icontalking | Activity #08

tinny posting in

Something easy and uplifting for the busiest time of the year: make your icons red, or green, or red-and-green! Here are palettes and icons to inspire you:

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crazy_cordy |

benchable |

kitamikeita |

neatmonster |

danseur_lion

lifeistoobrevis |

uglybusiness |

alexia_drake |

teald |

naginis

jsfunction |

petite_tomate |

sheliak |

benchable |

crusading_soul

Rules as usual:

* You may 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

* You don't have to use any of the provided palettes, they are there for inspiration, but if you want a harder challenge, pick a palette and stick to it
* Please submit your icons (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 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, December 30th 2017, your end-of-day

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

tinny

Any questions? Ask them here.

From:

breyzyyin

Alm and Celica from Fire Emblem Echoes / Blaze from Jem and the Holograms / Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI & Dissidia Final Fantasy NT / Pyrrha Nikos from RWBY / Richard "Dick" Simmons from Red vs. Blue / Viv Vision from The Vision & Champions

~I did 6 icons this time, but only because I really wanted to use one of the textures (in the first icon) from the last challenge activity and thought it went really well with this new theme too. O_O; Hope that's okay! XD

Edited Date: 2017-12-04 07:42 pm (UTC)

From:

alexia_drake

Ooh, your colors are sooo vivid on all of them! Beautiful use of lighting and other textures to match the colors of the characters. My faves are 1, 3, 4 and 6.

From:

breyzyyin

Thank you so much! ♥

From:

tinny

Hee, yes, awesome use of the texture. I'm glad you liked it so much you used it in this challenge, too. <3

My fave is the last one, the glowy coloring matches her glowing eyes and gives the icon a magical feel.

From:

breyzyyin

I just kept going back to that texture. It was lovely! I'm glad I could use it for this challenge too. XD

~Thank you! I think the last one was one of my personal favorites too. ♥

From:

sallymn

Oh they are great, so vivid and arresting!

From:

breyzyyin

Thank you! ♥

From:

tinny

I can't get to the links because dw is proxifying them. Can you please post the html links, too, so I can make the roundup post? Thank you!

From:

breyzyyin

Yes, I can! Sorry about that! I must have had a brain fart. I totally thought I had done the URLs. O_O;

Here they are in the order they appear in the original comment:

http://i66.tinypic.com/4gg37.jpg
http://i64.tinypic.com/2wnp99x.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/2i1d27d.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/2wpuseq.jpg
http://i64.tinypic.com/35bdx1l.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/nn38rq.jpg

EDITED because TinyPic was not cooperating, but they are correct now! XD

Edited Date: 2017-12-31 07:41 pm (UTC)

From:

tinny

Thank you! Results are posted now!

From:

alexia_drake

The first and second are of Loki from the movie Thor: Ragnarok, the third is Thor from the same movie, and I still haven't seen it, so please no spoiler! lol

The last two are both from the TV Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and it is a close-up of Spike and Buffy/Spike when they were "crazy in love" because of a spell or a memory curse, I cannot remember.

From:

breyzyyin

These icons are so good! I love how you matched the background colors to colors in the base images, and the coloring is perfect! My personal favorites are 3 and 6, but they're all great! XD

From:

alexia_drake

Thank you :)

From:

tinny

Loki in Green is a must! :D

I love the vibrant red for Spike in Love, too. Very fitting!

From:

alexia_drake

Haha, I would not make an icon of Loki with any other color, except maybe if it was entirely black and white.

Thank you :)

From:

tinny

Star Trek: Discovery x2 , Black Sails x3

https://abload.de/img/trekdis102_22.307ao0x.png
https://abload.de/img/trekdis_trailer_05.321hrtb.png
https://abload.de/img/bsails203_37_02_07apohr.png
https://abload.de/img/bsails205_48.49qdoos.png
https://abload.de/img/bsails204_48_46xqo6s.png

Edited Date: 2017-12-10 09:03 pm (UTC)

From:

alexia_drake

I love how is red face looks so vivid with the contrast of the green background in the first one. My second favorite is the last one, lovely lighting and nice contrast with the bright/dark of the top-left and bottom-right corners.

From:

tinny

Thank you!

From:

breyzyyin

These icons look so good! The first icon is so vivid and I love the glow effect on the last two icons, but they're all wonderful. Great job! XD

From:

tinny

Thank you!

From:

sallymn

Ogh well done! A good variety - I especially like the second one, there's a sort of retro feel thhat appeals to me...

From:

tinny

Thank you! I was way too stressed to make a coherent set, so I just went "how can I make this more red" and it worked with this weird bunch. :D

The second one is from the Discovery trailer, and that trailer is all kinds of awesome (and retro).

From:

sheliak

I really love that second icon—the colors and the sense of motion.

From:

sallymn

... and they're Australian-Christmassy. I saw a stock picture with these on (I think they were drawings of ornaments, had little hoops to hang on the tree which I took off) and sort of fell in love. There's the four I made, then I reduced the size of the picture a little in each and added text, just because...

So sue me, I'm sentimental :)

https://i.imgur.com/w9nD9v3.png
https://i.imgur.com/RY4sADp.png
https://i.imgur.com/CdV2UWy.png
https://i.imgur.com/HyAAL8D.png
https://i.imgur.com/Je1v2MS.png
https://i.imgur.com/SNK2R8o.png
https://i.imgur.com/mRZqyt5.png
https://i.imgur.com/bonJx3K.png

(ps - is it okay for me to put these on my own journal before Christmas? I know this activity doesn't close till the 30th)

Edited Date: 2017-12-18 02:32 am (UTC)

From:

breyzyyin

These icons are so cute! You did a great job with them! XD

From:

sallymn

Thankee!!

From:

tinny

Oh, those are awesome! I love the font you chose, so playful. My fave is the koala. I want to be lazy, too. :D

And, yes, of course you may share them anytime. This post is public, and there's no voting in this comm, so no reason to keep them hidden. Share away!

From:

sallymn

I got distracted by that horrible thing called Real Life, so didn't get back - I'll put them up today for an extra Christmas present for folk :)

The wombat is my favourite too, but then I love Boxing Day more than Christmas as well... all the good things and none of the stress.

From:

alexia_drake

Very cute icons :) The text choice seems perfect. My fave is the bird.

From:

sallymn

It's a kookaburra: we have them in the garden at dawn sometimes and yes, they do sound like they're laughing/

From:

sheliak

They're adorable!

My favorite is the wombat.

From:

sallymn

The wombat is incredibly me....

From:

fueschgast

Didn't feel inspired for something creative, so instead I finally started iconning the old Pottermore's beautiful illustrations.

http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/1.11.2-Quiditch2.png
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/1.12.2-between2trees.png
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/1.17.3-decochange.gif
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/2.3.2.c2-Burrowsunrise.png
http://fatfrog.info/Ma/A/HP/Avas/PM/2.17.2-Fawkes.png

From:

tinny

Those are beautiful. I especially like the subtle animation in the third one, and the way the fourth one retains all the depth of the scenery - and it works great with red and green.

RL is leeching all the creativity out of me this month, too. Phew. Looking forward to a few days off!

From:

alexia_drake

Lovely colors, great animation in the third, and I like the lighting in the fourth.

From:

breyzyyin

These look great! I'm loving the third icon with the animation, but they're all really pretty. Awesome job! XD

From:

sallymn

Oh gorgeous, full of magic :) I think my favourite is the fourth, not sure why, it's the fantasy coloring and sense of wonder.

From:

sheliak

I may have gotten carried away.

... that is a lie. I definitely got very, very carried away. There's more where these came from. ~~Much more.~~

Anyway, first row is Rachel Summers, second row is Jean Grey; both are from X-Men comics.