Poll Results

[tinny]

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.
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Comments

[luminousdaze]

I have an idea for a dozen set icon challenge, to run like a 20in20 or 10in30 but with a dozen. I have an idea to start with but I'm not sure how many rounds I could run it for. The idea I have to start with is kind of specific, but maybe I could host other challenges there - or get other mods to host challenges there if anyone wants to co-mod an icontest here on dreamwidth.

[tinny]

That sounds awesome!

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.

[luminousdaze]

Okay I'll probably open it in a few days & if I get bored I can try to give it away or just close it. I have more fun running single-fandom based icontests - I don't really enjoy running theme based ones or ones with stock at all.
What kind of battle are you planning on doing? A rainbow one?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a stock fan, myself, either. But focusing on a single fandom is hard for me, lately, too. I find the challenges more inspiring where I can icon whatever fandom I want instead of having to claim one. Probably because I don't have one single obsession right now, and sticking with the same thing for 20 days is already too much.

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

[luminousdaze]

I'd never be able to mod a 20in20 the number of icons you have to put into voting & that you have to check to see if they fit the rules, would be way too much.

Yes we all like rainbow battles!

[tinny]

Ugh, yes.

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.

[tinny]

pffft that last comment was me. I just didn't notice I got logged out. :/

[luminousdaze]

Oh no, I just remembered there's no making of the polls without a paid account!

[tinny]

I can make a poll for you? Let me know where to post it and what it should say, etc.

[luminousdaze]

Aw, thanks for the offer! But no - I mean there can be no polls for the voting if I run an icon challenge with my account level.

[tinny]

Ah, right, of course. Polls for voting. Ooops, Friday brains.

Doing voting with comments is totally valid, too. They're not that hard to count, either.