12 Narnia Book Cover Icons!

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			12 Narnia Book Cover Icons! - moonspinner

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12 Narnia Book Cover Icons!

Apparently most of the Narnia icons on LJ are those based off the movie. Well, no biggie. I was inspired by

fialleril's recent spate of activity and decided to make some icons of my own. :)

Preview:

1	2	3

4	5	6

7	8	9

10	11	12

In chronological order:
1. The rings
2. Diggory and the Tree
3. The Tombs of Calormen. That's Bree in the background
4. Probably a pair of matching royal rings representing Cor and Corin
5. The sword of Caspian... or Peter?
6. A 'Dark' Dawn Treader
7. Prettier Dawn Treader complete with scary wave-face
8. Red-Dawn Treader
9. The Green Snake which used to be a beautiful green woman
10. Rillian destroying his jail
11. Jewel
12. Bright, more girly Jewel. :p

Credit goes to Barnes & Noble fromw here I got scans of the cover arts. All the icons are crops of those scans, with a little artistic modifications here and there.

Please comment and if used, please credit. Thanks!

Tags: books: by cs lewis, icons

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From: bobill	Date: July 5th, 2007 12:24 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Wow, that's some really high-resolution scanning! Did you have to saturate the color after you scanned it in? The effects are pretty nice! You've really captured the icon spirit. Very pretty!

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 5th, 2007 12:32 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks! Yes I had to do things to the colour and brightness. I use Photo Editor so I leached off some of the blue and green to make, for example, the Twin Rings brighter. And the Rings (this icon) were too green so I leached off the green and added a little red. Stuff like that. I'm glad you like them. I think I'll make more.

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	From: r0ck3tsci3ntist	Date: July 5th, 2007 02:40 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Those are beaut-ee-ful!

I used to know how make icons but for some reason now they keep coming up blurry. I think I need lessons. What do you do?

Snags #6, thank you very much! (the art fairy is being petulant this week and everything I start looks like butt - so I'm still working at it)

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 6th, 2007 07:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

Oh well I use Microsoft Photo Editor. I usually crop it large to something like 400 by 400 pixels so I can see the image properly. Then I do things like Brightness/Contrast/Gamma modifications to each of the colours (Red/Blue/Green) until I get the particular effect that I want. I think for #6, I added some green just to give it a little evil tint. (I always see green as the colour of poison). Then I sharpened it to emphasize those discolourations in the background.

Glad you like them. :)

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	From: indiefic	Date: July 5th, 2007 03:03 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The icons are gorgeous!

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 6th, 2007 07:45 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks!

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	From: foodsthatcan	Date: July 5th, 2007 04:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

#1 is so otherworldly, like it's from some space invader sci-fi novel rather than children's fantasy. Hee. The artwork of Shasta at the tombs is lovely, though.

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 6th, 2007 07:48 am (UTC)		(Link)

It should be otherwordly. That's the wood between the worlds and those rings are your ticket-stumps to world-travel. *g*

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	From: geo4real	Date: July 5th, 2007 05:54 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Dreamy!

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 6th, 2007 07:51 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thank you! I've always wanted to ask, what's yours about?

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	From: frostbit_sky	Date: July 5th, 2007 08:02 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Very beautiful icons :)

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 6th, 2007 07:57 am (UTC)		(Link)

Awww. thank you!

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	From: atanone	Date: July 5th, 2007 09:28 pm (UTC)		(Link)

they are wonderful!!! snagged some,will credit ♥
I love esp. 1,2 and 3. :D

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 6th, 2007 08:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

I Adore yours! I love that movie. *g*

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	From: atanone	Date: July 6th, 2007 08:10 am (UTC)		(Link)

*hugs* swaping icons is a lovely bussiness :) happy it works both sides :)

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	From: fialleril	Date: July 6th, 2007 05:38 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oooh, prettiness. :D I especially love #8. The sea of sweet water and lilies is probably my favorite image in all the books. Also, #2 is very nice.

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	From: moonspinner	Date: July 9th, 2007 07:27 am (UTC)		(Link)

The last chapters of Dawn Treader were out of this world.

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	From: fialleril	Date: July 9th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Literally. ;)

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	From: shygryf	Date: January 10th, 2008 04:30 am (UTC)		(Link)

beautiful!

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	From: moonspinner	Date: January 10th, 2008 06:23 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thank you!

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	From: hmms_gree	Date: March 21st, 2008 12:29 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I love numbers 6 and 10.

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	From: moonspinner	Date: August 5th, 2008 09:26 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'm sorry it took me so long to reply.

I'm really glad you liked them.

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