91 ICONS

[neonspider]

SPAM, I KNOW

but the trope_overdosed deadline is like right now so no choice in that! (always last minute. ALWAYS. I need to do something about my time managements skills!)

So these are a few batches + some randoms I've made recently. Fandoms include:

Doctor Who 25
Buffyverse 25
Farscape 9
Star Wars 5
Battlestar Galactica 5
StarGate sg1 3
Game of Thrones 2 or 3
Harry Potter 2
Star Trek TOS 2
Brokeback Mountain 2
The Big Bang Theory, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fringe, Avatar 1 each
and some fandoms that may or may not be White Collar, True Blood, Teen Wolf, Merlin, Supernatural and Breaking Bad

and they are made for various challenge comms (trope_overdosed, iconbattling, turbo_rumble, iconflashes, whedon_elite, scificontest)



for trope_overdosed
The last challenge ;___; I tried to make all the tropes but couldn't make everything work that well so these are just most. Anyway hope they're ok as they're the last I get to make for that comm!

[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]
[21-25]
[26-28]



Tropes and fandoms:

Farscape
1 Bittersweet Ending
2 You Can't Go Home Again
3 Pan Up to the Sky Ending
4 Paint It Black
5 Iris Out
Doctor Who
6 Yellow Lighting/Blue Lighting
7 Tastes Like Diabetes
8 Sharp Dressed Man
9 Real Is Brown
10 Back for the Finale
11 Action Survivor
The Big Bang Theory
12 Riding Into the Sunset
Buffyverse
13 Smoking Is Cool
14 Gaussian Girl
15 Gorgeous Period Dress
16 Put on a Bus
17 Future Is Noir
18 Femme Fatale
19 Action Girl
Harry Potter
20 The Sliding Scale of Shiny vs Gritty
21 Epilogue Letter
Stargate sg1:
22 Plot Sensitive items
23 All Just a Dream

24 Star Wars: Heterosexual Life Partners
25 Battlestar Galactica: Your Princess Is in Another Castle
26 Star Trek Search for Spock: Earn Your Happy Ending
27 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Camera Screw
28 Game of Thrones: Above the Ruins



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These were for iconbattling and I'm not quite sure of all the fandoms so please let me know if you know the missing/mistagged fandoms?

[29-33]
True Blood, Teen Wolf, Merlin, Doctor Who, White Collar?
[34-38]
Supernatural, Game of Thrones x2??, Breaking Bad?, Farscape


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This is my second attempt at the first sidequest (chapter 1) at theiconquest, this time for the Wizard palette. They're all Doctor Who (I HAVE A PHASE, BEAR WITH ME :p).

39	40	41	42	43

44	45	46	47	48

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This was my turbo_rumble set for the last round and I made it ages ago but just forgot to post them, haha. Some of these definitely look like I could have maybe made them better now, but some I like a lot so I'll just post them all :)

[49-53]
Doctor Who x5
[54-58]
Buffy x2, Angel, Star Wars x2
[59-60] 
Star Wars, Farscape


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And these were made for whedon_elite, scificontest and iconflashes.
Some of these are quite old (from August!! :O), my OCD just can't leave them unposted, haha. Most of these are quite recent though.

[61-65]
[66-70]
[71-75]
BTVS x15
[76-80]
Farscape x2, Doctor Who x3
[81-85]
BSG x4, Star Wars
[86-90]
StarGate sg1, Star Trek, Fringe, Brokeback mountain x2
[91]
Avatar


Comments would be awesome!!! ♥

Comments

[apologizeg]

Great icons! Love your monotone ones. :)

[neonspider]

Aw, thank you so much! :) I may love making monochrome icons a bit too much, hee.

[neatmonster.livejournal.com]

wow the trope-overdose batch is amazing! saving tones!! I esp like 4, 9, 10, 13, 15, 18 and 27.

I love what you did for the last round of iconbattling, I actually voted for some of those, I love 29, 30 and 33.
about the missing tags, 29 is from True Blood, 33 from White collar and 37 from Breaking bad =)

Great texture use for the turbo-rumble set, and great coloring on the Buffy one <3

It's always great having your icons over whedon-elite! I adore specially what you did from 69 to 75.

[neonspider]

Omg let me go squee over how amazing this comment is! ♥ Thank you sooo much, all that means a lot =)

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

These are amazing! :D

6-11 are really wonderful; I love the composition for 8 and 9, and the coloring on 6, 7, 10 and 11 is gorgeous! :D

39-48 are really well-done; complexity is definitely something I'm trying to master in iconning, and I think you did beautifully. :)

57 has some great composition, and 58 -- wonderful use of black and white. And 59 --very good cap choices and use of levels (and black and white). Not to mention they gave me a heck of a lot of feels. I love the coloring for 78 and 79, and the blending on 85 is just awesome. And 91 -- gorgeous coloring. Really great job! :D

[raiindust.livejournal.com]

YAY! Amazing, amazing post!

#4 is kind of beautiful, the combination of bright pink and black is so unique but it works so beautifully, and the text use is kind of flawless. I love #6, the boldness of the yellow and the blue are all kinds of gorgeous, and #10 is absolutely divine. It's soft but also sharp, and the brown tones are so incredibly lovely. #13 has such amazing texture work, and the text is awesome, and then #15 has such lovely lighting and softness again. It's kind of awesome to see how easily you move between the two styles, definitely impressed with that skill! The depth of the shadows and grunge textures work so nicely in #17, and then #20 has that incredible softness again! Gorgeous lighting as well. I love the crop and muted tones and gorgeous deep blues of #23, and the texture/text/everything about #25. Beautiful stuff there.

BUT IT DOESN'T END HERE! #30 and #34 have gorgeous shadow work, and I love the contrast you've used in both of them to really amp the nature of the close crops. #43 is a flipping perfect icon, such amazing texture work and cropping and colouring and just everything, but I also love the vibrancy to #45, and the combination of colours! #79 has some very unique colouring going on, with some vibrance and some mutedness all at once (very beautiful) and the colours of #87 are lovely.

Gorgeous stuff, and thanks for taking the time to enter at trope-overdosed!!

[neonspider]

Thank you so much for the amazing and well-thought feedback!! It means a lot to me, especially that you appreciate the SW ones as the franchise kinda seems your area of expertise! :)

Are you at theiconquest btw? I find the class system gives me the perfect opportunity to practise all kinds of styles, including more difficult ones like text.

[neonspider]

Omg, thank YOU for taking the time and effort to write this lovely awesome wonderful in depth comment!!! ;__; ♥ it really means the world!

Also this:

It's kind of awesome to see how easily you move between the two styles, definitely impressed with that skill!

...made me really happy because what you describe is probably actually called being all over the place and not having a style, but I love that you make it sound like a good thing, hee :DD I quite envy those who have found 'their thing' and perfected it, but right now it's just so much fun to do a bit of everything!

[doleo.livejournal.com]

Wow, amazing batch!

[neonspider]

Thank you, I'm happy you like them! :)

[pokecharm.livejournal.com]

fab set!

[setentpet.livejournal.com]

Is it inappropriate to propose, just based on the artistic skill you could bring to the gene pool? If so, please ignore. =)

God I wish I had a thing for the Master because I would save all of those. I will save 10, 11, 14, 17-19, 30, 43 (and I hate rose....just fyi), 66-70.

[ashooles.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. I love your colouring :)

[angelamaria.livejournal.com]

ALL THE COLORS, FOREVER AND EVER! I love how colorful your set is! They're colorful and dreamy and even muted icons like 10 is absolutely amazing ♥ And your Wizard sets are fantastic!!

[750virago.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous work!

[revengerv.livejournal.com]

I take some DW, ST and Btvs. Will credit, if used. They are amazing.

[neonspider]

LOL, totally inappropriate but also awesome! I'd never dare to mess up your faaaaar superior genes though :D

And aaw so many favorites, thank you so much, I'm thrilled that I even made you save some Rose despite you hating her, hehe =D

[neonspider]

Thank you so much!! :D

[neonspider]

Oh wow, thank you so much!! :)

[neonspider]

COLORS FTW OK. I love to use them aaaaaalll. Maybe too much, but at least I have fun =D so so glad you like them!!

Wizarding is fun too but so challenging sometimes so yay for you liking them as well ♥

[neonspider]

Wow, thank you so much!!

[neonspider]

Yay, that's so awesome to hear, I'm glad you like them and even saved some! :)

[hipokras.livejournal.com]

ooh the variation in colouring alone in this post *_______* the shadows are used perfectly, and I love how it darkens the icon and intensifies the effect of 2, 4, 21, 26, 34, 71 (flawlessly emphasising the cropping in that one), 72, and 81. Speaking of which, the cropping of 23 and 34 are brill with how extreme they are, while being chock-full of emotion, and in contrast the focus on her smile in 79. The contrast of 27 is amazing, the cold blue and the inherently horror? of the cap is the perfect contrast to the warm tones of the other half; similarly 55 and 57 with that unexpected sliver of face peeking through is a little disconcerting and fantastic for pretty much that reason. I love how you effortlessly include texture, and it doesn't look clunky as a result at all - it's like you knew the texture that would work best with the icon and effortlessly applied it: 38, 40, 75, I really like how deceptively simple they look, and the actual cap is coloured so well and the expressions are so sharp.

um this has gotten tl;dr after a point, but overall, I really, really like how you use the glowy bright colours to such good effect, and accentuate the darker ones with fantastic and sometimes harsh (but in a good way) cropping.

[neonspider]

OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE AWESOME COMMENT *______* Like I seriously want to just read this over and over again! also a comment, especially a great well-thought out one like this is NEVER tl;dr! Really though thanks for taking the time to comment with such detail, I always half expect people to just sort of skim through a post this big so when someone shows they're really taken a good look it always makes me squee :D

[daleksaresexy.livejournal.com]

You do muted monochrome so well!

[neonspider]

Wow, thank you so much, I don't think I've ever heard that specific compliment so yay!! :D I love making all kinds of monochromes :>

[ionizable.livejournal.com]

wowwww this entire post is so incredibly fantastic! i'm just sitting here being overwhelmed by your use of light and shadows and gradientsssss like what kind of magic do you use in order to produce such perfectly textured monochrome icons like 17, 36, 37, and 71 and that's not even mentioning 23, with all its glowy shadowy amazeballness. i just. i don't understand??

[xbriyeon.livejournal.com]

took some Faith and Rose, thanks. ♥

[tiptoetwirl.livejournal.com]

Hey, just want to say that LJ's been a bitch the past few days- the pages aren't loading properly and I can't see some of the icons posted so I'll leave a proper comment when everything's working again. The ones I can see look amazing though, really loving the light and depth of colour on some of these :)

[applepips]

JESUS. THIS POST. ♥__♥

Your colouring and lighting is flawless. Seriously, flawless and gorgeous.

5 - I lovelovelove this two-tone kind of colouring. It's one of my favourite kind of colouring to see as well as try out. Also, yellow+blue FTW.
10 - Such beautiful soft colouring! I love it. Also, I think your lovely Rose icons are gonna strong-arm me into giving Doctor Who a go.
17 - OHMYGOD. This is basically the perfect amount of shadows and flawless texture use!
30 - Shadow play. AW YES. Also, I love how smooth the icon is without losing any of the important details.
37 - I really, really love shadows. With the passion of a thousand burning shadows. They just add so much depth to the icon and can elevate to suppress a mood beautifully, BASICALLY, flawless icon. And marvelous texture use!
38 - What is this composition wizardry as well? :O. The subject looks sort of dark but I love the blue and maroon and the way you've framed the subject with perfect cut-outs.
61 - AW YAY LIME GREEN. I love the softness of the colouring as well as the lovely clean background.
79 - Hairporn. It's a lovely crop and the colours, the pretty colours.
87 - I lovelovelove the three contrasting colours. The green works beautifully with both the blue and yellow! Also love the subtle blocking!

Beautiful post all around! :D

[neonspider]

Aw, YOU are incredibly fantastic!! Thank you sooo much for this lovely comment ;_; ♥ all that means so much because you're masterful with lights and gradients and all that stuff yourself. Also 'amazeballness' has to be my new favorite word :D

I don't really have a method for those monochromes, I just... mess around and put a lot of textures on Screen and gradient maps on everything and that's pretty much it :p Glad it works for you cause most of the time I don't even know what I'm doing!

[neonspider]

Thank you! I'm always delighted when people save something :>

[neonspider]

Oh, that's bad, especially if LJ is wonky in other ways too :/ It's working fine for me, hope it'll start working again for you too soon! And thank you so much, I'm glad you like what you saw :) (also this totally counts as a 'proper comment'!)

[neonspider]

JESUS, THIS COMMENT ♥ You really are too kind and awesome, thank you so so much for taking the time to give such detailed feedback and finding so many things to like here :') (can't take the credit for the block in 87 though as it was already in the image but I love that you noticed and liked that detail anyway!!)

Also YAY TO THIS:

I think your lovely Rose icons are gonna strong-arm me into giving Doctor Who a go.

YES. This is my secret agenda. No but really it's an awesome iconable show and I would loooooooooove to see you icon it cause I would take all of them and use them always so really this is an almost purely selfish agenda :DD.

[the-silverdoe.livejournal.com]

I just love your Trope-overdosed icons!! ♥ What you did with the lighting and contrast is amazing, they have real depth in them. And you really rocked the wizard palette, I can't even pick favourites, they're very creative and inspiring! (And I'm in love with all your Master icons, okay? That won't change :))

[neonspider]

Omg, thank you so much for the AWESOME comment!!! ♥ so glad you like the Wizard ones as I wasn't too sure about them, and yay I'll go squee now about you liking my lighting cause yours is always free of flaws ^^

[ellaangelus.livejournal.com]

Ooookay, trying not to faint from all the goodies goodies I'm seeing right now.
Oh my god, there are so many icons, I don't even know how to begin. Icon 36 is freakin awesome, I have no idea why you didn't win with that one, the cropping is perfect. Love the blending you did on icon #42 and the uniqueness of icons #44 and #45.
Last but not least, I ADORE the coloring on icon #74 and the glowy look of it (i love glowy).
Per all, they're all just great.. far beyond great, actually.

[neonspider]

Omg, this comment is so full of awesome, I can't even!! ;_;

Thank you so much for the thoughtful and detailed feedback, and I'm particularly thrilled that you like the glow as I really love the style too, and it's just so amazing when someone who really really excels at it approves of my attempts :>

[ellaangelus.livejournal.com]

Well, i'm a sucker for glowy icons ^^ And you're completely right, I do excel.. at attempting to make icons. I really do XDDD

[sodamnreckless.livejournal.com]

Perfect and I was wondering if you mind making more Martha from doctor who icons and maybe some of homeland if you can.