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38 icons (mostly Doctor Who)

First actual icon post of 2013, containing a Rose Tyler set for

character20n20 and the remake icons I made for the remake activity at

bestof_icons.

Fandoms:

Doctor Who 21 (almost all of Rose)
Farscape 5 + 1 alt
Battlestar Galactica 3
Game of Thrones 2
Harry Potter 2
I Am Number Four, Star Trek (2009), Buffy, The Big Bang Theory 1 each

I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of these. I've kinda sucked at commenting this round at character20n20 but fear not, I still intend to go through everyone's sets even if it's a bit late :>

Remakes (click to see the original):

[1-5]
Farscape x5

[6-10]
Farscape, Battlestar Galactica x3, Star Trek

[11-15]
Game of Thrones x2, Harry potter x2, I Am Number Four

[16-18]
Buffy, The Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who

I'm mostly really happy with the remakes and think the majority of them are better than the originals, so yay I may have actually improved during 2012! \o/

This Rose set I'm not that happy with though :| I like most of the ones I made first, but then I ran out of time again despite not signing up for anything else this month (but then again I spent a lot of time with the nominating at bestof_icons and making that damn progress post and I may have gotten a bit sidetracked by the7days too, so not that surprising after all) soooo I kinda dislike a lot of these as well. But then again I've noticed that I'm a horrible judge of my own icons, so who knows :p

Also, this is yet another set where I can't choose between simple and complex and muted and vibrant so yeah who else is surprised.
I had two reasons to pick Rose: 1) she's FULL OF WIN and more importantly 2) she's a cutie and the perfect subject to color, srsly, more tv characters should wear candy colors like she does :D and yes I totally used a Farscape quote on one of them, lol.

10 THEMES

Close Crop/Text	Enemy	Gold	Hot	Imperfect


Light & Dark	Neon	Romance	Unusual Crop	Wild

CATEGORY - Negative space

One	Two	Three	Four	Five

ARTIST'S CHOICE

ac 1	ac 2	ac 3	ac 4	ac 5

Hope you found at least one icon to like, and if you did please let me know? :D ♥

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Thank you so much! I'm so glad you appreciate the attempted pop artness, which I seem to have an obsession with now :)

gorgeous! i love 5 (i have no idea who that is but that is a great icon), 12, 13, 16, 17, close crop/text, neon and wild.

Thank you for the lovely comment!! :)

Gorgeous icons. I really love the use of colors.
And your AC set is amazing ^^

Aw, thank you! :> I was the least sure of the ac set actually, so I'm really glad you like them!

Great icons.
I really like enemy, neon, romance and the category. :)

Thank you so much!! :)

oh, my. these are absolutely gorgeous! your colours are perfection!
love the AC set, cat 5, unusual crop, neon and gold of your Rose batch.
Your remakes are pretty cool, too ♥

Oh wow, thank you so much for the lovely comment!! ♥

That bright, pop art retro colouring works really well with Rose caps. These are gorgeous!

Thank you so much, aw, I'm just glad you like the colourings since I totally picked her for coloring reasons :>

romance is so gorgeous!

and i really like your category set!

Thank you so much!! Romance turned out a bit different from what i had planned, but I'm really glad the result works for you!

Ok wow. Yeah, so awesome all round...!

And please tell me you're on the ask the maker so I can get the secrets of your Neon :P

Omg, thank you for the lovely comment!! ♥

I really failed to deliver the tutorials at the previous ATM so I don't think I'll participate this time, but here's the PSD: http://www.4shared.com/photo/_0OJineH/neonv2.html, hope it helps a little :) I added some descriptions to the layer names, but ask away if something's still unclear about it, my process was a bit random there.

Your Doctor Who icons are seriously the b e s t!

asdafsdfdgdfg thank you so much!! :O

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12feethigh.livejournal.com - 2013-01-21 16:03 (UTC) - Expand

Words cannot express how mind blowingly amazing your icons are. I love the pop art, I love the crazy colors, I love the fun.
I now associate Rose with you, you just know how to icon her so well.

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WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MINDBLOWINGLY AMAZING THIS COMMENT IS ;_____; ♥ Thankyouthankyouthankyou gaaah I'm just so flattered to be associated with Rose or crazy colors or fun in any way :'D

these are so pretty!

Thank you!! :)

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Whoa, thank you SO much for the wonderful feedback! *__* It's so fantastic that you like my colorings, since yours are so stunning :O and yay that 2nd GoT is among my favorites so I'm glad someone likes it!

great icons :) :)

Aw, thanks! :)

Amazing set! I love the colors that you brought to the caps.

Neon is perfection. The colors and crop and everything just make it gorgeous! ~~totally downloading the psd you gave in the comments because I WANT TO KNOW YOUR SECRETS!!!~~

Other favorites: Close Crop/Text (love the grittiness), Hot (perfect color choices and the text/texture use is amazing), all the colors ~~of the rainbow~~ in your category set!, and AC 1.

Oh wow, thank you so much for all the lovely words and the detailed feedback!! I hope the psd is any helpful, it's a bit messy and for such a simple icon has shamefully many layers but I'm so happy you like the end result :D

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WOW. These are FANTABULOUS! I don't know how you make colors do this. My mind be blown. I love Close Crop and Text. It's weird but it almost looks like a political poster to me, LOL. Like Rose is running for Queen of the Cosmos. Which tickles me.

Enemy is lovely and a really fantastic take on the theme. It's very cool that you could keep the whole set focused on Rose by iconning her possessed (with like the best text ever, LOL). Gold is really ethereal looking and almost sad somehow. I love looking at it! *kicks up feet and stares so more* Imperfect is fantastic and it fits Rose SO WELL. I really love your text work - especially the alternating color scheme! Light and Dark is very creepy and I'm totally curious as to what Rose is going to meet there! Romance is truly incredible composition! Unusual Crop - you've managed to make it look both normal and like it's never been done before. HOW DO YOU DO THIS WITCHCRAFT? Wild is just ACE! I have no more words for this. I love it!

My favorites of your Cat set have to be 1 (YELLOOOOOW!) and 3 (COMPOSITION-Y)!! And 1 and 5 of your AC set (3 also) just give me all the composition feels. One of those two is my all time favorite here but I can't decide between the two. They're both so unique. *fidgets* MAYBE AC 1. AC 5. AC 1 - final answer.

Such a lovely set though! Fantastic job!

OMFG, WHAT IS THIS COMMENT EVEN AND HOW DO I DESERVE IT??? :O *___* wow, I don't even know what to say, except thank you so very much, especially for the detailed feedback which is always helpful!! Also I love that you like the colors and compositions cause awesome colors and compositions are definitely things I admire in your icons so YAY \o/ CRAZY COLOR LOVERS UNITED!

Hee, thanks for appreciating my take on Enemy, I just knew that there was no. way. I could make an icon with just Cassandra work, and I couldn't come up with another real 'enemy' to Rose since she usually make friends while the Doctor gets all the enemies, haha. So this is how I solved the problem and it took freaking forever so I reaaallly hoped that at least someone would like it, lol. So special thanks for that! ^^

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THAT FIRST REMAKE ICON.i have a lot of positive feelings for it.also the color in Neon.I love your retro style so much <33

Aw, thank you so much!! The 1st remake is one of my faves too so I'm glad you like it - I had wanted a chance to remake the original, cause it was baaaaad but had a concept I liked so it was great to try to do more with it :3

pretty! love the uhura and bsg icons especially

Thank you so much, so glad you like them!!! :)

Your Rose set is so stunning!! The colours are so bright and fun and wonderful. I especially love Hot, Romance and Unusual Crop. I love everything in the category section and I'm pretty sure that AC1 is my favourite thing every.

Needless to say, I'm saving a whole bunch. Thank youuuu :)

Aw, thank you so much! All this is beyond awesome to hear, glad you like them ♥

Look at you, iconning like a BOSS. Your icons are always so muted yet colorful and I don't even know how that's possible, but you make it happen. I've noticed that I have a special place in my heart for your frame-y icons, like 10, C3 and AC1 (my favorite one by far because the way her yellow hair pops against all the purple is just phenomenal).

You have a style, yet I never know what to expect from you and your icon posts and that makes me excited, so I just have to watch your icon comm... which, what the hell, why wasn't I already? Silly me.

Gaaaah asdaesdasdsadsfsddc I so don't deserve this kind of comments from you. I just completed my bestof_icons votings yesterday and your poll was definitely one of the hardest to fill cause I wanted to tick ALL the boxes :O

Oooh and thanks for the specific feedback, I do love using framey textures so glad you approve!! :> and that last part is just so heartwarming cause last year I stressed so much about not having a defining 'style' but now I kinda think I may have?, but not too restrictively, so what you wrote is exactly how I'd like it to be and asdsdsff just awesome that you think so ♥ and thanks for the watching too!!

Nope. Not a single icon I like in this whole post. Because, clearly, it is opposite day!

Haha! This post is actually super pretty! I have so many favorites!! Let me tell you about them! =D

Your re-make icons are really, really well done. Seriously. I think the only one where I like the original better is the Buffy icon, and that's only because the concept in the original is just too cool to top. Everything else though? Holy hell, have you progressed! All the compositions, all the colors, all the textures, everything is so amazing now! 06 is killing me. I like the feathery textured feel you've given it. It's really interesting. 12 is fantastic as well; I love love love when you do fun, geometric texture blocking!! i wish i knew all the secrets behind it. The coloring also really works. 17 is also brilliant! Pretty simple, but the math stock in the background and the flawless green really make it stand out form the crowd.

And I don't think you have anything to worry about with your Rose set either! The vast majority are perfection! Close crop/text and imperfect are both spectacular! I love the text work in both especially in imperfect. And the coloring is expertly done in both as well. Hot is awesome too. And then there's neon which is crazy good, and I'll probably be snagging that psd along with everyone else to see how it was done. The smoothness of the skin and the crop are points which I particularly like. And then AC1 which is just...my favorite thing. The whole composition is just fascinating. I love that you make these things that I just want to stare at for awhile to get all the impact from. It's fabulous!

Another wonderful set! ♥

Omg, just wow, I have no words for awesome you and your comments are!! ;__; ♥ I honestly don't feel at allll deserving of the support of someone so vastly above my skill level, so please excuse my incoherent rambles.

So glad you like the remakes especially, and think they're mostly improvements from the originals!! I agree about the Buffy one though, the original was only like two weeks older than the remake and I had no idea what I could do with it without making the exact same icon again, lol. Omg and I'm extra glad you approve of the geometric texture clusterfucking I like to do - there's honestly not much secret behind 12, it was just a basic stripey texture background at first and then I just made a rotated copy of it and cut a circle into it and then threw some more stripey textures on it for good measure (I checked the psd to see if it was in any half bearable form to share, but it was a hideous mess with like two hundred layers and an insane amount of dead ends so I gave up on trying to tidy it D:).

Whoa, I'm particularly happy that you like the text on Imperfect, text is something I always struggle with and in that one I thought I had totally failed to make it readable. And omg the smoothness of her skin in Neon is totally because of evil topaz, the earlier DW seasons are kinda like 'topazy or super LQ/blotchy - CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL' which is frustrating to say the least, so I'm extra glad you like that aspect of it!! :D

I just can't thank you enough for all the fantastic comments! *___*

I really love the "neon" icon and the yellows in the first negative space icon! Everything in this post is gorgeous but those two I just had to save.

Oh wow, thank you so much!!! *__*

Ugh man, I held off on commenting on all your remake icons when I saw them being made because I knew this time would come. And I am so glad because they are so utterly amazing. For reals and seriously, they are all kinds of magic. #1 is still spectacular, the composition is to die for, and the colours are perfection. The same goes for #4/#5, which has the most gorgeous, pop art feel to it, with some amazing composition. The lighting of #7-#9 is flawless as well, it's so interesting to see how you play with light textures (vs. grunge textures), because it gives your icons such a great, soft, gentle look. AND #12 is my second favourite (after #13 of course) because holy composition, and colours, and vibrancy, and everything together just works so wonderfully together. The composition of #14 is ALSO flawless, seriously. And your text work here is utterly gorgeous as well. And the colours, the gentle tones of blue that are hinted in there are utter perfection. And the lighting of #16 and #18 is stunning as well. Seriously. That whole set of icons is so impressive!

And then Rose, man. I think my favourite thing about the set is where you can't choose between muted and vibrant and where they sometimes collide and create perfection. There are so many visually pleasing things happening here, I can't even. Enemy is all kinds of magic, the background is flawless, and I love the text work, and the colours are gorgeous. And Gold, holy flawless crop, and the colours are soooooo beautiful. I love the monochrome, and how your amazing use of light and shadows still give it perfect contrast. Hot is again, a compositional dream. The texture work is A+, and I love the dark vibrancy and the colours, so amazing. Light & Dark has lovely, amazing shadows going on for it, and the absolute softness and vibrancy of Neon is all kinds of beautiful. And I think Unusual Crop is so so awesome. Such a great crop indeed.

The vibrancy of the Category set is just, gorgeous. And I love how you played with negative space, and still did some gorgeous crops (Like #5) and some absolutely beautiful compositions (#5). The colour combos here are my absolute favourite though. Pink & yellow, and yellow and cyan are my favourites and you used them so gorgeously here! And AC 1, 3 & 5 are stunnnnnning compositions. Like woah. I love how (seemingly) easily you play with your blocking, everything always looks so beautiful and brilliant.

THIS POST IS MAGIC OKAY?

Oh wow, how is it possible for you and your comments to be so awesome and encouraging and perfect all the time? *___* I'm so glad you like the remake icons so much, it was such an interesting challenge while also serving as the perfect excuse to try to improve some badly executed stuff.

it's so interesting to see how you play with light textures (vs. grunge textures), because it gives your icons such a great, soft, gentle look.
Oh, wow, it's always a bit weird when people compliment my lighting because quite honestly I have no idea what I'm even doing with it! I kinda suck at light sources and stuff, like in almost all these icons it looks like light is coming from all sorts of directions instread of just one, haha. And I didn't notice any of this while making them. But then again I trust your judgment so if you say you like it, I guess I'm happy with it!

Oh and I love that you picked pretty much all of my favorites in the Rose icons, especially in the themes section which I actually had time to spend on. Still, glad you found positive things in the more quickly made category and ac sets too! Blocking isn't all that easy to me though, I mean it's not impossibly hard like blending or text, but it's an afterthought much more often than I'd like - tbqh half of my blocking icons only have blocking cause the coloring has fucked up the image quality beyond any other salvage than more resizing .__.

Thank you so very much for another amazing comment!!! ♥

I am not usually a fan of the candy colours but what you have done here is totally making me rethink my colour palette! I think this set shows amazing technique (enemy, AC5 and neon as perfect examples) as well as a beautiful linking throughout your CAT and AC set that makes each of the 5 icons speak a story together as opposed to being 5 icons by themselves. Love your work and love this set, you have me convinced to go play with some different colours!

Omg, thank you so much, that is like one of the most flattering things to hear :O ♥ and I'd absolutely love to see what you come up with while playing with colors! But then again I reaaallly love your pale and muted colorings too, so I hope you don't leave them all behind!! :>

Can not get enogh of your coloring! It's gorgeous

whoa, thank you so much!! *___* ♥

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!!! :DDDDDD

These are stunning, I love the colorings, the sharpening, the crop use!! Just everything :) AWESOME JOB!!!!

Everything here is so pretty, but I think that my favorite are;

character

2 - The background is perfect and so colorfull!! Love the sharpening and text!
3 - The crop is stunning and I love the colors
5 - Love the crop, colors, text
6 - I love the light effect her face and the shadow!
7 - STUNNING, STUNNING!!! This is so beautiful and powerfull :) Love this!

Omg, omg, omg.. I can't decide. Your cat set is so beautiful and lovely! <3 Love them all!
1 - Beautiful colorings!
2 - The crop is interesting and love texture use/the background
3 - outstanding! Love the colors/texture use here
4 - Again, love the crop and colorings
5 - Love the contrast and the strong coloring. Amazing ;)

Sam thing ac set :)
1 - The contrast and texture use are perfect!
2 - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!! :)
3 - The blocking is stunning and perfect colors
4 - LOOOOVEEE!!! :D Amazing contrast and the sharpening!
5 - The crop is lovely and blocking so pretty! Love text/font, too :)

Just stunning set ;) Love everything what you do. I think that you have find your own style :)

I have many rose icons, but I have to take Neon, cat 3, AC2&4 :)

And then of course I love yours remakes :)

I really liked all original but these are so much better !!! My favorite are 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 17! I take 12 (so gorgeous coloring) and 1, 2. Yay, John/Scorpius! Amazing texture use and text :)

Omg this comment is ridiculously awesome and makes me much more confident in that Rose set after all!! I still like the remakes better, but am reaaaallly happy you have so many favorites in the Rose icons and have such wonderful things to say about them :> (except I can't for the life of me fathom what you see in ac4, lol - it was the quickest and crappiest of these all imo :'D but well I'm of course really glad someone likes it too ♥)

Oh yes, I think you're totally right there - while I wouldn't want to restrict myself into just one set of things, I think my last three sets have had enough in common for me to actually call it something like a 'style' :) Glad you think so too! Still, there's no telling when I get bored again and go for something totally different, haha.

and YES I was so glad to get to remake those John/Scorpy ones, and I'm thrilled they found a home :>

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