosion's "No Need to Worry" (i think that's the one, i was listening to the album a bunch. if memory serves, that's right). it's at the end of the song...i think its a roswell song too...

yes, of course you can use it! i'm happy that you want to. it took me FOREVER to make, tho it looks pretty simple at the end. there are layers and brushes galore on that thing.

[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

It's so interesting, whenever you say you used a lot of brushes I can never "see" them. What kinds of brushes did you use here? Just curious. I don't think it looks simple though!

That banner is really pretty too. I'm so happy that you won 2nd!

[karenor.livejournal.com]

well i tried about 8 billion. i don't really recall what i finally went with. but i was trying to add texture to the face n stuff. i think i used a gritty brush of some kind and had a glow filter on it to give the icon an overal glowing look. there may be a gradient as well. the original image was quite dark and had kind of harsh dark blue and pink lighting tones. and the text might be textured too. i know i messed with the background/glow and overall darkness of the text layers a lot too.