Gorgeous colouring :) I am snagging #5 of AC. Will credit!

Aw, thank you!! I'm so glad you found something to snag :>

Tommi, this post. ITS MAGIC! How divine are these icons? I absolutely love everything here, you have such a strong, unique style and this post is like another step in the Tommi-icon-style evolution. It's all vibrant and bold but still retro and fantastic, and just so wonderful.

Silhouette blending & it's alt are just, wow. I really, really love the composition - the blending is absolutely perfect, and the subtle texture work in the one you picked is absolutely magical. The neon colouring in the alt is divine as well, it's so bold and brave and individual. The composition of White Decoration is seriously stunning. The colour palette between the greens and the blues and the yellows is amazing, and the multiple images are framed perfectly. I really, really love everything about the texture(?) work, it's so creative and thematic and beautiful.

The whole category set is like looking at your style in a set of icons, everything has been perfectly chosen. I love the classic, vintage palette of the first icon, the black and white with sepia is magic, and the boxed texture work is amazing. I love the really, really vibrant colours of the second icon, and the slightly sharper, grungier texture feel is wonderful. The two texture choices in the third icon are just so you, but the slightly more contrasted and white feel is just such a lovely stylistic addition. The fourth is probably my favourite, I love the colouring, it's vintage and beautiful, and the ornamental texture work is perfect. And I loooooove the fifth icon because just, yessss. Amy & Rory. But also b&w with colour gradient and blocks of colour? Absolutely beautiful.

I also really love the vibrant colouring of your AC set, it's so, so bright and fun, and the lighting on the fifth is just gorgeous. Also, #32 is absolutely lovely, because of the more muted, gentle colouring, and the stunning crop, and I looooove the contrast and composition of #33, it has some truly stunning texture work happening too.

Seriously, this post is incredible ♥

Tommi, this post. ITS MAGIC! How divine are these icons?

Answer: nowhere near as divine and magical as this comment! ♥ Seriously you're too amazing for words, thank you so much for taking the time to write all these wonderful things. First of all I'm so glad you think this batch a step to some direction, because I feel like I'm pretty freaking stagnant in any kind of stylistic evolution, always doing the same things so to hear something like that is really awesome and even relieving in a way :D

And also, I'm so so happy that you think so highly of White decoration, it is texture work indeed - the theme was to use white decoration textures, which was scary because while I really like the style, I almost never use it cause it's so difficult to find the right texture + cap combinations. It can so easily end up looking random, so I'm super happy that you like the result! :> And I'm also thrilled that you like the category set cause those are possibly the most classically 'me' icons here so I just love how many positive things you see in them, aw. Also yay I'm thrilled that so many people have somehow noticed 32, it was supposed to be my 'sky is above us' icon and I far prefer it to my actual icon for that theme, the only reason I left it into the alts section was set cohesiveness, haha. (I totally planned this to be a muted set but then the opposite happened, idek!)

ANYWAY, THANKS FOR BEING ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! I read this comment as the first thing in the morning of a very busy day at uni, so it definitely cheered me up the whole day! :>

Gorgeous post, I love the vibrancy in your coloring. That Pitch perfect icon is stunning <3

Aw, thank you so much, I'm so glad you like the vibrancy and the PP icon in particular, I was a bit unsure about it cause I thought it might be a little too... psychedelic what with the spirals and neon colors and all :DD so I'm super glad to hear you think it works!

Oh I love the Lost icons SO MUCH.

Aw, thank you!! It's fantastic to hear you like the Lost ones cause I'm very likely to icon it a lot in the near future too :D I have a huuuge Lost phase now and it's such a fun show to icon so thanks a lot! :>

Aw, thank you so much for the awesome comment!! ♥

Amazing as usual! Just gonna dive right in with 'darkness,' which has such great texture use and muted colors. I love how Castiel manages to stand out from the background even though you made it so textured. 'Silhouette blending' is awesome, but I love the alt version even more. The lime green and neon pink is such a trademark combo from you, and I love the composition. It's a very creative use of the silhouette technique. What is the madness and beauty that is 'white decoration'?! Those white decorations are fantastic and add so much to the composition! The green and blue panels also look so great next to each other, and yesss, Sawyer. <3

Great coloring in CAT2, especially on her hair and shirt. The colors in AC3 are also really lovely and even though you can clearly tell who the two characters are, there's still something kind of wispy and antique about it, especially in the area near Jack. Not quite sure how to explain it but it looks a little foggy/faded over there, so this comes off looking as a really vibrant yet old photograph. AC5 makes me so happy because A) it has beautifully bright, vibrant colors and B) IT'S JIN. YOU ICONNED JIN. MORE PLEASE.

Oh wow, thank you so much for this wonderful comment! I'm just thrilled at all the unexpected love for the alt version of 'silhouette blending', and the fact that you like White decorations is awesome as well cause that's a style I don't even remember using before.

And yesss I iconned Jin :> tbh he was my least favorite character for a looooong time (weirdly enough the thing I couldn't get past was that he destroyed Sun's garden. It was just so cruel. I could always get the things he had to do because of Sun's father, but the garden thing, that was all on him and it was awful!), but by the very end of s4 I started to like him quite a lot, especially after he himself realized and admitted he had changed, so I think I like him now and might very well icon him in the future too. Seriously I need to make tons and tons of icons of LOST, there are so many awesome characters and scenes and I'm pretty much in love with them all!

These superwonderfulamazingawesomestunninglovelyperfection !! =) :D How you do these. Your coloring is behind amazing ! And the way you use of texture, just wow !

1 (Wonderful texture use and I love how Castiel like standing in the dark)
2 (The balance between the yellow and blue colors is amazing and I love the sharpening)
3 (This is so greative ! Love the crop silhouette and the texture use)
4 (The contrast is great ! And the subject is cut really nicely.)
5 (Aww :D Love your overhelming text ! Perfect font choice =) )
6 (Love the colors and the crop!)
7 (So perfect !! Wonderful texture use and the colors ♥)
8 (I love your idea this one ! It works so well and the colors are stunning!)
9 (Monocomre coloring is awesome!!)
10 (Lovelylovelylovelylovely !!!)
11 (The cutout looks really clean and well made. Amazing texture use well!)
12 (I don't know how you do this.. But you coloring is STUNNING!!!)
13 (The background is perfect!)
14 (Amazing colors :))
15 (Love how creative this icon is! Perfect monocrome coloring and the sharpening looks so good.)
16&17 (I adore the lighting and the colors)
18 (I love the far away crop and the contrast)
19 (Perfect colorings!)
20 (Love the lighting and the crop!)

Amazing set, like always !! =) Ouh, and alts 1, 3, 7, 10, 12, 14 and 15 are my fav! ♥

Oh, thank you so much for all the comments! I'm very flattered you found something nice to say about each of them, I really put a lot of effort on this set, even more so than usual, so I'm very happy you think the results work. Also it's lovely to hear you also like some of the alts, especially 10 which is subjectwise one of my own favorites, lol. (I didn't actually cut the 4th icon from the background though, I cleaned it up a little but mostly the background was like that in the cap already, so can't take credit for that ;) ).

These are just wonderful <3 I would love to see PSDs of 'sightless' and the Buffy one, please, if that's ok?

EDIT: and ACs 2 and 4, please - I just love the coloring on them!

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Oh wow, thank you so much!! I'm really glad you like them.

Here you are! :) I hope they're any helpful! My process for the Buffy one was extremely odd (it was more like fooling around Photoshop rather than even trying to make something good, lol), but the rest should be fairly regular. For the acs I didn't even do that much cause the caps were already so pretty :>

Thank you very much! It's always cool to see the creative process being creating certain icons! ;D