M7Land Participation

[valiha]

This entry should serve as a repository of answers to challenges I participated in over at m7land. Swiped the idea shamelessly from nikojen. :)

GRAPHICS

I won third place in the Black&White icons challenge with one of my two icons; it was a tie with nikojen.

My second icon was of Mary. The scene is from "Penance", and Mary is heading home from work, fearful because there's a killer loose in town. I had written a haiku about Nathan ("Contradicts himself, Hands that heal can also kill; Brilliant is his smile." - my first piece of Mag7 writing ever!) for a writing challenge and liked the process so much that I wrote another one inspired by this icon. Imagine that!

Dark night approaches,
a sound is heard in darkness,
killer on the prowl.

Pausing at the door,
bright eyes search the empty street,
wary of the night.

Whipped by the fierce wind,
bathing in the lamp light glow,
blonde hair turns to gold.

I'd like to try and expand this into a larger scale wallpaper, possibly including the haiku.

My second answer was for the bookmarks challenge. Looking back, I probably should have used a witty reading quote, but my muse didn't want to go in that direction. So I came up with this:

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June 15, 2010: My next entry was for the icon set challenge, where we had to create a set of icons with a different dominant color for each icon. I'm happy to say I won 1st place!

and that one of the icons also won in the vote for individual icon:

June 23, 2010: First place in the Quote Icons Challenge!

Tie with sparrowsverse from m7teamtanner:

July 9, 2010: First place in the Group Wallpaper Challenge!

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That is all for the moment; I will edit this post whenever I have a new challenge answer to add. This will be tagged as "m7land" for easy reference.

Comments

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Mary one was yours? That light off her hair is awesome! I think it'll make a great wallpaper with the haiku. :)

(And I totally voted for the Ezra icon and Chris bookmark. :) )

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it! It took me a long time to clear up the original image to be usable for the icon because it was so grainy. It felt like I'd been working on it for hours after I finished it.

For the wallpaper, I think I'll go with a grungy texture, to mask the graininess. And I'll have to find a nice readable font for the haiku.

Thanks for the votes! Both of those were easy to make, and I loved working on them. I think I should make a set of Mag7 bookmarks; maybe I'll even be able to find caps of the boys reading.

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

Love Mary's icon, and her haikys, the first one especially:).

And Chris's bookmark was my top favorite:).

[tpena19.livejournal.com]

very nice entries here! I'd love to see the wallpaper when it's done :)

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I love both icons (is Ezra snaggable?), and I'm so glad you guys are posting your entries so I can see the awesome stuff going on over at M7land :) The bookmarks have been great too. Yay creativity!

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much; I was worried about whether any of them would make sense!

Well, I hope you'll maybe use it as an actual bookmark?

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I hope I will manage to do it soon, we have final exams in a week and we're busy writing them. o_O

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, Ezra is snaggable, and so are all my graphics. Feel free to download any of them.

Are you a participant or do you just watch the comm? It's really been fun, and not that hard; my only problem so far has been time. The semester is almost over, so I hope I'll be able to participate more soon. Won't you join us? :tempts you:

[pezgirl7.livejournal.com]

You know I love the Mary icon and haikus! I honestly think the icon should have won an award. :)
I'm glad people are enjoying the comm. :D

[pezgirl7.livejournal.com]

Feel free to just watch the comm. The entries are not private. Of course, you could join as well. :)

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

^_^ Thank you! I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish it had won an award, but I'm honestly having so much fun that I don't mind - there'll be plenty of other challenges. I see that there's another graphics challenge; I'll do that just as soon as I finish some stuff for the school (and have some dinner - I just came home from work!)

It's a great comm, you're doing a wonderful job of running it, not to mention that the whole thing is a wonderful idea - who ever came up with it was a genius!

[pezgirl7.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You're right, whoever thought of the idea is a genius!

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

That's an idea! We even have an old photo printer and paper in our office at work, so after the weekend...

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

:encourages you: I even made an opening in the bookmark for a tassel, if you feel like putting one in...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, very nice... :)

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you! For the longest time I was reluctant to take up icon making - especially with your work as an example; I never thought I'd be any good at it. But I'm pleased at how some of them turned out and I'm happy I decided to try. :)

[tpena19.livejournal.com]

Good Luck!

[dj-aida.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I won't need it, but my students will!