Elf needs new LJ icon, badly

[annathepiper]

So I'm tired of looking at Dewshine on my LJ. I mean, she's cute and all but I'd like something that says "me" a bit more. Ergo, I am putting out a request to my artistically-inclined friends: would any of you be willing to draw me an LJ icon? I can provide links to pictures of me for those who aren't actually local to me. ^_^

In exchange I will offer you an act of creativity of your choice: a) a sonnet, b) you get a cameo in a story, c) a filk song.

P.S. Extra bonus points for icons that exemplify my most common moods! (Yes, I can see an anime frizzy-haired, hat-wearing, pointed-eared Anna with a cloud of little pink hearts around her head now... ;) )

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i'll make you a tengwar anna, but i hardly think that's worth a sonnet :)

[annathepiper]

*giggle!* Well, maybe if it's a very, very NICE Tengwar...

Damn, I wish I knew enough Sindarin or Quenya to write a sonnet in one of those!

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

I can't draw, but I emailed you some possible icons. :) No reward neccessary since I just looked them up on the web and cut them to size.

- Jessica

[annathepiper]

Did you use my old email address? I've finally nuked anna@murk, so if you used that one you'll have gotten a bounce... I haven't seen any mail come through from you, so I was curious!

[annathepiper]

Of course, it never occurred to me that you might use my WORK address... those icons are great, Jessica, thank you! ^_^

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Of course, you're a filker ... I should have known that.

Best,
LMG

[annathepiper]

An amateur filker at best, but I have filked a few things!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I'm a filker too. Google on my actual name and filk to see my filk.

LMG

[annathepiper]

Well, I found a big ol' geocities page, and if that's you, color me impressed--lots of filk there. :)

I've only written about a dozen songs, some of which I'm quite proud of ("How Many Hugos?" and "Ride Upon the Wyvern", primarily), and some of which were just silly. I have a couple other song ideas rolling around in my head that I hope to get to at some point, though!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Uh yeah, that's me, and there's actually a lot of stuff that isn't up.

I haven't been updating my page a lot lately. Of course, this assumes it's the right (http://www.geocitites.com/wingkitty) Geocites page.

I've been writing for about ten years though, wow, that's scary. More like nine, but still. I didn't get a big burst of it until about five years ago. They sort-of trickle in slowly most of the time. Though occassionally I get a bunch together.

LMG

[annathepiper]

That's the page I was looking at, yeah!

I didn't actually get a chance to read the lyrics to any of the songs, but I am curious... do you find that you filk extant songs more often, or do you write original songs as well?

So far of the songs that I have written, the two that I mentioned in the comment above are the ones I'm happiest with because they are ones I wrote myself and didn't base off of some other song. One of my side goals that I want to accomplish in between writing is to get comfortable enough on my stringed instruments that I can write melodies as well as lyrics. :) I have enough chords now that I can begin to try to make connections in my head as to which ones sound good together in what order, but it's only barely beginning to come together for me!

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

I would like to do one for you. Let me know what you want and what kind of style for it. :)

[annathepiper]

A good default icon would be nice... artist's rendition of me would be nifty. ^_^ What I visualize in my head is your basic head shot, with my obligatory hat, mussy blonde hair (though longer than it currently is right now because I am used to seeing it long), and pointy ears. Probably something with my head turned a little sideways and looking up with a big smile and bright eyes. The sort of expression I'd be wearing if somebody said to me, "HEY ANNA! The Grunts are coming to Seattle NEXT MONTH! Here, have some tickets!" ;)

Something involving playing a flute would also be appropriate for musicgeeking... I'd say something involving playing one of my stringed instruments would be MORE appropriate, except that that would probably be harder to fit into the requisite picture size.

*giggle* And as I mentioned--something involving me looking swoony would also be appropriate, given how often I post swoony things to this journal. ;)

I like your anime style drawings! So that would be lovely. Alternately, something Wendy-Pini-esque.

I like colored pencils; I like watercolors.