Even though I'm not a part of some of the fandoms you icon I still love going through your posts because they're so vibrant and pretty and creative! I'm not as skilled at long praise comments as you but consider this one because these are simply gorgeous!

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you like them that much! And rest assured that comments like this are PERFECT and amazing and flawless, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with your commenting skills :>

I'm gonna be weird and say that the alts/extras/rejects are my faves in this post! Especially the last one which is just, WOAH.

Omg really? I almost posted that one cause I kinda like it too tbh! But then I took a second look and thought it looked weird even from me so I thought maaaybe I should try making something that isn't pink for once xD But still it makes me ridiculously happy that you like the neon version so much, so thank you!!! :D

As always you blow me away with your amazing, flawless compositions. They are always so creative but never completely over the top. I especially adore all teh ac icons. And now you mention it i kinda dig Bocke.

Thank you so much for the wonderful comment!! ♥ I'm so flattered that you like the compositions cause I put ridiculously much work into them as always :'D And also glad you like the ac set, I knew I needed to include some compositionally minimal icons to balance all the themes and category icons, so in those I focused on coloring instead, so awesome to hear it works for you! And yesss Bocke ftw :3

Oh I def. enjoy these. White Decoration and 32 are my favourites. Especially 32 - I just love what the leaves in the background bring to the icon.

Aw, thanks! :3 So glad you noticed and like 32, I almost included it as my 'sky is above us' icon but then thought it wouldn't fit the overall look of the set.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOSST I MISS YOU

It's an awesome show isn't it? I didn't get into it wehen it was airing originally, but now I'm watching it years later and it's all kinds of perfect!

Ah man, I'm not kidding when I say these icons are simply mindblowing. Your composition work is the GREATEST and the colors are out of this world :D

Omg, this comment *__* It's just beyong amazing to hear you think so highly of this set so really thank you so very much!! ♥

awwww, those are greaaaaat! I just love the entire set! I saved some of them on my inspiration folder :)


Ohhh, psds, yay! :D
I'd like psds for these icons :)


I knew I was going to ask for too much... sorry! I just love your style! :)

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Thank you so much for the lovely words, I'm so glad you like the set!! :3 and nooo don't apologize, it was really flattering that people wanted so many tutorials, I just forgot that my icons have like 300 layers each so full tutorials take a lot of effort to write :p so my bad completely!

The last two PSDs can be found in this psd set that I've made some time ago (I hope the link still works, if it doesn't let me know), it has one extra icon too. I'll add the rest asap!

//The rest of the psds are here; I have to warn that some of them are very confusing, especially the first one in those examples cause I screwed up a lot when making it and then desperately tried to fix things xD also, some of these contain lots of invisible layers that I may or may not have used for something, they were in the psds so I left some of them there just in case. So yeah these are all weird, but I hope some of them will be helpful to you anyway :D

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Beautiful colors in these, especially the artist's choice ones! I also love sightless, your heart's desire, and mood coloring. :D

Wow, thank you so much!! I'm so happy you like them :>

I'm not so into DW, but your simple as it can get icon is perfect! I love the composition and colouring. I really love cat #1, and mood colouring, too. :)

Aw, thank you so much! tbh I was a bit scared of the 'as simple as it can get' prompt cause I rarely make minimal icons, but in the end I really enjoyed making it so I'm glad to hear the result works for you!! :>

That last alternate (#35) though, wow. That is a seriously stunning icon. I am flabbergasted over here because, honestly, that is some hard hitting pretty right there. I love, first of all, the creative use of silhouette you've chosen in this one. And it is so smooth and well extracted too! So that's gorgeous. And the image you used inside the silhouette is really wonderful as well. So, in terms of giving your icon a very meaningful punch, you've definitely knocked it out! And then there's the coloring which is neon perfection. I love how the bright pinks play off of the browns and the greens so incredibly well! Such a brilliant color combination, honestly. So that aspect is also perfect. And then to top it all off, there's this beautiful yellow light to tie it all together? Be still my beating heart, I think I'm in love. I'll let you know when I manage to pick my jaw up off the floor, okay?

WHICH ISN'T TO SAY THAT THERE AREN'T SEVERAL OTHER BRILLIANT ICONS WITHIN THIS POST BECAUSE THERE ARE INDEED! In particular, I love 'as simple as it can get', 'your heart's desire', 'mood coloring', and also the fourth artist's choice icon. 'As simple as it can get' is just stunning. It is so wonderful that you can balance ridiculously clean and minimal compositions with ridiculously complicated and complex compositions. You rule both ends of the spectrum. Anyway, this one is just so lovely in its lack of neon colors and textures and everything. There's something about the really pulled back browns and blues that make it pop regardless of how little there is going on within it. Totally stunning! And then 'your heart's desire'--running to the other end of the spectrum here, haha; we could get really fit running back and forth, I think--is just such a cute, creative way of utilizing blocking, I think. And it is still somehow rather minimal? I don't know how you do that, but I like it!! 'Mood coloring' should be renamed to 'mood lighting' because it hits all the right points for incredible lighting for me, to be honest. Just incredible balance between light and shadow there, and I love how it looks ethereal and also gritty at the same time. AC #4 is just a coloring win. I mean there's a lot of fabulous coloring in this post (neon lights and ac #3, to name a couple), but I think AC #4 just takes the cake? Something about the detailed nature of it just makes it extra amazing to me, I think.

And, um, I think you did really well picking out things for your style in the category section! I think those are all things people would definitely identify with you!

So wonderful job overall, and it was super awesome seeing an icon post from you! ♥

Wow, I never know what to reply to your comments cause there's no way I deserve all this ;__; ♥ just thank you so much, this is seriously wonderful to read especially now that I've been so disconnected from the whole iconing hobby for such a long time (on my scale anyway). I really need to take a round at some of my favorite communities to give some appreciation to some of the gorgeous posts I've missed. So, I hope you don't find random late comments too awkward :D

But OMG. Now that you and naginis both have been so wonderful about 35, I kinda wish I had had the guts to use it in the actual set. I'm seriously thrilled that it's so well received, I never would have seen that coming, I mean it's so pink and weird and the moodiness of the cap totally clashes with the coloring and I thought the yellow light could easily look just random so it's particularly fantastic to hear you say it actually ties things together! :O
also grinning like crazy about your comments on the lighting in 'Mood coloring', cause you're definitely my #1 lighting idol and the whole lighting business is such a mystery to me so whoa, it's seriously fantastic that you think I somehow managed to pull it off there!

Thanks again for the incredibly awesome comment! ♥

Wow, these are stunning! I absolutely adore your coloring! It is fabulous and so colorfull! :D I don't even know how to pic a favourite but I try :D I love surrounded by darkness and white decoration. There's also great texture bg in sky is above us! I love a lot your cat set, esp. numbers 2 and 3. In three there is awesome texture! AC is fantastic, I adore the coloring a lot. It is so bright!

Thank you so much for the lovely comment, I'm really flattered you like the set that much :> I have a thing for really vibrant colorings so I'm super happy you like the ac set and the colorings in general! Thanks again!!

It's amazing how you can be away from LJ for months at a time and then come back and see someone's icon and go 'that was made by john_scorpy. Becuase, I have to say that that is exactly what's been happening to me over the past while.

The way you use textures is so, so distinctive and I am head over heels for 'white decoration' and 'neon lights'. They're both totally gorgeous. I really like the effects over the TARDIS in #1 of the alternates and the lighting in alt #2 and 'Mood Coloring' is truly, truly lovely :)

Eeks, thank you so much for this awesome comment! I'm kind of really flattered that it's so easy for you to recognize my icons, though that could also mean that I'm really repetitive and predictable and should maybe try vary it up sometime soon :D but awww 'white decoration' took so freaking long, from finding the right texture to executing the composition and everything, so I'm really glad it works that well for you :3 and the same goes for Neon lights too, and yay it's awesome to hear that you like the first alt, I was tempted to use it but decided the texture work miiight have too much. Still, super glad you like it like that! :>

These are all asdfghjkl wonderful and I'll just be saving all of the Lost ones because WOW Holy Everything! I'm completely in love with #24 and #26, they're simple but utterly flawless! I love that you mixed vibrant and muted in this batch. "White decoration" is my absolute favourite though, it's stunning. AND YES ALL THE BEN ICONS BEN ICONS ARE GOOD :D

Omgwow, thank you so much for the lovely words!! ♥ Especially for 'white decoration', it was definitely one of the most time consuming and difficult to make.

AND YES ALL THE BEN ICONS BEN ICONS ARE GOOD :D

YES, YOU CLEARLY HAVE FLAWLESS TASTE :3 he needs more icon love though, it's so difficult to find icons of him :c

Gorgeous!!

Aw, thanks!! :>

OMG, these are gorgeous!!

I love the coloring and texture you used on surrounded by darkness, the coloring and 'simplicity' on as simple as it gets, the text on overwhelming text is amazing, the decoration you chose for white decoration is absolutely perfect for Lost and it goes so well with the icon, love the composition and black/white against the coloring in the background on your heart's desire, and the light and coloring on AC1 and AC2 is gorgeous. Oh, and I also love your muted coloring on 31 and 32. Snagging a lot of these. =)

Omg this comment is all kinds of amazing, thank you so much for letting me know which ones you liked and why, that's so helpful and awesome :> I'm super extra happy the text in 'Overwhelming text' works for you cause I was pretty sure it would be waaayy too much and messy for anyone else to like, but I'm quite proud of it myself, if only cause I managed to squeeze in such a squee-worthy quote xD and I'm also thrilled that you like 'white decoration' cause it was one of those cases where I find a texture and think of a concept yet fear I'll never be able to actually execute it. So really thanks again for the lovely words and I'm happy you even found things to snag!!

These are fantastic! I absolutely adore how you worked your colours for #4, that's the kind of pale I love but never able to achieve! #5 is AMAZING for the text work which (I think) must've been massive.
#7 is a joy to look at, those greens and cyans literally sings (this monitor pushes out cyans in a way I want to cry of joy). And Obviously I LOVE #9 with all my heart, the purple-ish details over the right eyesocket and nose give the icon a very nice depth.
The Category is totally totally you and it's very well put together, it feels like an "escalation", which ends with one of my favourite icons from this batch!
AC#2 is also one I saved in my inspiration folder because it's both light and high-contrast.

I like the alts/rejects too, especially #31 and #32

Oh wow, this comment!! *__* ♥ Thank you so much for your awesomely kind words! Heee, yes, the text in 5 took really long so I'm super happy to hear it works for you! (omg I need a cyan-pushing monitor too. I love cyans, obviously.) Also I think you're the first to mention/like cat5 which makes me really happy too cause it was the one I was the least confident with so I didn't expect it to get any love. Thanks again for the wonderful comment!!!

i love your composition on silhouette!
and surrounded by darkness is gorgeous, the grungyness and colouring is fantastic.
love your colouring on neon lights and your composition of overwhelming text is amazing, all the different fonts and sizes and its still readable and clean.

your category set is stunning as well! gonna snag cat1 and surrounded by darkness.

Aw, thank you so much!! I'm super happy to hear you found something to snag! :>

lost icons :')

Hee, yep, I have a huge Lost phase rn. I always seem to find all good shows years after they've ended :D

These are so pretty and creative!

Aw, thank you so much!! :>

Snagging no 2 - but all are great!

Aw, thanks!! Glad you found something to snag :D

LOVE the coloring, so bright and gorgeous, thanks!

Thank you so much for the lovely comment! I'm glad you like the colorings :>

Great job! The colors in the Lost icons are especially fantastic.

Thank you so much!! :D I'm glad you like the Lost ones especially since I had a lot of fun with them, it's such a fantastic show to icon because of all the outdoors scenes and colors and all!

Oh goodness me how I have missed your icons!!! another great batch :) :)

Omg, this is such a lovely comment, thank you so much!!! :>

Great work, as usual! I love the effect that blur colors into one another (if I'm making any sense here, because I don't know the technical terms for that... *sigh*).

The ones I find most interesting are the icons portraying Michael Emerson (I guess they are from Lost, aren't they? I'm not familiar with that show). I keep seeing "Finch" and yet he looks so different from the person in P.o.I.
Intriguing....

Oh wow, thank you so much! I'm flattered you like them that much and I must say your comment was a wonderful surprise considering the lack of Farscape in this post, so really thanks a lot! :D (I think the term you're looking for is gradient, and I'm thrilled that you like them here - I don't use them very often but it's always good to try new things, glad you think it works!)

Heeee, ofc the Michael Emerson ones are the best - anything with ME in it looks gorgeous by default ;) They're from LOST indeed, I've yet to watch Person of Interest but I'm pretty sure I will at some point when I finish Lost.

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KIND SIR, PLS TEACH ME YOUR COLOURING WAYS. *_*

On another note, it is so awesome to see a post from you! I was just thinking I hadnt seen a post from you for a while! :D

NOW BACK TO BUSINESS.

I am just loving all of the bright colours okay? :') They just look so beautiful and perfect! Your entire AC set is perfection and in particular, AC #2. JESUS. *_*

Also love sky above us, which manages to be both colourful and muted and as simple as it gets which is just starkly beautiful!

And I am loving the lighting in 27, 29 and 34.

*cries at all the loveliness* :')

Fantastic job you! :D

Omg, thank you so much for yet another incredible comment. I'm so excited you like the colorings, I was afraid I might have gone a liiiittle bit overboard cause I sure didn't hold back with the vibrancy, haha! Glad it works for you :DD

Also I'm super flattered that someone actually noticed my lack of posting lately, this has in fact been the longest posting break I've had since I started iconing. I did have some icons for an icon dump I could have posted last month but I felt so meh about them that I just didn't bother .__. but now my muse is back so hopefully there'll be a post per month again! :>

Thanks again for the lovely comment ♥