Oh but that's such a colorful and gorgeous selection. I get what you mean that there possibly could have been even better choices in your newest posts but at the same time I'm in love with most of these too! the Topaz on 4 looks actually pretty excellent to me, I mean, it's not like this most plastic-looking icon ever which was in my top 20 results too, wtflmao. Besides who cares about topaz when the coloring is as stellar as in 4 (I'm pretty sure I even voted for it, all I thought was all the color porn, I'm easy like that, give me vibrant cyans and yellows and I'm sold :D). My other faves of these are of course 2, 5 and 6, I think 5 and 6 were even nominated by me, and 10 is incredible too, and the rest are awesome but I would have picked something newer, probably all from the newest post tbh, and would have liked to see your default place in the top10 for sure (I hadn't noticed the eye colors either and the lime colored hair is actually really cool!).

But I have absolutely no clue why you seem to think I'm any 'further' than you?!? :O I totally look up to your icons! They have none of the quality issues my icons have! And also I think you definitely have a style, or a set of things that make your work distinctive. The curse about styles though is that in 2012 I agonized over not having one. Like, I desperately wanted to develop one. And then it just hit me in December that year and I noticed that I really liked making ~vintagey/pastelly icons, and as a result, almost all my 2013 icons look the same cause I can't give up using the same coloring methods :p so, I went from no style to too much of the same style. You should enjoy the phase where your icons are distinctively yours, yet varied!! :)