Jackboots and Bubblegum

So, I did a little entry for the sparkandburn collage challenge. I like incorporating typographical elements into my art and this was a fun challenge - trying fit the required elements into the design rather than designing around the required elements.

After I posted it, I started thinking about doing something similar for Xander. He's probably the most flexible character, in terms of identity. Certainly he's played a wider variety of roles than the others and I decided to do a few collages based on those roles. All the text is from Xander's dialogue during the relevent episodes: The Wish, Halloween, The Pack, and Potentials.


( So, here's a quartet of collages In The Key of X: )

The results are in for wicked_awards and I am full of squee! I won Runner-Up for Best Whedonverse Wallpaper for Divided and I won Best Whedonverse Banner for Invisible Life. I am so super-excited!

I also won a lovely award (and some equally lovely comments) for a story I wrote for girlpire, an Angel/Darla fic entitled Between the spirit and the dust. The award,which is awesomely lovely, comes with some very, very moving judge's comments:

The history between Angel and Darla is so rich that any moment explored in AtS gives you the chills. This is such a climatic moment in their lives, so human, the perfect dramatic piece that more people need to discover.

I'm stuck on WOW. Just so you know. For reals. I want to thank everyone at wicked_awards for their hard work. Thanks to the judges and the artists who made all these lovely banners ( which are under the cut! )

I also want to congratulate all of my flisties who won including clawofcat, snowpuppies, velvetwhip, and deird1 on their well-deserved awards. Thanks also to all the members (and maintainers) of still_grrr. I'm on an enforced art break, but I haven't forgotten you guys! Without that community, my art would not be award-worthy and I owe them all a big debt of gratitude for running such inspiring challenges and for taking the time to con-crit and comment on my art. THANK YOU!

So I was working on a few submissions to good_evil's art-a-thon. Except I think they're not very inspirational. I got a bit carried away in the playing with PS part and sort of stopped caring about the telling a story part. So I'll just post the rejects here (I did submit one banner!), mostly because I had so much fun making them.

They're all worksafe. Just click through to make the previews bigger!

After seeing vamptastica's fab naughty Spike, I got totes inspired to do some manipping of my own. A bit of nostalgia here, with a retro genderswitch Spike. I love a good genderswitch and girl!Spike is awfully fun...

( He walks in beauty... )

Click through for the full size

A batch of new icons. Some Spike, some others. Credit to awmp for the many, many things I've learned in those wonderful tutorials. Want, take, have...just gimme credit!




( Aww! Pookie! )

Made for clawofcat  's Faith/Angel fic "By A Thread". Hope you enjoy it (when you get back from your vacation)!

clawofcat wanted a Faith/Angel pic, and mentioned her Post-Orpheus fic. So, here it is and I hope you like it, hon! It's fairly large, so give a click for the full size and if you'd like it smaller, just say something!





( There's nothing I won't do to save you... )

Since zoesmith  is both observant and swift on the comment button, she gets a pretty picture of her very own! She requested Darla/Dru, something very naughty. Hope this fits the bill, sweetie!

So, I made mithril_56  a new banner. The original one wasn't bad (I can say that, I made that one too), but I think I've gotten better at manipping and I'd rather see someone with something really good instead of just not bad. So, by a sort of request (she mentioned a few things she might like and I went crazy with it), here's the new banner....

hello_spikey did a fabulous off the books FmK request for me here. So, in return, because it was fabulous piece of fiction, I'm doing an off the books request for her.

So, by request: Shirtless smirking Spike...( That Wicked Boy )