24. [multi] technical game for somein30
All the cool kids are doing it! somein30 had such a fun technical round this time around and though I've been out of LJ for most of the month, I've been catching up on everyone's stunning sets. Seriously, mine is nowhere as good but I figured I'd post it already. (After a good four weeks, I'm starting to doubt whether some of these, particularly in the first row, even fit their normal mode prompt, let alone their second theme. Yikes.)
60 icons total, from the following...
tv: The Mandalorian, The West Wing, The Good Place, Cardcaptor Sakura, Bones, Babylon Berlin, This is Us, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Dead to Me, Stumptown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Sex Education
movies: Hamilton, Knives Out
people: Phoebe Bridgers, Allison Janney
"Hard" mode. Sort of. Maybe?
hover for fandom
my throws ft. jsfunction's great board
I would've loved to make 15 (the number of throws with prompts) but I was just... not that inspired or even happy with the first ten (... I am still not). So I focused on trying to make them half decent and make them "hard" mode but they're probably the simplest hard mode icons there are (Seriously. I keep doubting if some actually fit their normal mode, help). The set is the opposite of cohesive (not just because of how the random prompts worked though that didn't help). Part of me was still proud of August's set and wishing I could've been as imaginative, lol.
[throws with the prompts they supposedly bolded have ft. comments]throws with the prompts they supposedly bolded have
1. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #1: Dark
HARD - Cropping #6: Center crop
EXTRA HARD - Composition #7: Text
2. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #9: Blob(s) of light
HARD - Composition #2: Fake background
EXTRA HARD - Textures #6: Borders
3. MAIN - Cropping #10: Focus on top
HARD - Textures #6: Borders
EXTRA HARD - Coloring #10: Unnatural
4. MAIN - Composition #7: Text
HARD - Coloring #2: Vibrant
EXTRA HARD - Contrast/lighting #1: Dark
5. MAIN - Cropping #7: Side crop (hopefully it counts since it's only the guitar out)
HARD - Coloring #8: Pastels (the bg was too dark but I promise it's pastel)
EXTRA HARD - Contrast/lighting #9: Blob(s) of light
6. MAIN - Composition #6: Minimalism (the icon uses its original bg save for the clouds)
HARD - Cropping #5: Subjects from varying distances
EXTRA HARD - Textures #4: Stock (the clouds)
7. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #9: Blob(s) of light
HARD - Cropping #9: Low/bottom crop
EXTRA HARD - Textures #5: Decorative accent (I hesitate to mark it but there is a super faint one)
8. MAIN - Coloring #5: Color explosion (the way I've struggled with this theme...)
HARD - Cropping #3: Close crop
EXTRA HARD - Textures #8: Grunge (again with such vibrant colors it's hard to see but it's there!!)
9. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #3: Low contrast
HARD - Textures #10: Text, tiny text or numbers
EXTRA HARD - Cropping #2: Full body
10. MAIN - Textures #10: Text, tiny text or numbers
HARD - Cropping #9: Low/bottom crop
EXTRA HARD - Coloring #10: Unnatural (the night sky is bright turquoise!)
[the other ten I did not get to]
11. MAIN - Composition #8: Blending (**)
HARD - Cropping #10: Focus on top
EXTRA HARD - Coloring #2: Vibrant
12. MAIN - Textures #7: Frame
HARD - Coloring #4: Duochrome
EXTRA HARD - Composition #7: Text
13. MAIN - Composition #3: Original background
HARD - Coloring #4: Duochrome
EXTRA HARD - Textures #9: Patterned
14. MAIN - Cropping #10: Focus on top
HARD - Coloring #7: Black and white + color
EXTRA HARD - Textures #3: Light
15. MAIN - Composition #1: Negative space
HARD - Cropping #7: Side crop
EXTRA HARD - Contrast/lighting #5: Matte
16. AC
17. AC
18. AC
19. AC
20. AC
Alts/Rejects
An exercise in a thousand variations. Half of these don't even fit any specific prompt but I tried to play around with them. Fun facts: Holt was the color explosion icon for a very long time and took me awhile to get "right" (though I feel I could make it better). I probably like this second Jason better than the other one but closer crop, it kinda was not.
[11-15]
Phoebe Bridgers · This is Us · Hamilton · The West Wing
[16-20]
The West Wing
[21-25]
Allison Janney · The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
[26-30]
The Good Place
[31-35]
Cardcaptor Sakura · Stumptown · Bones
[36-40]
Bones · Brooklyn Nine Nine · Sex Education
movieslims Round 31: The Mandalorian
Gotta love how I predicted I'd be first out. I had an epic track record (ELIM - - WIN/RTN WIN ELIM -) and tbh, it was the most nervewracking experience. Everyone was just so good and I couldn't make anything work and IDK. I think this will prove I still suck at picking what icons I should enter or how I shouldn't have touched them a million timess once they were done. (To be fair... I hadn't made an icon in a long while when I was working on the first round.)
Official Entries (Ch. 1, 4, 5 and 6)
Alts
[45-49]
[50-54]
Bonus: Round 32
Debated long and hard whether I should enter, even going as far as making two icons for it (I truly love Knives Out and was just so happy it was picked!). In the end, I wasn't sure if I would have the time or inspiration. I just didn't want to forget to post them.
tvshowsic: Shows that start with D
[57-60]
Dead to Me x4
*******
*******
2020's icons thus far
July/Aug
May
March
February
January
60 icons total, from the following...
tv: The Mandalorian, The West Wing, The Good Place, Cardcaptor Sakura, Bones, Babylon Berlin, This is Us, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Dead to Me, Stumptown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Sex Education
movies: Hamilton, Knives Out
people: Phoebe Bridgers, Allison Janney
"Hard" mode. Sort of. Maybe?
hover for fandom
my throws ft. jsfunction's great board
I would've loved to make 15 (the number of throws with prompts) but I was just... not that inspired or even happy with the first ten (... I am still not). So I focused on trying to make them half decent and make them "hard" mode but they're probably the simplest hard mode icons there are (Seriously. I keep doubting if some actually fit their normal mode, help). The set is the opposite of cohesive (not just because of how the random prompts worked though that didn't help). Part of me was still proud of August's set and wishing I could've been as imaginative, lol.
[throws with the prompts they supposedly bolded have ft. comments]throws with the prompts they supposedly bolded have
1. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #1: Dark
HARD - Cropping #6: Center crop
EXTRA HARD - Composition #7: Text
2. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #9: Blob(s) of light
HARD - Composition #2: Fake background
EXTRA HARD - Textures #6: Borders
3. MAIN - Cropping #10: Focus on top
HARD - Textures #6: Borders
EXTRA HARD - Coloring #10: Unnatural
4. MAIN - Composition #7: Text
HARD - Coloring #2: Vibrant
EXTRA HARD - Contrast/lighting #1: Dark
5. MAIN - Cropping #7: Side crop (hopefully it counts since it's only the guitar out)
HARD - Coloring #8: Pastels (the bg was too dark but I promise it's pastel)
EXTRA HARD - Contrast/lighting #9: Blob(s) of light
6. MAIN - Composition #6: Minimalism (the icon uses its original bg save for the clouds)
HARD - Cropping #5: Subjects from varying distances
EXTRA HARD - Textures #4: Stock (the clouds)
7. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #9: Blob(s) of light
HARD - Cropping #9: Low/bottom crop
EXTRA HARD - Textures #5: Decorative accent (I hesitate to mark it but there is a super faint one)
8. MAIN - Coloring #5: Color explosion (the way I've struggled with this theme...)
HARD - Cropping #3: Close crop
EXTRA HARD - Textures #8: Grunge (again with such vibrant colors it's hard to see but it's there!!)
9. MAIN - Contrast/lighting #3: Low contrast
HARD - Textures #10: Text, tiny text or numbers
EXTRA HARD - Cropping #2: Full body
10. MAIN - Textures #10: Text, tiny text or numbers
HARD - Cropping #9: Low/bottom crop
EXTRA HARD - Coloring #10: Unnatural (the night sky is bright turquoise!)
[the other ten I did not get to]
11. MAIN - Composition #8: Blending (**)
HARD - Cropping #10: Focus on top
EXTRA HARD - Coloring #2: Vibrant
12. MAIN - Textures #7: Frame
HARD - Coloring #4: Duochrome
EXTRA HARD - Composition #7: Text
13. MAIN - Composition #3: Original background
HARD - Coloring #4: Duochrome
EXTRA HARD - Textures #9: Patterned
14. MAIN - Cropping #10: Focus on top
HARD - Coloring #7: Black and white + color
EXTRA HARD - Textures #3: Light
15. MAIN - Composition #1: Negative space
HARD - Cropping #7: Side crop
EXTRA HARD - Contrast/lighting #5: Matte
16. AC
17. AC
18. AC
19. AC
20. AC
Alts/Rejects
An exercise in a thousand variations. Half of these don't even fit any specific prompt but I tried to play around with them. Fun facts: Holt was the color explosion icon for a very long time and took me awhile to get "right" (though I feel I could make it better). I probably like this second Jason better than the other one but closer crop, it kinda was not.
[11-15]
Phoebe Bridgers · This is Us · Hamilton · The West Wing
[16-20]
The West Wing
[21-25]
Allison Janney · The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
[26-30]
The Good Place
[31-35]
Cardcaptor Sakura · Stumptown · Bones
[36-40]
Bones · Brooklyn Nine Nine · Sex Education
movieslims Round 31: The Mandalorian
Gotta love how I predicted I'd be first out. I had an epic track record (ELIM - - WIN/RTN WIN ELIM -) and tbh, it was the most nervewracking experience. Everyone was just so good and I couldn't make anything work and IDK. I think this will prove I still suck at picking what icons I should enter or how I shouldn't have touched them a million timess once they were done. (To be fair... I hadn't made an icon in a long while when I was working on the first round.)
Official Entries (Ch. 1, 4, 5 and 6)
Alts
[45-49]
[50-54]
Bonus: Round 32
Debated long and hard whether I should enter, even going as far as making two icons for it (I truly love Knives Out and was just so happy it was picked!). In the end, I wasn't sure if I would have the time or inspiration. I just didn't want to forget to post them.
tvshowsic: Shows that start with D
[57-60]
Dead to Me x4
*******
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2020's icons thus far
July/Aug
May
March
February
January