Activity #90 - Happy New Year 2025

[tinny]

Time to look back on 2024 with a focus on iconmaking, to draw some conclusions, and get some feedback! \o/

1) ICON PROGRESSION

Tell us what icons you made last year, select the best/the most extraordinary/the most representative, and tell us about them.

Tell us about your progress, your fandoms, your ideas and techniques. What changed over the course of the year?

If you want, you can make resolutions about your iconmaking: what you would like to do this year, techniques you want to try, goals you want to achieve - for resolutions, also see bestof_icons below.

There are quite a few progression posts made by our members in previous years, where you can look for ideas how to go about it:

=> https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/tag/progression+post



Here are some more examples of what they might look like:

Icon Progression 2014 by neonspider
Icon Progression 2016 by rashiea
Icon Progression 2017 by sweet_lyri

If you want to use pre-made layout codes, here are some (the posts also contain more links to other progression posts) :

http://icon-talk.livejournal.com/106468.html (4 layouts)
http://icon-talk.livejournal.com/101746.html (3 layouts)

all by rocketgirl2


* You can post your progression/resolution posts as new posts directly to this comm
* If you post(ed) a progression post to your journal, you can make a new post here and link to your journal
* If you have more than 5 icons in your post, put them under a cut
* Note: you must be a member of this community to be able to post

Deadline: any time you want! These things take time. Post them to the community any time you like!

2) BESTOF_ICONS

bestof_icons has already opened its doors on DW again this year:

Activities currently in progress:

Remakes

Resolutions

Nominations NOW OPEN

The more the merrier!

3) ICON FEEDBACK/CONCRIT

When this comm was new, there was a concrit/feedback thread on every post, but it wasn't used by many people, so I stopped making them. In case you do miss getting feedback on your icons, there's a concrit/feedback thread in this post again!

Have fun, and be nice!

p.s.

If you'd rather participate in a challenge this month, I'm right now updating our List of current active iconmaking communities. It's a sticky post at the top of this comm, and you can also find a link to it in the comm's sidebar. I update this list about once a month. You're always welcome to let me know if there are new comms I should add to it.

Comments

Re: Concrit/Feedback

[littlemissnovella]

link: https://i.imgur.com/JuDj9Zj.png

I would love concrit and general feedback. It's an alternative icon for something else.

Re: Concrit/Feedback

[tinny]

Oh, thank you for bringing this thread to life! <3

I like the look a lot. It's like looking through a kaleidoscope. It took me a while to figure out what the squares on the left show, but once I realized that you used two different pictures and that his nose/cheek region just looks different in the left ones than in the middle/right, it came together! I like how the squares are slightly shifted against each other, it makes the icon look dynamic, and lets the eye travel from one square to the next in different angles. For me that works really well.

I don't think I have any concrit to offer here. The sharpness is good imho, the lines between the squares slightly blurred (right?) so they go well with the soft shapes of the subject's face. The lighting/contrast is good, light and dark well balanced out. Very good icon overall!

Re: Concrit/Feedback

[littlemissnovella]

Thank you so much! I keep forgetting to do this kind of activity when you have available so...