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Your icons are so beautiful, you have a great eye for crops - I especially love the ones where you went and added textures to the images. I love the combination of printed/comic and textures.

Although I definitely seem to have a thing for yellow/red combos.

Me too. :D Those really look wonderful on comic bases, so retro.

I will probably never finish sorting my textures, but the thought counts, right?

Who does? :D I keep downloading them and then unpacking ten percent and then maybe sorting half of those... you know how it goes. :D

If you have (or used to have) a usual medium to icon, have you tried branching out from it? And how did that go?

I tried making larger graphics, but the community surrounding that (i.e. tumblr) never appealed to me so the motivation just wasn't there.

I also sometimes make stock icons (but don't actually liked it much) and anime/animated source icons (which I liked a lot better). I find animated source needs different base prep and also different texture use, and I like the challenge once in a while.

Do you ever make a bunch of very similar variant icons, and if so do you post the lot or just pick one or two faves?

All the time. I don't usually change the crop (like you do), but I change a lot of other things about an icon when I can't decide what looks better - lighting, coloring, textures, text placement. For complicated challenges (rumbles, lims), I often go and revisit the icon two or three days in a row and usually end up with about a dozen variants. I rarely post more than two of those, though.

What's the weirdest thing you've iconned? (I ask because a couple months ago I found myself making icons of the signs on a character's door, and that seemed a bit odd...)

Um. Some of those weird things are in my user icons... the opals and color codes come to mind first. :D

But I wouldn't really consider them weird. If it looks good as an icon, it's reason enough to icon it.