Icons: Wrestling 20in20 Round13: Shawn Michaels

[slashburd]

This is the first time I've been brave (or stupid!!) enough to enter an icontest of any sort. The ones over at wrestling20in20 are awesome and what inspired me to take the plunge, join up and have a go. I'm not a fantastic graphic artist but I need a load of new ones so why not make myself do them now and themed on someone I never tire of looking at!!?

Anyway, hit the link and they're there. Honest but not harsh comments welcome - me and Gimp are slowly learning to love each other and I'm a relative noob who's thinking of sticking to writing :)



THEMES

reading	dark	tiny text	ring attire	white
one word	photoshoot	union	devious	defeat

CATEGORY

1	2	3	4	5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

Comments

[candy-belle.livejournal.com]

awww HBK!!! how much do I miss him?!! loving the icons hun!! As some one with noooooo graphic skills at all I think these are great!

I adore the "posterboy" one - so funny and so Shawn.

And AC2 - that's his goodbye night isn't it?!! Goreous icon!!

loving these - hope you do well in the contest <33

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

I miss Shawn so much its ridiculous, and then for H to go missing too has just made me pouty for the last three months watching WWE lol

Thank you for such kind comments <33 I know they're not the fancy pantsy type of icons (I cheered myself for learning how to make multi coloured sparkles yesterday so I have a long way to go XD) but I tried and I almost like then ;)

The poster boy one is from the last interview he did with WWE magazine before retiring and yeah, AC2 is his farewell night. The pics from that night have been icon-ed to death but I'd never seen one done with that pic so thought I'd make at least one rabid-fangirl one ;)

Thanks again for commenting, I think I've got more chance of meeting Cena in Asda than winning anything but I like to think its the taking part (and gratuitous perving) that counts XD

[alex-royale.livejournal.com]

SHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

Uh..yeah. These are great. Fantastic. FABULOUS!!! I love them!

Old Dog New Tricks has stolen my heart!

:-)

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Awww thank you for the kind comments. I konw they're far from what they could be but its Shawn and I love him and..... yeah. I'll shut up now!!

The Old Dog one makes me laugh because of the long running joke about how he can't use the 'net. I can imagine that to be more than true, he'll not be on twitter any time soon ;)

[alex-royale.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, like the DX Christmas promo where he gets all the video game consoles mixed up, and how Hunter says he can't program a DVD player...

Oh Shawn :-)

And the idea of Shawn on Twitter makes me LOL!

[2baditsover.livejournal.com]

Awww Shawn!
<3
I loved these so much!

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

I just had to do some of Shawn, feels like he's being forgotten already so what better way to keep him hanging around than some new pics of him <3

[2baditsover.livejournal.com]

Aweh, I know.
I always think of Shawn!
It kinda hard not to.

[616poisongirl.livejournal.com]

lovely set hun, I really like white :D

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I lolzed at using his Playgirl photoshoot pic for the White one but it just had to be done :)

[shigure-doggy19.livejournal.com]

Glomps icons oh please make more someday

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

I might well do, its been traumatic enough doing these ones so it might be a while before I do more lol

[shawns-g-angel.livejournal.com]

I'm stealing them all. *snatches*

Don't judge me. You know how I feel about him. T_T

By the way, he says hi.

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

You're more than welcome <3

You wanna know what broke my heart about doing these? I put my request in to do Shawn for my set and after his name (as they do with all the picks) they put the company i.e. WWE or TNA. However, Shawn's says WWE Alumni. Its right, its correct but just seeing it = *sniffs* And with today's news about H I'm just about ready to full blown bawl.

And tell him I said hi back, I hope he thinks I made him look at least a little bit pretty for everyone to look at <3

[lovewithstands.livejournal.com]

If this are your first icons I have to say their AMAZING, MY first icons weren't as good as this and that's the truth.

Lovely, Wonderful job.

Shawn and the reading one :)

dark is really good.

White, I love the playboy images he did.

photoshoot I like alot.

Ac2, AC3, AC4 AND AC5 are also some of my favs.

category ones are also really nice :)
Shawn was so young in that photo.

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Aww thank you <3

I've no idea how old that photo of Shawn is, he doesn't look that old at all. The colours in it are horrendous to work with but I had to have a go :)

Thank you for your kind comments, they're much appreciated :)

[lovewithstands.livejournal.com]

Your very welcome :)

:) It turned out really nicely done.

Your welcome

[scarlet-braids.livejournal.com]

Nice work on these. I think you did a really great job. I really like 'tiny text' & 'white' as well as the category set. :)

Congrats on completing & well done!

p.s I know what you mean about Shawn, I miss him terribly too. lol Look forward to seeing more of your work in future rounds. :D

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much :) It took me about half an hour to figure out how to post them - I'm an epic noob to things that aren't straightforward XD

I really enjoyed the challenge of making these, I never realised at first how hard they were going to be and you'd never tell but some took me over an hour just to pull together - I clearly have a long way to go :)

I look forward to trying again in the future, the initial trauma is sure to have worn off by the time the next signup comes around :)

[chicachellers.livejournal.com]

These are amazing, you'd never guess you were new. I love Reading, Photoshoot, Devious, Defeat and AC 1 and 5. They're so awesome though and I love your use of text, it's hilarious (in a good way).

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much <3 I have tinkered with headers/banners but I found icons so much harder :S I reckon if you don't try you never learn so I figured I'd give it a go!

I'm a sucker for a smart caption on any photo so I think I'll probably be the same with icons, it probs makes up for the fact that I've not figured much out to make neon lights and frames etc!

Again, thanks for being so kind, I'm glad you liked them :)

[kaleidoruby.livejournal.com]

These are so good! My favourites are dark, ring attire, defeat (perfect, really really perfect), cat3 and AC2&3, but they're all great! I would never have guessed you were new at this. :)

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you for such a kind comment <3 I think my favourite of them all is AC2 even though the whole thing still makes me kinda sad :(

As I've said above, I've made my own headers before but I've still got a lot to learn, I can't even blend pictures together yet so there's going to be nothing too fancy from me for a while lol

I'm glad you thought they were good, I was so nervous posting them - I reckon I can only get better with practice and determination :)

[beunydd.livejournal.com]

These are great! I especially like devious..and the category set is really nice. And dark is epic!

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you think they're good, I'm just glad they're good enough not to get laughed at lol

I liked Dark too - the chance to get such a brilliantly taken picture of Shawn and use a bible quote too was just too good to pass up :)

Thanks for your kind comment, its much appreciated :)

[flowerbombed.livejournal.com]

For your first icontest, these are great! 'Defeat' is particularly well done. Really nice set overall.

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Awww thank you :) I'm grateful fo such kind comments on my first go, I wanted to do last month but was too scared :S I'm such a wuss at times!

The defeat one just cried out for a WM26 pic, even though in my heart I'd rather not have used it - sad fangirl is sad lol

Thanks again <3

Good luck in the contest!

[showmescars.livejournal.com]

OMG! Awwww, HBK! My sexy boy! I LOVE these icons! And don't dog yourself on icon-making. I mean, I took SO many! I took reading, tiny text, white, photoshoot, devious (I remember that! I saw that show!), category 2, category 3, artist's choice 2-5, and ALL WILL BE CREDITTED.

I agree w/ shigure_doggy19 and I hope you DO make more in the future, because I think he's getting forgotten too quickly. Two Christmases ago, I got my boyfriend a glow-in-the-dark DX t-shirt and let's just say, it's supported every fight on Monday night's RAW, and Wrestlemania. And NOW, it supports Hunter as he's going through neck surgery recovery, because of the sledgehammer or steel pipe that Sheamus used on him. I can't believe Sheamus is acting all proud about it; it sickens me.

Good luck in the conteszt, hun! I miss Shawn, & THIS entry totally made my day! Thank you so fucking much!

Re: Good luck in the contest!

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

I totally agree that its like he's being forgotten already. The IWC is so fickle generally and I don't want my sexy boy going into the mists of oblivion after only a couple of months of being gone!

I think I might enter next month's too, I can't do Shawn again but I will do in the future :) I want to do a TripleH set at some point, he and Shawn are just awesome and I can't think of a better way to always have them hanging aroud my LJ <3

Thanks for commenting, liking them, taking them; everything. You made my day with such an epic comment so we're all happy <333

Re: Good luck in the contest!

[showmescars.livejournal.com]

I wish there were more peoplethat were remembered recently. I mean, for goodness sake, steve austin, goldberg, roddy piper, SHAWN MICHAELS, brett hart (who was only brought back for money, but was my 1st crush), and WTF happened to HHH? I mean I know what happened, and still I love Sheamus, but what is this Nexus horseshit? Why do people move onto Maeybiase? *shudders* and "Dashing Cody Rhodes? Pay attention! It's not like some 2nd Generation guys ARE WORTHLESS. Some. And WTF IS NEXUS NOW? *rolls eyes* I miss Triple H now. Isn't the surgery over yet? PT, too right?

[bloodxfreaks.livejournal.com]

pretty icons ;)

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you <3 Its easy to make them pretty where Shawn's involved :)

[palkki.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Shawny~ I already forgot how much I actually liked him back in the good old days. D":

Your first time making icons? ..Doesn't really look like it, these are all.. So.. Gorgeous! I couldn't help myself noticing though that you seem to like adding text everywhere? :"D I think there was only one without text.. But anyway, let's not give too much into that madness.

The Dark, Photoshoot and Devious ones are just simply awesome. That's pretty much all I can say. And the coloring in these.. Aaw.

They are all really good, the cropping and coloring especially. Good work.. And that's all I can say. These are so good they actually make me speechless. XD

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I've made less than a dozen before these and there's some real disasters in them - I'd have been better submitting blank squares than some of the first attempts I made XD I've made my own banners for LJ so that's about all the experience I have, shrinking it to icon proportions was the hard part lol

I'm a scrapbooker and creative writer so I think the titles and text thing isn't something I'll move away from easily - I do like a good pun or a smart comment but its all intentional :D And I can't say I made these with a competitive streak in mind - I just did them to fit the brief and made them so I'll actually use them lol

Thank you for the kind comments on them though, I really do appreciate it. I was inspired by the incredible icons in this comm and its incredibly challenging and unnerving entering one of the rounds - at least I can say I tried lol

(and yay for Shawn too, I love that man <3)

[glamnation.livejournal.com]

These are really great. I love ring attire and defeat. <3333

[scoobyatemysnax.livejournal.com]

wow this is your first time participating in an icon contest? O_________O
that's impressive, my first ones were such a fucking disaster they didn't even fit the actual lj size hahaaha XD that was such a massive epic fail.
but these really are wonderful and it's great to see more and more people participating! sure, it's nice to win, but just the fact all wrestling lovers unite for making so many and such beautiful icons is so so so very awesome :D :D :D

now back to srs bzns.
i really do love the way you did dark white photoshoot hahaha devious is ahilarious XD and i think defeat crushed my heart a bit :'(
i also very much like your cat ones coz they're all so different.
and last but not least ac 1 is adorable, 2 is heartbreaking <3 god i bawled like a baby when he left :(
and ac 4 and 5 are just wowwwwww style awesome <3
well done bb, you have got yourself a lovely batch over here :D

[kora-flair.livejournal.com]

Great icons!

[maloree11.livejournal.com]

lmao i love ac1 and ac5 as well as one word. great job!! :)

[slashburd.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I still such a noob at icons but I try :)

[dreamscarred.livejournal.com]

These are awesome I really like devious and defeat! <3