Admin Post: Current active iconmaking communities (old)

[tinny]

The current challenge post is now maintained by seraphina_snape and can be found here:

https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/26531.html

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[timetobegin]

small batch is still active:
http://smallbatchicons.dreamwidth.org/profile

[tinny]

Added, thank you!

[kalli]

pretty_pixels is an active icon community! :)

[tinny]

Thank you! Glad you stopped by!

pretty_pixels is not an open community where everyone can post icons, though, right? It's your personal icon community.

This list here is for communities where you can make icons (challenge communities) or where you can post icons (open icon communities).

The audience for personal icon comms tends to be people who need icons, not people who make them, so I'm not sure this is the right place to promote personal icon communities.

That said, you are welcome to promote it at any of the promo communities. (ipromo, promote, dw_community_promo)

I'm also planning on posting a friending meme here soon where you can promote your icon community, too. I hope you'll stick around, all iconmakers are welcome here!

[kalli]

Oh, sorry about that! ^^; Thank you for the extra information about the other promo comms! That's very helpful. :)

[littlemissnovella]

Thank you for posting this community here! :D

[timetobegin]

i've added fandom10in30 as well, as i have a problem lol

[tinny]

Oooh, thank you! It's great to have someone around who enjoys running icon comms! I'm just making a new promo post and add it right away!

[timetobegin]

ahaha i do!! i just wish there were a few more icon makers over here!

[thisbluespirit]

Since you have some bingo comms - two of the biggest, hc_bingo and trope_bingo both allow icon sets as fills.

[tinny]

Oooh, thank you so much! I rely on dw_comm_promo posts, and some comms just never turn up on my radar.

I'll add those two immediately.

[thisbluespirit]

I am pretty sure genprompt_bingo allows icons, too, but I'm getting a clarification on that, as it just says images at the moment. (The mod makes icons herself and it's pretty wide open, so I am expecting a 'yes'.) They actually have some art options that you can select, too.

fandom_calendar is also a particularly good source, I find. Mainly exchanges and ficathons, but also new bingo rounds and comms and so on.

Oh, and the sign-ups for fandom_stocking have just gone live, and icons are often requested as that. (It's stocking stuffers, like the icon Secret Santa, only for all the things. Not everybody wants icons, though, but you can usually use the 'icons' tag to find the people who do.)

[tinny]

Thank you again! I've added the links to my current promo post! And the genprompt_bingo mod has answered, too, they do accept icons (3 per square, which is actually the lowest that I've seen).

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I think if someone were looking to try an icon-only bingo, genprompt_bingo would be a good place to start.

[ai]

Is it possible to add animeicons to the list? It's one of the larger ones and I'm surprised to see it wasn't already listed.

[tinny]

Thank you so much! I rely on recommendations and promos in dw promo communities to alert me to the existence of comms. I have added it now!

[ai]

Thank you for including it. If I see any others come back to life, I'll swing by here again. Most of the ones I know of have been inactive for nearly 10 years now （´・｀）

[sylvaine]

nexticon is back to being active!

[tinny]

thank you so much! We'll include it in the active comms list again, and I will definitely participate. I've always loved it.

[sylvaine]

Yay! I love it too, and I'm hoping to get plenty of new and old people participating ♥