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Wow, I am delighted by the turnout! Hairstyles ftw! \o/

( 37 splendid icons by 8 makers )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity is the celebratory activity for round #100, and it'll be coming right up.

Three participants smelled the sweet air and made 22 icons! \o/

( admire them all here )

The next challenge will be posted later today (or tomorrow depending on how long it takes me to come up with one ;)).

This year, we had a very low-key Ask The Maker, but it wasn't a total bust - we ended up with a guide and three tutorials!

Tutorials and Guides

littlemissnovella wrote a guide on how to make animated icons using giphy:


aurora_amethyst wrote a tutorial for this icon:


and I wrote tutorials for these two icons:



Questions

There was some discussion on how to install G'Mic and/or Resynthesizer and/or Darktable on GIMP on a Mac.

See you again next year!

Wow, everyone put on their racing gear and made icons as fast as never before!

( 34 blazing fast icons by 6 makers )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity will be posted on the weekend.

Thank you, everyone for participating in our February color challenge!

( We have 21 icons by 4 makers! )

The next activity will be coming up on the weekend (I hope! I'm currently setting up a new computer and have to reinstall everything, things are going a bit slower than I'd like).

The results of this activity were less numerous than the last, but everyone who participated loved the challenge idea. Thank you very much, I'm happy it resonated with you. And the results are absolutely stunning - everyone really went out of their comfort zone! <3

( 20 amazing icons by 4 makers )

Next round coming up sometime next week.

The results of this round are nothing short of inspired! <3

( 6 makers made 42 icons )

Our next activity will be posted in the next few days. It will be a texture-making activity. If you have texture theme suggestions, let me know, I haven't finally decided on a theme yet.

Yay, there was quite a bit of action in this year's Ask The Maker! Questions, tutorials, interaction!

Tutorials and Guides

Click on the icons/banners to go to the tutorials/guides.

aurora_amethyst:


aurora_amethyst:


aurora_amethyst:


aurora_amethyst:


aurora_amethyst:


aurora_amethyst:


littlemissnovella:


tinny:


wickedgame:


wickedgame:

Questions:

kissed asked how to make icons with a bright focal point, like this one:
and the community answered: https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/84908.html?thread=1476012#cmt1476012

I asked for comics tutorials, and goodbyebird answered with tutorials for e.g. this one:
: https://queermedia-ic.dreamwidth.org/10628.html

scifirenegade asked for guides/tutorials for b/w icons, e.g. this one:
and got helpful links here: https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/84908.html?thread=1478828#cmt1478828


Thank you all so much for volunteering your time and making this a fun activity!

Next activity coming up soon.

Thank you for participating in our April/May activity! <3

( 5 makers braved the weather and made 46 icons! )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

The new activity will be posted next! (I've decided to run another regular activity before Ask The Maker in June.)

Only three of us had time to enter, but the results are really pretty!

( 21 colorful icons by 3 makers )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

I was too busy to even post this roundup for two weeks, and I haven't come up with a new challenge yet, either. Any ideas what you'd like to do next?