Poll Results
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icontalking
We have 35 subscribers now, woot!
21 people took the base poll (at the time I'm posting this. I'm going to leave the poll open). These are the results right now:
The majority of people who are still on LJ, but a large part is exclusively on DW now.
The majority of people say they're medium to good iconmakers, and we also have beginners and newbies. This distribution is great, because it means we have many good people to share their skills with those who want to learn.
This last one is the most interesting part, of course!
The most popular choices are information about active icon challenges on DW and promos for icon comms.
This means there is a lot of interest for icon challenges! If any of you feel like running an icon challenge comm, this is your chance to go and start one! If you need advice or help, ask. I will of course regularly post the list of current challenges here. I'm counting on all of us to get more challenges started together!
I realize that I didn't phrase the question about icon community promos clearly - does it mean personal icon journals, or challenge comms? I personally would like to avoid having a lot of personal icon journal promos here in this comm. My suggestion is that everyone who has an icon comm where they post their icons can link it in the upcoming friending meme. So we can all subscribe to each others' icon communities, if we want. Also, there's an open community where you can promote your icon community:
ipromo.The next point is interaction with other iconmakers. Yay, this is already happening! Every post in this community is an invitation for you to share your work, to ask questions, to squee about icons you've seen, to get to know each other. A few people also mentioned they'd like to add other iconmakers to their circle, which ties into this. I will make a dedicated friending meme post to this community soon.
The next points are icon tutorials and icon challenges to be run within this community. I've already put some thought into this. There are lots of great iconing tutorials around, and I'm planning on going through them and posting links to good ones here. I will also run an icon battle here soon. (If you have requests or battle ideas, let me know!). So those things are all going to happen! :D
Last but not least, people asked for concrit and for the list of current LJ challenges. The concrit comments are always part of the regular posts here (this one, too). So this is ongoing, and nobody is forced to use it, but everyone is welcome to make use of it.
A list of current LJ challenges will be posted regularly, too. I will tag it 'lj', so if you want to keep that off your reading list, you can filter it. But since the majority of people said they have no preference whether challenges are on DW or LJ, I'll definitely post that list. There are still a lot of active communities on LJ, and they all welcome participants with open arms.
So far, so good! Thank you all for joining the community and showing interest in the wonderful hobby of iconmaking!
Feel free to promote this community to your heart's content and tell your friends about it.
LIYM
Date: 2017-04-22 08:38 pm (UTC)Re: LIYM
Date: 2017-04-23 12:06 pm (UTC)Made for
It was the only Timeless cap in the batch, so I had to do something with it. I ended up entering a muted version because I wasn't sure everyone would like the splotchy vibrant coloring. I adore it, myself. ;D
Concrit is fine with me.
Re: LIYM
Date: 2017-04-25 04:18 pm (UTC)Cool icon.
FIYSL
Date: 2017-04-22 08:39 pm (UTC)Re: FIYSL
Date: 2017-04-23 12:13 pm (UTC)teyla | seraphina_snape
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Date: 2017-04-22 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 01:30 am (UTC)Something less effort (for the makers) than 20in20 would probably be best, I don't know?
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Date: 2017-04-23 03:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2017-04-23 07:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 08:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 10:56 am (UTC)I'm just going to run a battle here (probably start next weekend, so I have time to come up with an inspiration post), where people can icon their favorite fandom - I thought it could be kind of a "get to know me through my icons" thing.
Depending on how much interest there is, I could run battles here regularly. But not weekly or anything. at most monthly.
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Date: 2017-04-23 09:42 pm (UTC)monthly is good :)
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Date: 2017-04-23 01:11 am (UTC)I'd totally make them myself, if I wasn't such a chicken. They're not even supposed to be challenge communities, just simple post-your-icons-here comms. But I'm just not good with responsibility - just thinking about it make me freak out.
I'm not quite sure how posting in this comm works. Are we allowed to make our own posts?
Sometimes I just want to share my thoughts about an icon I made. Like "The cap's background is pretty, but its color is too much like that of the character's face. But none of my attempts to make the face stand out from the background without removing the latter were successful, argh!" or other thoughts behind why I did what I did with that icon. You know, just generally geeking out.
I hope the challenges you want to run here aren't of the sort where you have to make 20 icons. That would be too much for me.
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Date: 2017-04-23 01:36 am (UTC)Comms where you can post your icons are already present. Check out the sticky post:
https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/642.html
You can filter it by fandom (and use tags on your posts to mark the fandom). I suspect DW is not big enough right now to create fandom-specific icon sharing comms. I have posted to fandom_icons before and people seem to be following it and see my posts there.
But if you want to create fandom-specific variants, go for it! Those don't require any regular attention. Pick a name, pick a layout, copy the user profile description for somewhere, done! You can do it!
Let me know if you do, and I'll add the comm(s) to the sticky post.
Sometimes I just want to share my thoughts about an icon I made.
Go ahead! This is what the LIYM threads on every post in this community are for. Post your icon, talk about it, ask for concrit or not.
I hope the challenges you want to run here aren't of the sort where you have to make 20 icons. That would be too much for me.
No, I was planning on doing a small battle. I haven't figured out the details yet, but I was thinking I'd leave the number of icons open, so everyone can do as many (or as few) as they like.
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Date: 2017-04-23 03:52 am (UTC)Could you do "finish that icon you started years ago" challenges too? That would be helpful.
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Date: 2017-04-23 10:59 am (UTC)Yeah, one is for talking about your own icons, and the other for talking about other people's icons. ;D
Could you do "finish that icon you started years ago" challenges too? That would be helpful.
Ha, lol, that's an idea I hadn't heard yet! I like it!
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Date: 2017-04-24 08:29 pm (UTC)And how about a challenge where we have to use a texture in our collection that we haven't used yet?
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Date: 2017-04-23 03:58 am (UTC)And a question regarding buying icon space on Dw: I haven't seen it explicitly said, but it seems implied that you need to get a paid account and icon slots - am I understanding that correctly?
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Date: 2017-04-23 10:53 am (UTC)http://lapislazu-icons.livejournal.com/22412.html
They went to the trouble of adding shading to animated caps, which makes them look all kinds of awesome. I never would have thought of that. It's a lot of work, but maybe something in that tutorial tickles your muse?
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Date: 2017-04-23 07:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 06:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 07:07 am (UTC)I never took classes either.
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Date: 2017-04-23 07:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 10:47 am (UTC)It's awesome to have a GIMP pro here, because I've been struggling a bit trying to give
She's just starting out with GIMP and has valid beginner questions (and I can't even answer those without googling for two hours... :)).
I think I answered all her questions for now, but feel free to jump in:
https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/491.html?thread=4843#cmt4843
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Date: 2017-04-23 11:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 08:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-26 02:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 07:26 am (UTC)http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=4
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Date: 2017-04-23 07:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 07:51 am (UTC)Nevermind you can buy icon spaces! http://www.dreamwidth.org/shop/icons?for=self
I'll read some more & figure it out.
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Date: 2017-04-23 07:58 am (UTC)http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=16
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Date: 2017-04-23 08:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-23 11:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-25 04:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-26 02:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-26 04:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-26 08:36 pm (UTC)She's also accepting claims on both sides and you can choose on which side to submit your icons, which is really neat.
p.s.: hiiii! *waves*
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Date: 2017-04-27 05:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-27 06:48 pm (UTC)I'm currently thinking of running some battles here in this comm - but that's more of a "nothing else is going on" thing. People have asked for challenges so I'm trying to provide. So I guess I'm busy doing that, else I would volunteer.
I think 12 is a good middle ground to fill the demand between the the 3 icons of iconthat, and the 20in20s on LJ.
I'd say, get it started and see how the response is. Once you run out of themes, there's always the possibility to poll for what people want to do next, or just to create another comm altogether. I think we're on new ground here - I for one don't know how things will go in the long run.
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Date: 2017-04-28 03:50 pm (UTC)What kind of battle are you planning on doing? A rainbow one?
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Date: 2017-04-28 04:02 pm (UTC)What kind of battle are you planning on doing?
Hee, rainbow is the first thought everyone has, isn't it? :D
No, I'm thinking of a "show me your fandoms" thing, no specific techniques or colors required. I'm trying to focus the first one on providing an opportunity for people to connect and get to know each other. Now I just have to come up with enough prompts - I'm stuck at 4, and I really want 5... hmmm.
But I'm sure there's going to be a rainbow battle at some point. :D
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Date: 2017-04-28 05:36 pm (UTC)Yes we all like rainbow battles!
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Date: 2017-04-28 07:19 pm (UTC)That's the advantage of battles: no voting. :D At least the ones I've seen never had any, and I'm not planning to do any voting, anyway.
I mean, I do plenty of voting in your-favourites, but I wrote a groovy script that does the tallying for me, so it's not much work.
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Date: 2017-04-28 04:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-28 04:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-28 04:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-28 05:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-28 07:16 pm (UTC)Doing voting with comments is totally valid, too. They're not that hard to count, either.