20 April 2017 @ 09:21 pm
20+5 icons for monthlyinspo round 3  

Fandoms:
Dorian Gray (2009) [10+5]
Supernatural [10]

This is a set for the 3rd round of [livejournal.com profile] monthlyinspo. The theme was 'light vs dark', which forced me very far out of my box because I don't really focus on lighting in my icons a lot and also I rarely make icons that are clearly bright or dark. This time all my icons are inspired by the theme; icons 1-4 and 11-12 are supposed to be dark, icons 5-6 and 13-17 are the battle of light and dark, and icons 7-10 and 18-20 are meant as light/bright.

This is obviously very atypical for me in other ways as well, this is a much simpler and more muted set than I usually make, but hey I'm not one-note, I can make these kinds of icons as well, and I've always loved muted icons so idk why I don't make them more often! I also think that after my last monthlyinspo set I needed to make a quieter set. Hopefully you'll find something to like here even though I know this is probably a surprise stylewise!

Subjectwise I used two subjects I love but can rarely use bc they're both very dark and colorless: SPN and Dorian Gray. I found this the perfect challenge to use them. This means that I had to abandon my original plan of fulfilling both this month's and last month's themes in this set, the subject I was going to use for challenge 2 had basically the same lighting all the time so it wouldn't have served this challenge very well. But one day I'll make that set too, it would have been a great challenge.



MONTHLYINSPO ROUND 3
[01-05]
[06-10]
[11-15]
[16-20]

EXTRAS/REJECTS

[21-25]


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tinny: expanse_joe miller[personal profile] tinny on April 23rd, 2017 10:00 am (UTC)
Wooooow. Those are very muted for you!

I totally agree that SPN and dark grunge work perfectly together. No 1 looks like an antique photograph, very cool. I also like 2 and 4 and 6 of the dark ones. Surprisingly, the light SPN ones work well too! :D I love the smudged faded look in 8-10. I think 8 is my fave of the whole set. The flat negative space in 7 reminds me of adriftingsea (it's probably the pastel shade of blue that does it :)).

I love 13 - the contrast with the sepia coloring gives his body so much depth. Awesome.

I really like 18, too - it reminds me of Ianto. The flat, almost contrastless combination of beige, green, and white makes me think "dull and boring", which evokes an interesting emotional contrast with the look on his face as he enjoys the tea.

Great masking (and hair painting?) on 19.

I really like Alt1, too. I like the bit more vibrance, and the crop is wonderful.
neonspider: rei text bg[personal profile] neonspider on April 28th, 2017 04:06 pm (UTC)
Thanks so much for the lovely comment! :) Yeah, I wanted to go for a totally different style here cause as much as I like having made some sort of recognizable style over the years, I also really hate being put into that box as if everything outside of that is somehow beyond my abilities or 'not like me' (or worse, more like someone else), when in reality I've always used a variety of different styles.