Iconmaker Friending Meme 2019

[tinny]

We haven't had a friending meme since this community first opened, and someone asked if we could have another one. Of course we can! Here we go:



Copy this code and tell us about yourself! (feel free to skip anything you don't want to tell)
<b><u>ABOUT YOURSELF</u></b> Name: Age: Place: Where do you post your icons: <b><u>Share Your Interests!</u></b> Favorite Show: Favorite Movie: Favorite Character: Favorite Pairing: Favorite Food: <b><u>LET'S GET TO ICONING!!</u></b> <b>What are your personal picks for the top 5-10 icons that you've made in the last 12 months?</b> <b>Show us five icons that you think best represent your iconing style</b> <b>What has inspired you over the last 12 months? (techniques, subjects, challenges, other makers, etc.) Provide examples if you want.</b> <b>What's your favorite show and/or movie to icon and why?</b> <b>Who's your favorite character to icon and why?</b> <b>Close crop or far-crop? Why?</b> <b>Vibrant or muted? Why?</b> <b>Text or minimalistic? Why?</b> <b>What's your current iconmaking goal?</b> <b><u>Let's Ask Some Questions!!</u></b> <b>List three questions that you would like to be answered by other icon makers:</b> <b>Any last words?</b> <b>A gif or image (or icon!) that describes you right now:</b>

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<center><a href="https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/28592.html"><img src='https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/file/480x480/19384.png' alt='FRIENDS'/> Interested in icon-making friends? Join our 2019 friending meme!</a> </center>

Comments

[tinny]

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.