Banner and a rec

[xtanitx]

If y'all aren't reading Aloof Rocker Kryptonite, you should be. I'm just sayin'. (It's an All-human WIP, though, so if you've an allergy to those, stay clear.) Three chapters in, and this new author is totally making me smile. It has a few flaws, but generally speaking, it's great. And given the seemingly never ending torrent of, well. . . this is unlocked, and god forbid I offend any delicate sensibilities, so let's just say that stumbling into a fun, well-written, and engaging story from a brand new author was quite a nice surprise.

Anyway, I didn't think I could do story banners, but doing the one for dampersnspoons got me thinking I could, and so I've been meaning to try my hand at another one. This seemed as good as any to start out on. I have no idea if she'll even use it, so instead of waiting to find out, I thought I'd post it here and hope she won't care. I'm guessing not. hahaha And, besides, as Beth pointed out to me the other day, it's mine, I can post it. She's a very smart woman.

I learned my save early and save often lesson with this one. I was nearly done and PS locked up. Poof. All gone. Luckily I pretty much remembered everything I'd done to that point, minus a few specifics like exact colors of fill layers, but whatever. It's all sorted and now I save like a demon, and this one isn't hugely different than the first one. I think I'm proudest about something you can't even see because JM is covering most of it up. The attention whore. I kid! Yeesh, enough rambling about the boring process of getting this thing together. On to the banner. . . and read that story, darn it!



Comments

[dawnofme.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec. I'll have to check it out when I have a few minutes to spare. I bet she'll be thrilled and totally floored that you made the banner for her.

I love it when an artist puts a thumbnail version of their art in a post. I usually put the larger version in a cut below it so that it is actually on my LJ. I don't really like having to click on an image and being sent out of LJ and to where the image is stored online. I had to backspace to get back to LJ and your post so that I could comment here.

The banner is very nicely done. Makes me want to the read the story even more now. :)

[amyxaphania.livejournal.com]

Great banner! I like the light texture, it's simple but it really works.

I don't really mind about the image being linked to vs. full size in the journal. I tend to do a thumbnail image then the bigger one under the cut... but then that always pushes my layout off. But either way is fine :D

I've bookmarked that fic to read later, as I don't have an allergy to all human :D

[dampersnspoons.livejournal.com]

What I like most about your banners, aside from how rich in color they are, is that you don't make creepy manips that make me sad.

Thank you, for using stock photos available and utilizing the awesome that the characters are without giving them weird beards or 5-heads that are blurry. Thank you also, for not putting their heads on bodies with bad tribal tattoos and clothing fit for an '80s break-dance-a-thon.

This one is awesome, and hell yeah she liked it! SHE BETTER LIKE IT.