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Communities for sharing and finding icons

icons

allstockicons - for any stock icons

animeicons - icons from anime

comicbook_icons - icons from comic book sources

disneyicons - icons and graphics from disney productions

dwrp_icons - avatar icons for role playing

fandom_icons

graphics - for all graphics, including icons

horroricons - horror-themed icons and graphics

iconic

icon_library - icons from books and about reading books

magic_icons - icons relating to magic, nature, fairytales, folklore

sg_art - all kinds of Stargate fanart including icons

smallbatchicons - only 5 icons at a time

tf_icons - Transformers icons

walker_graphics - The Walking Dead icons and graphics

xmen_icons - X-Men icons

Communities for (icon) resources

capshare - find and share caps here

capspiration - daily caps to inspire you

cdramacaps - find and share cdrama (and other Asian drama) caps here

dwresources - resources for RP, including icons and screencaps for icon making

icontalking - we have a regular ask the maker activity with guides and tutorials

icon_resources - find and share textures here

resourcelove - find and share textures here (less active than icon_resources atm)

smallbatchicons - has a tag for tips and tutorials

Icon Challenge Communities (periodic) (newest first)

icontalking - various monthly challenges, 1 icon minimum - Activity #106 - Happy Birthday Song (from 2026-05-21)

ic_animated - up to 5 icons in 2 weeks, animated cartoons/comics/games, (lj-imported, participation on both sides) - Round 81-Two's company-Information! (from 2026-05-19)

ships20in20 - claim a relationship and make 5, 10, or 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 07 Themes (from 2026-05-17)

perioddrama_ic - up to 5 icons in 2 weeks, see profile for eligible period fandoms - Challenge Eighty Nine:Letter C characters-Challenge Rules! (from 2026-05-17)

retro_icontest - reviving a different old challenge from LJ every month, 1 icon minimum - Round 39 - shire_icontest - challenge 39: tons of textures (from 2026-05-16)

itsabattlefield - monthly battle: make 1-20 icons for a given theme within one month - Monthly Battle : 27 (from 2026-05-16)

iconthat - various themes, up to 5 icons every 2 weeks - Challenge 203: MerMay 2026 (from 2026-05-14)

iconcolors - bi-weekly color palette challenge for up to 3 icons - Round 192: ]|I{•--»♿αᵃⓡÃⓋ (from 2026-05-11)

fandom10in30 - 10 icons in 30 days, one provided theme, fandom claim is optional - Round 64: Summer fruits-Information! (from 2026-05-07)

your_favourites - icon your favorite of the given theme, up to 4 icons in 2 weeks - Challenge #236 - Animal (from 2026-05-03)

characters20in20 - claim a character and make 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 22 Themes (from 2026-04-30)

icons10in20 - 10 icons in 20 days (+extension), 10 themes, claims optional - Round 42-Themes & Sign-ups. (from 2026-04-27)

iconbattles - various types of battles, irregularly run by volunteers - Yellowstone Battle Anyone??? (from 2026-04-26) Teen Wolf Battle (from 2026-05-16)

tvmovie20in20 - claim a tv show or movie and make 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 26 Themes (from 2026-04-24)

celebrity20in20 - claim a celebrity and make 20 icons in 20 days, voting mandatory - Round 20 Themes (from 2026-03-31)

screen_icons - up to 7 themed icons from provided caps in 2 weeks - Challenge 32: Copious Colors (next challenge coming up soon)

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.

Icon Challenge Communities (constantly open)

100fandomicons - Make 100 icons in 100 fandoms, pick your own deadline of 6, 12, 18 or 24 months [sign-up post]

10variations - Make 10 icons from one image. Choose one of two theme sets.

20icontables - Choose one of many prompt tables and make 20 icons. No rounds/deadlines.

dailyicons - Claim a theme and make 10/25/50/100 icons in 1/3/6/12 months for daily prompts within 48 hours

hannibalinsp - Let the inspiration posts inspire you to make Hannibal icons. No limit or deadline, all Hannibal canons welcome.

icon_promptly - ⭐NEW⭐ post and fill prompts three times a week. Themed posts, up to 3 icons per prompt, no deadlines.

lgbtrainbow - pass-it-on challenge through the colors of the rainbow, only canonical LGBTQ+ characters, regular voting (optional)

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)

fan_flashworks - all-fandoms flashworks, monthly prompts - Challenge 516: Late (from 2026-05-21)

sweetandshort - short fanworks (incl. icons) for monthly/weekly prompts and a mini bingo - May: Rare Words (from 2026-05-15)

allbingo - monthly challenge, 1+ icon per square - April Monthly Post (from 2026-04-30)

femmeslashfete - weekly prompts, femmeslash pairings only, collect badges, 1 icon minimum, [admin tag | prompt masterlist]

fffc - weekly, collect badges, 1 icon minimum, more for special challenges [challenge tag]

Multi-Medium Challenges open for icons (constantly open)

100ships - 100 different relationships, 1 icon per square, no time limit [sticky post with prompts table]

genprompt_bingo - semi-annual, 3 icons per square [sticky post with comm info]
graphic and design april drift - pick a challenge and make graphics/icons for it until April 2026 [challenge post]

hc_bingo - semi-annual hurt/comfort, 10 icons per square [challenge tag | rules]

ladiesbingo - fanworks about relationships between women, running September-May, 10 icons per square [comm info | sign ups]

tic_tac_woe - apocalyptic bingos info post | claim a bingo card

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?)

fandom_empire - multi-medium comm, round=4 months, 1-3 icons/banners/wallpapers per week, round 1.26 Monopoly running until mid-April 2026

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.

seasons_of_fandom - previously lands_of_magic, now reopened - sign-up post

Other challenge finder communities

fandomcalendar - Bingos, exchanges, prompt fests, most of which allow icons

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 May 21, 2026

tinny

prisca created a new community:

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.

tinny

Icontalking Activity #106 Happy Birthday Song

Whenever I'm stumped for new ideas, I remember how much everyone likes color challenges! And since this round will end (almost) on my birthday, I chose a birthday palette with one of my favorite colors in it. I hope you like this one, too! All icons must use at least two colors from this color palette.

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Bonus challenge (optional): In addition to the colors, if you like to incorporate a theme as well, icon something inspired by at least one of these themes:

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themes

cake
time
melody
sunshine
smiles
passage
best friends
hugs and kisses

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( Inspirational icons and textures under here )

* Icons must use at least two colors from this month's palette
* You may use the bonus themes, but you don't have to.
* 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, June 20 2026, your end-of-day

tinny

Thank you all for taking the challenge and making such wonderfully creative icons! \o/

( 34 icons with a variety of silhouettes by 5 makers )

Next round will be coming right up!

narnialover7

GO H E R E to see more info about the 2 open battles over @

itsabattlefield

GO H E R E to sign-up for a Teen Wolf battle!! :)

narnialover7

Any Yellowstone fans that would like to have a battle?
Come join

abyss_valkyrie,

wickedgame and I!! :)

Go H E R E to sign-up!

tinny

I feel like looking at shapes and what makes a shape recognizable after our last round, so I thought we'd make this round about silhouettes.

This is a free inspirational challenge, you can interpret the theme however you like.

( Some inspirational material under here )

* 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, May 16th, your end-of-day

tinny

Thank you everyone, for bearing with my deadline mixup, and for using the extension to its fullest potential! <3

( We have 33 inspired icons by 6 makers! )

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

Our next activity will be posted later today!

tinny

Oh noes, I misremembered my own deadline. I thought it was this Saturday, not last. Because someone else also wanted to enter, I'm going to extend the deadline by another week!

enter here

sheliak

Better late than never, right?

( A year of icons )

tinny

This month, your challenge is straightforward: look at the 20 movie posters under the cut and make icons inspired by them. You can get inspired by the textwork, the composition, the coloring, the crops, whatever catches your eye!

I hope you find them inspiring!

( Inspirational Posters under here )

* Please state in your comment which poster(s) inspired you.

* 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, April 11th, your end-of-day

tinny

Everyone really went outside their comfort zone, and the results are amazing!

( 44 comic-look icons by 6 makers )

Plus, littlemissnovella linked a texture set she created before: https://i.imgur.com/Iva9yxM.png

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

Our next activity will be coming up later today.

abyss_valkyrie

Hello, everyone. I'm running a BBC Merlin battle at

iconbattles .
Check out the themes and details here.

tinny

I'm very very late, but here's my progression post for 2025, finally:

see the post at my journal

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tinny

The idea for this challenge is to make icons that look like they're comic panels, lineart, maybe with a border, pop art style, or speech bubbles.

There's a great (20-year-old!) tutorial for making your icon look like a comic: https://icon-tutorial.livejournal.com/841509.html
(and the comments contain hints for how to transfer this tutorial from Photoshop to Paintshop)

Of course you can go about this completely differently, and iconing animated source materials is also fair game!

( I hope these additional resources inspire you )

* 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, March 14th, your end-of-day

tinny

I've been meaning to post the new activity this weekend, but time got away from me. I had thought of making it a Valentine's Day inspired challenge, but then scrapped the idea again because there are already two of those running, if you want to have a go at that theme:

ships20in20 - The themes post actually says "This new round is a inspire challenge like the communities

monthlyinspo and

icontalking" <3<3<3

ships20in20 round 5

and

fandom10in30 - Hearts and Flowers

fandom10in30 round 62

If you still want to post a progression post, feel free to do so, that is open ended. (I still haven't finished my own, either.) I will try and get our next activity up sometime this week.

tinny

Not all polls are up yet, but you can already start voting for the ones that are:

BEST OF 2025 - Voting has started!

abyss_valkyrie

Woohoo!I made my icon progression post here!

aurora_amethyst

here @

1wonderment

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk
Current Music: silence

littlemissnovella

Progression Post of 2025 @

lullabycharmed

tinny

Time to look back on 2025 with a focus on iconmaking, to draw some conclusions, and get some feedback! \o/

1) ICON PROGRESSION

Tell us what icons you made last year, select the best/the most extraordinary/the most representative, and tell us about them.

Tell us about your progress, your fandoms, your ideas and techniques. What changed over the course of the year?

If you want, you can make resolutions about your iconmaking: what you would like to do this year, techniques you want to try, goals you want to achieve - for resolutions, also see bestof_icons below.

There are quite a few progression posts made by our members in previous years, where you can look for ideas how to go about it:

=> https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/tag/progression+post

( more examples and layout code links )

* You can post your progression/resolution posts as new posts directly to this comm, use the tag "progression post"
* If you post(ed) a progression post to your journal, you can make a new post here and link to your journal
* If you have more than 5 icons in your post, put them under a cut
* Note: you must be a member of this community to be able to post

Deadline: any time you want! These things take time. Post them to the community any time you like!

2) BESTOF_ICONS

bestof_icons is here again, too. Voting is not open yet, but you can make:

Remakes

Resolutions

3) ICON FEEDBACK/CONCRIT

When this comm was new, there was a concrit/feedback thread on every post, but it wasn't used by many people, so I stopped making them. In case you do miss getting feedback on your icons, there's a concrit/feedback thread in this post again!

Plus, there's a relatively new comm where you can request concrit:

iconcrit

Have fun, and be nice!

p.s.

If you'd rather participate in a challenge this month, check out our List of current active iconmaking communities. It's a sticky post at the top of this comm, and you can also find a link to it in the comm's sidebar. I update this list about once a month. You're always welcome to let me know if there are new comms I should add to it.

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Admin Post: Sticky: Current active iconmaking communities

promo: icon_promptly

Activity #106 - Happy Birthday Song

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