Yuletide Icons 2009

[chomiji]

This year's Yuletide icons ... a month earlier than last year! As usual, there are icons on the general themes of winter and gifts as well as book illustrations and covers. This year, I even have a few TV shows thrown in!

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All the usual caveats apply: don't hotlink (please save my bandwidth!), download 'em to your own system, please credit as appropriate.
 

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Notes and Acknowledgments

All the usual warnings: download 'em onto your own system, don't link directly to my poor account, please credit.

Some of the resources used: fonts from www.dafont.com, textures from colorfilter, border and other brushes from spiritsighs, endlessdeep, and easyelements. All original art and photos used are copyright by the original artists and photographers, including but not limited to:

1. Michele Lemieux 2. Pauline Baynes 3. Jan Brett 4. Arnaldo Mirasol 5. Morguefile 7, 8. Laurel Burch 9. Bill Watterson 14. fawlty128 on Flickr 15. Leo and Diane Dillon 16. CaptPiper on Flickr

18. Linda Yvonne on Flickr 20. Phil and Kaja Foglio 21. Paul Kidby 22. Trina Schart Hyman 23. Denise Brunkus 25. Alex Ebel 26, 34. Tove Jansson 27. adwriter on Flickr 31. Floyd Cooper 32. Kyle Kesselring on Flickr

35, 36, 39. Patrick McDonnell 38. Alan Say 40. Patrick Q on Flickr 41. Ezra Jack Kearts 42. Luis Garay 43. penmachine on Flickr 44. Rowena Morrill 46. Kinuko Craft 47. CLAMP 48. Nutcracker Suite (but cannot recall which company ...!)

(Photos from Flickr used under Creative Commons licensing.)

Comments

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

OMG a Moomin icon! I love it.

[chomiji]

I'm glad it made you happy!

[grey853.livejournal.com]

I really love the icons. I took 3, 17, 24, 33, 35, and 36. Thanks.

[chomiji]

I'm so happy you liked them!

[rustler.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, Jan Brett is my daughter's favorite -- must snag #3! Thank you, as usual, the whole collection is incredibly lovely!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Hah...great minds think alike! I snagged #3 also!

(and thank you chomiji...these are fantastic)

[orvida.livejournal.com]

I take my hat off to all of you wonderful icon makers these are so beautiful i love every last one of them.

[chomiji]

Aww, thanks, 'vida! Does this mean you're doing the Yuletide fic exchange this year, or did you just notice this on f-list?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

snagged Kermit, but they're all quite lovely!

[chomiji]

I was quite happy to find Kermit in a parka! I'm glad you like them!

[roga.livejournal.com]

OMG DEATH. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Possibly I will take more, but 25!!!!! YAY.

[chomiji]

Hee, I was happy to find a large enough image of that! I'm pleased you like them!

[lazigyrl.livejournal.com]

I took the Hogfather, will credit. My absolute favourite discworld character is Death. It get the funniest looks when I tell people that..

[chomiji]

I'm fond of him as well, and also Gaiman's Death. Someone needs to write a crossover!

[estara.livejournal.com]

I totally love the Kermit, Calvin & Hobbes, Nutcracker Ballet (have you attributed that? I must have missed it in the list)Moomintroll ones, as well as Nr. 11, Nr. 5 and Nr. 45.

[chomiji]

Arrrgh, I was trying to remember/rediscover the ballet company site from which I got that Nutcracker pic! So no, I hadn't attributed it because I hoped to get a more compete credit.

>hangs head in shame<

I'm glad you found some you liked!

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

Heeee! I took n. 3. They're all gorgeous, though!

[chomiji]

That Brett bear is proving quite popular ... I'm glad you enjoyed the icons!

[archon-mentha.livejournal.com]

I needed #21. :) Snagging, and thank you!

[chomiji]

I have a feeling that quite a few people will need him before Yuletide is over ... XD ... and you're quite welcome!

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

These are gorgeous!

[chomiji]

Awww, I'm so glad you like them! (I enjoyed your tropical takes as well!)

[elynross.livejournal.com]

These are lovely! And OMG Snowy Day!!! I'm going to snag that one, and the Calvin & Hobbes. Um. So many of these are so tempty!

And I love the Moomin one, too!

[chomiji]

We aim to please! And nothing warms my heart like seeing these scattered about the Yuletide comms.

(The odd thing is that effort doesn't necessarily reflect response. The Moomin pair were terribly easy to make because the line is so simple and I didn't need to edit much at all.)

[sakru909.livejournal.com]

These are all adorable, it's hard to choose only one of them.

Taking 40, will credit when used.

[chomiji]

Well, you really can take more than one, if you like ... thanks for the kind words!

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

Moomintroll! *steals number 34 and goes to upload with credit*

[chomiji]

I was quite excited to find workable Moomin art!

[skieswideopen]

These are adorable!

[chomiji]

Aww, thank you!

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

These are all lovely! And I'd been thinking about trying to make a Snowy Day icon and you saved me the trouble. Taking 31, 36, and 41. Thanks!

[chomiji]

Peter's adventures were a big part of my daughter's early childhood (we also had Whistle for Willie and Peter's Chair). I'm so pleased that you liked them!

[mercuries.livejournal.com]

These are great! I took 6 and 25. Thanks!

[chomiji]

I'm glad you liked them! Thanks for stopping by!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

These are such fun. I nabbed #27 because - well, it just goes with everything. And the moomin because *omg cute* although I will never write moominfic.

[chomiji]

I had to edit the fire in that one a bit to make it fit in a square layout ... I'm so happy you liked it! (And yes, moomins are quite adorable!)

[the-resa.livejournal.com]

Yea!! Yuletide icons!

[chomiji]

LOL! You know these are for a fiction-writing exchange, right, Resa-ji?

[bettef.livejournal.com]

Taking 17! Thanks so much.

[chomiji]

I was pleased to find that pic .... you're very welcome! Enjoy!

[bluemeridian]

I made off with the adorable 10 :)

[chomiji]

That mouse pic showed up in someone's blog, but they didn't have any info about where it was from - it didn't seem to be the blogger's own work. But it was too cute to pass up!

[jae-w.livejournal.com]

These are great! I took # 9 & #39. Thank you!

[chomiji]

Shtinky Pie writing is from a packet of Mutts stationary! I'm glad you found some you liked!

[orvida.livejournal.com]

No i'm writing fot the YTS i'm just having trouble because i need a beta in a bad way.

[chomiji]

I'm in the middle of a bunch of writing myself ... is it 393?

[oliveoyl.livejournal.com]

Aww, might have to use the Kermit one. Thanks!

[chomiji]

:-D

I'm so glad you found one you liked!

[jinxaire.livejournal.com]

10 was too cute for me to resist. Thanks!

[chomiji]

I'm glad it made you happy! But jinx, does this mean you're participating in the Yuletide fic exchage?

(If it's just that you like the icons, you might also want to check out the autumn icons I made last year.)