Activity #102 - Happy New Year 2026

[tinny]

Time to look back on 2025 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, use the tag "progression post"
* 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 is here again, too. Voting is not open yet, but you can make:

Remakes

Resolutions

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!

Plus, there's a relatively new comm where you can request concrit: iconcrit

Have fun, and be nice!

p.s.

If you'd rather participate in a challenge this month, check out 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

Concrit/Feedback

[tinny]

If you would like feedback from our members about specific icons of yours, please post the icon(s) in this thread.

Please mention if you would like concrit or general (positive) feedback only.

[goodbyebird]

My 2025 icon progression is that I finally got back to making icons late December *g*

And my goal for the year is to try and have some fun with text + run a couple icon challenges.

[tinny]

\o/ I'm glad the iconmaker community has you back! <3<3<3

And my goal for the year is to try and have some fun with text + run a couple icon challenges.

That sounds awesome! What kind of challenges are you thinking of?

If it's queermedia_ic, it won't hurt to let me know when you start one, so I can update the sticky post here. I only do that once a month and have missed some before. Of course no matter what kind of icon challenge it is, you can simply promote it here in the comm, too!

[goodbyebird]

I'm going to wait a bit to see if my brain continues to not boil over before attempting queermedia_ic again, I was such a bad mod at the end there! I'll probably try for a couple of icon battles, those are always great fun. Maybe something for IWTV when the third season starts up. Would be extremely cool if I could rally enough makers to intw_amc to do a weekly episode icontest. That way the whole season would get to shine.

[tinny]

Oh no worries, I know everyone enjoyed the queermedia_ic rounds. <3 But of course do something you find low stakes! <3

a weekly episode icontest.

Oooh, I remember doing that back at episodic_supernatural back in the day. I love shows that air weekly, it gives the muse time to breathe.

[goodbyebird]

100% shows that air weekly are the best. And I figured if it's at the all-around community, non-iconners get to vote as well, and then everyone has shiny new up to date icons for the show :D