elise needs feedback!
I'd like your feedback on some schtuff as I continue making icons, etc. Because feedback helps me improve, and improvement is pretty awesome. I've been playing around with using more textures and stuff in my icons, and I want to know what you think.
( some icons i've made in the past few days )
( some icons i've made in the past few days )
The only problem that I have with my old style is that it feels like it's all really similar. Like, for Gilmore Girls, I almost always use the same coloring. When I color icons from a certain show or movie, I usually use very similar colorings for all of the icons from that show/movie in that batch. Like The Notebook icons I just posted? Basically identical coloring for each of them. And I almost never use textures or text. So I feel like I'm sort of... relying on my cropping to make or break the icon. And I don't really know if I'm good enough at cropping to do that, you know?
But at the same time it takes FOREVER to color each icon in a set based on its own particular coloriffic needs. And to add textures, etc. Like those four icons up there? Probably took an average of ten minutes each. That is not conducive to making a lot of icons. But then you have to consider, is it worth the extra time if all of the icons are unique and snazzy and textured up? I don't know.
ANOTHER LONG COMMENT. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO THE APUSH READING.
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Yeah, I get that feeling sometimes. But it ultimately depends on your preference. Don't make super tricked out icons that you know you wouldn't want to use, you know? If you like the icon, chances are someone else will too, and chances are you're better at making icons like that than icons that you don't like. And that sentence didn't really work, but you know what I mean. I assume.
Yeah, I get your point there, bb. When I read that section, I automatically thought of boxed (gorgeous icons, by the by). Her icons are, as previously mentioned, absolutely gorgeous, but she only posts like ten at a time every month or something like that. But each of them is completely unique and what have you.
In my opinion, as long as they aren't exactly. the. same., you're all good. Don't try to fit yourself into a style that you don't like.
OMG, I KNOW. ANYTHING TO NOT WRITE FOR EURO OR DO CHEM OR READ ENGLISH (all in like 15 minutes before Greek), PLEASE GOD.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I dunno. I like my old style, but I get bored with it sometimes (increasingly frequently, to be honest). SO I SHALL COMPROMISE! (And not like the Three-Fifths Compromise, where the slaves got the sucky end of the deal. EVERYONE WILL BE HAPPY. YAY!)
OH RIGHT. GREEK TONIGHT. AND WE DON'T HAVE TIVO INFORMATION. SHIT MONKEYS.
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