Icon dump: 66 multifandom icons

[neonspider]

LOST [27]
Doctor Who [16]
Farscape [11]
Once Upon a Time [3]
Les Miserables, Supernatural, Suits, Pitch Perfect, The Hunger Games, The Walking Dead, Elementary, My Week With Marilyn, The Fades [1 each]

//EDIT 17.12.2014: MOST OF THESE WERE MADE IN 2013!
If you're here to look for bestof_icons nominations or icons to remake for year 2014, most of this post doesn't fit the 'made in 2014' rule.
The ones that DO fit the rule are 1-9 (tho those are remakes already..), 25, 30, and 34-36


These were made for bestof_icons, the7days, capchallenge, jukeboxic, missingfaction and watchnicon, and lots of randoms made for nothing at all. I dislike making icon dumps so at least I tried to keep the size of this reasonable (well, under 100 at least) by leaving some of the most atrocious ones out, but I'm not very good at estimating how good an individual icon is so I didn't exclude that many. Really I'll try my best to make smaller posts from now on, this basically has all the random icons I've made since September so that explains the size :p

First, multifandom for the remake activity at bestof_icons, click for the (mostly much better) old icons .__.

Doctor Who x 3, Farscape x2
[01-05]
Suits, Les Miserables, SPN, Pitch Perfect
[06-09]

Annnd here's the rest of this icon dump, organized by fandom.

LOST

[10-14]
[15-19]
[20-24]
[25-29]
[30-34]
[35-36]

Doctor Who

[37-41]
[42-46]
[47-49]

Farscape

[50-54]
[55-58]

Misc
OUAT x3, My Week With Marilyn, The Fades
[59-63]
The Walking Dead, The Hunger Games, Elementary
[64-66]

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Comments

[neonspider]

aww thank you for this fantastic comment!! :D

[neonspider]

omg I love that you often have such unusual favorites! Like with 19, I wasn't even sure if I should include it here. I always envy people who can make the rainbow in one icon coloring work so that's what i was going for but really didn't think it was that good, so thank you!! ♥

[neonspider]

aw, thank you so much for this lovely comment! :)

[neonspider]

Thank you so much, I'm super flattered you like that style - I totally get what you mean there and I'm really happy the style works for you cause it's one of those things I can't resist doing all the time! :D

[neonspider]

omg, your comments are always so awesome, thank you so much!! also I love the honesty of the last part! When looking at everyone elses work (yours for example) I often get this 'why didn't I think of this first?? can I just copy the hell out of this??' feeling, but then i realize I couldn't get a similar effect even if I tried! :D

[neonspider]

wow, what an awesome comment, thank you so much!! :) I'm so flattered you like those colorings especially cause abusing vibrance + yellow + pink are my favorite things tbh. thanks again ♥

[queen-bartonia.livejournal.com]

Great batch!! I already talked about the remakes at the bestof_icons post. Your Farscape icons are so interesting. I like the funky style of 50-51 - it fits Chiana so perfectly, lol! The softness of 53 is a nice contrast and the b&w of 55 is great. Love the coloring for 22 (amazingly bright!), 27, 36 (it's fun), 41, 59, and 65.

Your use of textures is so interesting to me because for the most part, it's very different from the way I use them. It seems you start with a texture and build, while I start with the cap and end up layering textures on top. 18, 13, and 58 in particular are so creative.

I had a few questions about 27: did you know you wanted to use that color palette? How do you get coloring like that? With gradients? I've tried and mine always end up looking... odd, so I was wondering.

[fouroux.livejournal.com]

your style has changed a lot since I last looked at your icons. I like it a lot though :) you've grown so much.

[neonspider]

Oh wow, what an amazing comment, thank you so much for taking the time to write all this! ♥
I love iconing Chi cause so many different colors and styles fit her + she's just so gorgeous :D

Your use of textures is so interesting to me because for the most part, it's very different from the way I use them. It seems you start with a texture and build, while I start with the cap and end up layering textures on top.

A very good observation about the texture use! You're totally right that I start with a texture pretty often, not always but sometimes, especially if I want compositiony texture use as opposed to enhancement texture use which is easy to add to any cap so they can be chosen later. But with stock, paint, decorative, geometric or other visible composition textures I have to start with the texture, cause it's easier for me to find a cap that fits a texture than to start with a cap and go through my 100,000 textures searching for something that fits a particular cap (no kidding, that's almost the exact count o_O). So, it's not purposeful strategy as much as just something to preserve my sanity :D
...However I must admit I often just randomize both the cap and the textures cause I'm extremely lazy x)

I had a few questions about 27: did you know you wanted to use that color palette? How do you get coloring like that? With gradients?

Oh, tbh I don't really remember the process of making it, it's one of the oldest icons here so I don't really know how I ended up with that color scheme; I think it's quite close to the colors of the original cap so it didn't take much thinking, except the background color which i could freely pick, and this time I chose pale green just cause I usually pick cyan so I wanted that one to be slightly different, but still pastelly :D
as for how I did the coloring in general, I first made it brighter and less contrasted with gradient maps on soft light, which also made everything muted and skin-toned, and then I just used two separate Selective color layers to color her hair and shirt (everything else masked out of the layers but the element I was coloring). I hope this makes any sense and answers your question but if not, I'll be happy to explain it better :)

sorry about the rambly answer and thanks again for the fantastic comment!

[neonspider]

Wow, thank you so much, this is really awesome to hear! I often feel like I'm always doing the same things that I've been doing for at least a year, so I'm really glad and surprised you see some change and think it's positive :>

[raktajinos.livejournal.com]

lol as if we need a reason to icon Jack :P. But I needed a new Jack icon so I'm going to use yours (with credit of course).

[julie-izumi.livejournal.com]

Such an amazing batch!!!
I love your coloring when it looks colorful but muted as the same time, if that makes any sense, like in 27, 29 (by the way this one is amazing, the text, composition, subject, I always had a soft spot for these 2!) or 61!
41, 44 and 59 are favorites too!
Wonderful icons!

[youcallitwinter.livejournal.com]

I loved the LOST ones!! Thanks so much :D

[neonspider]

Thank you!! :) I love iconing LOST, the caps are so colorful and it's such an epic show in every way :>

[neonspider]

Oh thank you so much for the wonderful comment :) I'm glad you like the mutedvibrant colorings, it was basically my entire style last year. Rn I have a thing for more intense vibrancy, so I'm glad you liked some of those as well!

[justmyb0nes.livejournal.com]

They are STUNNING. My favorites are 5, 8, 10, 25, 42, 53, 55 (OMG PERFECT), 57, 63 and 64

[burstoflight.livejournal.com]

Snagged some! Thanks! :)

[jokermary.livejournal.com]

These are truly amazing! I really love your colors! My favourites are 19, 20, 27, 30 and 35, everything on these icons is great :)

[sodamnreckless.livejournal.com]

and once again you left me speechless... ♥

[setentpet.livejournal.com]

As gorgeous as ever! I am loving the painted look to a lot of these, especially on 2, 29, 36, 43, 62 and 64. Also, love the coloring you were able to get on 23, 46, and 65. Great text on 35 and 58 as well.

[ancientwhispers.livejournal.com]

Of course it's a good thing! This post is so amazing it knocked the wind right out of me!

[nebari-rebel.livejournal.com]

I really love the colors here, how vibrant and super saturated and late 80's/early 90's they are, but the overall look and style is so sharply modern. Great icons.

I will also be snurching #55 and using it where ever and whenever I can because goddamn, that is stunning. One of the most pleasing crops I've ever seen, and the balance of light and shadow is perfection.

[neonspider]

Oh wow, I couldn't believe it when I saw this in my inbox, I haven't seen you around here in ages! I really hope you're ok! I'm super happy you like these, especially 55. But really I'm just thrilled to hear from you :)

[luminousdaze]

Wow these look so amazing!

[neonspider]

Thank you so much!! :)