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[descartes]

20 icons of Fullmetal Alchemist's Roy Mustang for fandom20in20's Round 13. This is a hodgepodge of experimentation, as the last time I made icons was in, um, February :|

(I'm going to Singapore next week, so I apologize in advance if I take too long replying to comments!)

    

THEMES

Country	Birds	Persuader	Beautiful	Nimya
Sakura	Journey	Shishou	Kino	Traveler

CATEGORY - Blue sky.

Category #1	Category #2	Category #3	Category #4	Category #5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

notes:
- Birds: text from Philip Larkin's MCMXIV
- Shishou: "The name Roy is Old French for 'king'." - Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki
- Category # 1: text from Seigfried Sassoon's Dead Musicians
- AC # 2: text from Kanye West ft. Dwele's Power
- AC # 3: art from 鋼錬*大神 by RingingT

Comments

[turlough]

Very nice set! I particulary like Country, it's gorgeous, and all the Category icons. AC2 is really cool too.

[descartes]

Thank you so much! I had a lot of trouble with Country (had to make do with low-quality caps), so I'm pleased you like it :)

[stultiloquentia]

These are beautiful.

[descartes]

Thank you! :D

[hermitsoul]

These are all amazing!

[descartes]

Thank you so much!

[littleglassvial]

These are *stunning*. You're making me want to actually finish the series finally. I might end up stealing quite a few of these...beautiful work...beautiful. ♥

[descartes]

Thank you so much! I made these while reading the manga and catching up on the Brotherhood anime, so it was pretty fun :D (and yes, do finish FMA, it's so good!)

[kiokushitaka]

I love this set. I really like persuader, journey, shishou, kino, cat 1, cat 2 and ac 2.

[descartes]

Thank you! The themes for this round worked very well with my claim and were very inspiring :) I'm glad you like them.

[chronophage]

These are really lovely! I especially like your typography in cat3 and ac2.

[descartes]

Thank you! I really struggled with text this round, so I was relieved they looked nice in the end :D

[stripped]

I love all the variations in color in the category icons.

[descartes]

Thank you! I'm pleased with how the Category set looks; for a while there I thought it would have been all blue-sky icons, but I found some interesting sundown scenes that I could work with :)

[darlingfox]

These are amazing! :D I think my favorites are Shishou, AC#2 and AC#3: the cropping, text and coloring fit together so well.

[descartes]

Thank you so much! Those three are among my favorites as well :D

[daphnie_1]

Thease are a seriously impressive set of icons. I *adore* your Blue Sky set. Your colouring is seriously to kill for. Your text yse on the AC set is also pretty impressive.

As for your catagory icons I think Nimiya is the stand out one (for me, anyway) because your composition is seriously lovely.

[descartes]

Thank you so much! The category set and icontext in general gave me so many problems, so I'm really pleased that you like them :D

[korundum]

Wow, your category set...it's just...wow...

[descartes]

Thank you! :D

[lyd]

♥ the colouring. I'm so not going to comment on colouring on this set 'cause ithink all of them are brilliant, srsly, so vibrant and pretty.

I'm more and more tempted to see this anime but how can i expect to like it when i fear it will not live up to what you've shown me?!


my favourite themes: country, birds, beautiful, nimya, journey, shishou, traveler... yes all of those. do ignore the fact that it would have been easier to say that I like but kind of can live without (for a little while, not much longer than that) the others unmentioned above... <- can't comment on each icon 'cause i don't have enough hours in the year to wax poetry (which i've no idea how to do) and just laud them to the maximum possible.

the theme is lovely, absolutely lovely. my fav ourite is 1, 2, 3 & 5 tied. 4th would be a close second (what do you mean that 4 way tie is not really done? pfft!)

ac. guh! 1st, 2nd 5th are stunning, love the use of text with the images. 4th is hilarious. and 3rd ithoguht itwas harry potter for a second there. it's just missing the glasses and now that i look the want but yes. so darn pretty. really, too pretty. one of my favourite sets of all time. *sighs*

so how can i watch alchemy now that I know i won't like it due to the expectatives being so high?!?! <- tricky question i realize.

[descartes]

Thank you so much! I was grinning and blushing as I read this comment; it made me all fluttery inside ♥

I felt I was really rusty when it came to coloring, especially as (a) I hadn't been making any icons for months and (b) I generally don't do a lot of icons from animated/drawn sources, so I had to adjust and experiment making this set. So I am very very pleased that they turned out OK! :D

AND YES YOU SHOULD TRY FMA! It's so good, both story-wise and visually, and barring the body horror/nightmare fuel moments, it's a very good mix of AWESOME PEOPLE DOING AWESOME THINGS and heartbreaking drama. Roy, my claim, is only a small fraction of what makes FMA so amazing. (Personally, I'm all about the second anime FMA:Brotherhood and the original manga, but others prefer the first so YMMV--but still! In conclusion: FMA >>>>> my icons, haha.)

♥♥