oof I want to eat your coloring up with a spoon!

Aww thanks so much! :D

I think this style suits you very well and I absolutely love the bold vibrant colors here! <3

I've probably already told you how much I love most of these, as for the rest I love the rainbow!Rose icon, it's so beautiful! <3 Great composition in #2, I absolutely loved that show back in the day and I'm big fan of Russell Tovey since then (he has the cutest ears ever!!). The coloring in 3 is gorgeous, as is the text work and composition in #5. The color combination in #6 is one of my favourites and the shadows/lighting in the icon is great. The whole LOST set for 7days is amazing and although I've never watched Survivor these aussie guys are pretty hot :D

Totally get you on the icon dumps part, I've been trying to combine them with some sets for other challenges, but there are not many of them right now. And now of course I have to ask about the personal project, because I need some bad ideas myself :D

Thanks a lot for the lovely comment!

Ok, so here's my totally random project, it's a bit complicated but I hope it makes sense. It's a character focused rewatch/iconing project. Basically I have a list of 100 characters and ships (which don't have to be romantic, just any interesting relationship) that I like the most out of any shows. I then use some sort of method to pick one or multiple of these subjects at a time (usually one, but for a fixed-size set I like to pick them all at once). This selection method could be a random number generator, a game (I developed a board game that I sometimes play with thyla87 to determine our subject picks for a challenge set), or a semirandom method (my most used one is a simple algorithm of dividing my subjects into two random stacks, turning the two topmost cards and eliminating one of the stacks based on the subject at the top - I keep doing this halving of the stack until there's only one subject left).

Anyway, now that I have my subject, I need to rewatch the first episode (or movie) that has this character in it and that I haven't yet rewatched for this project. If it's a ship, I rewatch the first episode that has them both. I write a review of this episode (mostly to keep track of which episodes I've rewatched, but it's also fun to score the episodes and keep a running list of episodes I've liked the most, I also give plus and minus points to characters I enjoyed or disliked in that episode to keep track of the best characters :D), and after that I icon my subject from that episode. That's pretty much it, there's no schedule and I'm definitely not hoarding all these icons to post at once cause idek when this will end, I've been posting them all along since November when I started this.

So far I've iconned and rewatched 96 episodes/movies. Of course at some point I'll have rewatched all episodes that have a character, that's when the character is removed from the list and replaced with someone new. It's a really fun way to both rewatch my favorite shows and select subjects for challenges, which has always been difficult for me, but it also means that most of the icons I make are not for challenges cause it's a bit difficult sometimes to pair random subjects with challenges that have any subject-specific themes. I still want to keep doing it this way, because tbh I'm at a point where I'm more interested in the rewatching part, and the iconing part is kind of just a fun extra. Anyway that's it, sorry for the long ramble but I don't know how to explain this mess more briefly xD tl;dr I'm a giant nerd.

It all make sense lol

Actually it's weird how similar and yet so different my iconing project is :D I started with 70 characters/ships and the goal is to make one icon of each for a total of 70 that will be posted at once. And although I don't have the rewatch part, I always end up rewatching some episodes (or sometimes seasons) which really slows my progression and now I'm little behind :/ It doesn't help that the first few icons ended up with text and I decided to go all in and make all 70 text icons :D

Random number generators are great, it always helps when I'm wondering what/who to icon and lately it's been more fun to make icons outside of challenges, there's no pressure :D

Ooh that's a super fun challenge too! Great minds think (sort of) alike I guess, I didn't think anyone else was crazy enough to design these massive extra challenges for themselves! :D How far are you? You're so prolific that I imagine you're almost done probably.

I'm at 45/70, but I still have time to make it before my original deadline, just have to make an icon a day. That's why I've slow my roll on entering every challenge that's out there :D

What an explosion of sensational colors!
I love this style, the most complex compositions are the ones that amaze me more and more, I don't know how you can achieve similar results, as in 2, 11 and 19. I also love 21 (incredible coloring), and painting in 39. However, they are all masterpieces for me XD!

Aww thanks so much for the super flattering comment - I'm glad you enjoyed this style! ♥

oh damn I love how colorful these are really!
they're so vibrant and yet bright it's a pleasure to look at. and also I mean the way you use those grungy looking textures it's incredible! I'm snagging lots of these!

Thanks so much for the lovely comment, I'm glad you found something to save! ♥

I can't believe I missed this entry???? These vibrant colors are amazing! I live of vibrant colors so these are a joy for my eyes! I love how you work with red and your blocking compositions, especially on 11, 12, 19 and 40.
I love the crops on 23 and 24 so much. I also really like how you worked with red and blue and black on 30, I would have never tought about this color combination!
And I think you did really amazing with grungy texutures :D
So basically everything here is stunning as always!

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Aww thanks so much for the super lovely feedback, glad you found so much to like here! :)

OMG! I love your super-colored posts! And this one makes no exception!!!
I won't comment your compositions because there is nothing more that I can say: they're simply perfect!
My favourites are 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, all the Lost ones, 26, 33 and 36!
♥

Thanks so much for the wonderful comment!! ♥ :D

God these are so freaking delicious! Seriously, your coloring makes me just... *heart eyes everywhere* ♥♥♥ I snagged #1, 3, 14, 17-24, 27 & 29 <3 Now to figure out which ones to use first!!

Aww thank you so much! Super happy to hear you found that many save-worthy :D ♥

It's like an explosion in a texture and colour factory that somehow managed to land perfectly on each icon?!?! There are some seriously INCREDIBLE icons here, but my eyes are kind of overwhelmed with wow that I'm struggling to pick out favourites! I love the neon colours and painted hair on 7, the painted(?) bits on 13 that seem to imitate her motion, the composition of the Lost icons, the colour combination and vibrant in 26 and 27, and the composition of 29. Intrigued about the personal project, what's that all about?

Omg, thank you so much for the super lovely feedback! :D There's a lot going on in 13 but I think most of it was various brushes and textures that happened to have some parts that went well with the motion!

The personal project is this massive rewatch/icon project that I described in more detail in this comment. Basically it's a system where I need to rewatch and icon episodes featuring selected characters or ships. I'm trying to think of ways to make this system work within challenges, cause it's rarely compatible with anything, which makes me unfortunately seem a lot less active than I actually am.

I've had this tab open for the longest time but I keep forgetting to finish writing the comment. (Blame whatever little inspo I get on that, since I can't type on that other laptop.)

THE COLORS. THE GRUNGEY TEXTURES. THE FLAWLESS COMPOSITION.

It's all fantastic and I'm sure my comments get repetitive. I just love your vibrant colors. It's not easy to make them look "nice" and not just exaggerated. They almost look natural because of how you just potentiate the original colors (or what seems to be the original colors). This style (vibrant + grunge) works well and it does fit your style as well.

How do you icon, really? You make complex compositions look simple. You choose the right textures for everything and... gosh, these are just so good. I know what you mean about icon dumps (I only post icon dumps these days, it seems) but I wouldn't be able to tell this is one because of how cohesive they are. I bow down to you, as usual ♥
Your icons make me wanna rewatch Lost from the beginning. It's been so, so long and I loved that show.

Omg thank you so much for this amazing comment! *__* I do not think anyone has ever referred to my colors as "natural", so that one was a surprise! :D I'm suuuper happy you like them and think they're cohesive - that's so hard to do with icon dumps cause it requires a ton of self restraint to just not follow every inspiration, but to sort of restrict it to styles that will work within everything you're throwing into the next set. It's HARD so I'd definitely rather just make a full set for something. (Lowkey wondering if there would be any interest for a new community, now that monthlyinspo seems to be dead.)

LOST definitely still holds up super well and is to this day my favorite show. Rewatching it takes a ton of time, but if you're inspired to start a rewatch at some point, I'd definitely recommend the Down the Hatch podcast to go along with it - it's a LOST rewatch series that posts one episode per week, that's what got me into rewatching it, they're getting close to the end of S2 at the moment. (You might even be familiar with the RHAP network from their Survivor coverage)

I have to post all of my April and May icons (admittedly not a lot but a bigger dump than I'd like) and it won't look anywhere as good as yours, haha. I go with whatever I end up being inspired by... if that even happens.
I'd definitely be interested in a new community! I wish monthlyinspo was more regular. I hope it's not dead-dead :(((( Dreamwidth has a bunch of good ones but I seldom remember to check that flist. (I do have to post a set for a community there, now that I think about it.)

Ohhh I'm definitely familiar with RHAP. When I could watch Survivor, I listened to most of their podcasts. They're a joy. I bet Wigler is a great host because I loved his sense of humor and how knowledgeable he was. If I ever get the time, I'll binge it again because I remember it fondly. (I've probably forgotten a lot of the surprises but I bet knowing the ~~endgame makes some things click even better.) Thanks for the rec ♥

lovely icons, saved a couple :)