icontalking | Iconmaker Friending Meme 2019

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name:GBB
Age:Thirties
Place:Norway
Where do you post your icons:

spankulert, previously

forsquares

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Killing Eve / Star Trek Disco / Harlots / Supergirl - so hot right now!
Favorite Movie: Black Swan. Batman Returns. The Fifth Element.
Favorite Character: SO MANY. Majority ladies.
Favorite Pairing: Not so many. Eve/Villanelle is a Big Mood atm.
Favorite Food: Chocolate is a food!

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?
I fell out of iconning for over a year and half, so all my recents have been made this year and while extremely rusty...

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.

20muses opening up again really lit a fire under my butt. The inspiration post was gorgeous.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? I'm as multi-fannish as they come. Right now I think Killing Eve is the prettiest thing to ever pretty, as well as Harlots has a ton of great shots.
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Can't say I have a single character fave.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? I am a close-crop hoe, no doubt about it. I automatically wanna get right in there and squish an eyeball up in a corner or something.
Vibrant or muted? Why?
Text or minimalistic? Why? Minimalist, because text hates me and I hate text. You can be fancy without text tho?
What's your current iconmaking goal? Nah, I am lazy and laid-back. I just make what I want to make when I feel like making it.

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
Who's your top three icon makers?
Do you mostly use icons you've made yourself, icons by others, or a mix?
Do you perv on other people's userpics all the time? Tell em I'm not alone! :p

Any last words? Don't shoot?
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:
It's early in the morning. I don't think anybody needs to see that.

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: Nia
Age: 39
Place: Louisville, KY
Where do you post your icons:

hiraethe

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: It runs the gamut but it's usually either 1.) something animated 2.) something historical 4.) something involving LGBT or 4.) the teletubbies (old of course)
Favorite Movie: Stardust, The Neverending Story, Labrynth, Disney movies, marvel movies, historical movies-- you get my drift
Favorite Character: So many however it's currently Keith from Voltron, Po from the Teletubbies and Loki from the Marvel Cinematic universe
Favorite Pairing: m/m, f/f or m/f-- if it has chemistry that pings my likes and dislikes, I'll probably ship it
Favorite Food: Oh this is easy-- Pad Thai

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want. What has inspired me has been my interests, also I have been trying to icon more REAL PEOPLE (since that was a struggle back at the beginning of 2018-- but I think that I've gotten used to working with that medium. *crosses fingers* Also a song can inspire me super easily

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? Anything that is interesting me at the moment, I've also been known to crack!icon-- meaning a hairbrained icon based on nothing except something that is hilarious only to me
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Well I think that I could icon Po from Teletubbies forever, but that could change, really.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? I tend to favor the side crop, that allows me to add embellishments, and I love me some embellishments
Vibrant or muted? Why? Vibrant because I just love bright colours!
Text or minimalistic? Why? Minimalistic, though I wouldn't call my icons minimalistic just because I don't add text, I tend to make a lot of things to look at in an icon, while still keeping a singular focal point.
What's your current iconmaking goal? To master text.. actually i don't know because I hate text.

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:

Text in Coral Paint Shop X6, how to?
Recommend me an iconist that you really really admire! Mine is

iconformista (

carisma_sensei
Who are some of your favorite texture resource artists?

Any last words?
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:

*note: see my icon-- also made by

carisma_sensei

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: Janna
Age: 28
Place: Valencia, Spain
Where do you post your icons:

inconformista, although I haven't posted any there lately, I'm more of a layout maker!

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Twin Peaks
Favorite Movie: Used to be Rocky and it's iterations... now I don't know! Probably Heathers or the Austin Powers trilogy lol.
Favorite Character: Look. I die for Shane Walsh (Walking Dead).
Favorite Pairing: -
Favorite Food: My favourite food is spanish omelette or sushi!

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style
I would just like to point at the above plus the following:

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.
First thing to inspire me to icon and do stuff lately has been

alwaysbeenasmiler. Not only is she a great internet friend, but she makes amazing stuff too. She made icons for me (like the Shane one I'm using right now) and inspired me to get making some more myself! She also got me into gif making again! Last gif icon or gif in general I made was literally like a decade ago lol.
As for subjects, Roland Orzabal and Ghost definitely!

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why?: I like iconing wrestling and music more than shows!
Who's your favorite character to icon and why?: Roland Orzabal and Tobias Forge. Ghost and Tears for Fears are my favourite bands ♥
Close crop or far-crop? Why?: Close crop
Vibrant or muted? Why? I guess vibrant
Text or minimalistic? Why?: I often find myself running away from text! I think sometimes it takes all the attention of the icon.
What's your current iconmaking goal?: To actually make more icons. I make them slowly, never get a full batch done or anything anymore. As I said I'm more of a layout maker and it's been that way for years! But it seems that's slowly changing now :3

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
-What's the most embarrassing icon made by yourself if you still have any? (omg)
-How many years have you spent in the hobby?
-Do you make any other kinds of graphics?

Any last words?
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:
Pretty much the one I have on my profile! hahaha:

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: Mathilde
Age: 25
Place: France
Where do you post your icons: wild_feelings

wild_feelings @ LJ

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Ooh, so many! Probably Doctor Who and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D overall and currently: A Discovery of Witches, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Penny Dreadful, Killing Eve, Berlin Station, The Orville and B99.
Favorite Movie: Trainspotting, hands down. And MCU for big fandoms.
Favorite Character: Right now, it's Vanessa Ives.
Favorite Pairing: PHILINDA.
Favorite Food: All things pasta!

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.
Inspiration is my big problem atm! I have zero ideas. So er, good screencaps, cool challenge themes (the "difficult screencaps" over at the7days on LJ, 20muses, monthlyinspo really helped). Since I have no complex composition ideas these days, I'm trying to focus on improving my cropping skills. And looking at old inspiration folders with nostalgia and trying to emulate the styles of a few years back just for fun.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why?
Doctor Who, because I work well with the caps and I always seem to have ideas. Also way back when I was super into Once Upon a Time, that show really inspired me as well, for the same reasons (good caps and tons of ideas).

Who's your favorite character to icon and why?
The Twelfth Doctor, because PCap's face is so expressive you could icon almost every single shot of him. And he had so many good moments and quotes, it's easy to have icon ideas.

Close crop or far-crop? Why?
Far crop, I love negative space. (I actually love close crops but I'm terrible at executing them myself.)

Vibrant or muted? Why?
Vibrant! I love a good muted and natural icon, but I'm here for all the colours!

Text or minimalistic? Why?
Text, I love quotes and creative text arrangements.

What's your current iconmaking goal?
Getting my mojo back! Be better at cropping and making complex icons again. Also I experimented with the flat vintage look and I don't think it's really my thing, so working on remastering my old glowy style, haha.

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
1) Are there fandoms you'd like to see more icons of?
2) Any shows you love but never icon because the caps are too hard to work with?
3) Who was the first maker who really inspired you, if you can remember them? (mine was sky_magenta, I was in awe of her icons)

Any last words?
Yay, friending meme! Also this is me trying to engage with the DW community, I'm so glad there is one but I keep forgetting to check my f-list here. *facepalm*
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:
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ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: Fuesch (pronounced pretty much like "fish")
Age: Mid-30s - I'm a grownup, send help! D:
Place: Germany
Where do you post your icons:

fuesch

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Uh, let's see... Alias, Doctor Who, Lost, Orphan Black, Sailor Moon, early Sherlock, Supernatural, The X-Files, Three.
Favorite Movie: Star Wars
Why do you have no category for me to mention Harry Potter?! Let the record show that my favorite books are Harry Potter.
Favorite Character: In order of the above-mentioned fandoms: Weiss; Ten, Twelve, Bill; Charlie; Cosima; Makoto; Moriarty; Dean; Scully; Marcus; Leia, young Obi-Wan, Rey; Snape.
Favorite Pairing: Generally the ones that are canon, but in the case of Sherlock it's Moriarty/Moran.
Favorite Food: Carbs & coffee.

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?
Too much work to go through all my icons and find out which ones I've actually made in the last 12 month, so I'll just go through my posts of the last 12 months, which are 3.

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style
I don't know, my style is all over the place. Probably plain head-and-shoulders crops.

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.
The question is if I've been inspired at all.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? Doctor Who, because it's easiest. Probably because I'm a member of a fandom-specific icontest that's still running and because cap galleries used to have the helpful random-caps feature.
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Any of my fave characters, because I love them, so they are the most beautiful to me and I could stare at them all day.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? Medium crops. I'm generally not good at close-ups, as I often can't find a way place the image in a way I like.
Vibrant or muted? Why? Mostly colorful, though I never manage to get them as vibrant I want them.
Text or minimalistic? Why? Those aren't exactly opposites. Once upon a time I thought icons need to have text (otherwise they're sorta empty), but thankfully I learned to only apply text when I have something to say. I don't do minimalistic, I think, but I do plain.
What's your current iconmaking goal? Make less plain, more inspired stuff. Find/make more time for making icons.

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
1. Is it an eternal struggle to not hate your icons (based on the great stuff others make) or can you grow out of it?
2. When keeping the cap background, what's your prefered way of dealing with caps that are smaller than the icon?
3. How do you feel about screencapped.net's new way of offering caps?

Any last words? Why is answering surveys so hard for me?! I'm kinda miserable now.
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:
poor Private

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: sera
Age: 35
Place: Germany
Where do you post your icons:

raptor_inc

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Leverage (here's a list of my fandoms - not updated recently, but then again I haven't really found anything new to obsess over)
Favorite Movie: Jurassic Park (see above for the list with more)
Favorite Character: Parker (Leverage)
Favorite Pairing: I couldn't possibly pick one.
Favorite Food: Pasta in any way, shape or form.

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

I only started making icons again last month, so my choices were limited. *g*

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

Okay, so negative space is my jam. (And it looks like I do like this kind of thing for fitting multiple caps into one icon.)

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.
I used to make icons primarily for land comms, and thankfully

gameofcards has started up again, so I'm using their challenges to make icons. But I also take part in random challenges. I like negative space - I think it's soothing to erase the background and replace it with something new.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? I'm not sure I really have a favourite show to icon. I don't think any one show dominates my icon posts.
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Same as above, I think. But I generally prefer to icon the ladies.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? Honestly, it depends on the screencap. Generally I favour a close crop of mid-crop.
Vibrant or muted? Why? Vibrant. I like colours and contrast, so I almost never go for muted.
Text or minimalistic? Why? Minimalist, because text is hard and I am unmotivated. :p No, but really. Text is hard and it can be really challenging to make it look good, so I avoid it when I can. If I do use text, I generally think less is more.
What's your current iconmaking goal? To keep making icons at all. I made next to no icons last year which had a lot to do with RL stuff tiring me out, and even though those circumstances are still there, I've decided not to let it take away something that I enjoy. So I'll just have to find the time and energy to make icons. [But on a more direct level, I want to try new things. Go for unrealistic colours, add text, use more visible textures. That sort of thing.]

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:

I haven't looked at everyone else's questions yet, so my apologies if there are any double questions.

1. Do you ever give up on an icon? (And if so, what do you do? Delete the attempt? Save it somewhere to start over again at a later point?)
2. Who's your favourite texture maker?
3. When did you start making icons?

Any last words? I'm so tired. If I stop responding at some point, I'm asleep.
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: layla / delacourtings
Age: twenty-three
Place: usa

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: the west wing, friends, gilmore girls, in the flesh, miss fisher's murder mysteries, b99, the good place, schitt's creek, grace and frankie, izombie. honestly all the shows, all the time. i love tv.
Favorite Movie: um, inception? clueless? ten things i hate about you? honestly, this is so hard. i kind of hate movies? lol. i just don't have the attention span for them!
Favorite Character: fleur delacour and harry potter, though they aren't really prime for iconning imo. derek hale, chidi anagonye, grace hanson. huh, it seems i don't icon my faves that much. i should really fix that.
Favorite Pairing: i'm so indecisive, i can't pick! also, frustratingly, most of my fave ships don't have many good scenes for iconning (see: bill and fleur).
Favorite Food: mac and cheese!! (although i'm allergic to gluten+dairy and i'm vegan so it's a bit different lol)

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

i tend to make more simplistic, close crop, negative space icons but i'm trying to branch out and make more complex things!

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.
challenge comms have really inspired me to icon again! before 2018, i hadn't made icons in 3 years!
so a shoutout to

fandom10in30,

genre_icontest,

hp_iconchallenge,

iconthat,

icons10in20, and ofc,

icontalking!

and

abyss_valkyrie,

timetobegin, and

tinny are always very inspiring.♡

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? currently, it seems to be the good place because they are one of the only shows to actually have decent lighting!
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? i don't think i have a favorite. maybe eleanor from the good place? i have a thing for blondes.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? close crop, all the way.
Vibrant or muted? Why? i love vibrant icons but i'm no good at making them so muted.
Text or minimalistic? Why? minimalistic! i'm horrible at text, i'm so envious of people who can make text icons!
What's your current iconmaking goal? to make more complex icons and more interesting colorings. i feel so basic. :(

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
what's your most recent favorite icon you've made? not necessarily the best or most popular but your personal favorite?

is there a show/movie/etc. that you've tried to icon before but can just never seems to work? i, for instance, cannot seem to icon any media set before the 2000s very well.

have you ever made icons for something you haven't seen? (i am v guilty of this.)

Any last words? thank you so very much to everyone here in the dw icon making community for inspiring me to create again. ♡
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: Millie
Age: 30
Place: Australia
Where do you post your icons:

ella_rose88 &

m_in_wonderland.

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Doctor Who, Merlin, Call The Midwife, Killing Eve, Outlander, Poldark to name a few (I have so many)!
Favorite Movie: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Help, Spy, Bridesmaids, The Sound of Music and so on...
Favorite Character: God I hate to pick one or a few so I’ll say my all time favourite character is Elizabeth Bennet.
Favorite Pairing: Katniss/Peeta, Arthur/Gwen, Jamie/Claire plus a ton more.
Favorite Food: Pizza, pasta & cake!

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style See above :)

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want. Mostly I tend to icon period dramas because I love the costumes and the look. I also love using vibrant colours, playing around with cropping and textures after seeing other icon makers do so.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? As mentioned above I love iconing period dramas and I hate to pick a favourite, but if forced I’d say Merlin. Why? Because it’s one of the first shows I did icons for so I’m attached to it :)
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? God, I don’t want to pick one character. But I’d say Morgana and Gwen :)
Close crop or far-crop? Why? I like both but lean generally towards close cropping because... I don’t know I just do 🤷‍♀️
Vibrant or muted? Why? Vibrant because I love bright/pastel colours. They make me happy :)
Text or minimalistic? Why? I wish I rocked doing text, but sadly I’ve yet to master it, so I stick with minimalistic.
What's your current iconmaking goal? To make more icons than last year that are more complex.

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers: + How do you work out where to arrange the text on your icon?
+ How do you make more complex icons?
+ How do you create a negative space around your subject?

Any last words? I’m not doing so good with my icon making goal so far...

Edited 2019-02-28 11:31 (UTC)

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name:Anika
Age:26
Place:Saudi Arabia
Where do you post your icons:my journal on LJ and DW both. :)

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show:Reign,Sherlock,Merlin,Pretty Little liars,Riverdale,Guardian, Mostly things with subtitles(LOL).
Favorite Movie:Wild Target,Pride and Prejudice(Keira Knightley one),Harry Potter 1 & 2.
Favorite Character:Sirius Black(Harry Potter), Viktor Nikiforov(YOI),Ginny Weasley(HP),it's hard to pick but I like my misunderstood boys and strong females. :D
Favorite Pairing:Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, Viktor/Yuuri (YOI), Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (:3)
Favorite Food:CAAAAKE!

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? Matte colouring, odd crops,Different styles of text,outlining or shadows behind characters, panorama sets, lady_turner & tiptoetwirl on LJ.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why?Marie Antoinette because it's such a visually stunning movie!<3 When it comes to shows,I'd say Riverdale because of the caps,they usually have great colours and crop in them already.
Who's your favorite character to icon and why?Queen Mary from Reign(because she's so beautiful!) and Morgana from Merlin.
Close crop or far-crop? Why?Hmm,Close crop,especially if the character has pretty features.
Vibrant or muted? Why?Vibrant!
Text or minimalistic? Why?Text, because I like playing around and my hands can't stop themselves from tweaking minimalistic icons.
What's your current iconmaking goal?Umm...I don't really have one,but I want to icon as much of my new muse 'Guardian' as I can so I end up iconing in a lot of comms. *grin*

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
1.Is it a compulsion for you to make icons for challenges as a set of colour/character/show etc. or do you do it for the extra challenging work & aesthetic?
2.What do you do when an icon doesn't turn out great no matter what you keep trying?Cry or start over or just submit is as it is and forget about it? XD
3.Does anybody in real life know about your iconing activity and how do you explain it to them?
Any last words?I AM SO HAPPY TO BE HERE!!!Seriously,I love the icon community on DW,it's so friendly and has a home-y feel to it. :3
A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name:Claire
Age:40
Place:England
Where do you post your icons:Here on DW

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show:BtVS, BBC Sherlock, Andromeda
Favorite Character:Spike, Sherlock, Rommie
Favorite Pairing: Buffy/Spike or spuffy

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

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What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? Right now its BtVS because i'm currently rewatching it
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Thats a hard one I dont think I have a favourite, I have a preferance iconing females though,
Close crop or far-crop? Why? far, because I like negative space
Vibrant or muted? Why? It changes right now its muted
Text or minimalistic? Why? I cant do text
What's your current iconmaking goal? Just to make more icons

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name:GM
Age:27
Place:India
Where do you post your icons: [dreamwidth.org profile] magicrubbish and @ [livejournal.com profile] magicrubbish

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: Too many . Stranger Things , 13 reasons why, Supernatural, Hannibal , Game of Thrones , One tree hill , Penny Dreadful , American Horror Story, West World - to name just a few.
Favorite Movie: Again too many . But mostly all MCU movies especially Thor trilogy, 1st and 2nd Avenger movie, Iron man triology , Captain America Triology , Black Panther and of course Spiderman: home coming, The Silence of the Lambs , X-men Apocalypse, X-men first class, X-men , Tangled Before Ever After , Beauty and the beast , Harry Potter series 1st 5 movies and 7th Movie, The dark knight rises , Half Nelson , Skyfall , Let the right one in, The Forse Awakens , The last Jedi
Favorite Character: At present ? Kylo Ren, Flynn Rider, Sansa Stark, Iron Man, Captain America and Michael Langdon. Also, Will Graham
Favorite Pairing: Lucas / Peyton from One tree hill , Jon/Sansa , Harry/Hermione, Steve/Tony, Bucky/Natasha, Flynn/Rapunzel
Favorite Food: Pizza, Noodles, Chicken soup and any sweet dish. Also, Tea and Coffee

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?
I've been making icons only since last 11 months !

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

1,

Light and shadow 2.

Vibrant 3.

Blending
4.

Text use 5.

Texture

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.

Yes , I've been inspired by the gorgeous creations of various icon makers both at DW n LJ , but more so by the awesome inspiration posts of [livejournal.com profile] monthlyinspo

Also various art works at tumblr , deviantart really inspired me.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Marvel World, Star Wars
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Kylo Ren,
Close crop or far-crop? Why? Always Close crop. Because I like to see the details
Vibrant or muted? Why? Always Vibrant
Text or minimalistic? Why? TEXT IS EVERYTHING
What's your current iconmaking goal? Eh.. to get better at it. I've just scratched the surface of learning the skills. :p

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
What do you think about the current portrayal and representation of POC, Women or Homosexual community in movies and tv series ?? Are you satisfied ??
Favorite Books ??
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:
1.What is your favorite social media site ??
2. Tea or Coffee ??
3. Favorite type of graphics ?? Icon/edit/gif/banner/picspam/art work ??

Any last words?
Creating should be it's own reward.

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: tinny
Age: over 40
Place: Germany
Where do you post your icons: at my journal: tinny.dreamwidth.org/tag/art-icons

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Show: right now, Guardian! I also watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place and Lucifer.
Favorite Movie: Dogma. Brazil. Old chick-flicks like Pretty Woman or When Harry Met Sally.
Favorite Character: Dean Winchester, Sherlock Holmes (all of them basically), Spock and other Vulcans.
Favorite Pairing: John/Aeryn, Jake/Amy, Weilan
Favorite Food: Chocolate totally counts as a food.

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style
Pastel mid-range crop with text

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.

I am always inspired by my current fandom, and then icon nothing else but that for a few months until the next one comes along.

I wouldn't bother if there weren't challenges, though. Of those I like inspirational challenges best, like

monthlyinspo (sadly closed now) and

20muses (luckily reopened now). Here on dw, it's

iconthat and

fandom10in30 and

icons10in20 that I participate in most often.

What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why? currently, Guardian. Because it's my current fandom. I don't need another reason, do I? :)
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Zhu Yilong - not a character but an actor, and my reason is always the same: I like looking at my current crush.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? Mid- or far, mostly because I suck at close crop.
Vibrant or muted? Why? Vibrant! ... colors? Colors are my life.
Text or minimalistic? Why? Text. I think every icon should have text. ;) No maybe not... but I really think text is great, I just don't always manage to come up with the right one.
What's your current iconmaking goal? More text again. The last few months were so busy I made mostly emotional icons and didn't have the brain capacity to add text. Finally watching the rest of Guardian so I can icon it!

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:

If someone were to volunteer to run it, what kind of new icon challenge community would you like to see on dw?

I can't come up with any more, but if I procrastinate any longer on this comment, the meme will be over. /o\

Any last words? I love that there are so many people here in this meme and everyone is having a good time!

A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:

too much to do too little time...

ABOUT YOURSELF
Name: Sheliak will do!
Age: 20s.
Place: California, USA.
Where do you post your icons: my icon tag

Share Your Interests!
Favorite Comic: 80s X-Men and New Mutants.
Favorite Movie: Muppet Treasure Island. I have no regrets.
Favorite Food: Avgolemono soup.

LET'S GET TO ICONING!!

What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?

Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style

What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.

Most recently, I really had a lot of fun with the butterfly challenge! I've also been on a comics tear for a while, and I've really enjoyed working with a mix of digitally recolored stuff and scans of faded old books. I like matching both with textures that work with them. And in the last couple of months I've done icons for specific purposes (comm icons, a particular pairing request), which has been fun!

What's your favorite ~~show and/or movie~~ comic to icon and why? X-Men and New Mutants (which I always mention together because they seem like branches of one series to me). There's a ton of material, often available in both faded original form and digital remastered form; I love most of the characters; there's a wide variety of characters with very distinctive designs.
Who's your favorite character to icon and why? Currently, probably Illyana (Magik) from New Mutants. I've been focusing on her temmate Dani for a long time, but Illyana has been my backup character when I get stuck, and I do love her expressions.
Close crop or far-crop? Why? I don't think I have a preference! Although I do have a tendency to try to crop to include characters' hands when that's plausible.
Vibrant or muted? Why? Depends on the scan! I usually go for vibrant, but with old comics (not digitally redone), muted textures and techniques tend to end up looking better. Although I definitely seem to have a thing for yellow/red combos.
Text or minimalistic? Why? What, they're incompatible? But honestly, minimalistic. (Text is something I work at, but I'm really not satisfied with my progress in that regard. And my style is pretty visually barebones compared to some I've seen!)
What's your current iconmaking goal? Finish the Dani Moonstar Iconpost of Doom. Also finish the Other New Mutants Iconposts of Lesser Doom. (Illyana's might end up being up there with Dani's, though.) ~~Finish sorting my textures~~ okay I will probably never finish sorting my textures, but the thought counts, right?

Let's Ask Some Questions!!
List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:

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

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?

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...)

Any last words? Hi! Hope there's still someone around here!

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