Comments | ghanimasun: shitty icon meme

ghanimasun

shitty icon meme

Oct 23, 2011 14:58

Snagged from naushika. Enjoy!

I only started making icons in 2010, so I've not had much time to improve drastically. But I'm doing this anyway because I might be amused by it. Also because I'm putting off actual icon making I should be doing now!
I started making icons in Queer as Folk fandom thanks to insanejournal. I haven't been over there in about a year ( Read more... )

meme, icons

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naushika October 23 2011, 19:07:14 UTC

It took me like 5 years of regular icon making before I started turning icons out that look good more often than bad, as opposed to bad more often than good, lol. But you make some great icons! I have a couple by you that I love the hell out of and have survived a couple different icon purges. <3 I have to admit I lol'd at the trendwhore icon because I wasn't sure at first what was even going on in that, haha.

I think this exercise is good to help remind us of how far we've come which gives us encouragement to keep going! :D

ghanimasun October 23 2011, 19:35:14 UTC

Aw thanks. I seem to be really hit or miss with icons. I randomly come out with a few awesome ones among a sea of medicore-ish ones.

It was fun to do; it was nice to see the bits of improvement I've actually made!

nebari_rebel October 23 2011, 19:49:27 UTC

Your icon is beautiful.

mechers October 23 2011, 19:23:31 UTC

Hahahahahaha.

But have you made any with Paint?

ghanimasun October 23 2011, 19:40:39 UTC

No, I can't say I have.
Though I have made a few with online editing sites, that are... well... paint might have been a better option?

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mechers October 23 2011, 19:43:40 UTC

Paint isn't TERRIBLE...if you have a lot of patience and realistic expectations, haha.

mechers October 23 2011, 19:46:55 UTC

Also when I get back, we should watch QAF concurrently with B5 y/n?

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nebari_rebel October 23 2011, 19:54:32 UTC

I'm LMAO at Severe Texture Abuse...but I usually hate textures...I hate anything that makes an already tiny (to my eyes) image even harder to see. So really heavy textures, levels, some text, some blends...

Thanks for sharing your shitty icons, they made me smile, and I think you do way more than a few awesome ones! I've only been iconning since last year too...my first ones were pretty awful as well. I didn't have the correct aspect ratio for my caps so everyone was squashed. In the dark, because I was afraid to make them too bright.

I'm snurching the Nina and Olivia icons. Will credit :)

ghanimasun October 23 2011, 20:53:57 UTC

Hee. I have a lot of older icons that I went texture crazy on, but I think I've learned how to use them a little better now :)

Your icons are really gorgeous now. Aspect ratio is one thing that drives me nuts when people mess it up in icons, because once you see it, you can't ignore it. But everything I've seen from you has been lovely lately. Glad you liked some of the newer ones I've made!

sayuri_x October 24 2011, 00:43:50 UTC

OMG! I am in love with those fringe icons. They may be my first ones....snurching!

I love your style now. Beautiful icons are many.

I have to do this just to show off some of the truly heinous icons I have made. I'm in the middle of a stupendous iconning block (that sound so pretentious!) and looking back at old ones has made me feel so much better! THANK YOU!

ghanimasun October 24 2011, 01:53:41 UTC

Thank you &hearts

It is somewhat entertaining to look back and see what you've done in the past. It helped me feel better about my most of current icons anyway!