My first icon! Whee!

[annabtg]

Since the first time I read about Nymphadora Tonks in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I've had a clear image of her in my head. The problem was... I couldn't show it to anybody!

Now I can! :))



As an avid Harry Potter and the Sims 2 fan, I recently made a neighbourhood with Harry Potter characters. Tonks, of course, couldn't be missing!

The thing is, that when you first make the characters in University student mode, your choices for haircuts are limited. So I did my best with the head and gave her a shoulder-length, bubblegum-pink haircut that was available. After playing with her for a while, though, I figured I'd change her hairstyle... I found this not-exactly-violet-but-close-enough spiky haircut and thought I'd try it... and dear me, there she was, as if she'd jumped just out of my head!!

I swear, since the moment I gave her that haircut, she was begging to be iconed. Now, all the experience I had with image programs was painting in Microsoft Paint *g*. But with its help, and a little bit of Photoshop (which came with the laptop but I'd never used it before) for the resizing and the conversion, I created this:





Neat, isn't it? *g* I also downloaded a Harry Potter font specifically for it.


Y'know what? Iconing is fun *g* I think I might make more icons. And, if I find a Harry Potter icons or a Sims 2 icons community, I might go share them. (To tell you the truth, I'm having 'itsmineitsmineitsmine' tendencies... but... it'd be nice to contribute to the iconing community, no? And maybe I'll see them become the new trend... oh, who am I kidding.)

Anyways. I gave it a shot as my default icon. Not bad, but I like my current one better. We'll see.

Off to study Advanced Mathematics... I have a test tomorrow...

See ya,
Anna.

Comments

[timetraveled.livejournal.com]

Hey Anna!

I came across your journal while exploring profiles of FF.net (It's author Procrastinator-starting2moro) May I add you? (I will without your consent mind...)

That's a lovely Tonks icon by the way ;)

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Sure, go ahead. I'll add you too. (To tell you the truth, I've wandered around your LJ a couple of times already...)

And thanks for liking the icon! Yours is wonderful, too. (/me checks your profile, and goes to Google the person who drew this beautiful image...)

See ya,
Anna :)

[timetraveled.livejournal.com]

You should've said hello before! I only just discovered you had a LJ.

http://www.celestialsodapop.org/ has brilliant fan art, and is where the James/Lily image in my icon is from.

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for saving me the trouble! :)

See ya,
Anna.

[gloryforever.livejournal.com]

See, this is WEIRD. I was reading your comment on my LJ and thinking "cool icon, where'd she get it from?" ... and now I know!!

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it! :)

See, comments like these make me want to make more icons...
Stay tuned, and you never know what you might find ;)

See ya,
Anna.

Mou aresei poly i tonks sou.......

[phibatola.livejournal.com]

gamo tis eikones. LOL

Lipon to pisteyeis oti eno latrevo to sims 1 (k theoritika kai to sims 2), stin pragamatikotita den mporo na to pexo giati (sou epitrepo na gelasis....) Anakatevomai kai zalizome?

Re: Mou aresei poly i tonks sou.......

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Eyxaristw!! :)

Pw-pw, ti gkantemia... To pa8aineis me ola ta paixnidia fantazomai, e?

Egw pali pa8ainw to allo me to Sims 2... mou kollaei poly syxna. Toses fores pou exw anagkastei na svhsw to laptop atermatisto aporw pws den exei kaei akoma. Alla ti na kanw pou m' aresei??

Hi...

[angelicprincess.livejournal.com]

Nai to patheno me ola ta paixnidia pou einai three dimentional.

Den mporo na paixo kanena. Den tha me dis pote na paizo ayta pou paizoun i perisoteri. action role playing games. Paizo mono paixnidia stil epitrapezia i xartia i sims 1 to opoio paizo para poly giati den einai three dimentional. alla kai kei min nomizis oti kano polous kyklous klp. diladi to exo sto makria pio poly.

pira to proto sims 2 alla meta apo 5 lepta pou to ekana install to ekana unistal. klaps lygm sniff kai mou aresi poly i idea oti ta sims exoun ilikies kai megalonoun klp alla den mporo!

Den xsero an ftaiei to sims 1 alla eytixos den mou kollaei parola ta extention pou vrisko on line... sims resource klp klp

Re: Hi...

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Hey -

anoi3es kainourio logariasmo? An nai pros8ese me kai 8a se pros8esw ki egw! (Ton palio ti 8a ton kaneis?)

Emena mallon mou kollaei logw o8onhs. Mou exoun pei oti ta laptop den einai gia na paizeis toso apaithtika paixnidia. Alla apo to na to exw sto allo computer opou 3hmerovradiazontai ta adelfia mou kai den 8a mporw na pai3w... kalytera sto diko mou kai as kollaei!

Re: Hi...

[angelicprincess.livejournal.com]

oxi ton logariasmo ayto ton eixa pantote kai itan gia ta fantom mou.

Diladi kseris sires tv klp (idios West Wing, Clois, Lost, Prison Break)

to _phoebe_ einai for my personal life kai atoma pou exo gnorisi apo konta epitopliston.. kai pragmata pou simvenoun IRL sto livejournaltv grafo quotes kai synopsis apo episodia kai vasika poio poly sxoliazo se alonon ta LJ's.

Eyxaristos na se prosttheso.