dS: icons for grabs

[arrow00]

So, when I joined slidellra's C6D Tag Game, I decided to get to work making icons, but then spuffyduds tagged me, and she already has her happy icons, so I wrote her a very silly story instead, but I thought I would offer up the icons anyway. So here they is.

Spuffy gets first dibs, of course, but fair game after that. Credit or no, as you will.
I stole some screenshots from meresy so it's only fair you steal right back.


Preview:
   

1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8	9
10	11	12
13	14	15
16	17	18
table layout stolen from oltha-heri who makes faboo icons

Comments

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. You are really seriously spoiling me.

I have every intention of using every one of these, because they're gorgeous. But if I could claim one as MINE MINE MINE I would love number 9. Because, hi Ray! Hi Ray's PANTS!!!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

I think you mean #6 if you mean the one with Ray leaning and the BULGE. Oh, the bulge.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Unless you are the one pantsing? I so confoose.

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

:::Ande goes on icon adoption frenzy:::

These are SO amazing, Arrow! I love every single one of them!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Thanks, glad you liked! The boys look cute on you. :)

[oliviatocali.livejournal.com]

I really love 4 & 6! Thanks a lot ^_^

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked! #6 is the one I think spuffy was trying to claim (with Ray's pants and the bulge there. :) The numbering is confusing, I'm sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

No problem! Is #4 still available?

[oliviatocali.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me above...

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeedy, it's all yours.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

These are fabulous and made me smile or say 'guh', depending :-)

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

:) oh the boys.

[sage]

Eeee! 13!!! BEARS! *steals it & runs away*

Also, these are awesome! :D

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

YAY BEARS!

we should photo-manip a Ray-with-polarbear-cub for you. !

[meresy.livejournal.com]

PRETTY. <3

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks for the screenshots!

[akamine_chan]

Oh my. Wonderful icons, arrow. Thanks for sharing. I'm stealing 6 & 10!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

#6 is I think the one spuffy wanted (the numbering confused her I think) but yeah, #10. Mmmmm.

[akamine_chan]

And once she's confused, we're all confused *g*

No problem. *puts icon back on shelf*

dS: icons for grabs

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I love these icons! I snagged #4, 11, 17 and 18 and will credit you in my LJ userpics when I use them! Thank you for sharing!
Love, max

Re: dS: icons for grabs

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked 'em, Max!

[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

Bee-utiful. Love the colour correction on #18 - it looks much better. I'm glad you came down the way you did on #11 - you were right to go with that text instead of the other, I think. Oh Fraser. You poor sap.

#3 remains my favourite thing in the entire world. HAIR!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

I have snarfed that one for my own use. I can't believe no one else wanted it...his hairs so PRETTTYYYYYY..

I'm still not sure about the text but what can you do? Sometimes there is no right decision about things.

Thanks for the color beta! :)

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

These are glorious. I use mostly my own icons, so I'm simply admiring, here, but these are fabulous! #12 is GUH. And "Jealous" took me a minute, but...hee! And "Suprasternal Notch"! They're just all wonderful.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

how is the great artist? :)

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! What great artist? Where? *looks around*

If you mean the harried art student, I am hanging in there by my charcoal-stained fingernails. :) Drawing a human torso (from a plaster cast) and two nude figures (from photos) this week, all female (*yawn*). Actually it's not boring at all, and it is stressful for me, because I want everything to be perfect. But we only draw about 1 male figure to 4 female ones, at best, and I dislike that ratio. I want to study male figures, dammit.

Beyond fanart, I have great ambitions to portray passive, reclining male figures as Odalisques and concubines and self-hating fashion models, and so on. I want to turn the cultural imagery on its ear. Unfortunately, I'll need a lot of technical knowledge and experience and practice before I am able to communicate that social commentary. At present, fanfic (and fanart) will have to do. :)

We're drawing from pretty much ONE male model and about three different female models. All young and stunning, though, which is nice. The guy is a Fraser-type more than a Ray-type, but very cute, and, heh, perky. Read between the lines there. ;) I do, however, have a good library of reference photos that includes more Ray-esque figures, and among those are some porn stars who posed for portraits. *cough* *cough*

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

You should register a complaint with your instructors! That's gender bias!

I love your odalisque idea. And you should look at Thai art. Every time I go into a Thai restaurant I want to beat the decorators over the head. It would be wonderful to see a portrayal of one of those "gardens of delight" with all male nudes.

And, mmmm, perky male models. :)

If you want, I can try to snapshot some of my porn! If nothing else, there are some awfully nice penises you can try to render. But unfortunately, most the bodies are bulkier fellas...that's my leaning, of course, although Ray is his own category of intense hotness. Did you see the icon I made of just his shoulder? ::meeps::

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

OMG, shoulder! *LOVES*

Any reference photos you want to send my way will be well appreciated. Maybe even used to endow Ray and/or Fraser. :)

I will look at Thai art per your rec. Don't think I've ever seen any of that type.

My instructors aren't biased, by the way. It's just the current reality. Far more women are available to model than men. It's the whole society that's to blame. Men aren't supposed to be the objects of the artist's gaze, right? Or the public's. They're the movers and shakers and we're the objects, so the myth goes. That is exactly what I'd like to question in images. I'm totally drawing Ray as Manet's courtesan or an Odalisque as soon as my skills are up to it. Maybe the Manet should be Fraser. Yeah. Hee!

I just want to do the same subversive thing in art that we're doing in fanfic. :)

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

Many of the pics I used for the icons (including nom-nomable Ray's shoulder) came from: meresy's Objectifying Ray picspam here (http://meresy.livejournal.com/41774.html)
and also here (http://meresy.livejournal.com/42520.html).

I have a lovely screenshot of Paul Gross' ass, supine, from Whale Music. :) My God he has a beautiful ass. I'll dig it up.

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

I loved her picspam post, yes, indeed! And your icons are still catching my eye and making me stare. And trust me, I've done a lot of staring at Ray's shoulders. As an artist, of course. ;)

For my own icons, I always use my own screencaps, though. I try to use my own screencaps for reference photos as well, unless I don't happen to have the original DVD of whatever. Which I don't have for Whale Music, so...YES, please! Thank you!!!!!! Can't wait.

Paul does have a gorgeous ass, and I have the perfect Fraser pose in mind to display it, suggested by an artsy beefcake photo found on the web. Actually, PG's whole body is just really, really well put together. He's very close to a modern "ideal figure," if any living being can really be that.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

And trust me, I've done a lot of staring at Ray's shoulders. As an artist, of course.

It's your responsibility to do so!

Okay, my sweet, I have uploaded screenshots for you (http://pics.livejournal.com/arrow00/tags/Paul+Gross/) of Paul's physique. :)

[china_shop]

Ooooooh, shiny! Snagging # 17, thank you!

[tres_mechante.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm just a stranger trolling DS icons. I've snagged #8 and will credit when used. Weirdly, this will perfectly match a story I'm writing.

Nice job on all the icons!!

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

thank you! please do let me know when the story is finished?

[tres_mechante.livejournal.com]

Hey there! Well, the story is finally finished. "Through the Looking Glass" is RayK/Fraser and RayK/human!Dief. Yeah, I know. "Huh?" What can I say? It's a kind of supernaural thing.

Part one is here. (http://community.livejournal.com/kink_bigbang/6111.html) There is a list of warnings so you can make an informed choice about whether to read. Seriously? No major squicks, but some folks have pretty strong likes/dislikes.

Thanks again for the icon!