20 TW + BTVS icons for 20muses

[neonspider]

Fandoms:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer [10]
Teen Wolf [10]

This is my 20muses round 2 entry! More info about the icon themes under the spoiler cut. LOOOVED this challenge. I chose two very different episodes for my claim: Teen Wolf 3.18 Riddled (a very dramatic episode) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6.07 Once More with Feeling (very funny ep, though with serious undertones).
Due to the nature of the round and me torturing myself with the hard mode, it's not a surprise that the styles in this post are ALL OVER THE PLACE and this set is faaaar from looking cohesive, but well, hopefully that means there's something for everyone here? :)

Hope you'll enjoy these! I definitely enjoyed making them.

[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]
Here are my inspirations:


TEEN WOLF
1 - Box1 technical: stock + silhouette
2 - Box2 art: all_malocks (far crop + close crop) + queen_bartonia (unnatural coloring)
3 - Box4 color: dark blueish grey + dark red
4 - Box4 song: Former Vandel - I was So Sure (this was almost too easy, pretty sure this song IS about this episode! o.O) + 30 Seconds to Mars - Hurricane (lyrics). I hate this icon it looks like a crappy absolutelybatty ripoff, sorry .___. i'd remake it if I had the time!
5 - Box1 art: poisonfield (surrounded by text pieces) + starkwars (completely obscured subject). in case the concept isn't clear, the... thingy... is meant to symbolize the Void that has taken over Stiles. Part of the thing is actually the painting from Stiles' room which some people took as foreshadowing!
6 - Box3 technical: text + blocking
7 - Box3 song: Paramore - Brick by Boring brick (butterfly wings!) + PVRIS - My House (bw + color)
8 - Box4 technical: close crop + scenery
9 - Box4 texture: mrs_padfoot + lookslikerain (idk if you can tell i used this one, it's pretty subtle)
10 - Box2 art: longerthanwedo (coloring style, crop) + queen_bartonia again (big text)

BTVS
11 - Box4 song: Jona Selle - Applause (it's a song about performing -> took a cap from Buffy's final song) + The Weeknd - In the Night (visuals: neon, blurred vision effect)
12 - Box2 song: Anna Clendening - Who You Are (lyrics) + Sia - Alive (visuals: muted icon, full body crop)
13 - Box6 texture: 12feethigh (veeery subtly used for lighting) + loseanhour
14 - Box1 word: easy + old (->vintage look)
15 - Box5 texture: stewark + mrs_padfoot
16 - Box4 technical: profile + closecrop
17 - Box5 word: sunshine + nature
18 - Box6 song: Lana del Rey - Dark Paradise (darkness. lol i'm so imaginative with interpretations) + Sam Tsui - Let It Go/Let Her Go (the theme of letting someone go)
19 - Box6 word: futuristic + amusing (never let me use this theme combo ever again cause this is what happens i try to make a demon look like a scifi show alien because WHY NOT :D)
20 - Box6 texture: 12feethigh again for lighting + accio-glow



Snag all you want, credit if you want to, but don't hotlink and please don't use my icons as bases or resources
Feel free to watch the comm :)
Comments would make me super happy ♥

Comments

[neonspider]

Oh my god this comment is so wonderful!!!! Thank you so much *___* ♥ but, the first thing I must address is that you never, ever have ANYTHING to make up for and I never want commenting on my sets to be a chore for anyone, much less my friends and favorite lj people like you. So please don't even consider that aspect. But of course I am indeed super happy and flattered that you chose to write all of this!

I'm particularly happy that you see some sort of theme in all this chaos, and one that sounds very cool when described like that. Seriously, now I kinda want to intentionally go for 'futuristic vintage' but I have no idea how :D
oohh I forgot that my icons used to be slightly darker. That was not a stylistical choice but simply the fact that my monitor was different :p I got this new one about a year ago and suddenly my older work seemed dark, muted and badly contrasted, and kind of yellow... So if there's been a shift to more vibrant colors and brightness, that's why. Now if I only knew which monitor is closer to the iconmakers' average monitor!

Thanks again for taking the time, I know you're busy so I'm extra honored. ♥

[nightbulbs]

I must have phrased this poorly. Writing this comment was definitely not a chore, don't worry, it was fun. :) What I meant was I always look at your posts and go "wow, I adore so many of these" and then life and stuff get in the way and I never get to let you know. I should make a js praise post, or go back and redo my pre-selection of your icons for my bestof_icons nomination comment! Anyway, I'm glad I have some time to spend on iconning and commenting on posts, that window of free time might close soon so I should make the most of it.

Of course brightness and vibrancy are my favourite things, so I really appreciated that evolution of your style but I never got a 'too yellow' or poorly contrasted feel from your icons. Though I got a new laptop in 2013 and may not have gotten back and looked at older icons since then, so Idk. Monitors are a tricky thing though. On my iPad, icons look more vibrant, less sharpened and better contrasted. On my sister's computer's screen everything looks more yellow and red. So, meh. I try to forget that what looks good on my monitor might look terrible on someone else's. ;) Though really good icons with look good on any monitor, even if the colour or contrast are slightly different, so I wouldn't worry about yours either way!

♥

[neonspider]

Oh, good! LOL definitely don't make a js praise post, that would probably make a lot of people side eye both of us :D

I'm glad my old stuff doesn't seem quite as ugly to you as it does to me! I try not to think about monitor differences either as it's something I can't really do anything about, but I definitely had a 'ugh, why is everyone muted yellow?' reaction when I first saw my icons on the new monitor. And I bet my current icons would look too saturated and red on the old one...