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Here's the final result of this year's Ask The Maker! Thanks for participating!

LIGHTEN DARK BASES GUIDE

COMPOSITION GUIDE

I've been a bit uncommunicative lately, but better late than never... here's a new discussion post! Let's chat! :D

Discussion threads:
Last icon you made
Favorite icons you've seen lately
Share your currently most-used resources

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From:

tinny

Share the last icon you made. Please indicate if concrit is okay.

From:

tinny

The last icon I made was for

itsabattlefield and I'm not sure I'm allowed to share it before the reveal... but here's the second-last that I have not posted yet. I'm pretty sure I will use it for a 20-set next month, if anything fitting presents itself.

Concrit welcome as always.

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From:

fueschgast

(Ugh, sorry, my Asperger's is acting up again, currently I can only say things straight forward without anything nice added to them.) The one problem I have with your icons is that your caps lack contrast most of the time.

From:

tinny

no worries, i can handle it. *g*

i love making my icons pastel, and sometimes i overdo it and forget to balance out the contrast again in the end.

In this case, I am pretty happy with the dark parts (the hair and tie are definitely dark enough), but there could indeed be more highlights.

From:

sheliak

I've been working on a massive New Mutants icon post. Then I decided that 500 (minimum) was too many for one post, and decided to split it by character. Now I'm... three-quarters done with a 200+ icon Dani Moonstar post. I need to pick better arbitrary stop points.

Anyway, here's my favorite from the last batch I uploaded:

(Concrit always welcome, although I won't be able to implement any changes to this one without starting over from the beginning--didn't save the in-process .xcf file.)

From:

tinny

I need to pick better arbitrary stop points.

Haha! :DD

I like the coloring and the slight grunge work really well with her sadness.

I personally would have cropped it higher - she looks a little smushed into the corner. Having a bit more of the background behind her head and the speech bubble would probably make it look a bit more balanced?

I really love the complementary coloring, the longer I look at it. The yellow works great against the muted purple.

From:

sheliak

Ack, it's been longer than I thought! Sorry I didn't reply sooner.

I see what you mean about the cropping--that's something I'll keep in mind in the future.