Funny that you see so many technical flaws or whatever when many people, myself included, would say that this is one of your best batches yet! I know all makers are their own worst critics though, so I suppose it comes with the territory. Anyway, this post is amazing, and I say it every single time but that doesn't negate its truth: You've grown so incredibly fast this year! You and burntheflaws and so many other makers have really stunned me with the insane progression and development you've shown in just a handful of months! Now on to the actual icons! :D

I dig how much complexity there is in 2! The pink and yellow combo for the text really grabs my attention, and I love that there are different crops so that the image repetition doesn't get tiresome. Instead, it's fresh and quirky!

10 is absolutely marvelous, my friend. MARVELOUS. It's got such a delicate, ethereal, elegant vibe to it. The dusty rose coloring gives it a somewhat haunting quality, IMO, as if she's someone who got lost in time and space. Don't know if that's the case since I've never gotten through an ep of the show, but I love the feeling that icon imparts! It's really busy without going overboard or looking jumbled.

11 is awesome cuz of it's grittiness, and the way it looks like a pop art piece. The green neg space is so soothing and cool, and the text is positioned and sized so perfectly. The cutout is very clean yet the gritty texturing makes it feel dirty, too. That's really neat!

12 has tremendous coloring and blocking. It also conveys a pop art punch to me, and I love the deep richness of the coloring. My fave detail is her lush pink skirt overflowing into the turquoise blue block. Don't know why, but that's a small thing that really caught and captivated my eye!

16 is super vibrant in the background and yet the subject has a deep but muted coloring. I really enjoy that juxtaposition. My one quibble would be that it seems as if she should be scaled down a tad to allow the space to flow around her sides/shoulders more. I think my neg space bias may just be showing though.

18 is so dark and mysterious. I love that I almost can't make out who's in the icon. That only adds to the mystery! It reminds me of Harry Potter though I can't totally say why. The dark blue and the majestic bordering scream "WIZARD PORTRAIT" to me. Weird, I know.

KEEP GROWING AND EXPERIMENTING, TOMMI. IT'S ENDLESSLY FASCINATING TO SEE WHAT ODDITIES AND FUNKY CREATIONS YOU'LL DREAM UP NEXT! <333333

OMGWOW, THIS COMMENT :OOO Surely I can't deserve all this but THANK YOU SO MUCH KIM YOU ARE AAAAWESOME.
And asdasdfadasdas I'm so glad you keep saying that I keep growing as a maker cause I always stress that at some point I'll just disappoint everyone and they'll be like 'hmm used to be decent but has produced mere crap recently', lol. So I'm just glad that this set doesn't seem to be that point yet. But maybe you're right and all makers are their own worst critics :p

The dusty rose coloring gives it a somewhat haunting quality, IMO, as if she's someone who got lost in time and space. Don't know if that's the case since I've never gotten through an ep of the show, but I love the feeling that icon imparts!
Omg I'm squeeing a bit at this because that description really REALLY fits Rose (the character in the icon).

16 is super vibrant in the background and yet the subject has a deep but muted coloring. I really enjoy that juxtaposition. My one quibble would be that it seems as if she should be scaled down a tad to allow the space to flow around her sides/shoulders more. I think my neg space bias may just be showing though.
Ooh thank you!! Also for the concrity part, I think you might be onto something there! Who doesn't love negative space :D here's a more negative spacey version:

It reminds me of Harry Potter though I can't totally say why. The dark blue and the majestic bordering scream "WIZARD PORTRAIT" to me. Weird, I know.
Omg, I LOVE this association. Especially because if it is a wizard portrait, it's one of Barty Crouch Jr (who was also played by Tennant!).

Yay, thank you so much for all the detailed comments and the encouragement to keep experimenting, I most definitely will!! :D

Your stuff keeps getting weirder and cooler. Don't see how that could disappoint anyone, least of all me, who loves weird icons like no other! :D

Oh my, does poor Rose actually end up getting lost while time traveling or something? I don't know much about the show besides that the Doctor and his companions get changed up every few seasons. Do they usually come to a sad ending, or is a case of the current Doctor deciding to pass the torch for a happy reason?

Ahhh, now it's perfect to me! Neg space and the strangely awesome muted/vibrant color combo = WIN!

I remembered he'd played Barty Crouch Jr only after I'd submitted the comment. There's something very wizardish about David Tennant, isn't there? :P

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Oh my, does poor Rose actually end up getting lost while time traveling or something? I don't know much about the show besides that the Doctor and his companions get changed up every few seasons. Do they usually come to a sad ending, or is a case of the current Doctor deciding to pass the torch for a happy reason?

Well she gets permanently trapped into a parallel universe, so yeah I'd definitely classify that as getting lost in time and space! and the change of doctors and companions is usually a very dramatic episode, as the regeneration of the Doctor is kinda like dying to him. There's usually some sort of Heroic Sacrifice trope in play. And the companions, well some of them just decide to leave, but more often it's that something bad happens to them too... The show might seem like a sort of fun happy-go-lucky light and often silly scifi thing, but actually there's a lot of drama too and those are probably the plots I like best! :D

And yay I'm glad you like the icon even more now! Never hesitate to give me concrit if there's something like this you notice, I don't always remember to mention it in my posts but it's always fine and beneficial to me :)