Now since I'm dreadfully, terribly behind and late with icon battle icons (SORRY GUYS!), I have worked hours today on them. But now I must stop for I have another test tomorrow! And god hopefully that is IT for tests this week. But here is the non-ib icon I made today as a warm-up (is it dumb that I make warm-up icons? probably). It is Dean! With SONG LYRICS. That are SIDEWAYS because I suck at text! The words were originally the right way up but they looked really stupid and I tried approximately TEN THOUSAND variations until I found one I didn't totally hate. Now that I've done other stuff since I've made it though I think I'm pleased with the overall result. I tried to be trendy with it but totally failed at the trend I was going for and went for a different one instead. In conclusion, Dean Winchester is one attractive motherfucker, I suck at text, and I still remember how to use photoshop.
Just a handful of the ELEVENTY TRILLION rejected alternates to show the ~evolution~ of the text on this icon:
As you can see, once I figured out what I wanted it to say (lame cop-out by picking that song), I couldn't figure out where the fuck to put the words other than "sort of on the right somewhere." lol some of those are so motherfucking ugly, omg.
Thanks! It did take ages -- definitely the hardest part of the icon once I decided on how it should look. I edited the post with some of my zillions of alternates, lol, so I can go back and look at them when I'm feeling lame about how long it takes me to get text right.
The font is Clarendon (http://www.linotype.com/261/clarendonlt-family.html), which is one of my favorites. I was trying to use something blockier like Cairo but that was a nightmare, lol.