20 February 2017 @ 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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[identity profile] burntheflaws.livejournal.com on February 27th, 2017 08:03 pm (UTC)
FAB FAB FAB. I saved so many of these. 1 has such amazing composition right off the bat. I love the different sizes and how wonderfully the images' shapes complement each other. Fantastic coloring and text use in 7. I love love love the layered complex composition and text work in 11. It really pops and I feel like the more I stare at it, the more in awe I am of each detail. 13 is hilarious and I love how you colored Watson, especially making his mustache pop. That looks so retro pop art, along with the arrow and circle, and it's wonderful. Great text work in 16. 19 has a really great composition and coloring too. (I feel like so many of your icons could also be directly from comic book pages, they're so vivid and wonderfully layered.) 20 is phenomenal with that insanely vivid and gorgeous surreal coloring, as well as the text use. FInally, I'm digging 25. The lightness of the colors work really well with the fun text use!
neonspider: lydia vertical blocking[personal profile] neonspider on March 2nd, 2017 02:44 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much! *___* You're too lovely. I'm glad you mentioned the comic book -inspired or retro/pop art influence style cause I used to make more of those types of icons in the past so in this set I kinda tried to go back to that but with more vibrant colors than I used back then. (It's weird how I thought I was totally using vibrant colors then, but when I look at my older stuff everything looks so... muddy. maybe it was a screen difference but idk o.O) ANYWAYS thank you soooo much for the lovely comment! I'm very glad you liked the set! :D