19 July 2012 @ 07:01 pm
Icon dump - multifandom, 81 icons + 14 alts  
So most of these are actually pretty old since they were made for the 7th round of [livejournal.com profile] turbo_rumble and the 1st round of [livejournal.com profile] farscapelims (where I got the third place btw! Yay! :D).




Fandoms included:

BTVS (23 + 3 alts)
Farscape (26 + 6 alts)
Game of Thrones (12 + 1 alt)
StarGate SG1 (4 + 2 alts)
Lost (6 + 1 alt?)
BattleStar Galactica (3 + 1 alt)
Prison Break (1)
The Big Bang Theory (1)
The Fiftfh Element (1)
The Vampire Diaries (1)
Supernatural (1)
Lady GaGa (1)
~Dollhouse (1)

* Take any you want, credit if you want to
* I have huge appreciation for each and every comment :)
* Concrit is welcome
* Resources
* Hotlinking = noooooo

I tried to really read the concrits I got and make new versions based on them, unless I really disagreed with the feedback. At turbo_rumble I got a lot of awesome feedback that helped me improve the icons. At farscapelims I didn't really get a lot of negative votes and the ones I did get I usually didn't agree with, so I decided to make improvements mostly just based on my own opinions. Sometimes it's just something very subtle like sharpening or slightly changing the colors so no, I didn't accidentally put the same icons here twice :) Also this post contains all the various alts I had for these comms, since I stress about this sort of things so much that I usually end up making 2-5 candidates for each theme/challenge!

The theme of the rumble was old days icons and of course I took it waaaay too literally and made some of my icons look really really dated, like they were literally made in 2006-2009. UGH. I hate especially 6 and 9 with fiery, fiery passion. I like the remade versions a lot better though, they just wouldn't have really fit the challenges :p gah, I'm kinda embarrassed about this but hey everyone is stupid sometimes right ;D and some of the more modern ones actually did pretty well so overall a positive experience!

And since this is an icon dump, I dumped a lot of other icons here too, especially ones made for [livejournal.com profile] whedon_elite (some are really old, I've forgotten to post them anywhere o.O), the two icon battles at [livejournal.com profile] icon_talk, various flash comms and some random things made for no particular reason.

Also, I participated in the icon_talk Ask The Maker thingy, so if there's any tutorial or general questions you'd like then go there. (Farscape friends: yes I know I have all of those promised tutorials from earlier but this time I know I must really take the time to make them cause it's a more public embarrassment this time if I don't so yeah this will work ok! :D if you want you can even go there with the same icons you requested then, or something newer that might be better?)


Ask The Maker || My Thread




First, the turbo_rumble icons:

Main set:
(Buffy x4, Farscape)
[1-5]
(GoT x2, StarGate sg1 x2, Lost)
[6-10]
(BSG)
[11-12]


New versions:

[13-17]
[18]

Alts/others:

(Lost)
[19-23]
(BSG, Buffy, Got x 3)
[24-28]
(Prison break, StarGate sg1, The Big Bang Theory, Farscape)
[29-32]

and farscapelims: (all Farscape, naturally :) )

The ones I submitted:
[33-37]
[38-42]
[43]

New versions:
[44-47]

Alts:

[48-52]
[53-57]
[58-59]

Icon_talk two battles:

1) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[60-65]

2) Game of Thrones
[66-71]

Random icons for other comms/no comm at all:

(Farscape x3, Star Trek, StarGate)
[72-76]
(Lost, The Fiftf Element, The Vampire Diaries, GoT, Lady GaGa)
[77-81]
(Supernatural, Buffy x 4)  
[82-86]
(All Buffy from now on except also Dollhouse in 80)
[87-91]
[92-95]

 
 
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[identity profile] daxcat79.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 04:22 pm (UTC)
These are absolutely gorgeous! I love the coloring!
neonspider: faith buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 04:29 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much! :) Coloring is the funnest part of iconing for me so yay :)
[identity profile] bizarra.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 04:25 pm (UTC)
Turbo Rumble sets..

I actually liked the Crichton one with the film frame better...and I really like that Sukozu one,. :)

Farscapelims: Congrats on placing 3rd!

Please take this as the Crit, I mean it .. but I really don't like that Zhaan icon, because to me those colors clash and it almost makes it look like a not so great 70's 3D effect with the separate lines. The newer version is a bit softer, but it's still clashy. Don't think that shade of purple/pink goes well with her blue. <3

I really liked the reflection Aeryn and in that case I applaud the bold choice for color. :) It makes it pop in a good way.

In the alts.. I love the flirt one and will probably snurch it when I get home. :)

And in the random ones, I really like that second Aeryn icon (and will probably snurch it too for my Aeryn RP account) Also Anya and the bunny is fun. Like the one with the text better! :) Also really love the color on the Gaga icon. :)

neonspider: faith buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 04:30 pm (UTC)
Thanks! The Zhaan one was my least favorite of my farscapelims icons too, but I do like the new version. Bold, a bit odd colorings are kinda my thing, along with complexity, and that's not something I want to change :)
[identity profile] bizarra.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 04:36 pm (UTC)
Oh, I'm not saying to change it.. I was just saying those two colors clashed in a bad way for me. Usually i like your bold color choices.
neonspider: yellow pink buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 04:39 pm (UTC)
That's nice to hear :) Yeah they didn't work for me either in the original but I think it was just that it had too much brightness and contrast and the texture work made it look blurry. Still don't know how that one got the people's choice :D
[identity profile] bizarra.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 04:56 pm (UTC)
LOL!

I should really collect all my LIMS icons and post them. Maybe after LOA's phase ends Sunday. :)
neonspider: faith buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 05:50 pm (UTC)
Yeah, do that!! :) It's really cool that the second round will start so soon, really looking forward to it! But yeah I've heard about your crazy LoA challenges so I get what you're saying :D
[identity profile] erinm-4600.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 04:58 pm (UTC)
I'm still trying to figure out how YOU are out and I am in. o.O

But well done! Seriously! And i will give the rest a proper look when I'm not at work <3

Edited 2012-07-19 04:59 pm (UTC)
neonspider: faith buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 05:48 pm (UTC)
Aw, don't say that, I think you're definitely the one with the most impressive progress throughout the LIMS and I'm looking forward to seeing your final icon :)

Thank you so much!!!
[identity profile] erinm-4600.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 06:09 pm (UTC)
Which reminds me... I need to do that. :\

DAMN MOVING!!
[identity profile] tomycoffee.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 05:01 pm (UTC)
But. Look. At. Those. Squares. Of. Yours. Being. All. That. Freakin'. Amazing. ♥
neonspider: faith buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 05:48 pm (UTC)
OMG, I love this comment ♥ Thank you so much!!
[identity profile] youcallitwinter.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 05:35 pm (UTC)
Lovely icons; I took a couple of Buffy, TVD and GOT, thanks!
neonspider: faith buffy[personal profile] neonspider on July 19th, 2012 05:49 pm (UTC)
Yay, thank you so much!!! :)
[identity profile] illuminanted.livejournal.com on July 19th, 2012 11:24 pm (UTC)
Awesome icons! I absolutely love #1, 2, 4, 64, 65, 67 and 84. :)
neonspider: you like revenge harvey john[personal profile] neonspider on July 20th, 2012 10:51 am (UTC)
Thank you so much!!! :) Aw, some of those were among my own favorites too so great to hear they worked for you!
ghanimasun: buffy[personal profile] ghanimasun on July 20th, 2012 04:19 am (UTC)
Okay I looked through all the icons briefly first before I read what you wrote and I was so confused because I though you had randomly posted some of the icons twice. Now I'm trying to figure out all the subtle variations in the new versions of the icons. I think I figured out most of the differences!

Since I'm apparently in the mood to be chatty, and I didn't make any/very good comments on some of your last icons posts, I will try to make useful comments this time.

I really like the idea of 1, though I do think I like the newer version of that one a bit more. I also really like 3, you made her lips look so shiny and I have no idea how! 12 is also really nice, the coloring and layout, even though those kind of icons aren't usually my thing, that one works well to me.

I can't decide if I like 21 or 22 better; I love the weird texture and brightness on 21 but then I also quite like the colors and different feel of 22. If only I watched Lost enough to use icons of it, I'd be snagging both of those!

farscapelims
Oh wow look at those ones from the early challenges! I forgot about how many great icons there were overall! I really like 34, the text and coloring works well on that one I think. I'm not sure which version of the bright Zhaan icon I prefer; 35 sort of has that painted look almost, where as 44 looks a little more realistic and less extreme in its colors (which isn't necessarily good/bad, sometimes I prefer the brighter colors!).
36 is gorgeous to me, as is 37 (though I'd probably like that one better without the circle texture? I'm so boring, I know!) Love the bright colors on 39. And I like 46 a lot, you did a good job removing the people in the background, and it gives the icon a much different feel.

I think 49 is completely gorgeous. 51 is actually really impressive to me, I can never figure out how to make icons look sharp that contain so much of people/from further away, and the coloring on it is well done.

60 - love the coloring and crop and the texture use. 65 - love the way you use the texture to give the icon such a gritty feel.
neonspider: zhaan happy[personal profile] neonspider on July 20th, 2012 11:07 am (UTC)
OMGWOW WHAT IS THIS AWESOMENESS :O Thanks so much for taking the time to leave sooo much feedback (especially when my own comments have been really lackluster lately :p). I'm having a really crappy week (mostly computer issues -.-) so thanks for cheering me up big time with this!

1 did pretty well in the voting, but it got concrit for the blue not being as intense as the yellow, and the yellow kinda bleeding into the blue, which I tried to frix in the new one :) Thanks for liking 3, it didn't get much love in the voting but I didn't really know how to fix any of those things it was criticisized for so I just let it be, lol.
Whoa, major thanks for the comments on 21 and 22 - the amount of lost icons here is due to the fact that I got it in a fandom roulette and really struggled to make anything satisfactory, so it's great to hear you don't hate them :)

Omg, I just saw the latest challenge at farscapelims, such an awesome collection of very different screencaps and it made me so wish I was still in :') thanks for the comments, I had so much fun making all of these. I could try another circle-less version of 37!
Now I like 49 a lot better than the Zhaan I actually submitted, but I was unsure if the cutout showed too much/was badly done, and I remembered that everyone loves close crops and that I almost never make them, so I went for one of those instead :DD

Again thanks for all the amazing feedback!!! :)
[identity profile] vampire-sessah.livejournal.com on July 20th, 2012 11:16 am (UTC)
I am simpl in love with these!
So many gorgeous icons here! I really adore your vibrant colours and your skills wth removing backgrounds and also close crops *____*
I will def come back later and snag a few of the buffy ones!
neonspider: buffy glowy yellow[personal profile] neonspider on July 20th, 2012 11:22 am (UTC)
Wow, thank you so much!!! Idk about skills but I seem to be obsessed with removing backgrounds - I have a hard time working with the natural background unless it's a really simple one like a wall or something :'D It's sooo frustrating and time consuming though and I really admire people who can make the real backgrounds look good (you definitely included!). And super yay about that last part, snagging is the highest compliment ♥
[identity profile] vampire-sessah.livejournal.com on July 21st, 2012 09:46 am (UTC)
♥ I'm always too lazy to remove backgrounds. It just takes so much time and effort :P I'm a really lazy person.
And thank you ♥
[identity profile] sayuri-x.livejournal.com on July 20th, 2012 08:22 pm (UTC)
81.

This is all. Oh and also 72.
neonspider: zhaan[personal profile] neonspider on July 20th, 2012 08:46 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much!!! :) I made 81 ages ago but it didn't really fit into any of my batches so had to wait for an icon dump :p
[identity profile] sayuri-x.livejournal.com on July 20th, 2012 08:50 pm (UTC)
How the holy hell did you do that? I think its as close to perfect as can be. And I don't even like Lady Gaga!

neonspider: aeryn back[personal profile] neonspider on July 20th, 2012 09:37 pm (UTC)
omgwow, it was that good? I kinda thought it was overcontrasted... :D and it was supposed to go into an icontest too (I think it was [livejournal.com profile] you_choose_ic) but I was too lazy to actually enter it, lol.

but the image itself was pretty awesome so I didn't even do that much to the colors, mostly just played around with the vibrancy and the lighting. It only has seven layers and that's like the least amount for me ever :O I have the psd here if you're interested: http://www.4shared.com/photo/VvtO8ghx/ladygaga3.html
but really you'll be disappointed in how little I actually did to it...
[identity profile] sayuri-x.livejournal.com on July 20th, 2012 09:45 pm (UTC)
That is usually the way it goes, and you know how I love simple! I don't mind a little over-contrast as you know. I think it looks like a Tamara DeLempicka painting. Beautiful.

And how is it you know of an icontest that I do not. I think I may be in an alternate universe :)

Edited 2012-07-20 09:46 pm (UTC)
neonspider: aeryn chiana[personal profile] neonspider on July 20th, 2012 09:49 pm (UTC)
Whoa, I could have sworn I heard of that icontest from you... :O (Cause that's usually where I get my icontest recs, lol) Now I wonder where I found out about it. It just appeared out of a wormhole I guess!

I never know any of the fandoms/subjects there though so I have failed to participate at all yet...
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neonspider: buffy giles cute look[personal profile] neonspider on July 27th, 2012 12:49 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much!! :)
[identity profile] sodamnreckless.livejournal.com on January 21st, 2014 01:52 pm (UTC)
29 looks genius, really simple but really caught your eye
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