Martha Jones for 20insp + icon dump = 57 icons

[neonspider]

Fandoms:
[1-41] Doctor Who
[42-45] Farscape
[46-49] Harry Potter
[50-54] misc fandoms (Star Wars, Terra Nova, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Big Bang Theory)
[55-57] music (My Chemical Romance, t.A.T.u., Anna Abreu)

Ok, so I made some Martha icons for the 22nd round of 20inspirations. The theme of the round was mood ring, meaning the colorings had to go with the mood of the image. There's an explanation of the moods behind a spoiler cut.
Um, I don't have much to say about this set, the challenge itself was awesome but major RL stress has been eating away my inspiration and the result doesn't feel like 'me' at all save for a few icons. Then again it was kinda fun too to make some simpler and more lighting-y icons for a change, I think that also helped me highlight the moods better, but at the same time I don't think I'll continue in this direction, and while I think they're nice enough, I don't think it's the best I could have done. So yeah, not sure what to think of this set, but I hope someone will like some of these :D


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Moods:
1 - pleasantly surprised, thrilled, can't believe her eyes; really vibrant neon color explosions.
2 - joy; yellow
3 - attraction; pink
4 - sense of togetherness, hope; earthy, warm browns
5 - 'blank', neutral, casual; muted, light browns
6 - appreciation of the past, respect, subdued sadness. wow, what a weird description, it makes more sense when you know the scene (from the end of Family of Blood). Anyway I chose a toned down vintage coloring with a bit of muted turquoise (which reminds me of the 'subdued sadness' part).
7 - confused; a conflict of colors, a weird combination of dark green and pale orange.
8 - worried; also turquoise but deeper and darker than in the vintage icon.
9-11 - defiance; (darkish) orange. Martha is at her best with this emotion imo, which is why I made three for it. In 9 it even looks like she's eyerolling at The Master :D 10 and 11 are from the same episode too, she's really defiant and determined against The Master and as much as I love the guy, Martha is really awesome and HBIC in those scenes.
12 - anger; red
13 - anger, action/fight. Reds and oranges.
14 - mysterious; purple
15 - surreal, weirded out; a really weird, unnatural neon color combination.
16 - scared, distressed; black
17 - quiet sadness; really pale blue
18 - melancholy, loneliness; deeper blue
19 - indescribable sort of melancholy, a bit surreal - they're looking at the ruins of a past civilization. I associate that with really muted and dark blue/purple tones.
20 - desperation, deep sadness; darkness, blue tones, pale/colorless

Then there's a dump of stuff I've been posting to various comms, mostly the7days. Most of these I'm actually really happy with and proud of; they were for the most part made in a burst of inspiration, which I really really hope will return soon :p


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I'd love any and all comments of course! :>

Comments

[raiindust.livejournal.com]

This post! It's full of fabulous! Beginning with Martha fucking Jones, who is flawless and awesome and definitely under-rated even if it took me re-watching her season to know that.

I really, really like this batch. While it may be subdued, I think it let you play with more simple compositions that let your other talents shine (because composition > everything ever, as your compositions are amazing and insane all at once!). Like, cropping - #3 and #20 are magnificent crops, they have so much emotion, and the colours are just so gorgeously combined with that. And lighting, holy moly - #18 caught my eye straight away. I love, LOVE the lighting here - the crop is fantastic and the lighting just accentuates it so perfect. The lighting in #10 and #14 is also spectacular as well. #9 is sheer text perfection, I adore the colours you've used and the text is just awesome and amazing. And then the grunge, but subdued grunge of #16 is wow as well. Other favourites (just cos) are #13, because of perfect composition reasons, and #15, because just HOW does that come into existence? The colours are incredible and it just looks pop art perfect! And #17, because the muted tones are utterly fantastic and amazing.

And then there is everything else.

I looooove your colours. They are muted and grungy but vibrant all at once and it's just amazing. #27, #30, #42 and #54 are all perfect examples of this. But still, your compositions are always just divine and perfect. #31 is utter genius, I love how everything combines so perfectly to create an icon that tells this whole story. It's just magic. And #37, BOW TIES ARE COOL. IN A BOW TIE. Perfect, perfect composition. Just wow. #43 has some awesome sauce texture work going on there, the lines are insanely incredible, and all the circles in #52, again, awesome. I love the lighting in #34 (it's just amazing) and #51 is going straight into the most perfect icons you will ever see folder because it's Yoda and Pink all together. And the text work is awesome and amazing. Annnnnd then I just love #57 because it's pop art fantastic and the text is awesome and the texture work is insane and just YES.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, amazing stuff!

[neonspider]

Oh wow, thank you SO MUCH for this awesome fantastic comment! *__* (hee, glad you came to appreciate MFJ - she's aaawesome! Confession/spoiler: I have this evil plan to icon all the nuWho main companions in order, making Donna next, which I'm already thrilled about cause she deserves more icon love.)

Anyway, I'm so glad to hear you like the Martha set - I suppose it's not that bad in the end, the past few days have just been kinda hellish so I probably wouldn't have liked the icons or anything else for that matter no matter what it was like. Also, I'm always a bit lost without crazy composition, and the whole mood theme was sooo out of my box cause tbh my icons are rarely atmospheric or moody at all, since I usually remove the backgrounds and twist the whole vibe into something it wasn't before (which I didn't even realize before making this set!). This time I had to build on what was actually in the cap, which was really quite difficult but also something I'd like to get better at so this was really the perfect challenge to practise that :)

And aww, I'm thrilled that you like the others too, especially the compositions cause I always fear they're so over the top that nobody will get them at all, haha. Also wow, I'm pleasantly surprised you like the Yoda one that much - I think it got the least amount of votes in that the7days set, so I didn't think it was very special really, but I'm glad you think it is cause I always have so much fun with that type of icons :D

Seriously this comment was the best possible thing to wake up to, thanks for giving this day a great start!! ♥