Current active challenges

[tinny]

I updated the current challenges post, and added two new challenge communities:

Current active challenges

iconthat R58 (Blue) - May 20th - up to 3 icons every two weeks
icontalking Activity 01 (Got Fandom?) - May 20th - 5 icons in three weeks

NEW challenges without regular deadlines

You can claim prompts/a bingo card and then make fanworks for each prompt/square:

tic_tac_woe - apocalyptic challenge comm open for icons info post here | claim a bingo card here
who_allsorts - claim 3/6/9/12/15/20 prompts and make Doctor Who fanworks (incl. icons)

Comments

Re: LIYM

[tinny]

I rediscovered Friends in my search for a 20-year-old fandom, so now I have all those caps lying around that want to be made into icons. :D

Concrit is fine.

Re: LIYM

[seraphina_snape]

Lovely icon! I like how the blue/turquoise background and bed sheets make Chandler and Monica stand out. And I like the texture(?) that you used for the background - it's very pretty.

Re: LIYM

[tinny]

Glad you like! <3

Yeah, the whole thing was golden before I colored it, and it just looked boring... so I started coloring everything in contrasting colors. :D

The background has two textures, yes - one of them is a plain bitmap texture by crumblingwalls I added to fit the texture of the bed (which was in the original cap), and the other one is a flowery texture by braggadocio:



I just realized both makers' sites don't exist anymore. :(

We should at some point start a texture collection here in this comm, maybe? Or maybe create another comm for iconing/art resources.

Re: LIYM

[seraphina_snape]

I totally saved that second texture. Very pretty!

A texture collection would be good! I lost my graphics hard drive last year due to a power surge and since I didn't have a backup (because I was in the process of shuffling things around on my various external drives), I lost everything. All my screencaps (*sob*), all my resources, all my graphics. I had a large collection of psp files, scripts, bases, etc. - all gone. *sigh* I'm still rebuilding my archive of resources, too.

I think I like the idea of a resource comm where people can post brushes and textures or link/rec their favourite texture makers or brush sets. (The name icon_resources isn't taken...)

Re: LIYM

[tinny]

Why don't you create it? It'd be awesome!

I'll promote it here (and put a link into the user info).

Since I've created this comm, I've found out exactly where to promote stuff on DW:

dw_community_promo
ipromo
pimpmethis

I'm actually looking for a place to put all those textures I made from paintings (yes I didn't stop at cropping them, I made a ton of textures as well). My main problem right now is that I don't know how/where to upload textures as a zip file so they'd remain accessible for a long time.

Maybe that would be a good first post for that community: instructions on how to share your resources.

Re: LIYM

[seraphina_snape]

Done. Except I'm going to the cinema today, so creating the community is literally all I've done so far. I'll work on it tomorrow and then let you know when it's ready to go.

Thanks for those links! I definitely know where I'll promote it once it's up and running. *g*

Have you tried DeviantArt? That's about the only site I know for that kind of thing and it's been around forever. You can upload files with a preview image (that you can upload yourself) as the "cover". DeviantArt is where I got 80% of my textures before tumblr (and even then a lot of people link to their DA account).

Re: LIYM

[tinny]

Yay, thanks!

Have fun at the cinema!

Have you tried DeviantArt?

I was afraid (or not :D) you'd say that. No, I don't have an account, but I think it would make sense to have one. I guess I'll look into that.

Re: LIYM

[seraphina_snape]

:D

I will!

It's free to make an account. I have never used it to upload stuff, so I don't know what kind of limitations are on it, but I'm sure for the occasional texture upload it's fine. *g*