31 January 2020 @ 05:44 am
10 Lana del Rey for monthlyinspo + 23 misc = 33 multifandom icons  


Fandoms:
Lana Del Rey [10]
Doctor Who [4]
Survivor AU [4]
Teen Wolf [2]
Parks and Recreation [1+1alt]
The 100, The Avengers (2012), Becoming Jane (2007), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carmilla, The Fall (2006), Farscape, Free!, Mad Men, Once Upon a Time, Sherlock [1 each]



Here's my set for round 30 at [livejournal.com profile] monthlyinspo! The round was SUPER difficult for me, because the theme was to icon things we enjoyed in 2019 or are looking forward to in 2020. I took this to mean that only new movies/shows would be acceptable and not the same old shows (LOST, DW etc) I've still been rewatching and loving in 2019, so I had to really think hard - was there anything at all that was new that I liked in 2019? The 2020 portion wouldn't do because literally the only things I'm looking forward to are the new all star seasons of US and Australian Survivor, and I like to make random icons of these sometimes but definitely not a full set cause that requires taking my own caps. So I started looking at music, which is also difficult cause I listen to random weird music (my favorite genres are catchy folk, dark cabaret, and 90s eurodance) and not so much anything contemporary that anyone would recognize. In the end I found the one exception, which is Lana Del Rey. I love her music, her vocals and lyrics are so atmospheric and really tell a story. I iconned my ten favorite songs from her 2019 album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!. I couldn't find any caps from any videos so I chose to make this really hard and icon her photoshoots and other images combined with lyrics.

I put so much into these, I really hope you'll like some of these, and if not, there's also a lot of random icons in the alts/extras (some for challenges, most made just for fun). I know that this post is a bit much, I promise there will be more even simple/complex ratio in the next post, but for this set I just wanted to go crazy. Anyway, enough rambling! Take any you like, and please share your thoughts ♥ Hover for fandom / song :)


MONTHLYINSPO ROUND 30
[01-05]
[06-10]


ALTS + MISC
[11-15]
[16-20]
[21-25]
[26-30]
[31-33]


 
 
Current Music: Lana Del Rey - Bartender | Powered by Last.fm
 
 
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sietepecados: People: Hayley Atwell[personal profile] sietepecados on January 30th, 2020 06:56 pm (UTC)
Coloring and composition on the Lana set is amazing! I love 4 and 8 the most, also crop on 7 is beautiful <3
neonspider: pydia don't hold back[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:04 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much! :)
[identity profile] spankulert.livejournal.com on January 30th, 2020 06:59 pm (UTC)
These are super nice! So many nommable colors, and the composition of 20 is BOMB.
neonspider: haru blocking[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:05 pm (UTC)
Aw, thanks so much! :D
[identity profile] arbdhax.livejournal.com on January 30th, 2020 09:17 pm (UTC)
OMG awesome set, love the art on lana del rey,the colors and the composition mix with the lyrics are gorgeous! favs-4,5,7,8 and the others amazing job!
neonspider: april moon[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:06 pm (UTC)
Aww thank you, I'm glad you like them! :)
[identity profile] shameless666.livejournal.com on January 30th, 2020 10:09 pm (UTC)
Oh, where do I start? I feel like a kid in a candy store with all the pretty colors :D And TEXT!!! Text icons are my favourite! ♥

Okay, so great choice for choosing Lana del Rey! She's absolutely beautiful and I love her music. The color combinations are amazing, I love the deep blues in #1 and the way you positioned Lana on the text is so creative. #2 is another one of my favourites, so many different colors and yet they compliment each other very well, great use of fonts too. #4 is all kinds of amazing, you always make b&w on color to look great (yep, #6 too). #7 is my absolute favourite from the set - the crop, the placement of the text and the monochrome-ish coloring are perfect. Great typography on #8, I'm so jealous how you can make so many fonts work together, I pretty much stick with two and that's it :D and I also like the vintage look. #10 - cyan & yellow are such iconic color combination, always love the way it looks and here it's not an exception!

From the misc icons I really love the Raven icon (as I've said previously). The Buffy icon is great - the unnatural coloring, the text, that border texture (omg, I used to overuse it A LOT :D). It's always nice to see Regina icon, it is soo pretty, that fandom produced so many great icons ♥ The quote in #25 is so funny and overall the composition is great! Also love the painted look in the Sherlock icon!

p.s. maybe we should make S02 of the random character project to help with the new fandoms struggle? :D
neonspider: scott close muted[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:16 pm (UTC)
Omg thanks so much for this lovely comment! I was pretty happy with each of these separately, but when I put them all together like this I was worried they'd just be too much visual overload. Your comment makes me less worried about that, I'm so glad you like this set and found so many good things to say, thank you! ♥

Oh, I do wish I still had the time for some awesome project like the random character project was! It was so much fun, I'm glad you reminded me of it, and I even found one of my current favorites (Free!) from it. I was finishing my degree at the time, with only a couple of courses left, so I had a ton of time just to sit around and watch random stuff. Now that I work full days it's just impossible to find the time, and tbh the lack of new fandoms isn't a problem for me other than in this specific type of challenge. I'm happy just watching the things I know I love, I feel like the shows that are popular now are super not for me, I feel like everything new seems so fast-paced. I wish there was another truly epic, emotional, slow-moving show like LOST, which still remains my favorite, but I seriously doubt it. But perhaps there's some other type of icon project that we could do without the watching component in it, I don't know, I'll think about it :)
[identity profile] jokermary.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 12:14 am (UTC)
Omg this whole set is a masterpiece! I love the idea of using Lana's songs! As always I love your style, you are very creative and your colors are amazing!
I wish I could be able to choose an icon to use from Lana's set but it's way too difficult, I love them all ç_ç
The 2nd one with the Vogue cover is spectacular and I love the monochromatic color on 7! From the alts my favs are 1, 3, 19, 20, 22, 30, 32 and 33. Beautiful set!
neonspider: rinharu on australian honeymoon[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:18 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment!! ♥ Super glad you liked the idea and the set in general :)
Lady Turner: Keira Knightley[personal profile] lady_turner on January 31st, 2020 12:53 am (UTC)
One of the things I missed more in my long hiatus were your incredibly beautiful icons! So I'm very glad to see a new post from you! ♥
Your text compositions are always so on point, I'm speechless! My favourites are 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9!
I also LOVE 17, 18 (those colours!), 21, 24 and 33 (I'll forever be a fan of your boxed compositions) from the alts/misc set!
neonspider: OTP: spark to your fire [sweetheart][personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:20 pm (UTC)
Aww thanks so much!! ♥ I'm super happy you found so many favorites! :D
[identity profile] delacourtings.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 05:10 am (UTC)
your composition skills are INCREDIBLE! i'm astounded every time! all of the lana ones are amazing but i really love 3, 5, 6, 7, & 10!

the coloring on all of these is just absolutely GORGEOUS! and i'm so jealous of your use of text (i can't do text for the life of me)!

love love love the text on 17, the colors+composition on 20 (like omg HOW??), the colors+neg space on 23, the text on 25, the colors/light/neg space on 28, and the colors/composition on 33!

just gorgeous!!
neonspider: leslie democracy cake[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:22 pm (UTC)
Omg thanks so much for the lovely comment!! I'm so glad you liked them! ♥
[identity profile] rizbef.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 05:20 am (UTC)
I love your set!! It's so colorful vibrant, and the text is perfect on every one. 3, 9, and 10 are my favorite compositions <3

And of course I am in love with all of the Doctor Who icons!
neonspider: jim miss me?[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:27 pm (UTC)
Thanks so much!! :) This post is a bit light on DW, I hope I can make more soon!
[identity profile] dixon.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 12:18 pm (UTC)
I'm so glad you decided to make Lana icons! I almost did the same, but I didn't feel like making screencaps either. Love Norman Fucking Rockwell! so much, it's just an incredible album <3.
The overall feel of these icons is just stunning. The text use in all of them is to die for. I especially like the moody feel on 4, I think it fits the song perfectly. Also, California... it's my fav song of the album and it's probably my fav icon of the set, too. The amount of brightness is perfect, and again, the text use is so well done. The Greatest also has a especial place for me and the blues and gritty texture complements so well the close crop.
Shoutout to the magnificence of 8, love the vintage feeling.
As for the alts, I especially like 14 (I'll automatially love everything Buffy you do), 15, 19 and 20 (wow at the composition)!
neonspider: #yinyang love hate relationship[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:30 pm (UTC)
Omg thank you so much, you're so kind! ♥ I'm super happy you like the Lana set, it means a lot coming from you, you've made so many amazing icons of her. Would have been great to see your set of her, but I definitely would have been more intimidated to post mine after that!
apologizeg: Westworld // The same but different[personal profile] apologizeg on January 31st, 2020 04:31 pm (UTC)
Stunning! I'm drooling over the text *_*
neonspider: aubry ♥[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:30 pm (UTC)
Aww thank you!! ♥♥
[identity profile] luppiters.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 05:07 pm (UTC)
♥___♥
The pretty colors! The compositions! The text work! The... everything! I don't know what to say that I haven't said already.
The monthlyinspo set is simply stunning - it's so original and creative <3 The text work is just amazing as is your range of colors.
And the misc... hee. I loved the Ron icons since I first saw it but I am also quite fond of the different techniques you used, particularly the blends (and all the different colors for every layer! they're not jarring like they would if they were mine! they are amazing!). 20 is simply... whoa. 33 has some great blocking. 15 is just gorgeous and so is 16. 30 is so "simple" yet so amazing and complex? The combo of subject + text in 1 and 10?? Everything is just so stunning. ♥
I could keep going. You truly are so talented and original with compositions. (Your mind! Your eye!) *bows down*
neonspider: rin totally planned it[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:33 pm (UTC)
You're being too kind to me as always!! *__* Thanks so much for finding so many things to compliment, I'm super flattered you see so many good things about them and even found use for the Ron icon! :D (Don't sell yourself short though, I definitely don't think any colors would be jarring if they were yours!)
[identity profile] blighted-star.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 05:41 pm (UTC)
It's really cool how you used the color blocking and text,
neonspider: alaska hiiiiiieeeee[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:34 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much!! :)
[identity profile] abyss-valkyrie.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 06:25 pm (UTC)
Always love your compositions and bright colours!The idea of using Lana Del Rey for this round is so creative and cool!:D
The way you added the lyrics is just so unique,never thought of mixing up styles of text like that.
neonspider: desmond another life[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:36 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much, I'm glad you liked the text! :D
violateraindrop: Stardust: blended[personal profile] violateraindrop on January 31st, 2020 07:12 pm (UTC)
I'm always having a hard time coming up with a comment that is even remotely able to describe how stunning your posts are. The incredible use of text, the stunning compositions, and phenomenal coloring is so much to take in here. I feel like I could stare at each icon for a couple of minutes just to see everything that's going on.
My favorite is 15 (I think, I love pretty much all icons in this post). The composition and use of text is amazing, but I also love the lighting. It gives the icon a little bit of an "old school" vibe which I love, too :D
neonspider: adam inside tv[personal profile] neonspider on January 31st, 2020 07:39 pm (UTC)
Oh wow thanks so much for the super kind words! I totally see what you mean about the "old school vibe" in 15 and even when making it I was very much inspired by the greats of the old time - I remembered how some truly amazing makers such as absolutelybatty and likealight used to do lighting in like 2012. I could never reach their levels of awesome, but I'm suuuper happy you saw a hint of what I going for in that icon and liked it so much! :)
[identity profile] vanessa-lj.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 09:35 pm (UTC)
How wonderful the return of your neon colors, and the always fabulous compositions ... your texts are always the source of great admiration
neonspider: sq blend that makes us special[personal profile] neonspider on February 1st, 2020 09:52 am (UTC)
Thanks so much for the lovely comment! :)
[identity profile] magicrubbish.livejournal.com on January 31st, 2020 10:31 pm (UTC)
Your text work as a tool to compose complex icons are done to perfection. Texting is one my favorite iconing tools, so it's lovely to see the monthlyinspo set so heavily imbued with it. I just loved icons 4, 5 , 8 and 9. I dig the neon coloring of 7 as well.
I love the way you work with dual color codes and use blocking and texting to add layers to it. Also the blends are great in the misc. set.
Some of my favorites are 15, 18 , 21 ( great crop too ) , 25 and 33.
neonspider: whouffaldi anchor[personal profile] neonspider on February 1st, 2020 09:56 am (UTC)
Thanks for the lovely comment! :) Text is one of my favorite tools as well, but it never comes easy, it automatically adds at least another half an hour if not more to the iconing time, which is why it means so much to hear that I'm not wasting my time with it. Seriously, thank you so much ♥
tinny[personal profile] tinny on February 2nd, 2020 03:07 pm (UTC)
ooooh myy god, those are amazing. It shows that a lot of work went into these, even with your usual standards already being very complex. I especially like 1, 5, 6, 9, and 10. The misc icons are gorgeous, I love 14 and 15 and 18 and 32 - the way you combined two persons to make them communicate is amazing. Love the 25 and 26 ParksandRec one, I'm surprised how much the complete look changes with the background change. 27 is awesome.

So glad to see you making more icons again, you're so very talented.
neonspider: spider jim[personal profile] neonspider on February 2nd, 2020 06:17 pm (UTC)
Thanks so much for the incredibly kind words! ♥
Yeah, for now I seem to make a lot of icons, that could change any moment, I never know with my muse. I'm very much an all or nothing person when it comes to icons (and everything) - I either make them all the time, or not at all. I do hope this activity streak continues for a bit longer, cause I'm having a lot fun :)
[identity profile] hamarakissa.livejournal.com on February 3rd, 2020 04:05 am (UTC)
Love the colors and composition of your icons! Snagged 14 - will credit!
neonspider: clara muted closecrop[personal profile] neonspider on February 3rd, 2020 05:54 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! :)
[identity profile] ladyminya.livejournal.com on December 28th, 2020 02:33 am (UTC)
[livejournal.com profile] citizenerased I think there's some icons here that you'd like! :3
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[identity profile] rosy-nic.livejournal.com on March 9th, 2021 07:33 pm (UTC)
lovely icons, always loved your colours, saved a couple :)
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