What do you do to get yourself out of an icon making funk? Are there any particular ways you try to inspire yourself? Any default techniques/styles you go back to?
I usually wander through the inspiring graphics comms I have in my bookmarks - I prefer bookmarks because my friend page is a mess. :D I look at my favourite makers' work and search for some kind of technique/style/coloring I haven't already mastered, and then I try to incorporate new elements in my own style.
Sometimes I go to coloring_help, see if someone needs help with a coloring/whatsoever and then replicate the icon and post the tutorial for the result I got. It can be quite challenging, it's fun and it's always nice to be of any help :)
Other times I look for interesting themes in icontest comms I'm participating in, and try to come up with something for the current challenge.
I totally hadn't considered taking on a technique I hadn't mastered. I think this will have to be one of my go-to things when I get a working computer back.
I sign up for icontests or LIMS to get myself out of a funk. Or I just look through the icons of other makers that inspire me. I like to wander through icon_tutorial or coloring_help for ideas too.
Part of my issue is that I'm the opposite - I get excited to sign-up for things, and then once the themes are posted, I absolutely lack inspiration =/ IDK. Do you have any challenge comms suggestions in which the themes are more often than not inspiring?
I'm not really good at coming up with stuff for inspiration. :/ And honestly, I haven't signed up for anything other than LIMS (mostly involving SPN) lately. I wish there were more comms out there that I could get excited about, but right now I don't think there is.
I usually check out the open challenges at the icontests that I'm part of and try to force myself to enter a few of them. In general, I'm extremely lazy, so I love challenges where images/caps are provided.
I feel like every icon I make relies on repetitive styles and techniques that I rely on too much, like tons of neg space or super bright colors.
try to force myself to enter a few of them This is me generally. Only because whenever I'm 'told' to do something specific, I completely freeze up, and have no inspiration. Obviously, it sucks, especially when there are some amazing challenges to be completed!
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I look at my favourite makers' work and search for some kind of technique/style/coloring I haven't already mastered, and then I try to incorporate new elements in my own style.
Sometimes I go to coloring_help, see if someone needs help with a coloring/whatsoever and then replicate the icon and post the tutorial for the result I got. It can be quite challenging, it's fun and it's always nice to be of any help :)
Other times I look for interesting themes in icontest comms I'm participating in, and try to come up with something for the current challenge.
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I feel like every icon I make relies on repetitive styles and techniques that I rely on too much, like tons of neg space or super bright colors.
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This is me generally. Only because whenever I'm 'told' to do something specific, I completely freeze up, and have no inspiration. Obviously, it sucks, especially when there are some amazing challenges to be completed!
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