Activity #93 - Five is the Limit

[tinny]

I'm not sure how practical this challenge is, but I hope it's at least inspiring. :D

The rule for this challenge is to make icons that have at most five layers (on Photoshop or other layer-based tools) and/or only take you at most five minutes to make.

Challenge yourself to both simplicity and speed! :D

Maybe this could be an opportunity to learn how to make photoshop actions or get some cool gimp plugins?



Some random icons and textures for inspiration:

~~~~~ icons ~~~~~

setsuntamew | abyss_valkyrie | narnialover7 | haebin


chacusha | crazycordy | longerthanwedo | picnicnic

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~~~~~ textures ~~~~~

ai-generated | midnight_road | colorfilter | lookslikerain


yunhe x2 | Emil Nolde | innocent_lexys | timetobegin

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* Since I have no way to verify this, I'm calling on your honesty: please don't cheat. Only submit icons that took you no more than five minutes to make and/or have no more than five layers. Using actions/scripts to automate and speed up your work is allowed.
* You don't have to limit both time and layers. You can enter icons that took you an hour as long as they only have five layers. Or you can enter an icon with ten layers if you manage to make it in under five minutes. Play around and have fun! <3
* You can make as many icons as you like (if you need a goal, five is a good number :))
* There is no minimum, 1 icon is enough to enter this activity
* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible)
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community

* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on the inspiration and activity result posts
* There is no voting

Deadline: Saturday, May 10 2025, your end-of-day

Comments

[littlemissnovella]

[abyss_valkyrie]

Love the 2nd and 4th icons!

[littlemissnovella]

Thank you so much! I still want to fix the fourth one so much, lol!

[tinny]

Oh, these are great! I especially like #2 (great lighting!), and #3, it looks very unlike your usual style, which I take as evidence that the time/layer limit really pushed at boundaries - which is exactly what I wanted it to do! I hope you had fun with it! <3

[littlemissnovella]

#3 is one of those icons that I still want to work on and fix because of how different it look but thank you so much!

[magicrubbish]

I love the 1st two icons, the backgrounds suit the subjects attire's perfectly. <3 Lovely lighting as well in this set.

[littlemissnovella]

Lowkey those textures work for them, thanks so much!

[nondenomifan]

Love the colors in these--especially in the first two. I'm amazed you were able to do these in less than 5 minutes or steps!

[littlemissnovella]

Thank you so much! ^_^

[breyzyyin]

These icons are amazing! The second and fourth icons are personal highlights for me, but all four are incredible. ♥