Round 3 // Challenge 12 Results

[shadowserenity]

Thanks so much to everyone who answered my voting call! It was fantastic!

EDIT: Turns out somehow I misread a vote. Sorry, all! That means now the results have changed. No one could separate your icons after all.

ROUND OVER!

Comments

[shadowserenity]

Thank you for participating again! :D I really loved your Deanna icon for this challenge.

There is one positive vote missing, yes. The voter mistakenly forgot to fill out their second favourite vote and didn't correct it in time, but since we needed all the votes we could get, I included their votes anyway.

In the end, 10 people voted :).

Part 1:
#3:
- Fits the task and have great texture spots to ease the scene

Additional:
- I know this was a hard one, and you managed it brilliantly. Love how she’s small, but her expression is still quite clear, and her face is the first thing you’re drawn to, due to the fantastic contrast. Muted coloring maintains the mood of the cap, but I don't feel it lacks color at all.

Part 2:
#3:
- [I don't like the texture too much]
- I really like this icon, but I think it has less emotional impact than the original. The lighter background and showing more of the figures loses the feeling of threat/intimacy in the original.
- [all were great - but I had to pick a second LF. Chosen because texture was a bit akwardly blended with image]
- The strong background texture is appropriate to the subject matter (fiery characters, devil at my shoulder). Good crop/use of negative space.
- from somewhat dark and insecure icon we get bright one, cooler one. Great use of texture and light
- Wonderful reworking of the original! Lovely coloring, composition and background replacement. Clarity and contrast are beautiful and much improved.
- while I very much liked the composition of the original icon, it is nice to see Kira a bit brighter and the background is really beautifully chosen.

Additional:
- Whoa. Your second one here is just awesome. I love the red, the texture, how you brightened up Kira (a problem with your first), just all around a beautiful icon. Not sure what else to say, it’s just gorgeous!

#6:
- Resizing Dukat and making him central in the composition gives the new icon a much more powerful focus on the figure. The use of black and white adds to the starkness of the image.
- Both icons do look wonderful (and I really loved your first one.) But the centered crop in your second icon isn't as dynamic looking when compared to the unique composition your first icon has.

Additional:
- I think there’s something to be said for both the original and the redo here. Interesting color and composition in the first, but I do think the second is more successful, because he pops out more, the focus is more clearly on him than the background. Good contrast. I’m not entirely sure about the light blobs you have, they make the image more unusual but also overshadow him a bit. A small quibble, though.