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Icon dump: 66 multifandom icons

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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So many beauties here!! I'm schocked you don't like these! All these beautiful colors. My favourites are #3, #6, #7, #21, #36, #64 and all the OUAT icons! Saved a bunch!

Oh thank you for the wonderful comment!! It's not that i don't like these as individual icons, it's just that i don't really like posting this many icons at once, in a random batch like this. I love posting 20in20 entries cause they're small and cohesive (hopefully), but my icon dumps just are just huge and all over the place :c I'm really glad if you don't think so though, and thanks a lot for telling which ones were your favorites too, that is really helpful! :>

Can't. Breathe.

Omg I hope that's a good thing :D thanks a lot! (also whoa this comment reminded me of a question you asked a while ago, I'm really sorry for forgetting to reply!! will do that asap!)

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ancientwhispers.livejournal.com - 2014-02-14 03:01 (UTC) - Expand

I want to hug out all of the negative feelings, really.
This post is like perfection blown onto my screen!
Favs: 66,40,18, 36,20,22,23,1 and 9! I still love so much that re-do I asked.

Aw, thank you, that's very sweet :>
And thanks a lot, I'm thrilled you liked them that much! Especially the one you asked me to remake, I'm always nervous about activities like this, I know I did pretty well last year but this year I just felt like I couldn't improve any of them at all, so that was a little disappointing. But, if I made even one of them better, that's really fantastic to hear, so huge thanks for the wonderful comment!! ♥

Just OMG! There are no words! I LOVE the textures you used for 1 and 3 of the remakes! 50, 51, and 55 are inspired! I especially love 55, that cap is excellent! Very impressive work!

wow, thank you so much for the awesome comment! LOL I never would have expected anyone to like the textured messes that are 1 and 3, so thanks! and it's so interesting that you'd call 50, 51 and 55 inspired - they were made at a time when my inspiration was probably at an all time low. It's quite encouraging to hear that I hadn't completely lost my touch even during the last few monhths of last year. That being said, chiana is just so iconable that it never takes much to make her caps work :D

those Jack Harkness ones are GORGEOUS

Aw, thanks! When I got to his first episodes in my DW icon project, I just knew I had to icon him now that i had the chance :D

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raktajinos.livejournal.com - 2014-02-11 06:04 (UTC) - Expand

These are stunning! Love the colours (they're so darn vibrant!!) and the text work on these, amazing! Snagged some DW and Farscape, thanks. :)

Wow, thank you!! I just can't icon without making everything oversaturated, so it's really lovely to hear it works for you, and that you even found something to snag! :>

Holy cow! 3 & 4 are doing things to me, 24 pops in the most unusual way, the text and texturing on 35 is fabulous. Yay Chiana icons :D

Omg thank you so much!! I'm thrilled you like 24, I usually abuse vibrancy in the entire icon but in that one I wanted to try mixing really muted and really bright colors in the same icon and see what happens - really glad you like the result!
(LOL when iconing Farscape most of my icons tend to be of Chi cause she's just perfect for icons, and also an awesome character in general :D)

So fabulous! I love the coloring! My faves are Lost icons and 1-5 and 49.

Thanks so much!! So glad you like the colorings, out of all the iconing aspects coloring is probably my favorite thing to do. Thanks for listing your favorites, that's always helpful :)

So many pretty colors <3
I love the more vibrant ones, but the pastel icons, like 27, also look really cool with that vintage look!

Oh thank you so much!! I'm extra flattered that you like both the vibrant and the pastelly icons, cause I really love using both coloring styles :>

I don't think there's a word to describe your icons, so I go with fantabulous!
I love everything on this post but especially the Lost and DW ones ♥

Omg I love that word and it's super flattering that you chose it for my stuff :3 thank you!! ♥ and also yay for the Lost and DW ones being your favorites cause those are definitely my top 2 fandoms to icon!

SUCH A GOOD POST. SO MANY PRETTIES. :D

aww thank you for this fantastic comment!! :D

19!!! The colors! Ahhhh!

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!! ♥

Stunning icons :) :) :) Saving a bunch :) :)

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

I love your coloring. I don't know how to describe this technique, but they look almost like you painted on a black and white photo.

I love it!

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

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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

oh my god I LOVE EVERYTHING HERE!
my favourites are the ones with really bold colours, especially the pink and yellows in the Rose icons ♥
let me just save everything ok thanks!!!

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 ♥

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.

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!

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

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 :>

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!

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!

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

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

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

Omg, thank you so much for the wonderful comment!! Glad you liked them :)

Snagged some! Thanks! :)

Glad you found something to snag, enjoy! :)

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

Omg, thank you so much for the wonderful comment!! :)

and once again you left me speechless... ♥

Aw, thank you so much!! So glad you like them :)

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.

Omg thank you so much for the wonderful comment and taking the time to tell what you liked about them, that's always really helpful :> I don't know how I missed this comment, sorry for the super late reply!

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