30 multifandom icons (monthlyinspo + others)

[neonspider]

Fandoms:
Doctor Who [8+1]
Dorian Gray [2]
Farscape [2]
Orphan Black [2]
Parks and Recreation [2]
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carmilla, Elementary, The Flash, Kuroshitsuji, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, LOST, Merlin, Supernatural, Survivor (S33), Teen Wolf, Titanic [1 each]

So here's my set for monthlyinspo round 13! I MADE A 20IN20 SET, it's been a while!
Everyone's sets for this round have been aaaawesome and super cohesive but here I am all over the place with my color combos and basically everything. I happily mixed both color wheels, but I specifically wanted to work with colors and combinations I don't often use - so that's why the heavy focus on reds! And no, I'm not organizing these by color cause that just highlights that I used mostly red+green and red+cyan :p

I wanted to go to a very different direction from my last set. Those icons were bright, shiny, and fairly simple, so in this set I wanted to do gritty, text-heavy, contrasted, bold, 'in your face' icons. I also tried to use more close crops than usual but I got kinda sidetracked from that so there aren't as many as I had planned. Anyway, this set was a very interesting challenge and I had a lot of fun - hopefully someone is crazy enough to enjoy these, and if you do please let me know :D Hover for color details and fandoms. (I mean most of these are from one fandom... I've really fallen in love with DW again this year. Aside from Survivor, it's the only show that still inspires me.)

MONTHLYINSPO ROUND 13

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



ALTS & OTHERS

[21-25]
[26-30]

Comments

[vanessa-lj.livejournal.com]

These icons are great! I really like the colors and their compositions but also the crops are fabulous

[neonspider]

Thank you so much! ♥

[sietepecados]

Amazing coloring! I love the composition on 17, also color and negative space on 21 and crop and light on 29 is so great!

[neonspider]

Thank you so much! ♥ Very glad you like the colorings since this is a bit out of my comfort zone coloringwise, I mean there's only a tiny bit of pink in here! :O

[xafirah.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love the color combinations, especially purple/yellow and all red+ icons.
The use of text is amazing as always *_*
So good to see your icons! :D

[neonspider]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment!! I usually suck at using red so I stay away from it and turn reds into pinks, but now I actually had fun with the all the red so maybe I'll avoid it less in the future :D

[apologizeg]

LOVE everything with text and of course the compositions because they're made by you (duh) ♥♥

[neonspider]

Aw this is such a sweet comment, thank you!! :> ♥

[word_never_said.livejournal.com]

Your use of text, compositions and gradient maps never cease to amaze me. The texture use of one is beautiful, so subtle but it adds so much. 2, 4, 6, 12, 18 & 20 your text is just, daaaamn. The entire composition of 12 is just amazing. It reminds me of a wanted poster that'd be in V for Vendetta or something. 17 just cracks me up! I love it, perfect use of color, text & subject! And 5, it's like an entire story. I am in awe of it. I'm saving at least half for inspiration.

And they all work so well together, which is just unreal! Also, 30=YES. ALL THE PARKS & REC.

[neonspider]

Thank you so much for these amazing compliments ;__; ♥
I freaking love Parks&Rec, it's such a perfectly fun show with great characters! I should icon it more often.
So glad you liked these and even found them inspiring, thank you so much!! :>

[devon380black.livejournal.com]

What a fun set!

I like the "noise" effect/texture on the icons. Is that the right term? (Like setting a layer to HSV or RGB noise to get a grainy texture?)

My favorite is 20 (Kira with those words!)

Kudos!

[neonspider]

Thank you so much!! :>
Yeah, noise is a good term, I usually do it with gritty textures, but it could also be done with a filter, probably.
Haha, Kira was kinda screwed by the writers with the way she was removed from the story so suddenly, and then I find that cap where she looks kinda pissed off, soooo I had to use that text xD glad you like it!

[thyla87.livejournal.com]

HOW THE HELL YOU DO THESE!!!! FANTASTIC AND UNIQUE SET ♥♥ Beautiful, unbelievable composition, colors and composition! WOW!! I love grunge style here and text are super cool!! And your animation ♥♥ SUPER!!
It's so hard to pick favorite!
2&6 has so stunning contrast and color! And text! Love it!
4 - I adore grunge style this and animation is super cool!! Fantastic idea!
5&10 - super yellow/blue color here and texture use! ♥ I love purple&yellow of 10!
9- Fantastic crop!!
12 has stunning bg and grunge texture!! The character is cut-out so fantastic and I love the crop! And text in the background is so cool!!
14 - WOW!!!! ♥ So super fantastic animation and the colors pop-up!!
18 - So fantastic! I love the face in the bg and text are wonderful!
20 - Stunning text, contrast and crop ♥

[neonspider]

Thanks so much for the detailed comments!! :) glad you like the set and had so many favorites!

[punk4life1315.livejournal.com]

I love the coloring! I love how it just jumps out at you. I really like 3, 5, 7, 10, 17 and 20. Really great work! :D

[neonspider]

Thank you so much!! :)

[tinny]

You're absolutely right, the lack of pink doesn't immediately scream jsfunction to me. It's different! (And I'm always impressed at people who can do something different!)

But of course the complex compositions immediately give away that you made them. :D

I really like the gritty look you went for this time, and the unusual colorings (especially 3, 11, 13, 14, and 16). My faves are the complex ones (5 and 10 most of all), I am just in complete awe of them, as usual.

I like the slightly arrythmic animation in 14, it keeps drawing the eye.

Great work!!

[neonspider]

Thanks so much! ♥ yes, I'm always trying to do something different, I'd get bored otherwise. I'm trying to make a set for the next monthlyinspo as well, and looking at the insp post I feel like it's going to be even more out of my box, definitely no pink for that either.

Super glad you like the complex ones! I don't know why my instinct is always to go for complex, when I know that simple icons look better most of the time. I guess I'm trying to express something about my subjects and can't think of a way to do so with minimalism, but that sounds like a limitation in imagination and something I should work on. I'm really happy you appreciate them anyway!!

[tinny]

I'm trying to make a set for the next monthlyinspo as well

How's it coming? I am skipping this month, the theme is not my thing.

I don't know why my instinct is always to go for complex, when I know that simple icons look better most of the time.

Why would they? I loooove complex ones. And yours are amazing. I love it when icons hint at something much bigger - like you're looking at something that should not fit into 100x100 but it somehow manages. That is the best thing ever.

can't think of a way to do so with minimalism, but that sounds like a limitation in imagination

I always think I should do more complex, but can't either. It's fun how we challenge ourselves to do the opposite of what comes naturally - and I think that's how it's supposed to be! Challenging oneself is fun! <3

[neonspider]

How's it coming? I am skipping this month, the theme is not my thing.
It's going ok, I only need one more icon and to finish a few and to select which I'll include in the actual set and which ones will be alts. I was super inspired by the inspo post. The theme is not like anything I've ever made but I love my set this far, I mean I can never be 100% happy with a post but I do like it much much more than this one! I don't think I've ever actually watched a film noir movie, but if my understanding of the genre is at all correct, I think I did ok capturing it. Or at least some parts of it.

Why would they?
I think it's that the more things you try to do in an icon, the more can go wrong. For example if I'm using multiple caps, the chances that at least one of them is badly colored, contrasted, sharpened or awkwardly placed are much greater than if I only used one cap! Every element I add is another risk that can go wrong. Also, I notice that at least personally when I make a simple icon I use more time of the basics (quality, lighting, coloring, contrast) than if I make a super complex composition. Which means that a minimalistic icon will be more polished, and 'polish' is definitely something I look for in other makers' icons, even if it's not that present in my own.

Besides, even a perfectly made complex icon won't be everyone's cup of tea, there are so many people who think they look busy, messy, unfocused, bury the subject, overworked, nonsensical etc no matter what. But is there anyone who will hate a well-made minimalistic icon? Therefore I've always felt that there is a dilemma I need to solve - do I want to take the greater chance that more people are going to like my work, or do I follow my own inspiration and what I have more fun creating? Obviously I've chosen the latter 9 times out of 10, but it's not an easy decision to make.

[rosy-nic.livejournal.com]

great icons :)

[neonspider]

Thank you!! :)

[twisted-slinky.livejournal.com]

These are beautiful, all of them, but I'm especially in love with that amazing Supernatural one and the Buffy one. :D

[neonspider]

Thank you so much! Those two took a lot of work so I'm glad you like them :)

[emiels.livejournal.com]

Daaaammmn, your icons are always something else. I'm in love with all the colorings here, seriously.

[neonspider]

Oh wow, thank you so much!! That means so much coming from you. I miss your epic rainbow icon posts!

[lady-kingsley.livejournal.com]

You are one of few masterminds that can create icons with vibrant colors that don't exist in RBG palette. Seriously, I have tried so many times to recreate icons with such colorings but everythime I failed... This post is indeed not so much in your typical shiny happy people coloring yet these grungy textures, and the vibrancy of this set is amazing. Can't wait for next set!

Know your boo! More Parks and Rec icons please please please!

Also hello! I haven't seen you/your icons in a while :)

[neonspider]

Heeey, so nice to see you're still around! :D And hopefully planning a comeback?
Yess I should definitely icon Parks more. Such a great show! Unfortunately I watched most of it during my thesis work so I couldn't spend a lot of time on icons at the time, but I should rewatch some of the episodes now to spark my muse!

And thanks so much for the seriously wonderful feedback. I'm definitely no mastermind, haha, but I'm SUPER happy you like these!! ♥

[lady-kingsley.livejournal.com]

I do want to come back to the community to be more active, but I'm writing my thesis as well (why, oh why it is so hard to open proper program and start coding for the masters paper...). Maybe we could do small battle of P&R when I' done? It will be not before mid/late July but it will be plenty of time for you to rewatch and for me to get back to 'original state of iconning before hiatus' :D

Also your every post is amazing, I envy how you make those vibrant and complex icons! :)

[neonspider]

Yay, I'm super glad to hear you'd like to come back! Ugh, I knoow, thesis writing was so slow and tedious for me. Even if it doesn't take all day every day, it causes so much stress that it kinda takes all energy and inspiration from hobbies, especially creative ones like iconing.

Yes, we could totally do a P&R battle when you're finished, especially if there's still time to prepare :D but I have to admit I suck so bad at organizing battles/activities/ANYTHING. Basically I just forget about them even if I'm excited about them so I feel like we need a really simple theme/concept, nothing that requires a lot of planning or organizing... Idk! Would you prefer chosen caps or technical themes or some other way to do a battle?

And thanks again, that means so much! :3 Good luck & success for the thesis writing!

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

Interesting colouring and textures! Btw, you're welcome to post a link to the DW icons at
https://dwicons.livejournal.com/profile
:)

[neonspider]

Thank you for the comment and the link! I'll try to remember to post there tomorrow, even though I'm not sure 8 icons + a textless alt really warrant a post :D but hey I guess it's still some DW. I'll definitely keep the comm in mind if/when I eventually make a full set!

[tturners.livejournal.com]

I'm SO mad I missed this magnificent post!!!! Every single icon is a work of art and I know I've said it already but you are the master of compositions!!! LOOK AT THEM!!!! SO PRETTY!!!!! 5 and 10 in particular are so captivating, and I am in love with the colour scheme, just perfect ♥. Also, the text work on 2, 3 and 5 is exceptional and I adore the colouring on 1, 3, 7 and 9 very very much. Other favourites are 12, 13 and 18 (woah there!!! perfect blending/blocking!!!). Snagging some, thank you for sharing :)

[neonspider]

Oh wow, thank you so much for taking the time to come back to this post and leave such a wonderful comment!! ♥ I'm beyond flattered that you think so highly of these and even found some to save :)

[nightbulbs]

(Apologies for the weirdest, most super late comment ever, I'm basically brainfried by work but I still wanted to comment...)

How am I only seeing these now, they are so amazing?! Vibrant grunge/grittiness is my favourite thing so obviously I think this set is wow! Idk, the colours are fantastic but at the same time the set has a dark vibe to it that I find really appealing. (Don't mind me, really)

The Doctor Who icons! I love the saturation, lighting and texture of 3, it all works so beautifully with the cap! 6 is another favourite with the crop and text (also this quote *sobs*). 4 is a lot of fun and looks rather punk to me (Idk?!) which suits Nine perfectly. And 5! How do you composition? It's so vintage and dreamlike and beautiful.

The close crops are great, I especially like the Sarah icon. But did you make a Grant Ward icon? And are you watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? (Maybe you've made AoS icons before but I was too awol to notice :o)

Other favourites are 1, 2, 10, 12 and the amazing 17 and 18, both of which have brilliant compositions. ♥

[neonspider]

Oh wow, thak you so much for this absolutely amazing comment! I'm so happy to see that you're still around. Also you mention so many of the things I was going for here, like vibrant grunge and dark vibrancy, so I'm super glad you noticed those and liked them!

But did you make a Grant Ward icon? And are you watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D?

Ok so this is going to be a WEIRD explanation, but since you asked... :D
Sometimes when I want to make a multifandom set, I do this thing where I randomize the subjects (from a list of shows/movies that have been iconned and posted at boxedcolors) and then watch an episode of that show and take notes and afterwards create an icon from it. It's a great way to add fandom variety and make sure that I'm inspired every time. So my initial thought was to make this entire set that way, with 20 random fandoms, buuut then the DW ideas kinda took over so not all of the subjects were selected that way, but anyway that's how the AoS icon came to be.

Thanks again for the wonderful feedback! ♥