estirose (estirose) wrote in esti_icons, @ 2008-05-03 07:04:00 |
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Entry tags: | kamen rider, power rangers, waxing wildly |
Waxing Wildly about icons
I've decided, at least once a week, to post up some of the 100+ icons at Wonki, starting with some of the oldest. For the next few rounds, they won't quite be in order, but as I go on, the icons will start to be in order of posting.
The reason why the first few round aren't in order was because Wonki started out as a Wiki. However, it eventually became apparent that the Wiki format wasn't ideal for what I was doing, so I saved the icons and uploaded them en masse into an image gallery. I have at least 48 icons/pictures that were all uploaded the same day, thus the wild assortment of the first few batches.
As things go on, you'll see my icon style change. Some of these will be good, some will cause me to cringe in embarrassment, but all of them are mine.
All of these are snaggable, please credit, don't hotlink.
Running Wild - Henshin!
I grabbed this screencap from the R2 dvd for Kamen Rider Blade, in particular episode 42. It's basically the crazed Mutsuki henshining (morphing) into Leangle to fight the Tigress. I'd left the closed captioning running, however, so I had to hide the "Henshin" kanji at the bottom. I chose to do so by putting in an even larger "Henshin!". I'm glad I grabbed the screencap, the icon came out pretty well, though I'd have chosen a lighter outline.
Cam - What!?!
This is Cam, from Power Rangers Ninja Storm, done for one of the PR_Icontest entries. I'm pretty sure which episode, but I'm not sure why I chose to do what I did. I probably could have done a better job with the coloring/stamping layer on top, but it still makes a decent Cam icon.
A Nap
This one's been in my userpics for ages. It's Sen, from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, at the end of the episode "Green Mystery" (adapted into the PRSPD epsiode A-Bridged, for those curious). Basically, he's spent the episode tracking down the real culprit of a murder, and at the end is sleeping through his teammates' raves. The text on this one is just because I felt that I need a nap so often, might as well have an icon about it. This was one of my first icons, and it turned out pretty well for a screencap and text.
Owl Inside It
One of my PR_Icontest entries. Of course, I forgot to record which PR_Icontest! Anyway, I was experimenting with text on this one, trying to get it to look right. The cap itself is from "Reinforcements from the Future" part 2, featuring Princess Shayla. I think that the screen is next to Max in the background, but I'm not sure. It's a pretty straight screencap with some text in it; the distinctive bit is the word "owl".
Flamboyant
"Flamboyant" is my LJ bouncy/happy/cheerful/everything else icon. I use it a lot. The guy pictured is the human form Queen of Spades (Capricorn Undead) from Kamen Rider Blade. In this picture, he's about to attack Kenzaki, but he's so flamboyant in everything he does, I couldn't resist using it anyway. Since the picture wasn't quite square, I added rainbow colors behind the screencap, and then added the text.
I'm a Superhero (You're sure about that?)
My one and only animated gif. It's Trent and the cartoonist guy from Power Rangers Dino Thunder, and is basically four screencaps with text in a gif animation sequence. It was a pain in the neck, which is probably the reason why it's my only animated one. It is a funny icon, though. (I just wish I'd spaced the text differently in the second frame, but oh well.)