20 November 2012 @ 10:24 pm
30 Doctor Who icons  





This is my set for the 39th round of [livejournal.com profile] character20n20. My claim was Ten and if there ever was a hurried last minute set then this is it. Like honestly I have my hands full with uni work and everything so I seriously considered dropping this challenge but then I decided to try anyway. These things considered I'm quite proud of this set. I decided to go for a more toned-down color scheme and a grungier texture-heavy look this time, I guess because I thought it would fit the side of Ten I wanted to highlight (as much as I like goofy!Ten, angsty!emo!Ten is my favorite thing ever :p ♥).

I hope the more quiet coloring doesn't make these boring, but in case you like my more vibrant stuff better, I've also included my first set for [livejournal.com profile] rainbow_elite where I also claimed Doctor Who (I know, ORLY? :p). That comm is worth checking out anyway if you're into colors :)

I've seen some pretty awesome stuff on my flist lately and I can't wait to have time to browse and comment on it all. It should get a bit less hectic soon, and I guess I'll need to take a bit fewer iconing challenges per month to keep myself sane. (I SWEAR I ALREADY TRIED THAT, WHAT HAPPENED? :O)

Anyway comments would be almost as awesome as Ten's big brown puppy eyes! Or actually even more awesome. ♥


for [livejournal.com profile] character20n20


10 THEMES

Angry Blur Brave Hands Negative Space
No Eyes Outside Perfect Silver Soft



CATEGORY

Close Crop 1 Close Crop 2 Close Crop 3 Close Crop 4 Close Crop 5



ARTIST'S CHOICE

artist's choice 1 artist's choice 2 artist's choice 3 artist's choice 4 artist's choice 5



for [livejournal.com profile] rainbow_elite



 
 
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[identity profile] kayable.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 01:39 am (UTC)
These are really beautiful, I love your text and composition work for character20in20 especially in negative space and perfect. And all the bright colours in the set for rainbow_elite are lovely especially 07!
neonspider: john yellow monochrome[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:16 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much for the awesome comment!! 7 in the rainbow set gave so much trouble that I'm particularly glad it works for you :)
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neonspider: 11 circle[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:21 pm (UTC)
omg, thank you so much for the sweet words! Those are my own favorites from the rainbow set as well, so I'm super glad you like them :)

Also look at what a pretty new userpic I have! I'm now in the 11 episodes so I can finally use this beauty ♥
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[identity profile] margerydaw-s2.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 04:53 pm (UTC)
You seem to be trying new things with regards to composition like what you did with Brave and Hands (I especially like these two, btw). I also really love Silver, Soft, the Cat set ( holy pie, Cat 2 is perfect). Your AC set is just fabulous. Spot-on lighting, as always!

Love your icons for rainbow_elite, too! So colorful <3
neonspider: jool sky[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:24 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much for the awesome comment! You're absolutely right, I was trying to do something different, so it's reaaally great to hear which ones worked the best for you! And also omg about the lighting part, that means so much as you know how much I adore yours. ♥
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[identity profile] schwarze-ratte.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 06:28 pm (UTC)
I love the Ten icons <3 Fantastic! Snagging #soft. *waves*
neonspider: kara closecrop[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:26 pm (UTC)
Yay, glad you liked them, and even found something to save! Thank you so much :)
[identity profile] rocketgirl2.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 07:32 pm (UTC)
Whoa, so gorgeous! I love how you can just flip from muted coloring to super vibrant coloring and have them both look stunning!
neonspider: kirk half and half[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:28 pm (UTC)
Omg, you're way too generous, thank you so much for the lovely comment! ♥
Erika: Jack/Ianto[identity profile] punk4life1315.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 08:32 pm (UTC)
Great icons.
I really like angry, silver and soft. :)
neonspider: lee adama blue[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:29 pm (UTC)
Aw, thank you so much!! :)
[identity profile] setentpet.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 09:55 pm (UTC)
as always, your icons are stunning! I really like your light on on soft, your texture use and color on brave, your composition and color on negative space and just love the rest as well. snagging them all.
neonspider: lee adama i broke the wings[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:33 pm (UTC)
As always you're waaay too kind and awesome!! Thank you so much ♥ Also whoa, I'm super flattered when people save even one icon, so sdafssadssasfgfgawowthankyou about that last part *__*
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[identity profile] raiindust.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 09:56 pm (UTC)
Your compositions, holy wow! Everything is gorgeous though, but I think you're carving yourself such a beautifully understated, muted, compositional style here. #3 has such a stunning, stunning style going on. I love the intensity of the colours, but the sepia tones that are also muted that keep everything a little softer. And the text and composition is beautiful. I love the texture work in #5 as well, the mixture of blues and browns is so incredibly gorgeous, and again the composition is stunning. The lighting and contrast of #9 and #10 is so beautiful, I can't even. So incredibly gorgeous. And the entire category of cropping is magnificent. The AC #1 has gorgeous, gorgeous lighting, and AC #3 and AC #5 are compositional dreams as well. The text is working so beautifully here, and I love the monochrome style as well. #7 and #8 in your rainbow-elite set are so flipping spectacular though. The pinks are so vibrant, and I love the composition of #7 and the lighting of #8. Magical stuff!
neonspider: luna cyan[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:46 pm (UTC)
Oh wow, thank you so much for another amazing comment, no idea what I've done to deserve this! *__*
So glad you see something like an actual style here, I guess I did try to keep the character set a bit more together than usually, but we'll see if I can keep that up at all :p and I'm so glad you like the rainbow set as well, especially 7 cause I was thiiiis close to just deleting it :O
Thanks again for the lovely words!
[identity profile] narniacmr.livejournal.com on November 21st, 2012 10:21 pm (UTC)
Your Ten set is so beautiful! I love this muted look that you've been doing recently :D
I love the coloring on Blur, I've never seen that scene other than super saturated, the coloring really gives it a different feel.
The composition on Brave, Hands, and No Eyes... guh! so stunning.
Soft is so... soft. It fits the theme perfectly!
Both your cat and ac sets are so pretty! I love cat#4 and ac#1.
Your rainbow icons are so vibrant and creative! I love #5 and #8 :D
neonspider: lims round 8 favorite[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:49 pm (UTC)
Oh wow, thank you so much for such an awesome in-depth comment!! I'm really glad you like the muted look, I have a big muted phase and always worry if others will like it at all :D
[identity profile] lemonzter.livejournal.com on November 22nd, 2012 02:41 am (UTC)
love it! awesome coloring
neonspider: love match j/a[personal profile] neonspider on November 22nd, 2012 08:49 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much!! :)
[identity profile] blue-emotion.livejournal.com on November 22nd, 2012 10:26 pm (UTC)
wow these are gorgeous :D you have a great eye for composition! I'm saving 5, 20, 27 & 28 ♥!
neonspider: martha i'll be back[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 04:45 pm (UTC)
Omg, thank you so much! *__* ♥
ext_24538: dw} 10-rose[identity profile] xbriyeon.livejournal.com on November 22nd, 2012 11:35 pm (UTC)
lovely!
neonspider: martha outside[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 04:45 pm (UTC)
Thanks! ♥
[identity profile] burntheflaws.livejournal.com on November 23rd, 2012 04:19 am (UTC)
Both your colorful and muted icons are great (5, 7 and 8 for the colorful icons are gorgeous), but I think I especially love your muted icons here! The compositions are fantabulous. I have a bunch of favorites but I particularly love Hands, Negative Space (probably my favorite of this entire post), AC2, AC3 and AC5.
neonspider: martha perfect exit[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 04:46 pm (UTC)
Oh wow, thank you so much for this awesome feedback! I'm pretty thrilled that you like the muted ones especially - I never really expect to be good at them as I've mostly done vibrant in the past!
[identity profile] tiptoetwirl.livejournal.com on November 23rd, 2012 10:56 am (UTC)
Okay, right off the bat, can I just say that all that practice you've been doing with text had really paid off because that aspect of your icons in this batch is stunning. Standing out in particular is brave, no eyes and negative space. Also the grunginess of your [livejournal.com profile] character20in20 set is really, really eye-catching and I love how your [livejournal.com profile] rainbow_elite set is the complete opposite - vibrant and so, so full of colour.

Your compositions with this batch are also impressive. The way the text blocks out the Doctor's face in No Eyes adds to the sombre, slightly melancholy tone set by the text itself and makes for a really powerful overall effect. Also in Angry, I love how the cap your chose for the Doctor is not full out rage but a more subtle equally unmistakable emotion that really says a lot about his seemingly never ending rivalry with the Daleks.

Concrit wise, on my monitor parts of the Doctor's face in AC3 is looking just a little LQ. I'm not sure if you textures cover those part of the icon or not and it's likely not as bad on other monitors (I think mine is a bit brighter than most). That being said AC3 is another example of excellent composition from you and the text is, again, spot on :)
neonspider: martha silver[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 04:53 pm (UTC)
Wow, thank you for the wonderful feedback! You pretty much mention everything I was going for with the character set so it's wonderful to read all that :') I wasn't sure anyone would get/like No Eyes so yay for that, I just wanted to try something a bit different than the first couple if crops I immediately think of with this prompt.

Thanks for the concrit too, you really are wonderful for being one of the only people ever to even give any. I can't really see it on my monitor but totally believe it is there, as I didn't erase the texture from his face at all. I'll watch out for that in the future!
[identity profile] rosy-nic.livejournal.com on November 23rd, 2012 11:50 am (UTC)
loving the colours of these :) :)
neonspider: martha text bg[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 04:54 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much!! :)
[identity profile] mathhhh.livejournal.com on November 23rd, 2012 01:34 pm (UTC)
Absolutely gorgeous! ♥
neonspider: master ac complex[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 04:54 pm (UTC)
Aw, thank you!! ♥
http://the-silverdoe.livejournal.com/: {Once} ++ Apple[identity profile] the-silverdoe.livejournal.com on November 23rd, 2012 07:58 pm (UTC)
Gah, Ten and all the sexy Tennant! These are stunning, really. The sharpness on the Category icons is perfect, I love the lighting on AC1 and AC4, and I also really, really like 'Hands', 'Negative Space' and the bold lighting on 'Silver' and 'Soft. ♥

#5 and #8 of the rainbow_elite icons: Omg the vibrance is flawless, I love it!
neonspider: master breaking news[personal profile] neonspider on November 23rd, 2012 08:18 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much for all the lovely and detailed comments, I'm so glad you like them! and YES, you are right, never ever enough of sexy Tennant :DD
[identity profile] library-of-sex.livejournal.com on November 24th, 2012 05:01 pm (UTC)
HOLY SHIT. You've grown so much since even your last post. How the hell do you do that?! You've totally nailed that vibrant coloring for your rainbow-elite set that I've been aiming for since 2010 or so. Dude, your blues and purples are so dense and rich! I'm jealous!!!!!!!!! I especially love how Rose's blonde hair is so unbelievably lush and bright amongst the laser blue backgrounds in the 4th and 5th rainbow-elite icons! Your muted coloring is also startlingly awesome. Close Crop 1 is insanely gorgeous from coloring to lighting to the intimate crop itself. Such gorgeous contrast in his skin! I could say the very same for AC1 except that the crop is obviously wide, not close. NEGATIVE SPACE IS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!! THE BLUE AND THE BORDERS AND HIS SILHOUETTE AND THE TINY CIRCLE WITH THE TEXT IN IT. MAGICAL!!!!! hands is just plain adorable, and I loooove the combo of purple and cream/peach. There's a striking balance between the light and dark in that icon, and the image choices are great as well! Soft is phenomenal. The lighting and shine around the subject make him look heavenly! And I die for the shadow falling over the left side of his face. PERFECTION. I think the one that hits me hardest right now though is AC5 cuz the text is 100% flawless and superb and immaculate. I'm loving all the glow and grunge simultaneously going on in this post, Tommi! <3333333

May I ask what grungy/smoky texture you used in AC5? That piece just has me so captivated, quite honestly.
neonspider: brave little toaster[personal profile] neonspider on November 24th, 2012 06:28 pm (UTC)
Omg no wonder you're winning all the 'most awesome person EVER' polls at the w_s awards (well, most supportive/best flailer, same difference :D), this comment is MADE OF WIN!!! ♥ ♥

I'm just so incredibly thrilled that you found SO MUCH to like in this post *__* butbutbut shut up you can't possibly be jealous your icons have a much more interesting and original form of vibrancy :OO

And my previous post was like a week earlier than this one, I can't possibly have grown at all! :OO But thank you for thinking I have, that's just so awesome to hear, hope I can keep that up. I'm so glad you approve of both styles here!

and YAY for you liking ac5, it's one of my own favorites as well. The textures I used were this (not sure who made it, and it might be inverted or desaturated? don't really know), this (don't remember the maker either), this by [livejournal.com profile] innocent_lexys and this by [livejournal.com profile] innocent_lexys as well. The last one probably makes most of grunginess and I use it so often it's ridiculous :p

Really just thank you so much for the seriously wonderful comment Kim, it definitely brightened my already pretty awesome week (damn, that doesn't sound as impressive as 'made my crappy week' would have :/ BUT HAD MY WEEK BEEN CRAPPY THIS WOULD HAVE MADE IT UNCRAPPY SO YOU GET THE POINT I KNOW :DD)
[identity profile] thyla87.livejournal.com on November 25th, 2012 01:24 pm (UTC)
These are absolutely fantastic!! :) Amazing jobe here ! Your coloring is just perfect and so beautiful. Love your sharpening here!

Angry (Text/font are stunning)
Hands (Great idea! Love your levels work and coloring)
No eyes (Very creative! Love texture/coloring)
Outside (Just beautiful.)
Soft (Great texture useand the light is beautiful)
CAT2 (Love the contrast/crop)
CAT3 (unigue, great job!)
AC1 (I love coloring here and the shawod his face)
AC3 (Amazing texture use and text/fonti are fantasic!)

Rainbow! love all of them, they are just perfect. But I think that my favorite are;

1 (The colors are stunning!!)
2 (Texture use is great)
5 (I love strong coloring this and the sharpening is great!)
7 (Amazing icon!! Love this very much :) Texture is so pretty and the colors stunning!)
9 (Love the coloiring and the contrast)
neonspider: master closecrop bw[personal profile] neonspider on November 25th, 2012 04:32 pm (UTC)
Wow, thank you so much for the lovely feedback! Glad you like the sharpening, as it's something I've been trying to improve lately :) You also have some unexpected favorites there, so I'm really glad someone likes those as well!
[identity profile] wildpages.livejournal.com on November 25th, 2012 09:46 pm (UTC)
w o w your colorings and cropping and compositions i just waaaaa
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[identity profile] wildpages.livejournal.com on November 26th, 2012 10:40 am (UTC)
w o w your colorings and cropping and compositions i just waaaaa
neonspider: master hope[personal profile] neonspider on November 26th, 2012 02:10 pm (UTC)
Oh you're too sweet, thank you so much!!! :>
[identity profile] rrr-nightingale.livejournal.com on November 28th, 2012 08:02 pm (UTC)
Wow, amazing icons! I like the style, they are so dramatic in a good way!
neonspider: mine is bigger[personal profile] neonspider on November 28th, 2012 08:13 pm (UTC)
Aw, thank you so much for this lovely comment! :>
[identity profile] babyara.livejournal.com on December 1st, 2012 09:52 pm (UTC)
Wonderful icons.
My favorites are brave, hands, no eyes, category 1-3 and artist's choice 3.
Good job :D
neonspider: 9th doctor[personal profile] neonspider on December 7th, 2012 07:14 pm (UTC)
Aw, thank you so much!! :)
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neonspider: aeryn lims round 1 favorite[personal profile] neonspider on December 7th, 2012 07:15 pm (UTC)
Oh wow, thank you so much for the lovely comment :)
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I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELFFF
neonspider: buffy time running out[personal profile] neonspider on December 11th, 2012 06:57 pm (UTC)
Aw, I hope that's a good thing! :D Thank you so much for another the lovely comment!
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