And we all have so many faces

[sovay]

Thanks to the ingenious mswyrr (and the patient matociquala, who graciously permitted us to use her livejournal as a public forum for icon-making), I now have a new icon! Actually, I have two new icons. Behold quintessential Englishman and all-round easy on the eyes actor Leslie Howard as my favorite fictional detective and one of my all-time favorite characters, Lord Peter Wimsey. I can't imagine there will be much detecting in my online life—the mysteries in my life at the moment are things like, "What is this 'mourning Eros' doing on the reverse of coins from Nikopolis? And how did I let myself get talked into trying to find this out?"—but if I need to piffle disarmingly, at least I have an icon for it now.

"Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. Which accounts for my talking so much."




Placet.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Beautiful! I love Leslie Howard and Lord Peter!

[sovay]

Thank you! (Thank mswyrr, who designed them.) Feel free to take one; they're like sensitive blond shareware.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

*SNERK*

[sovay]

"My dear girl, give him credit for the brains he's got. They are very good ones. He is painfully sensitive and far more intelligent than is good for him. But I really don't think you can go on like this."

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wasn't disputing the point, just snerking...

[sovay]

I would not stand in the way of a well-earned snerk. I just wanted somewhere to put that quote. : )

[gwynnega]

Feel free to take one; they're like sensitive blond shareware.

Thanks! Don't mind if I do!

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Those are LOVELY. I'd never heard of Leslie Howard before, but he certainly had the perfect face for Lord Peter.

Very much placet. :)

[sovay]

Thanks! Original casting credit goes to bellatrys.

I like your icon as well. : )

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sovay]

Hey, I always knew flamingos could be dangerous . . .

[mswyrr]

"Drunk on words" has stumped me. Permanently, I think. Sorry. As I was trying and failing to get that one made, I toyed with a couple different designs, and these came out of that:



I mention them 'cause, unlike other folks I make icons of(audrey_icons, for instance), Leslie Howard doesn't have his own icon community, and I wanted to share 'em.

[sovay]

Don't worry about the "drunk on words" one—thank you for these! They are lovely.

[sovay]

Does one require a paid account in order to keep more than three potential icons on hand? Because I seem to have hit my limit, which is in all ways a shame . . .

[mswyrr]

Yes. And it sucks.

[sovay]

Bah. I have not the money for a paid account. I will have to keep my more-than-three gorgeous Lord Peter icons in some kind of rotation. (But they are gorgeous.)

[mswyrr]

Bah. I have not the money for a paid account.

Me neither. Some kind, anonymous somebody gave me two months of paid account time a little while. It's running out, though. Soon I'll be back to three. I dunno how I'll choose which ones to keep... I think that's I've become even more of an icon-obsessive than usual lately.

I will have to keep my more-than-three gorgeous Lord Peter icons in some kind of rotation.

Sounds like a good idea.

(But they are gorgeous.)

The one I'm wearing feels kind of ... unfinished. Do you think so? Have any idea what sort of final touch would make it come together? Is it that distracting white blot that's niggling, maybe?

Hmm...

I was going for a "pulp detective novel" look, like that bit in Have His Carcass where Lord Peter is compared with the hero of the novels the victim liked, the ones about the villainous Purple Python and the heroic Lord Chillingfold. You know, bending iron with his "artistic fingers"?

[sovay]

I think it's the distracting white blur above his name, more than anything else; otherwise the black-and-white photograph is set very nicely against the sepia background. It is a good pulp detective pose. Is it worth (and is there room) putting the words "Artistic Fingers" somewhere on the icon, to make the reference clear?

errr...

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

How DOES one take an icon, btw? I'm new at this...
--J

Re: errr...

[sovay]

The same way you'd download any image from the internet, I think . . . You seem to have acquired yours all right. And very nice it looks, too.