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It's Friday! Let's talk about icons! :D
Do you have a favourite "subject" to icon? Like a favourite character, or a favourite show? Are there people/characters/shows/movies/other things that you always come back to and make icons of? And how do you decide on a subject?
Do you have a favourite "subject" to icon? Like a favourite character, or a favourite show? Are there people/characters/shows/movies/other things that you always come back to and make icons of? And how do you decide on a subject?
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Date: 2019-02-15 07:25 pm (UTC)I also tend to make icons of women more than men. No idea why - maybe just because they're prettier?
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Date: 2019-02-15 08:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-15 09:06 pm (UTC)I don't really make a lot of stock icons, but I'm intrigued. Baby animals are adorable and probably make for awesome icons. Did you make the cat icon you used for your comment? Because that's lovely.
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Date: 2019-02-15 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-02-15 10:04 pm (UTC)To mix it up a bit, I tend to use other of my favorites, like Supernatural (and it's actors, mostly Jensen), White Collar (and Matt Bomer in general), and the occasional other (former) TV/movie favorites (but usually only when the themes/challenge fits none of the others XD)
I know for sure that I have done not very much in terms of stock icons (most of the stock icon communities I participated in the past have closed completely or are on infinite hiatus, and with those still open, I usually miss the deadline ;) ) The only stock icon comms I participate in most regularly are world_icontest, foodie_itest, food_stillness and total_icontest (on LJ).
And like the rest of you here, I tend (and prefer) to icon men, though I have a couple of favorite actresses as well.
for those interested in my icons - just go to my journal (both here on DW and on LJ) and click the tag "medium: icons" (I just need to finally make some collection posts of all the icons I did in the past two years for small challenges)
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Date: 2019-02-15 10:18 pm (UTC)I don't think I've made more than a handful of stock icons, and all of those were for various challenges.
Huh, seems like I'm the odd one out. Now I feel like going through a few of my icon posts and count the ratio of men vs women.
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Date: 2019-02-16 12:00 am (UTC)Same! lol Including tons from White Collar, mostly of Matt, because he is the one I prefer to icon as well. *drools*
Are you part of an icontest community on men at LJ? I know there was a few 20in20 on men (and that they are both inactive by now) but there was also one normal icontest on men, but I cannot remember the name.
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Date: 2019-02-18 11:38 am (UTC)Oooh,you do enter a lot of stock contests then.The only one I do is splash20in30.
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Date: 2019-02-16 01:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-16 01:28 pm (UTC)I just. HANDSSSSS. They make everything better :D
My other Big Trends are hairporn, close-crops, and emotions. A definite focus on female characters.
Deciding on subjects mostly comes down to what fandoms I'm the most into atm, or a random cap catches my eye while scrolling through my folder. Then icontests that come with themes, of course.
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Date: 2019-02-16 01:36 pm (UTC)I definitely get the hairporn. And yay for another icon-maker who's more focused on the women! *fist bump*
If there aren't any set images/topics, I'm also likely to make icons of whatever thing I'm into, or of my perpetual faves.
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Date: 2019-02-16 05:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-16 08:10 pm (UTC)If there's a good image that I just have no feelings about whatsoever, I won't icon it
I usually pick images because they have great lighting or because they might make an interesting icon with the right cropping. :p
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Date: 2019-02-18 11:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-18 01:14 pm (UTC)I think it's pretty telling that whenever a dude is bruised/covered in blood or mud, those scenes get mad coverage. It's because they look different! Yay visual variation!! (also hot shhhh)
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Date: 2019-02-22 05:24 am (UTC)But i do tend to icon more ladies than men - i just find them easier and no way to explain it
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Date: 2019-02-22 06:53 pm (UTC)Maybe the ladies are just more visually appealing, with a broader variety of colours (in clothing and hair) and so many different hair styles and whatnot.
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Date: 2019-02-26 01:29 pm (UTC)I always icon my current obsession... obsessively. But you knew that. :))
I sometimes icon other fandoms for challenges, but only when I have to. (Although I am already being influenced by my 100fandoms goal, and now more likely to icon other things, just to fill the table. Woot?)
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Date: 2019-02-26 06:53 pm (UTC)Well, yeah, but it's not exactly a bad thing to icon your obsessions, is it? :p
Occasionally I icon fandoms I don't know for gift exchanges (like fandom_stocking or land comm gift exchanges) and it's always slightly weird because I don't know these characters and know literally nothing about which scenes are fan favourites or have an especially heavy emotional connection. Picking images is always strange because of that. But yay for trying new things.