20+5 Sherlock icons for monthlyinspo

[neonspider]

Here's my set for the very first round at a new comm, monthlyinspo! I love that there's a lot of room for ACs in this community cause lately I've had a lot of inspiration and ideas.

While I've been sort of back from hiatus since the end of last year, I hadn't felt like I had quite made a total return yet, so the goal here was to make a set that is very my style but turned up to eleven. I'm so proud of this set, a massive amount of time and energy went into these, so even if nobody else likes these at least I can say I reached my own goal.
I wanted to make a multifandom set and specifically use Survivor and Free! because there's a lot of blue water opportunities in both, but somehow after watching s4 and rewatching s3 of Sherlock I had so many ideas just for that one show that this somehow became a Sherlock set. The reactions to s4 seem to be negative or mixed but I personally loved it, I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on s4 if you've seen it :>

Icons 1-9 were more or less inspired by the theme (blue), but none of them are completely monochrome, so if the mods feel that some of them aren't blue enough, I don't mind you decide to leave the less blue ones out of the theme voting.

MONTHLYINSPO ROUND 1

[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]

ALTS

[21-25]


Comments would make me very happy! ♥ Feel free to snag any you like :)

Comments

[fly-meaway.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, such pretty colouring and unique icons. You really do have your own style. I absolutely love the use of text and colouring in for instance 4 and 12; so effective and beautiful. And 7 is beautiful too. The colouring on her face looks so good and the use of the text/brush/texture is amazing, wow. I also adore the way you manage to tell a story in 6 (and the alt version 24). Great use of lighting and the way you added the text is just so unique and fits the icon so well. Great cropping too. That latter also goes for 3 and 10. And I just love the entire feel to 15, 19 and 20. Beautiful!

[neonspider]

Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to leave such specific feedback! I'm super happy you like these! ♥