[admin post] [sticky entry] Admin Post: Sticky: Current active iconmaking communities

Jun. 12th, 2020 05:20 pm
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
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Communities for sharing and finding icons

[community profile] icons
[community profile] allstockicons - for any stock icons
[community profile] animeicons - icons from anime
[community profile] comicbook_icons - icons from comic book sources
[community profile] disneyicons - icons and graphics from disney productions
[community profile] dwrp_icons - avatar icons for role playing
[community profile] fandom_icons
[community profile] graphics - for all graphics, including icons
[community profile] horroricons - horror-themed icons and graphics
[community profile] iconic
[community profile] icon_library - icons from books and about reading books
[community profile] iconpraise - users make monthly or themed praise posts
[community profile] magic_icons - icons relating to magic, nature, fairytales, folklore
[community profile] sg_art - all kinds of Stargate fanart including icons
[community profile] smallbatchicons - only 5 icons at a time
[community profile] tf_icons - Transformers icons
[community profile] walker_graphics - The Walking Dead icons and graphics
[community profile] xmen_icons - X-Men icons

Communities for (icon) resources

[community profile] capshare - find and share caps here
[community profile] capspiration - daily caps to inspire you
[community profile] cdramacaps - find and share cdrama (and other Asian drama) caps here
[community profile] dwresources - resources for RP, including icons and screencaps for icon making
[community profile] iconcrit - if you would like concrit or advice for icons you made, ask here
[community profile] icontalking - we have a regular ask the maker activity with guides and tutorials
[community profile] icon_resources - find and share textures here
[community profile] resourcelove - find and share textures here (less active than icon_resources atm)
[community profile] smallbatchicons - has a tag for tips and tutorials

Icon Challenge Communities (periodic) (newest first)

[community profile] characters20in20 - claim a character and make 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 24 Themes • Special Round (Time Travel) (from 2026-08-20)
[community profile] icontalking - various monthly challenges, 1 icon minimum - Activity #109 Selective Coloring (from 2026-08-19)
[community profile] ic_animated - up to 5 icons in 2 weeks, animated cartoons/comics/games, (lj-imported, participation on both sides) - Round 86-Spin the wheel 2.0-Information! (from 2026-08-17)
[community profile] your_favourites - icon your favorite of the given theme, up to 4 icons in 2 weeks - Challenge #242 - Things Visible In The Sky (from 2026-08-16)
[community profile] retro_icontest - reviving a different old challenge from LJ every month, 1 icon minimum - Round #42 - watchnicon - Fashion Baby (from 2026-08-15)
[community profile] itsabattlefield - monthly battle: make 1-20 icons for a given theme within one month - Monthly Battle : 30 (from 2026-08-15)
[community profile] perioddrama_ic - up to 5 icons in 2 weeks, see profile for eligible period fandoms - Challenge Ninety Four: Costumes 2.0 -Challenge rules! (from 2026-08-12)
[community profile] iconcolors - bi-weekly color palette challenge for up to 3 icons - Round 198: All Upstream (from 2026-08-11)
[community profile] icons10in20 - 10 icons in 20 days (+extension), 10 themes, claims optional - Round 45: Themes & sign-ups. (from 2026-08-04)
[community profile] fandom10in30 - 10 icons in 30 days, one provided theme, fandom claim is optional - Round 66: Book & Comic adaptations (from 2026-07-31)
[community profile] celebrity20in20 - claim a celebrity and make 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 22 Themes (from 2026-07-29)
[community profile] iconbattles - various types of battles, irregularly run by volunteers - Once Upon a Time Battle (from 2026-08-09)
[community profile] tvmovie20in20 - claim a tv show or movie and make 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 27 Themes (from 2026-07-08)
[community profile] screen_icons - up to 7 themed icons from provided caps in 2 weeks - Challenge 33: Decorations (from 2026-06-28, inactive?)
[community profile] ships20in20 - claim a relationship and make 5, 10, or 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 07 Themes (from 2026-06, roundup in progress)
[community profile] iconthat - various themes, up to 5 icons every 2 weeks - Challenge 203: MerMay 2026 (from 2026-05-14, inactive?)
[community profile] fandom_itest - up to 3 icons, various fandoms, irregularly run by volunteers - currently no active round, you can run one, look at the info post here.
[community profile] queermedia_ic - provided caps of canonically queer characters, 4 icons in 2 weeks, run by volunteers - currently no active round, you can run one, look at the info post here.

Icon Challenge Communities (constantly open)

[community profile] 100fandomicons - Make 100 icons in 100 fandoms, pick your own deadline of 6, 12, 18 or 24 months [sign-up post]
[community profile] 10variations - Make 10 icons from one image. Choose one of two theme sets.
[community profile] 20icontables - Choose one of many prompt tables and make 20 icons. No rounds/deadlines.
[community profile] dailyicons - Claim a theme and make 10/25/50/100 icons in 1/3/6/12 months for daily prompts within 48 hours
[community profile] hannibalinsp - Let the inspiration posts inspire you to make Hannibal icons. No limit or deadline, all Hannibal canons welcome.
[community profile] lgbtrainbow - pass-it-on challenge through the colors of the rainbow, only canonical LGBTQ+ characters, regular voting (optional)
[community profile] icon_promptly - post and fill prompts three times a week. Themed posts, up to 3 icons per prompt, no deadlines.
[community profile] nexticon - pass-it-on challenge: pick a theme from the last icon and make a new icon, voting (optional) in regular intervals

Multi-Medium Challenges open for icons (periodic) (newest first)

[community profile] fan_flashworks - all-fandoms flashworks, monthly prompts - Challenge 525: Amnesty (from 2026-08-20)
[community profile] sweetandshort - short fanworks (incl. icons) for monthly/weekly prompts and a mini bingo - August: Rare Words (from 2026-08-16)
[community profile] allbingo - monthly challenge, 1+ icon per square - July Monthly Post (from 2026-07-31)
[profile] femmeslashfete - weekly prompts, femmeslash pairings only, collect badges, 1 icon minimum, [admin tag | prompt masterlist]
[community profile] fffc - weekly, collect badges, 1 icon minimum, more for special challenges [challenge tag]

Multi-Medium Challenges open for icons (constantly open)

[community profile] 100ships - 100 different relationships, 1 icon per square, no time limit [sticky post with prompts table]
[community profile] genprompt_bingo - semi-annual, 3 icons per square [sticky post with comm info]
[community profile] hc_bingo - semi-annual hurt/comfort, 10 icons per square [challenge tag | rules]
[community profile] ladiesbingo - fanworks about relationships between women, running September-May, 10 icons per square [comm info | sign ups]
[community profile] tic_tac_woe - apocalyptic bingos info post | claim a bingo card
[community profile] who_allsorts - claim 3/6/9/12/15/20 prompts and make Doctor Who fanworks [guidelines and prompt tables]

Land Comms (what is a land comm?)

[community profile] fandom_empire - multi-medium comm, round=4 months, 1-3 icons/banners/wallpapers per week - challenge 03/26 (theme unknown yet) - Sign-up: September 4 - September 18
[community profile] land_of_art - Long rounds, signup any time. Two teams compete in challenges to create art of all kinds from any source. Apply for a team here.
[community profile] seasons_of_fandom - previously lands_of_magic, four teams compete every season - sign-up post

Other challenge finder communities

[community profile] fandomcalendar - Bingos, exchanges, prompt fests, most of which allow icons
[community profile] ipromo - Icon promo community, you can promote your own icon comm there



If you know of challenges we don't have on this list, please let us know in comments!

last updated August 22, 2026
narnialover7: The Musketeers (D'Artagnan - Shirtless)
[personal profile] narnialover7
 combos
Monthly Battle : 30 theme is:
COMBINATIONS

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!
There's a lot of information explaining this battle! :)

You have until Wednesday, September 30th @ 11:59pm EDT

 
oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles
This battle ends September 19th 
silvercat17: (i want that man)
[personal profile] silvercat17
It looked like we needed a new basic tutorial on gradient maps that wasn't on livejournal, so I made one. Feel free to save it, alter it, use it as a jumping off point to write your own tutorial, whatever. Let me know if there's anything I could improve.
narnialover7: Buffalo Bills Football (Josh Allen - Crazy Hair Don't Care)
[personal profile] narnialover7
 combos
Monthly Battle : 30 theme is:
COMBINATIONS

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!
There's a lot of information explaining this battle! :)

You have until Wednesday, September 30th @ 11:59pm EDT

 
oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles
This battle ends September 19th 
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
[personal profile] tinny


The month is over, and it's time for the Ask The Maker roundup! \o/

This year, we had questions about text work, hair painting, and coloring, and we got some very good discussions and links to old tutorials, plus two new guides!

Tutorials and Guides

I wrote two guides:




[personal profile] silvercat17 wrote a tutorial on Gradient Maps



Questions

1) Text

People discussed and provided hints about how to get text to look good in 100x100, and a tutorial on the topic was linked:
https://reflexive-verb.livejournal.com/60076.html

2) Hair Painting

We discussed hair painting here in this thread. In addition to the new guide, three old tutorials were linked on this topic:

https://brazen-water.livejournal.com/28862.html#cutid1
https://absolucion.livejournal.com/10805.html#cutid1
https://december-march.livejournal.com/9317.html


Thank you all so much for being a part of this community!
narnialover7: Top Gun : Maverick (Rooster - Really?)
[personal profile] narnialover7
 
combos
Monthly Battle : 30 theme is:
COMBINATIONS

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!
There's a lot of information explaining this battle! :)

You have until Wednesday, September 30th @ 11:59pm EDT

 
oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles
This battle ends September 19th 
narnialover7: Merlin (Gwen - Profile(pink))
[personal profile] narnialover7
NEW BATTLE, YAY!! :DD
 
combos
Monthly Battle : 30 theme is:
COMBINATIONS

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!
There's a lot of information explaining this battle! :)

You have until Wednesday, September 30th @ 11:59pm EDT

 


You still have 5 days to submit icons! :DD

mb29
Monthly Battle : 29 theme is:
SUMMER ENERGY
Pallete Battle!! :DD
summer-pastel-color-palette

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!

You have until Friday, August 28th @ 11:59pm EDT




Because I'm insane, I'm also running a Once Upon a Time Battle!

oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles

tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
[personal profile] tinny


I had an idea for a new challenge while I was on vacation, but I have since forgotten it again, and it bothered me so much that I wasn't able to come up with anything else yet. :( So I've decided to redo one of our old challenges (from 2019): "Selective Coloring". Maybe my vacation idea will come back to me in the meantime?

You have to color parts of your icon differently than the rest. You can go for black and white with a splash of color, or two different monochrome parts, or making one color in particular stand out, or, or, or.

Here are some examples:




[personal profile] applepips | [personal profile] emmatheslayer | [livejournal.com profile] ddionysia



[personal profile] tinny | [personal profile] sallymn | [personal profile] thesleepingbeauty | [personal profile] debris4spike



[personal profile] fueschgast | [personal profile] abyss_valkyrie | [personal profile] magicrubbish


* You can make as many icons as you like (if you need a goal, five is a good number :))
* There is no minimum, 1 icon is enough to enter this activity
* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible)
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community

* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on the inspiration and activity result posts
* There is no voting

Deadline: Saturday, September 19 2026, your end-of-day.


Ask The Maker is still open if you're working on anything - I am working on another guide, myself, so I won't round up the challenge until I'm done with that. The plan is end of August.
narnialover7: The Musketeers (Milady - Pink Far Away)
[personal profile] narnialover7
All the current/open battles I'm running! :)
combos
Monthly Battle : 30 theme is:
COMBINATIONS

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!
There's a lot of information explaining this battle! :)

You have until Wednesday, September 30th @ 11:59pm EDT



You still have about 2 weeks to sign-up/submit your icons! :D

mb29
Monthly Battle : 29 theme is:
SUMMER ENERGY
Pallete Battle!! :DD
summer-pastel-color-palette

Go H E R E to sign-up, get info!

You have until Friday, August 28th @ 11:59pm EDT




Because I'm insane, I'm also running a Once Upon a Time Battle!

oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles
narnialover7: Narnia (Susan - Pretty Blue Dress)
[personal profile] narnialover7
oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles
narnialover7: Buffalo Bills Football (Default)
[personal profile] narnialover7
oncebattle1
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] iconbattles
narnialover7: Stock (Ugh! Pug)
[personal profile] narnialover7
oncebattle
When I was dog sitting this past week I started rewatching Once Upon a Time.
So, I thought I would put some feelers out there to see if anyone would be interested in a battle of some kind.
Let me know in comments if you're interested. :)
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
[personal profile] tinny

this banner features an icon by aurora_amethyst


I was so busy in June that I completely forgot that it's Ask The Maker month! Better late than never? Let's go!

Ask The Maker is where you can ask your favorite makers about how they do that thing. You can ask for tutorials, guides/"How to", or ask any other questions related to their work. Check out the Maker thread (below) for makers who have signed up and are ready to answer your questions.

You can also ask questions to the community at large, and hope that someone is able to answer them. Do this in the Questions thread (below).

I am looking forward to interesting questions and discussions!

Please promote this activity!

You can use this code here:


The more participants the merrier! I will promote it at an official promo comm.

Here are the rules:

1) Maker-Driven

rules for makers who want to sign up )


2) Question-Driven - I have a question and anyone can answer

rules for questions to the community )

What's What

question categories and examples )

Maker thread

Questions thread


This activity will run for about a month, depending on how many requests there are, and then I'll just post the next activity, but you have time to get your answers in until the end of August.

If you want to work on a challenge while Ask the Maker is running, you can find currently open challenges in our sticky post.
tinny: The Good Place: Chidi surrounded by roses (goodplace_chidi roses)
[personal profile] tinny


Thanks to everyone who participated and to everyone who commented!

A beautiful flower garden with 55 icons by 8 makers! )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Since I forgot that it was June last month, we're doing Ask The Maker a month late. I hope you're all excited for this yearly activity and ready to ask and answer questions! <3
narnialover7: Buffalo Bills Football (Josh Allen - Cute Smile)
[personal profile] narnialover7
mb29

It's a color pallet battle! :)
GO
H E R E to see more info about the *NEW* battle over @ [community profile] itsabattlefield
abyss_valkyrie: (Default)
[personal profile] abyss_valkyrie
 

HELLO,ALL! 
Join in the new battle I'm hosting over at [community profile] iconbattles .
Check out the themes over here.
tinny: The Good Place: Chidi surrounded by roses (goodplace_chidi roses)
[personal profile] tinny




I picked a few flowers for you to get inspired by! I hope you like them! This is a free inspirational challenge.

Flowers for inspiration )

* You can make as many icons as you like (if you need a goal, five is a good number :))
* There is no minimum, 1 icon is enough to enter this activity
* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible)
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community

* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on the inspiration and activity result posts
* There is no voting

Deadline: Saturday, July 18 2026, your end-of-day
tinny: Very yellow icon with a small Zhu Yilong sitting in the middle holding some cats in his lap (zyl_yellow cat)
[personal profile] tinny


Thank you so much, everyone, for the wonderful icons and the lovely birthday wishes! <3 <3 <3

43 icons by 5 makers )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity will be coming right up.
abyss_valkyrie: (Default)
[personal profile] abyss_valkyrie
 Hi, all! Just wanted to bring it to attention that I'd been granted permission to run [community profile] stocklove_ic a few weeks back. Those of you who enjoy making stock icons bi weekly are welcome to join the community and participate by entering, commenting, voting etc. 

The current round is:
 
Monochrome over here at [community profile] stocklove_ic 
narnialover7: Maxton Hall (James - Muscle Shirt ;))
[personal profile] narnialover7
mb27 mbvc

GO H E R E to see more info about the 2 open battles!! :)
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
[personal profile] tinny
[personal profile] prisca created a new community:


[community profile] icon_promptly


This community is created for icon lovers. It's low-pressure; you can jump in anytime to leave or fill prompts. There is no final date! Sign-up is not necessary, but I would recommend subscribing to the comm.

There will be three main posts every week:
Monday - Fandom/Real Person Icons
Wednesday - Stock Icons
Friday - Make a Wish

If you're curious now, check out the community and maybe start prompting or creating right away.