Icons by neonspider - SPN for 20inspirations + icon dump = 89 multifandom icons

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21 June 2013 @ 12:02 am

SPN for 20inspirations + icon dump = 89 multifandom icons

Fandoms:
30 Supernatural
20 Lost
12 Battlestar Galactica
7 Les Misérables
7 Doctor Who
3 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3 Once Upon a time
3 Pitch perfect
1 Defiance, Torchwood, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter

Let's start with

20inspirations! My claim was Supernatural season 1 which I have just finished watching and it was awesomeness.

But let me just say that this round didn't happen easily at. all. and I'm not at all confident about this set. I had a rambly whiny rant here about the reasons, but I'll just cut it all out because nobody wants to read that. I'll just let you make up your own mind about these and hope for the best :') I guess it's not really worse than any of my other sets, I think my expectations for myself just are so high that it's impossible to meet them :p one thing I know for sure - I NEED to learn how to say no to fun icon activities cause iconing while stressed and busy = not fun.

The idea of the round was Pass it on, meaning that each two consecutive icons had to have something in common. The themes I came up with + some other rambling can be found by hovering over the icon!

1. Pink&blue coloring. This one was the first I made and it's kind of a texture clusterfuck but those are the most fun to make tbh :D

2. Pink&blue coloring + profile. Last minute add. It's really bright and contrastless but when I tried to tone those qualities down it turned even worse. Also looked fugly in normal coloring. I guess this was just a bit of a rebel icon that just decided not to work no matter what I did.

3. Profile + neon monochrome. Monochrome alone would have been such a lazy theme cause I use it anyway all the time sooo here I took the excuse to intentionally make the weirdest, most electric freaking neon icon. I have a feeling you already regret taking a look at this set, haha :'D AND YES THERE'S A META COMPONENT TO THE TEXT HERE.

4. Neon monochrome + quote. Gotta admit I kinda like this one, at least more than dean's neon monochrome, but it's the sort of icon that nobody else will probably like and I totally get that ok :D

5. Quote + colored lighting. This is dedicated to thyla87 who requested that I make some shippy stuff for this set, I take no responsibility :P

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6. Colored lighting + unusual camera angle. This one was the last I made, but actually one of my favorites. Which is no surprise since Meg is so much easier and more fun to color than the boys!

7. Unusual camera angle + muted. This doesn't even look like it was made by me but maybe that's a good thing, haha. I was going for a more muted and lighting-y look than usual. Don't have much to say about this icon, it's kinda meh for me except for the cap itself which I really like.

8. Muted + close crop. Also one of the first I made, I'm not crazy about it but the set needed some toned down icons to balance out all the weirdness!

9. Close crop + grunge. Obviously I was already running out of theme ideas. I mean come on, 'grunge'? It's not like I use grunge for half my stuff anyway. Ehh anyway, from some angles on my screen this icon looks ok and from others the shadows are way overwhelming so idk which way it'll look to anyone else but no time to change that now.

10. Grunge + angst. LOL I really didn't think I'd use a crappy theme like 'angst' but then I only noticed how emo that text was after the icon was finished so I figured WHY NOT :D

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11. Angst + blocking. Heee I just HAD to make an icon of their little breakup scene in 'Scarecrow', the whole drama between them in that episode was one of the first things that made me really love SPN instead of just liking it. This is another last minute add icon so it's far too early for me to tell if I'll continue liking it but for now I think I sort of do? Maybe I just like blocking.

12. Blocking + silhouette. I like the texture overload, but the composition wasn't supposed to be quite that crowded, idk, it's still better than the other versions I have of it.

13. Silhouette + lime green. This icon was so fun and quick to make! Usually it takes me forever and ever to make a decent icon but this took like 5 minutes and I don't think it's bad at all. Maybe I should go for this type of vibrant, lighting-y stuff more often as opposed to the vintagey, grungy and composition-y things (which are the ones that take a lot of time for me)? Idk but I like this one at least.

14. Lime green + phone. I have a feeling that green isn't a very flattering color to use on someone's face, but I like the lighting and crop. Also omg I swear there's a cell phone in there, it just got lost in the lighting. Theme fail :p

15. Phone + simple. After making that Dean on the phone icon I knew I had to icon the other end of that conversation too, and I intentionally went for the opposite look of the Dean icon - matte versus shiny and magenta versus green.

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16. Simple + vintage. I had a lot of fun coloring it even though this type of vintagey super-obvious recoloring isn't really how recoloring should be done haha. One day I'll learn to do it in a more natural way but meanwhile enjoy the cartoonish look? :D

17. Vintage + full body. Idk what to say about this one, it's nothing new really cause I use these sorts of colorings all the time, it's just one of those things that I really enjoy doing even if the results aren't anything super impressive.

18. Full body + retro. Er, let's just say retro and vintage are totally different themes so it's legit to use both like this ok? :D No really I personally associate 'retro' with a more poster-like bolder look and 'vintage' with a subtler look that has more to do with light coloring. Now that that's out of the way let me just say that I'm ridiculously proud of this icon, it's the first time I've ever half successfully managed to turn a regular screencap into a cartoonish image so YAY!

19. Retro + circle. This is the sort of icon I make all the time because I just love the retro style so much! Oh and there's something else I really love and that is John freaking Winchester. DON'T TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM IN THE LATER SEASONS I PROBABLY DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW cause SPN sounds like a cruel enough show to actually kill an awesome character like him D: I never even see icons of him so that's my first clue that he won't be around much, but anyway I had to make at least one icon of him to fix that :3

20. Circle. This is one of my own favorites of these cause I'm clearly not good at natural colorings at all but here that's what i went for and it kinda works, I think. This probably looks like a really easy icon to make but I actually used some pretty damn weird methods that I'd like to experiment with more in the future maybe :D

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I also have a ton of icons made for various activities that I haven't posted to this comm yet so I figured why not compensate for the possible lack of quality by adding more quantity! :D SOLID PLAN. So here's an icon dump of icons made for

whedon_elite,

the7days,

missingfaction,

elite_inspired,

theskilldrill and other stuff.

More SPN

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[26-30]

Lost
(...it's kinda obvious who my favorite character is :p most of these weren't even made for anything in particular, they just happened as I was drooling at pretty Sayid caps. It would have been so much easier to just pick Lost for the 20insp round too, now that I think about it!)

[31-35]

[36-40]

[41-45]

[46-50]

Battlestar Galactica
(these are reeeeaally old, I had just forgotten to post them. I also had forgotten how bad they were, but posting cause you never know what others like? :p most of you might want to just ignore these...)

[51-55]

[56-60]

[61-62]

Les Misérables
(I miss the7days. I can't believe the battle round was the last one I took part in!)

[63-67]

[68-69]

Doctor Who

[70-74]

[75-76]

BTVS

[77-79]

OUAT

[80-82]

Pitch Perfect

[83-85]

Misc: Torchwood, Defiance, GOT, HP

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Omg, so sorry about the obscene amount of icons in one post. I know it's way too much and I'll try to remember to make icon dumps more often to avoid this D: Anyway, I really hope there's something you'll find enjoyable here!

Take any you want, credit is lovely but not required, you can always watch the comm if you like some of what you see, and any comments would be really lovely and possibly helpful in finding my muse/inspiration/iconing mojo again :p

Tags: movie: harry potter, movie: les miserables, movie: pitch perfect, tv: battlestar galactica, tv: buffy the vampire slayer, tv: defiance, tv: doctor who, tv: game of thrones, tv: lost, tv: once upon a time, tv: supernatural, tv: torchwood, type: icons

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library-of-sex.livejournal.com on June 24th, 2013 01:04 am (UTC)

It's cool that you have trademark colors! No reason to be ashamed at all. WEIRD THINGS FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.

SPN caps are so damn dark that it always amazes me how well makers light them! It's good that you pushed yourself by using them. *claps*

I haven't watched Lost since the series finale, but I loved that show so much! I was even co-mod of Team Oceanic over at

jjverse, my fave land comm ever. Anyway, your close crops are MAGICAL. Please make a point of working those into your batches from now on!

I'm struggling with this damn battle I have to do, so I guess we're in the same boat. Let's hope we don't drown, right? :P

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neonspider on June 24th, 2013 10:11 am (UTC)

SPN caps are so damn dark that it always amazes me how well makers light them! It's good that you pushed yourself by using them. *claps*

Yeah, I'm all for pushing myself and I thought I could handle it alright knowing that I'm mostly a scifi iconer anyway and those shows are just as dark (and often with lower quality caps too), but the difference between SPN and say Farscape is that while the latter is dark, there are still colors hiding in there that I can draw out. In SPN there just aren't (probably because the main characters are ordinary-looking guys that wear dark/neutral-colored clothes etc), soooo that's why I need to go for monochrome or to use a secondary character if I want some vibrancy :p I feel like I already used all my ideas for this set so I have no idea what it would look like if I decided to go for another SPN set at some point! I wish I was into celeb iconing too, there would be so many already well lit and visually interesting photos to work with.

Ok, I'll try to use closecrops cause you're a genius so if you say that they work then you're probably right :D but I still have this feeling that close cropped icons usually look the same (unless you're a lighting expert like

reebeecaa, or really creative at cropping like

oviedo, or there are still some interesting colors like vibrant hair in the frame. None of these usually apply to my closeups so I just feel like they're sort of... nice, but forgettable? idk if this makes sense. But then again if the subject is gorgeous like Sayid I totally get why it's a good idea to show his face really close :D

I'm struggling with this damn battle I have to do, so I guess we're in the same boat. Let's hope we don't drown, right? :P

Oh yes, let's try not to drown! Really, good luck with the set. I'm sure it'll be fantastic and I can't wait too see the results :D

omg why am I rambling about icons when I have an exam in 4 hours, I should go study :p

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