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138. Icon Progression 2015

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2015 Resolutions |
Waay back 12 months ago, I made the following icon resolutions: 1) Make more text icons 2)Try something other than centre crop+gradient negative space 3) Generally be more adventurous 4) Icon stuff I haven’t iconned in a while, like Ashes to Ashes, Merlin and Robin Hood 5) Icon new stuff more, like Atlantis, The Hour and The Musketeers |
January |
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January featured some attempts at more creative negative space construction, as well as some close crops and text experimentation. I took part in the ![]() ![]() ![]() # of icons: 30 Icon posts: One |
February |
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Again with the negative space, close crops, and text for this month. I finished my entry for the OUaT battle, some of which I’m still happy with, and I still love the Belle icon. After iconning Game of Thrones a lot in 2014, I think the Sansa icon was actually the first time I iconned GoT in 2015, which was a bit weird. # of icons: 43 Icon posts: One |
March |
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Worked on my icons for the ![]() ![]() # of icons: 39 Icon posts: None |
April |
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Finished my set for the ![]() ![]() # of icons: 14 Icon posts: One |
May |
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Very pleased with a lot of the icons I made for the ‘7 Shows You’d Bring Back’ challenge at ![]() ![]() # of icons: 35 Icon posts: One |
June |
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More Outlander icons, and lots more muted colours in June. I worked a fair bit on cropping, particularly more obscure crops, and tried using textures I hadn’t used before, such as in the Iron Man icon. # of icons: 16 Icon posts: One & Two |
July |
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A very slow iconning month for me, although I have no idea why since I’d finished my degree at this point! I mostly produced pastel and/or negative space icons, although I did try to be more experimental with the negative space and use textures I hadn’t before. # of icons: 7 Icon posts: None |
August |
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The first of the two busiest months for me in terms of iconning! I entered a set of Outlander icons for ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() # of icons: 57 Icon posts: One & Two |
September |
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My September icons were basically all for the Game of Thrones Icon Tourney at ![]() # of icons: 31 Icon posts: One & Two |
October |
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I got massively addicted to Castle in September/October so this was the first time I ever iconned Castle! I also iconned Doctor Who for the first time in ages, which was a bit of a déjà vu moment for me. I admit I did get a little lazy this month and mostly did icons with light textures and/or colouring, but very happy with some of the other results like the crop on the Kate icon above. # of icons: 21 Icon posts: None |
November |
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December |
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My other joint-busiest icon-making month! Most of the icons in December were fills for the holiday requests I offered, but there were also some entries for ![]() # of icons: 57 Icon posts: One & Two & Three |
Overall |
# of icons: 386 # of icon posts: 14 Busiest month: August [57] & December [57] Quietest month: July [7], April [14], June [16] Most iconned: Once Upon a Time [103], Outlander [55] & Castle [39] Main new fandoms: Outlander & Castle Total number of icontests I placed in: 32/25! Biggest achievements/progress made/observations: More creative negative space/fake background icons? Maybe? I no longer run away screaming from text, but I don’t exactly use text in every icon so not sure if that counts as progress or not :P I was asked to make a text guide though, so I think that's progress! I tend to make vibrant coloured icons much more than I did before, but I still favour negative space icons over any other style. Also, I’m very pleased with how the two battles I ran turned out! My personal favourites: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2016 Resolutions |
1) Make more text icons 2) Be more creative with negative space 3) Be more confident with colouring - if I'm going for a vibrant icon, then actually go for it properly, and the same with muted 4) Experiment more with cropping (close crops, obscure/creative crops) - don't just resort to centre crops all the time! 5) No more lazy iconning! |
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to see that you always try to edit in different ways and to experiment more. I have always thought your icons
were perfect, so to me you just made perfect even more so, but you definitely improved! Especially concerning
negative space icons. I adore how you work with solid colours and lighting, there isn't an icon looking like another,
each and every one of them looks incredibly unique! And thumbs up for the fake backgrounds as well :3
Can't wait to see all the pretties you'll share this year.♡
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