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neonspider ([personal profile] neonspider) wrote in [community profile] neonspiderwebs2017-02-20 02:35 am

20+5 Sherlock icons for monthlyinspo


Here's my set for the very first round at a new comm, [livejournal.com profile] 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 :)
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[personal profile] tinny 2017-02-26 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
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.