120 icons for theiconquest!

[neonspider]

OMG ICON OVERLOAD. I was only supposed to complete the challenge once but something got a bit out of hand :o so these are all for the first main quest at theiconquest. The theme was 'adventure' and I went with those shows I think fit the theme best from the ones I watch, and used the inspiration post a lot for ideas. I hope it's ok that I've already posted a handful of these as examples here and there, namely my complexity guide and a meme at icon_talk, I totally forgot I hadn't posted them 'officially' yet. Nevertheless they were all definitely made for this challenge!

I DON'T KNOW WHY I HAVE AN OBSESSION ON MAKING MY CLASS SCORES AS EVEN AS POSSIBLE BUT IT'S FUN CAUSE IT'S AN EXCUSE TO MAKE EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNTS OF TEXT AND COMPLEX ICONS COMPARED TO MY USUAL SETS :D the class to which an icon belongs to is the column title.

Fandoms:

Doctor Who 76
Survivor 24
Buffy 4
Game of Thrones 4
Harry Potter 4
Sucker Punch 4
Battlestar Galactica 4


Hover for icon number!

ATTEMPT 1 - multifandom

	WIZARD	ROGUE	HERO	BARD
BTVS
Sucker Punch
Harry Potter
GoT
BSG
Doctor Who

ATTEMPT 2 - Survivor

(it's a reality adventure, so I thought why not? :D please no spoilers in comments, we've only seen up to the Heroes vs Villains season here in Finland!)

	WIZARD	ROGUE	HERO	BARD

ATTEMPT 3 - Doctor Who #1

(mostly companions)

	WIZARD	ROGUE	HERO	BARD

ATTEMPT 4 - Doctor Who #2

(I might be in love with 10 and his big sad puppy eyes)

	WIZARD	ROGUE	HERO	BARD

ATTEMPT 5 - Doctor Who #3

(aka the Masterful edition - an adventure has to have a happy ending after all! I put some doctor in the mix too cause I wonder what the Master would be without him :p)

	WIZARD	ROGUE	HERO	BARD

That's all for now! I'm sorry about the hugeness of this post, I just didn't want to make a billion smaller posts in one week or something.

Needless to say, since this is the biggest post I've made this far, I'd really really love any and all comments even more than ever :)

Comments

[neonspider]

OMGWOWWHATISTHISEVENANDHOWDOIDESERVEIT :OOO Thank you so so much, i can't believe how much effort and thought you've put into one comment and I'm so happy and flattered and ecstatic!!

I'm soooo glad you think so highly of the compositions because a) YOURS ARE SO FLAWLESS and b) you name pretty much my own favorite compositions here too so yay that someone appreciates them!

And I can't believe you just wrote that much about my cropping cause you're so right about me almost always going for a center crop and/or negative space without even thinking :p it's certainly the one iconing aspect I most often neglect. I'll make a note to make more close crops! I'm very flattered you like the Sansa one because everyone and their dog has made an icon of that cap so I didn't think mine really brought anything new to the table. And you're soo right about Rose and 10 having the most iconable faces everrrr. Tennant's is just so very expressive, and Rose is just so cute! (Also you stopped watching right when the show turned its awesomeness up to eleven! :P)

Thank you so much for the coloring feedback too - I'm glad you generally like both the vibrant and the muted ones here. The mutedness is definitely still a new territory so I muchly appreciate the concrity bit! (Yes, I use PS, and totally overuse the blurred softlight layer trick :D not on those icons though so I'll have to try that in them and/or keep that in mind for future!)

Also there is definitely no need to wish you would have added anything more, that's just insane, this comment is PERFECTION ♥

[tiptoetwirl.livejournal.com]

Hi,

So, uh, this is kinda a new thing for me to do since I never, ever want to impose on other makers but, if possible, would you be able to do a tutorial for 9 and/or 18? Feel free to say no because I understand that you're busy with college and stuff but I was just looking over this post again and these icons are seriously so, so gorgeous!

I really don't want to inconvenience you though so I'm being presumptuous I fully apologise! I'd just really love to see tutorials for those icons. Or PSDs. Whatever suits you more :)

[neonspider]

Oh, that wouldn't be much inconvenience at all, since these are so new that I'm pretty sure I have all the psd's and remember why I did what I did. Just to make sure, do you mean #9 and #18 of the whole post and thus the first attempt? (If so this is even easier because neither has very many layers so a tutorial shouldn't take much time). I'll see what I can do and never ever hesitate to ask stuff like this, not only is it really flattering but it's also always wonderful to (try to) help!

(Also the size of this icon post suggests I clearly do have some free time on my hands :D)

[tiptoetwirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome!

Yeah I mean of the whole post, from attempt one. Thanks a mill, you've totally made my day :D

[neonspider]

Great! I'll start writing asap - I know I still have a couple of tuts to make for the ask the maker thing but I think I can do these two first cause they really are so short. I just checked and 18 has only 6 layers. If it's ok, I'll try to get these done by the end of the week :)

[tiptoetwirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! How did I miss you on Ask the maker?

Anyway, thanks again and I really look forward to those tuts!!

[neonspider]

Yay, done already :D Hope you'll get something out of them!

http://froonium-icons.livejournal.com/14991.html

Hee, I was a bit clever with Ask the Maker - I saw it the first day it was posted, but waited a few days so I wouldn't be on the first page. I wanted questions, but not a thousand of them like most of the first-pagers usually would get, and my theory is that a lot of the askers on the first few days just ask things even if they're not really interested, just to give a bit attention to everyone. I knew I didn't have time for things like that, only for a few questions that hopefully would really interest the asker, so I wanted to participate a bit late when things had calmed down a bit :)