WHAT are you kidding or did you really did that in 5 minutes :O wow, I never would have guessed! But if that's the case then I definitely understand you not being happy with the win, of course it's natural to want all the hard work to be worth it. This is why it would be good to see the caps in votings like that, to be able to tell which icons have taken more effort than others; I would have definitely taken that into account!
Ohhh I definitely didn't mean to say that you should only make vibrant icons and nothing else, I think you have lots of different strengths so I'd encourage playing around with all of them - vibrant colors, lighting, contrast, blending, blocking, text, textures, everything!! :> or whatever you're inspired by, even if it's completely different from what you think anyone else likes; you never know. I think your icons are absolutely gorgeous, so, don't worry too much about this poll :>
LOL no seriously this happens to me quite a lot, hoping one icon to get positive attention and being 'wtf' when another much less carefully made one gets more compliments. But at the same time I don't want anyone to feel like they like the 'wrong' icons from me; anyone liking any icon at all is already sooo much better than nobody liking anything, so, the last thing I want to do is make people feel like there are restrictions on which of my icons they are allowed to like, or that I'm ungrateful, cause that's not true either. This is such a complicated thing, it's good to get to discuss it :)
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Ohhh I definitely didn't mean to say that you should only make vibrant icons and nothing else, I think you have lots of different strengths so I'd encourage playing around with all of them - vibrant colors, lighting, contrast, blending, blocking, text, textures, everything!! :> or whatever you're inspired by, even if it's completely different from what you think anyone else likes; you never know. I think your icons are absolutely gorgeous, so, don't worry too much about this poll :>
LOL no seriously this happens to me quite a lot, hoping one icon to get positive attention and being 'wtf' when another much less carefully made one gets more compliments. But at the same time I don't want anyone to feel like they like the 'wrong' icons from me; anyone liking any icon at all is already sooo much better than nobody liking anything, so, the last thing I want to do is make people feel like there are restrictions on which of my icons they are allowed to like, or that I'm ungrateful, cause that's not true either. This is such a complicated thing, it's good to get to discuss it :)