So many of these are terrible (is that weird to say on someone's icon post?). I was scrolling, scrolling, like... "how, what." I can't wait for the second post because there was OBVIOUSLY a quality jump at some point. But back when I started iconing my stuff was literally:




And that last icon was my favorite icon ever. I was soooo proud. And these were all from 2008, so my ~progression rate has been quite slow, imo. In that respect, you've only been iconning what, fourteen months? And you're already a pro. I've been doing it off and on for much longer and my progression rate is on the path of maybewhenifeellikeit.
So much fun to see that you used all the mad text skills that photoshop has to offer as well! I think the day I discovered outlining font was pretty much my downfall.
I used to do the random song lyrics on icons as well! When you're grooving to a song and then just slap on a lyric. Yep, that makes sense! Patting on the back.