icontalking | Activity #16: Retro Style

Thank you,

luminousdaze, for the idea for this challenge! We're going to make retro icons this month!

Retro for the purpose of this activity means "anything older than the year 2000".

This can either mean retro look, style and techniques: like 70s-style coloring, 80s grunge, retro fonts, 20s style black-and-white, etc.
or
retro subjects, like shows from the 90s, shows set in the 80s, movies from the 40s, comics from the 50s,...

You can mix and match techniques and subjects. Any combination is allowed. Here are some examples and resources:

tturners	mm3butterfly	sweet_lyri	queen_bartonia
lookslikerain	fueschgast	lessrest	meleada

fueschgast	wandererjulia	starry_night	scarred_loretta
unknown	damnicons	awmp	braggadocio

lady_kingsley	piewrangler	brasaremean	blimey_icons
spooky_window	midnight_road	spaceyme	spaceyme

* In each icon, you may use retro techniques/styles, or retro subjects, or both
* 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, August 25 2018, your end-of-day

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Ask them here.

The unknown texture is by

spooky_window. The texture maker from whom I have the most stuff, heh.

I hope I can participate this month. Last month's activity looked like fun, but I didn't find the time to make anything for it. :o/

Ah, thank you! (the image even said spooky_window, but I somehow failed to find the account in my resource post. oops.)

I'll update this post and my resource post, too!

Just wondered if you’d post this on LJ?

Aw, you're welcome. Thank you!
This looks like fun. I missed the psychedelic era challenge at dwstills & I have an idea for an that could make a cool icon if I can manage to execute it.

Yay, looking forward to it!

Well, this whole community is to provide some place for makers on DW, and there is a lot of stuff on LJ already... but having joint activities would be nice, I think.

You mean I should make it possible for people on LJ to participate in all our activities?

Or you mean I should post a link to this activity to the LJ icontalking comm?

That’s true that there is a lot of places for people to make icons on LJ than DW.

Having joint activities might be good because there isn’t much activity happening over at the LJ community lately. That’s more what I was thinking by posting it on LJ, as well as here. But either option would work :)

Interesting challenge. Older than 2000 is also retro...oh dear,I feel ancient now. T_T

Oh, I love the idea for this challenge! Hopefully I can find the time to participate. :)

I thought "why only 70s and 80s, when 1998 is already 20 years in the past?"

(But yeah, it makes me feel old, too.) ;D

This is a lovely challenge, and I've put it on my DW so that I can remember to do some icons for it!

All from Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Retro textures. My laptop died, and the colors seems different, and darker in my new desktop computer. lol I hope they are okay.

https://i.imgur.com/KcD2G6s.png
https://i.imgur.com/hrpnF8O.png
https://i.imgur.com/9Kv2Ifb.png
https://i.imgur.com/AB6YzGP.png
https://i.imgur.com/lEEtdfY.png

They look absolutely fine to me, lightness-wise.

I especially like 1 and 2, the coloring is gorgeous!

Great, that's a relief!

Thank you :)

These are awesome! I really like the coloring and textures you used. My favorites are the first and last ones. :)

Thank you :)

I love all things vintage and retro, so this challenge was right up my alley. :D

I hope these are okay. :)

https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mermaid_mod/48630243/462363/462363_100.png
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mermaid_mod/48630243/413102/413102_100.png
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mermaid_mod/48630243/440723/440723_100.png
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mermaid_mod/48630243/436794/436794_100.png
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mermaid_mod/48630243/452224/452224_100.png
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/mermaid_mod/48630243/357010/357010_100.png

(PS: sorry for all the editing :/)

Edited 2018-07-31 04:54 (UTC)

These icons are amazing! I love the textures. XD

These are lovely! ♥

Lovely work, my faves are 3 and 5 :)

Thank you! ♥

Thank you! :)

I currently have no old fandoms, so I went with the retro style option and used 70s bold geometric textures and brownish coloring. There's also some Buffy and a psychedelic Lucifer thrown in for variety. ;)