bestof_icons results: top 11 icons from 2013

[neonspider]

According to the bestof_icons results my top 11 icons made in 2013 were, in order:




I'm thrilled at this result cause many of these were my own favorites from my 2013 icons too, and I think it's a very good sample to represent what I like to do with icons. I'm surprised and delighted that some of my more experimental icons were that well received (2 and 3 for example, especially 2 because seriously I never paint! I can't paint! It's just... not a thing that i do, usually, but I'd like to, so this is really encouraging).
I don't dislike any of these icons and that's saying a lot! The only thing that makes me alb sad is that there's only one icon here that was made during the last few months of the year, mostly these are from April-July, so maybe I did get worse like I thought I had, haha.  But overall I think this selection is very similar to what I had hoped it would be, and I'm extremely grateful and happy that other makers seem to appreciate me for what I am and not just some lucky exception icons that don't reflect my style as a whole. So, HUGE THANKS to everyone who voted! ♥

Also, make sure to check all the fantastic winner icons from everyone else here!!

What did you think about your results? Were you happy or disappointed? Did your top results reflect your style well, and if not, does this bother you? I'm very interested in hearing what kind of thoughts this awesome event has inspired in you!

Comments

[anassa-anemou.livejournal.com]

I did a poll with myself and I totally got it right which one would win of yours. Some of my personal favs are there too (1, 3,4, 5,7).
Look at your pool, I see what you are talking about, your style is all over them and I think it was really cool.


I got it right which one would be mine too. I hate pink and I did it for technique20in20, but I was grateful people voted for one of my last icon posts of the year.
Personal style isn't something I found yet, but I was mostly ok with what people chose. It wasn't a surprise, but some of my favs didn't make it and some really obscure/really ugly icons made it and I was??

Like shameless666 said, it's super weird to find the middle term: do what you like/think is good or move over and try to make different icons, thinking to broad your spectrum so that people like them.

[neonspider]

Hee, thank you so much! :D I wasn't too surprised either about the winner from me, more surprised about the rest oif the top 10 (but in a good way).

Yes, having a recent icon win is definitely awesome! From me the winner was from July so it's at least not from January or something but still there's the implication that i got worse, so, I would have loved to get a new winner like you did. (then again I get why an older icon won, cause I had a huge iconing slump through the rest of the months and didn't even post most of my made icons properly so maybe that's the explanation x) )

I don't see any ugly icons in your poll though, I think you're being too hard on them! As for your last question, there are always benefits in analyzing why people might have voted for the icons they voted for, but in the end you can only guess (some votes are based on personal taste and some on execution quality, and you can't be sure if an icon wins for color, composition, texture use, brightness or something else) so it's best not to let it affect your style too much. I think all of your work is awesome as it is tbh :) i'll just pretend I didn't see you diss pink, lol! I looove pink, obviously :p