icon_style | Challenge #11 "Cut to the quick"

Welcome to challenge #11, "Cut to the quick"! For this challenge you must must use a single image per icon, and crop it in an interesting, unconventional way. That is, if you enter four icons, that would be four images (not one image, okay?). So this one isn't so much technical as stylistic, but it's still a challenge.
This challenge is now closed

Techniques:
- cropping

Useful (GIMP) tutorials:
- basics

Rules:
1. From one to four icons can be submitted.
2. You have two weeks to submit the icons; that is, they are due on Monday the 16th of June (that's my time, Australian time, so for some of you that will be the 15th).
3. Icons will be submitted in comments to this post. All comments will be screened, to preserve anonymity.
4. As soon as I can after the 16th, I will make a voting poll here. People will then have about three days to vote, because we don't really seem to need a week.
There will be two sections in the voting: (a) "Best embodiment of style"; this you vote for whichever icon you think demonstrates the style/technique of the given challenge (b) "I just like it"; where you vote for whichever icon you simply like the best.
5. You are required NOT to post your icons anywhere public until after the voting is over, so as to preserve the anonymity of the entries.
6. When the voting is over, I'll announce the winners here. Discussion of the challenge will be encouraged, especially discussion and demonstration of techniques used. The entries will also be un-screened.

In short:
Due 16th June, post entries here, don't show them elsewhere.

If you know any good tutorials for this challenge, please post a link.

And please pimp this far and wide!

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kerravonsen

siluria

Crops are actually the hardest thing for me to do, I'm not very inventive when it comes to this, so here goes :)

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