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

[tinny]

Yaay, finally got around to properly comment on your set!

The first icon is amazing already. I love how the size of the characters goes from small to large in the opposite direction than expected. Great composition! Love the balloon-face. :D

04 is so iconic! Great color and font combo! I looove the grunginess in 5. The coloring of the text is amazing. 7 is so tentacle-y, it's eerie. Love the text there, too. (I love text on curves so much.)

09 is wow. Putting them over each other is such a great idea. Love 10, too. Mycroft as an ubiquitous poster on every wall, very scary. I think I voted for 11 in the voting, it's so... magazine-cover complex and the text work is amazing.

13 is hilarious! It never ceases to impress me how you can tell a story with an icon. 14 is perfect. I love the transition you made for the gif - it looks so natural! I love 18 - why did I never think of making a plain single-color background grungy? That makes is so much better.

I love the perfectly balanced coloring on 19. 20 is amazing. The script font works so well there, and the amazing coloring. Wow.

You are so amazing.

[neonspider]

Wow, thank you so much for the super lovely comment!! ♥ I'm very flattered you found so many things to like and compliment. And that one of them was the arrangement in 7, cause I'm honestly not very good at using the path tool and that was an extremely frustrating icon to make. I didn't even plan it to be so tentacley but turns out that was the only shape I managed to create, lol. I clearly still need some practise with text on shapes!

And you liked so many of my own faves too. Thanks so much. I really loved making this set (despite the furstration) and was happy with the result, but now I'm already terrified of the next round cause I feel like I kinda set the bar a bit high for myself. The next set is bound to be disappointing so I just want everyone to lower their expectations :p