Edit: Vertigo and From Russia With Love artwork icons

[theladyrose]

Edit: All of my icons can now be found at my icon journal, retro_activity.

I need to get Photoshop onto Karen, my laptop, because I am really starting to get sick of the limited editing functions of Microsoft paint. Yeah, so maybe it's easier to shrink things (sort of) in sizes of perfect squares. That's about it. Even trying to add simple text is a pain, let alone color touchups and basic GIF animation. I can always use the library computers to further edit, but the whole transferring of files from one computer to another is getting tiresome.

But I finally got around to doing all of those Vertigo icons, and they don't seem to be too bad.



Vertigo poster artwork:

I did some touch ups on the icons this morning, so you can see the original titles, posters, et al. underneath the originals. I also did a few primitive animated icons, but I'll be working some more on Carlotta's portrait as it's not as long as I'd like it to be right now.











If you know where I can find the original font used on the poster, please tell me! I'm working with a poor substitute at the moment.



Vertigo titles:













Note: this title spiral is actually from the Vertigo AMC documentary found on the DVD. I thought it looked pretty cool anyway.









The coloring of the eye is different, I know, but the lighting is slightly different and I couldn't figure out how to keep the same hues for both.



I sorta played around with the inverse color thingy and liked the way it looked as it actually goes with my LJ color theme. Go figure.









I like the touch ups of those first two inverse color ones the best, personally.









I prefer the untouched-up version, actually.





The eye closeups in the titles looked terrible with the inversed color so I kept the original. I might do some animations of the inverted color ones tomorrow if I have time.

I attempted to do an animated version of Carlotta's portrait, but I've been meaning to add a few more images to the animation so I'll work on that some more tomorrow.



OK, and this is my sort of calling card icon/avatar reedited to a bigger size.



It's from the reillustrated cover of the first edition of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love that I thought looked tremendously cool.



The original paperback art looks like this:



Many thanks to Red for letting me steal it from his site.

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Gorgeous work! And you're right - that Fleming cover is amazing!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! There are also some other great Fleming paperback covers involving a still life photo montage of each novel's storyline that I've been meaning to play around with.

[a-mire.livejournal.com]

Of the Vertigos, I like this one the best

But that Fleming find is totally cool! Esp with the real image mirroring the illustration on the upper left. And as an icon it has enough detail to attract a long look without being overly busy.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Same here! That's probably my favorite one; I was surprised to see that the inverted color worked out so well.

That's probably my favorite Fleming paperback art, although the other first edition illustrations by Richard Chopping are quite superb. You can see some more of them here:

http://www.artofjamesbond.com/first.htm

[a-mire.livejournal.com]

Now, the Choppings are delightful, but Colonel Sun? *shudder* veeeeery disturbing.

And the reversible cover on the Book of Bond? ROFL! Sweeeet! I wish I could have done that with my book!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Colonel Sun has too much of a wannabe Salvador Dali look which just doesn't work with the subject matter at all. I swear there's another Bond-related book (possibly the Book of Bond? I can't remember for sure) with the real book hidden inside the King James Bible cover, but I can't seem to find the photo at the moment.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Do not mock MS Paint. MS Paint is God. MS Paint is always listening...

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

You silly LAN party member you :P

Don't tell me that you're having a mad love affair with MS Paint.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous work, by the way. I long to see what you can do with photoshop in your hands.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dearie :) I'm not particularly skilled with Photoshop; I pretty much learned how to use it by randomly clicking on the various tools to see what happened. I unfortunately don't have as much time to play around with the program as I used to, but icon-making is always a nice study break :)

[phoenixbird27.livejournal.com]

I love the Carlotta icon, it's awesome. Do you remember my one from GJ?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Sadly, I don't remember your Carlotta one very well, though I remember your Kim Novak one quite well :)