Writing my Own Story

I don't have many fancy things for icons, but I do use lots of websites for my caps and I have lots of fonts that I didn't make, so I figured I should probably post a resource list.

Sometimes I cap things myself, but most of the time I find them. The sites I use are:

disneyscreencaps[dot]com
xfphotos[dot]fredfarm[dot]com
ladymanson[dot]com
screencapped[dot]net
ffaupdates[dot]tumblr[dot]com
thetvshows[dot]us
midnight-texas[dot]wikia[dot]com
hq-screencaps[dot]tumblr[dot]com
cap-that[dot]com
movie-screencaps[dot]com
kissthemgoodbye[dot]net
timelessfans[dot]com
homeofthenutty[dot]com
fancaps[dot]net

Sites marked in bold are sites that I use the most often. I also use the lj communities cap_it! and FY Screencaps on occasion.

I get all my fonts from DA Font, or use the ones in my program. I'm not sure how to list those and show what they are... I'll figure that out and add my list when I do.

I'm not sure if this will work. I want to try and show what the fonts are, but I'm not sure they'll all be supported so I'll write the name outside the html code as well.

DAFont list:

Typewriter fonts:
1942_report
1942_report
moms_typewriter
moms_typewriter

Comic book fonts:
adventure
adventure
ka_blamo
ka_blamo
ka_boing
ka_boing

Fancy scripts:
hirondelles_des_alpes
hirondelles_des_alpes
Loveletter_no_9
loveletter_no_9
The_Constellation_of_Heracles
the_constellation_of_heracles

Bold scripts:
Viksi_script
viksi_script
Tale_of_Hawks
tale_of_hawks
Druchilla
Druchilla
Cheddar_Jack
cheddar_jack
Breeze
breeze
Bernadette_Rough
bernadette_rough
Hoodson_Script
Hoodson_script
Dillanda_Caligraphy_Script
dillanda_caligraphy_script

Dystopian fonts:
Assassins Dub
assassins dub
Darks_Calibri_Remix
darks_calibri_remix
Disturbo
disturbo
Scorched_Earth
scorched_earth
Wicked_Grit
wicked_grit
Woodcutter_Justice
woodcutter_justice

Handwriting fonts:
Troublemarker
troublemarker
Colors_of_Autumn
colors_of_autumn

Horror fonts:
Caracura
caracura
It's_Scary_Now
it_s_scary_now

Vintage fonts:
Steelworks
steelworks
Noir_Et_Blanc
noir_et_blanc
Copasetic
copasetic

Chalkboard fonts:
Bear_Hugs
bear_hugs
Fishfingers
fishfingers
Little Kid
little kid
Star_Black_Inline
star_black_inline

Design fonts:
Red_Moon_Rising
red_moon_rising
Fontdinerdotcom_Sparkly
fontdinerdotcom_sparkly

Misc/generic fonts:
Aberration
aberration
Avanti
avanti
Jack_in_the_Box
jack_in_the_box
Mr_Sunshine
mr_sunshine
SmartKid
smartkid
SwingSet_BB
swingset_bb

Did a bunch of simple icons today and finished one I've been working on for a couple days. I'm pretty happy with how they came out. I'm still working on focus in my images, today I decided to focus on hands. :)

I started this one Monday and tried it in two different colors. Not sure which one i like better.


And these I just brightened the image a bit and used some depth/focus shifting on a few once I got them cropped down.

Made some icons last night. I posted some over in your_favorites, for the fantasy show challenge.

I'm feeling a bit rusty even though it's only been a couple months. I've forgotten where some things are and how others work, but it's slowly coming back. I'm trying to focus on making better crops. Making sure my subject is visible and the main focus.

Here's a bunch from Midnight, Texas:



And a few from Younger:



S/N: if anyone can tell me what the html is to put space between my icons when making a table, I'd be very grateful! I hate that they're all up on top of each other. :/

Made these last night. They're not great, but I wanted to do something.

These were some I was going to do for the rainbow activity for icontalking



And this one was for the favorite scifi movie challenge for your_favorites


The quality of the cap on that one isn't very good. I can't remember where I got them from. :/ If I do any more for this movie, I'll cap some new ones myself.

I'm also going to look into finding a new image hosting site since I can't seem to get photobucket to cooperate any more. Last night I couldn't even get the page to load and then when it did, I couldn't click on any of the links to copy them here.

Even now the page won't load on my computer. I had to open it on my phone and copy/paste the links into an email so I could get them on my computer. Super annoying. Especially with all the pop up ads.

I feel like my icons are looking MUCH better than they were. And I'm remembering where things are and what they do, so that makes things go a lot faster. My program updated today too, it now has a welcome screen with tutorials! I was surprised since it's PaintShop 7 and they're on like 9 or 10 now, but hey, I'll take it!

I spent some time yesterday screencapping a couple episodes of Emerald City and writing down any lines that stuck with me to use with icons. Tonight is the season finale!

I've got a bunch that I re-did and some new ones that I made when I re-did the Tumblr ones, but I think I'll work with those a bit more before I share them. Here's some I made today that I think came out pretty good.






I think my favorite is the second one, with the tree. I LOVE the font in the first one and I'm glad I got it to work.

Testing to see if PNG or JPEG works better for my icons. Not sure if it will matter, but these were saved as JPEG first and then I changed them to PNG. When I have more time I'll try to save some as PNG first.

Left side is JPEG, right is PNG

I downloaded a bunch of images from the British Library yesterday (they have lots of new free images from books that are out of copyright) and spent today playing around with them a bit.

I have no idea what to do with this, but the titles of these booklets needed to be put together. Trashy romance novels of 1892!



I didn't do anything except arrange them in what I thought to be a fun order. :)

I found a few illustrations that just begged to be colorized, so I played around a bit and figured out how to use the watercolor tool! It would work much nicer if I had a fancy drawing tablet, but I thought they turned out pretty nice.


Ha, didn't realize that there was a giant hole in the middle of the dragon one. Oops. It kind of looks like a heart though!

And then I did them in actual icon size. The dragon one loses some detail, so I don't think I'd ever use it as an avatar icon, but the kitty looks super cute in any size!

Trying to play around with my program some more and learn how to better do some things.

( Killjoys icon set )

Song lyrics are "Dark Paradise" by Lana Del Rey
Screen caps from yamiinsane123