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35 icons (various fandoms)
These are my sets for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
21tvthrowdown and 20inspirations.
Fandoms included:
17 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3 Farscape
2 Game of Thrones
2 Doctor Who
2 Star Trek TOS
2 Stargate sg1
2 Skins
1 The Big Bang Theory
1 Star Wars
1 Brokeback Mountain
1 Prison Break
1 Harry Potter
21tvthrowdown:
My claim was the character of Faith Lehane from BtVS and Angel, because I have a total crush on her. Shut up, it's not ridiculous for a 23yo to have tv crushes :P Anyway I feel a bit meh about this set, mostly cause I focused much more time and effort on the 20inspirations set. she's still pretty though so everything's cool :D
THEMES
CAT: Beginning to End
ARTIST'S CHOICE
20inspirations:
Now this set I'm really quite happy with, all thanks to the hugely inspiring theme which was to represent ourselves in the icons. I didn't have the time to compile an inspiration post so all I have for that is this username banner:
Three general points about this set:
- I'm a guy, so I tried to use mostly male characters with some exceptions when a specific inspiration required it
- Most of these are pretty complex on purpose cause if there's one word I'd use to describe myself, it would be 'complex'
- I like people, but I'm definitely a loner type and feel the most comfortable alone, so in most of these I've only used one character
- I've tried making both the subject and the design reflect some qualities I have, cause I couldn't decide which way I wanted to go (and the correct option in these situations is usually 'why choose when you can have both') :)
Each icon also has an extra explanation but I've put them under a spoiler cut cause srsly, I RAMBLE, and I'm sure not everyone is interested in them. :p
[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]
Starting with the obvious: my stupid, horrible username. Seriously, anyone other than a 12yo girl is NOT allowed to name themselves after a silly OTP, yet somehow, idek, I did. The ship is from Farscape. The weirdo in the gimp suit is Scorpius, and he has a big damn obsession on the other guy, John. Like 90% of my ships, it's non-canon, cause I don't like being told who belong together or something. Also they're creepy enough to fit into my freaky taste. This show and this ship were the reason I made an lj account in the first place. They were also the reason I started iconing.
Jon Snow from GoT! This icon is supposed to represent my roots, Finland, because the wintry scenery of Winterfell and especially at the Wall remind me a lot of my country :) I also tried to make the coloring blue and white like our flag is, but the 'blue' ended up more cyan than the dark blue we have. Well, I tried :p I'm far from a nationalistic person but I have to say the finnish culture has had a huge impact on my personality, obviously. The obsessive need to be humble and put myself down, the low-key manner of doing things, the shyness, the cynicism, the 'thinking before doing' attitude and the occasional melancholy, they're all really, really Finnish stuff - and very me.
Sheldon Cooper proudly presenting his board full of geeky. Sheldon is smart in some limited areas, but unbearable in any social context. He doesn't mean any harm, he just is clueless socially. We share so many interests - theoretical physics, computer stuff, random useless trivia. Sheldon wants to be the best at everything, especially at his job, and wants others to think so too no matter how hard he claims not to care about what people think. He's really quite childish there. My mum says Sheldon is like me turned up to eleven, and she really knows best, so I'll just take her word for it!
Giles from BtVS surrounded by his and my favorite things - books! I guess I'm 'book smart' cause I love to read and study and even the books I read for fun are usually educational rather than fiction, and my grades at uni are really good whenever the exam is something you can just read for. Now, if I need to do something actually practical, that's another thing, lol. This is why getting a job kinda terrifies me. All that reading and it still won't be enough if I can't translate that knowledge into practise D:
This is pretty self explanatory. No matter how quiet I'm IRL, in written text I'm waaaay too wordy, so here we have the Tenth Doctor - who can be quite the Rambly McRambleson himself - with a big wall of obscure text on the background...
I'm quite punctual and effective at my time use. I know I always complain about not having any, but actually that's just because I take on so many things to do in short times, and even though it makes me very busy, I almost never have to drop any of it - I'll get it done no matter what, and it's not all half-assed either, I really do the best I can with the little time I'm given. This doesn't only apply to iconing, but school work and other hobbies too. So, I chose to represent all this with an actual time lord! :D
Independence, stubbornness, determination, ambition - this icon tries to represent these things, mostly through the coloring, character choice and Kirk's expression. For the purposes of this challenge I asked my sister how she would describe me, and the first thing to cross her mind was 'independent', so I just had to include it in some form. Thanks, sis!
Sometimes my opinions can be pretty strong, even black and white, cause I'm usually pretty convinced that I'm right. So here is a b&w icon - with a very big contrast, containing almost no grays at all - and Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, with the most ridiculously hypocritical quote ever :) but hey, we all do that from time to time right? I sure do, even more when I was a teen. Which isn't that long ago, so... yeah.
More science stuff! This is Daniel from Stargate sg1 finding an ancient alien device, and he's enthralled. I can relate, I have tons of scientific curiosity and want to discover and study meaningful things like he does. The thought that makes me most anxious is that I won't have the time to learn everything there is to learn during my lifetime.
Sid from Skins. The main point of this icon is just complexity and weirdness cause yeah I'm definitely both, but another thing I thought about here is the character - Sid from Skins. I don't even watch that show that much, but I had to include him because he's literally the only tv character I can think of who has any physical resemblance to me. I'm actually thrilled that he exists, because you don't really see guys like me on tv - they're always these tall, muscular, handsome short-haired testosterone containers, but here we have that rare scrawny guy with a babyface and nerdy glasses and hair just like mine. I adore him, I don't even care that his character is supposed to be much younger than I am :D
Shyness/insecurity. These played a huge role when I was growing up, and still do to a degree cause I can't just go to some bar and randomly start talking to people. I need to have something to say to be able to start a discussion. Usually I don't even want to, cause I don't want too many people to notice me cause as an utter pessimist I automatically assume they won't be thinking anything good if they pay attention to my presence :p anyway what better subject to represent this than Angel who likes to hide in shadows, ashamed of his past and always sulking and not great at people skills?
Teal'c from StarGate. This is quite an 'in your face' icon with the coloring, and that's what I am inside my own head - I express myself quite calmly to keep my face but really many of my opinions and feelings are over the top and radical, some even shocking, and if I expressed them exactly like they are in my head, I'd probably get banned from everywhere. (I tried this a few years ago, and that's exactly what happened. Wasn't a good idea.) Anyway I chose Teal'c cause he's the ultimate freedom fighter, a true liberal among his people, and that's the kind of values that are the most important to me and also the fuel behind my most trollish lapses in the past. Now I've just learned to keep them to myself or if I really need to express them, to do so in a milder manner.
Sid again! Also, my depressing view on life written in C++ like a true emo geek would do. This is half tongue on cheek cause I'm not really that angsty usually, but *when* I am, I have the most peculiar ways of expressing it, so... the icon is definitely very me. :D
Oh, Rygel. A Farscape character who seems to have most of my bad traits - he's an utterly selfish, materialistic, greedy guy. The text on this is an actual Farscape quote, with him delivering the obnoxious part on the right :p However he does have a good heart - he's not a villain but one of the 'good guys' - and in the end he can usually do the right thing, and he certainly wants to do the right thing... if it doesn't cost too much.
Brokeback Mountain. Well, doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that this maker might not be 100% straight, considering my freaking lj nick is a slash ship :D It would have been way too obvious to make a 'gay icon' in glowing rainbow colors, but that’s not me. I'm actually very low-key about it – not ashamed, just not interested in circles where being gay/bi would be the common denominator and the trait that defines me the most, you know? So I made this a really subtle, natural icon. Cause that's what it is for me, natural, no big deal, a part of my personality, definitely a big enough part to be rightfully included here, yet not something that alone could be used to draw even a rough picture of me.
Another complex icon, this time to represent controlled chaos. Like Michael Scofield from prison Break, I'm a total control freak and perfectionist, I want to be able to put everything into a nice tidy order so I can process it the most efficiently, I'm completely thrown off by chaos (which is why I hate bars, clubs etc - so much noise, so many people, so little sense!). So in the icon there's complexity, many little blocks and everything, but it's also put into a symmetrical composition so it's easier to grasp, since that's how I try to process the world - which usually isn't all that successful cause the world has this annoying way of being way too complex to grasp, completely beyond anyone's understanding :( oh, and another really weird coloring, cause I am.
Spock from Star Trek. Like him, I think of myself as mostly a logical, 'head over heart' person, and I'd like to be even more of that cause I sort of see distancing yourself from your emotions and making all decisions purely based on logic as a 'higher level'. Too high for us mere mortals, I guess. Um, just to be clear, I don't idolize sociopaths or anything like that - I welcome general emotions like empathy and caring. It's the personal feelings like affection to someone in particular, jealousy, stuff like that I see as kind of evil cause they twist our mind into thinking that some people are more important than others, so to free myself from those emotions, that's what I see as beneficial (not to myself, but to people in general) and what I try my hardest to do. That's what the calm blue side reflects. Now obviously there's the other side to the icon too, meaning that like Spock, I'm not completely successful at this and there's still a huuuuuge difference between me and the ideal Vulcan I want to be :p
Ok, so this is a very twisted part of me - we have Braca, just another soldier, and Scorpius, an ingenious leader who Braca likes to follow. I think I'm like Braca a lot. I see a lot of value in hierarchies when they are not exploited. Actually I think they are a natural part of any social context, so there's not much point in fighting them. I have this weird way of almost worshipping anyone I see as superior in some way - mostly skills, accomplishments or intellect - and I don't do it to advance myself or anything, but because I see it as my role, something I just want and need to do. Now this only goes one way, I definitely don't have a habit of considering anyone inferior. I mostly just see myself at the bottom of any pyramid, and I have no problem with that cause I know it doesn't always have to be like that. (I've heard it said that Finland should be a monarchy cause we really love power figures, lol. I guess that's where this comes from.)
I mentioned those (too) strong opinions right? Well here's one, I'm very liberal towards anything involving romance :) As long as all parties are consenting, I don't really care who's frelling who, lol. Not even if there's something that makes their relationship 'wrong' to most people, like with the twins Cersei and Jaime here. While not wanting any sort of romance personally for myself, I'll defend anyones right to be with whoever they want to be, even if it squicks someone else.
Harry Potter and some random dice. Huh?, I hear you thinking. This is actually the most meaningful icon of the batch to me, it's my view on universe and life itself. (That sounds stupidly overdramatic.) After learning about theories of quantum physics, Einstein famously wrote that 'God doesn't play dice with the world'. Later, Stephen Hawking commented on this with "All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion". I have to side with him on this one. I don't think I've ever really believed in anything other than a random, meaningless (in the grand scale of things) existence, and learning about quantum physics kinda cemented it for me. If everything is just random movement of particles, all determinism - including any variations of fate and meaning - are rendered useless. What's left is us floating around in space alone and abandoned, living our little lives here for a while and then we just stop existing and that's it :p so in the icon we have a tiny character floating in darkness, but the scene is dominated by the dice. In the icon, Harry certainly isn't there to represent God :D but instead I chose his character to add some contradiction, since HP is a work very much based on the concept of (his) destiny.
21tvthrowdown and 20inspirations.Fandoms included:
17 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3 Farscape
2 Game of Thrones
2 Doctor Who
2 Star Trek TOS
2 Stargate sg1
2 Skins
1 The Big Bang Theory
1 Star Wars
1 Brokeback Mountain
1 Prison Break
1 Harry Potter
21tvthrowdown:My claim was the character of Faith Lehane from BtVS and Angel, because I have a total crush on her. Shut up, it's not ridiculous for a 23yo to have tv crushes :P Anyway I feel a bit meh about this set, mostly cause I focused much more time and effort on the 20inspirations set. she's still pretty though so everything's cool :D
THEMES
| dance | tear | life | death | marked |
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CAT: Beginning to End
| Cat 1 | Cat 2 | Cat 3 | Cat 4 | Cat 5 |
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ARTIST'S CHOICE
| AC 1 | AC 2 | AC 3 | AC 4 | AC 5 |
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20inspirations:Now this set I'm really quite happy with, all thanks to the hugely inspiring theme which was to represent ourselves in the icons. I didn't have the time to compile an inspiration post so all I have for that is this username banner:
Three general points about this set:
- I'm a guy, so I tried to use mostly male characters with some exceptions when a specific inspiration required it
- Most of these are pretty complex on purpose cause if there's one word I'd use to describe myself, it would be 'complex'
- I like people, but I'm definitely a loner type and feel the most comfortable alone, so in most of these I've only used one character
- I've tried making both the subject and the design reflect some qualities I have, cause I couldn't decide which way I wanted to go (and the correct option in these situations is usually 'why choose when you can have both') :)
Each icon also has an extra explanation but I've put them under a spoiler cut cause srsly, I RAMBLE, and I'm sure not everyone is interested in them. :p
[01-05] [06-10] [11-15] [16-20]Starting with the obvious: my stupid, horrible username. Seriously, anyone other than a 12yo girl is NOT allowed to name themselves after a silly OTP, yet somehow, idek, I did. The ship is from Farscape. The weirdo in the gimp suit is Scorpius, and he has a big damn obsession on the other guy, John. Like 90% of my ships, it's non-canon, cause I don't like being told who belong together or something. Also they're creepy enough to fit into my freaky taste. This show and this ship were the reason I made an lj account in the first place. They were also the reason I started iconing.
Jon Snow from GoT! This icon is supposed to represent my roots, Finland, because the wintry scenery of Winterfell and especially at the Wall remind me a lot of my country :) I also tried to make the coloring blue and white like our flag is, but the 'blue' ended up more cyan than the dark blue we have. Well, I tried :p I'm far from a nationalistic person but I have to say the finnish culture has had a huge impact on my personality, obviously. The obsessive need to be humble and put myself down, the low-key manner of doing things, the shyness, the cynicism, the 'thinking before doing' attitude and the occasional melancholy, they're all really, really Finnish stuff - and very me.
Sheldon Cooper proudly presenting his board full of geeky. Sheldon is smart in some limited areas, but unbearable in any social context. He doesn't mean any harm, he just is clueless socially. We share so many interests - theoretical physics, computer stuff, random useless trivia. Sheldon wants to be the best at everything, especially at his job, and wants others to think so too no matter how hard he claims not to care about what people think. He's really quite childish there. My mum says Sheldon is like me turned up to eleven, and she really knows best, so I'll just take her word for it!
Giles from BtVS surrounded by his and my favorite things - books! I guess I'm 'book smart' cause I love to read and study and even the books I read for fun are usually educational rather than fiction, and my grades at uni are really good whenever the exam is something you can just read for. Now, if I need to do something actually practical, that's another thing, lol. This is why getting a job kinda terrifies me. All that reading and it still won't be enough if I can't translate that knowledge into practise D:
This is pretty self explanatory. No matter how quiet I'm IRL, in written text I'm waaaay too wordy, so here we have the Tenth Doctor - who can be quite the Rambly McRambleson himself - with a big wall of obscure text on the background...
I'm quite punctual and effective at my time use. I know I always complain about not having any, but actually that's just because I take on so many things to do in short times, and even though it makes me very busy, I almost never have to drop any of it - I'll get it done no matter what, and it's not all half-assed either, I really do the best I can with the little time I'm given. This doesn't only apply to iconing, but school work and other hobbies too. So, I chose to represent all this with an actual time lord! :D
Independence, stubbornness, determination, ambition - this icon tries to represent these things, mostly through the coloring, character choice and Kirk's expression. For the purposes of this challenge I asked my sister how she would describe me, and the first thing to cross her mind was 'independent', so I just had to include it in some form. Thanks, sis!
Sometimes my opinions can be pretty strong, even black and white, cause I'm usually pretty convinced that I'm right. So here is a b&w icon - with a very big contrast, containing almost no grays at all - and Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, with the most ridiculously hypocritical quote ever :) but hey, we all do that from time to time right? I sure do, even more when I was a teen. Which isn't that long ago, so... yeah.
More science stuff! This is Daniel from Stargate sg1 finding an ancient alien device, and he's enthralled. I can relate, I have tons of scientific curiosity and want to discover and study meaningful things like he does. The thought that makes me most anxious is that I won't have the time to learn everything there is to learn during my lifetime.
Sid from Skins. The main point of this icon is just complexity and weirdness cause yeah I'm definitely both, but another thing I thought about here is the character - Sid from Skins. I don't even watch that show that much, but I had to include him because he's literally the only tv character I can think of who has any physical resemblance to me. I'm actually thrilled that he exists, because you don't really see guys like me on tv - they're always these tall, muscular, handsome short-haired testosterone containers, but here we have that rare scrawny guy with a babyface and nerdy glasses and hair just like mine. I adore him, I don't even care that his character is supposed to be much younger than I am :D
Shyness/insecurity. These played a huge role when I was growing up, and still do to a degree cause I can't just go to some bar and randomly start talking to people. I need to have something to say to be able to start a discussion. Usually I don't even want to, cause I don't want too many people to notice me cause as an utter pessimist I automatically assume they won't be thinking anything good if they pay attention to my presence :p anyway what better subject to represent this than Angel who likes to hide in shadows, ashamed of his past and always sulking and not great at people skills?
Teal'c from StarGate. This is quite an 'in your face' icon with the coloring, and that's what I am inside my own head - I express myself quite calmly to keep my face but really many of my opinions and feelings are over the top and radical, some even shocking, and if I expressed them exactly like they are in my head, I'd probably get banned from everywhere. (I tried this a few years ago, and that's exactly what happened. Wasn't a good idea.) Anyway I chose Teal'c cause he's the ultimate freedom fighter, a true liberal among his people, and that's the kind of values that are the most important to me and also the fuel behind my most trollish lapses in the past. Now I've just learned to keep them to myself or if I really need to express them, to do so in a milder manner.
Sid again! Also, my depressing view on life written in C++ like a true emo geek would do. This is half tongue on cheek cause I'm not really that angsty usually, but *when* I am, I have the most peculiar ways of expressing it, so... the icon is definitely very me. :D
Oh, Rygel. A Farscape character who seems to have most of my bad traits - he's an utterly selfish, materialistic, greedy guy. The text on this is an actual Farscape quote, with him delivering the obnoxious part on the right :p However he does have a good heart - he's not a villain but one of the 'good guys' - and in the end he can usually do the right thing, and he certainly wants to do the right thing... if it doesn't cost too much.
Brokeback Mountain. Well, doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that this maker might not be 100% straight, considering my freaking lj nick is a slash ship :D It would have been way too obvious to make a 'gay icon' in glowing rainbow colors, but that’s not me. I'm actually very low-key about it – not ashamed, just not interested in circles where being gay/bi would be the common denominator and the trait that defines me the most, you know? So I made this a really subtle, natural icon. Cause that's what it is for me, natural, no big deal, a part of my personality, definitely a big enough part to be rightfully included here, yet not something that alone could be used to draw even a rough picture of me.
Another complex icon, this time to represent controlled chaos. Like Michael Scofield from prison Break, I'm a total control freak and perfectionist, I want to be able to put everything into a nice tidy order so I can process it the most efficiently, I'm completely thrown off by chaos (which is why I hate bars, clubs etc - so much noise, so many people, so little sense!). So in the icon there's complexity, many little blocks and everything, but it's also put into a symmetrical composition so it's easier to grasp, since that's how I try to process the world - which usually isn't all that successful cause the world has this annoying way of being way too complex to grasp, completely beyond anyone's understanding :( oh, and another really weird coloring, cause I am.
Spock from Star Trek. Like him, I think of myself as mostly a logical, 'head over heart' person, and I'd like to be even more of that cause I sort of see distancing yourself from your emotions and making all decisions purely based on logic as a 'higher level'. Too high for us mere mortals, I guess. Um, just to be clear, I don't idolize sociopaths or anything like that - I welcome general emotions like empathy and caring. It's the personal feelings like affection to someone in particular, jealousy, stuff like that I see as kind of evil cause they twist our mind into thinking that some people are more important than others, so to free myself from those emotions, that's what I see as beneficial (not to myself, but to people in general) and what I try my hardest to do. That's what the calm blue side reflects. Now obviously there's the other side to the icon too, meaning that like Spock, I'm not completely successful at this and there's still a huuuuuge difference between me and the ideal Vulcan I want to be :p
Ok, so this is a very twisted part of me - we have Braca, just another soldier, and Scorpius, an ingenious leader who Braca likes to follow. I think I'm like Braca a lot. I see a lot of value in hierarchies when they are not exploited. Actually I think they are a natural part of any social context, so there's not much point in fighting them. I have this weird way of almost worshipping anyone I see as superior in some way - mostly skills, accomplishments or intellect - and I don't do it to advance myself or anything, but because I see it as my role, something I just want and need to do. Now this only goes one way, I definitely don't have a habit of considering anyone inferior. I mostly just see myself at the bottom of any pyramid, and I have no problem with that cause I know it doesn't always have to be like that. (I've heard it said that Finland should be a monarchy cause we really love power figures, lol. I guess that's where this comes from.)
I mentioned those (too) strong opinions right? Well here's one, I'm very liberal towards anything involving romance :) As long as all parties are consenting, I don't really care who's frelling who, lol. Not even if there's something that makes their relationship 'wrong' to most people, like with the twins Cersei and Jaime here. While not wanting any sort of romance personally for myself, I'll defend anyones right to be with whoever they want to be, even if it squicks someone else.
Harry Potter and some random dice. Huh?, I hear you thinking. This is actually the most meaningful icon of the batch to me, it's my view on universe and life itself. (That sounds stupidly overdramatic.) After learning about theories of quantum physics, Einstein famously wrote that 'God doesn't play dice with the world'. Later, Stephen Hawking commented on this with "All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion". I have to side with him on this one. I don't think I've ever really believed in anything other than a random, meaningless (in the grand scale of things) existence, and learning about quantum physics kinda cemented it for me. If everything is just random movement of particles, all determinism - including any variations of fate and meaning - are rendered useless. What's left is us floating around in space alone and abandoned, living our little lives here for a while and then we just stop existing and that's it :p so in the icon we have a tiny character floating in darkness, but the scene is dominated by the dice. In the icon, Harry certainly isn't there to represent God :D but instead I chose his character to add some contradiction, since HP is a work very much based on the concept of (his) destiny.
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I love tear, death, cat 3, cat 5, and ac 2. :) :)
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I don't know if I would be able to do a set of icons that personal. I certainly laud you for doing it!
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I also love 3, 4, 9, & 14 of your 20inspirations batch.
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I loved reading through it and then looking and your icons again and saying: Awesome job! This icon looks even better now!
My favourite icons of the 20insp set are 3, 7, 13, 16, 17 & most of them 20 because your explanation of thought behind it impressed me so much because somehow I can quite relate to your view (and of course it is also a brilliant dark-ish, mood-ish icon which is my favourite concept rn).
So great job on these!
Onto the 21throwtvdown set!
dance, death, marked, cat4 &ac2 are my favourites! I love your colours in them a lot and also your interpretation of the 5 themes!
Going to snag marked! I love your blending in it as well as the warm colours!
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Oh and special thanks for liking 20 and its explanation!
and whoa an actual snurching too, that always makes me so happy! Good luck for the voting btw, I really hope and trust that you get to the next trial!
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Glad that I could enlighten your day! Good luck for you too! Your set it too awesome to not make it into the next round!
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i love the 3rd one! sheldon <3 it's so soft and colorful. then 5. omfg. so many amazing styles in 1. digging the colouring, the text use, THE BORDERS ♥ just woruheobheobjuhn
7 has the perfect colouring ever. i love red/blue but i can almost never work with either of those colours so kudos to you for making such an amazing icon. 9 has mad blending!! love <3 10 is a bit bizarre, but i love bizarre icons and i love the originality of it c: 15 is super gorgeous, with that crop and the softness. and 20 is absolutely perfect.
now, if you can give me your ps skills i will be on my way ktnx <3
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I love your appreciation for the bizarreness too! :D
now, if you can give me your ps skills i will be on my way ktnx <3
GLADLY IF YOU GIVE ME YOURS ^^
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The lighting of #3 in your 20inspirations batch is so incredibly flawless. I love the cropping as well, and how it highlights Sheldon completely as a character, with his algorithm and all! And the colours are just so beautiful and bright!
#11 has some stunning, stunning texture work going on. I love the negative space, the unique crop of him in it, and the grungey textures with the subtle lightness. And the text, so damn gorgeous!
#13 is just, wow. I love, LOVE the inventiveness of the text. It's mindblowing in perfection! And the colours of the image are just, such a unique contrast that just fits everything so perfectly. SERIOUSLY AMAZING ICON.
And #20, the composition is wonderful, and the deep monochrome colourings is to die for. And your explanation is both depressing and amazing all at once. Such a great icon!! And a really interesting set!!
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except that text is the exact thing I struggled with the most with so I'm just thrilled at your appreciation for it! And you even mention textures which I definitely see as one of my weaknesses, so I think I'll try to apply what I did with them in 11 to some more icons in the future.
and definitely thanks for liking 20 as it was the 'main one' for me here :')
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Dance - It's so warm and soft and airy. I like that it has a blurry quality to it that makes it look dreamy and the purple coloring is quite thick and dense!
Life - I love the shiny light cascading down her dark hair. That's a really gorgeous detail, IMO.
Cat 2 - I applaud you on the blending and on the high contrast of the smaller image that makes it really pop against the loomin, larger purple one!
3 - So bright and golden! I think it's adorable that you're the more laidback version of Sheldon, and your mom even knows it! You're very intelligent without throwing it in people's faces the way that he always does.
8 - Wonderful text placement amongst the dark shadows. It fills the space up perfectly and balances out the contrast in his face as well!
11 - This one has so much emotion, and the hazy neg space really conveys a sad shyness and distance from others.
15 - Gorgeous crop. GORGEOUS.
20 - Wow. I really enjoy the explanation and think the dice were incorporated very smoothly into the piece. The warm blue tint to them makes them blend in well with Harry and the hazy blue neg space all around him!
IT WAS SO MUCH FUN GETTING TO READ MORE ABOUT YOU AS A PERSON, TOMMI! YOURE AS QUIRKY AND COOL AS I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED! <33333333
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Thank you so so much for this amazing comment!!! :D and I can't believe you actually read some of those rambles - I love that both of our icon posts always come with these huge walls of text!
Also you make me sound a lot cooler than I am but thanks :')
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And I'm pretty sure you're as cool as anyone could hope to be. I'm not usually wrong about those sorts of things! <3
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My favorite are;
Dance - Very, very beautiful coloring and texture!
Death - Really great coloring and the text/font is great!
Marked - Love the colors and the crop
CAT 2 - Love the blending and the colors
CAT 3 - I really lik eth ecrop and the colors. And also the light effect is really beautiful :)
CAT 4 - Again, the colors are fantastic! :D
AC 2 - Texture is lovely, love the two picture!
AC 3- The crops is wonderful !
AC 5 - Texture and the crop are very beautiful.
Then 20inspirations:
It is really, really hard to pick favorite, because I love them all! They are so creative and just so amazing!
1- I really like the backround and text! The crops is also awesome!
2 -Go, go Finland :DD I like two picture in this icons!
5- This icons is great - so creative! Love the colors, text/font and the background!
10 - I love the all colors this icons. The blocking is amazing!
11 - Love the crops, texture and text.
12 - I really like the backround/coloring and silhouette is amazing!
13 - Really like this icons. It is just you!
16 - Love this, too!! The colors are excellent.
17 - Love the blending and the colors.
18 - I like texture and backround story (why you made this icons).!
I take dance, ac3, 1, 11, 16 and 18! Will credit! Thank you sharing both set ! :)
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