28. [multi] icon remakes for bestof_icons
Wait, am I posting an update before the end of the month!? Wow. I don't know if I'll have the time to make any more icons this year and, if I do, I'll probably add whatever remakes they likely are to this post.
bestof_icons is back this year and I couldn't be more excited. The remakes activity is so much fun (and god, I still have to pick other people's icons!) and this year was no different - even if I really liked most of the icons that got picked and I found it difficult to find a new spin. That's the fun of it, isn't it?
You be the judge of how they turned out. I like a couple of them quite a bit! They're not the best, I'm telling you that for free. They're… fine?
[fandoms]Includes…
TV: La Casa de Papel, The West Wing, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, Bones [19]
Movies: Enola Holmes, Dunkirk [4]
People: Taylor Swift [3]
Others: Stock images [8]
Remakes with "brief" explanations of intention (thread here, with probably more rambling)
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[ramblings]Enola was one of the most recent icons I've made (from November!) and one of the first I made after that month-and-three-quarters hiatus. I liked the vision in the original a lot; the frame reminds me of the time period and I liked it was all salmon-ish tones (there are also a few flower textures in there. So this remake was a closer crop slightly more focused on lighting and coloring. Do I love it? No. I think it's okay but I don't really have a better idea.
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[ramblings]This is one where I could see things to change in the original - that coloring is cold and the lighting looks off and the background… yikes. I kept it simple and though my intention was to have a closer crop, I took it even further out because the hug is lovely as it is. Maybe the maroon background wasn't the best pick but when I made it, I kinda wanted it to be similar to the jumpsuits. I think the warmer coloring and the new lighting suit the icon better. I made an alt with a grunge texture to keep that from the original.
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[ramblings]Aw, I liked this Amy icon. This was for the fandom10in30 Mystery Box challenge @ DW and the texture was one of my items. I liked the orange on lighter orange combo and how Amy looks… but I immediately knew I wanted to have a blue background for complementary color reasons. I like it now but it's lacking something. Haven't found yet what.
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[ramblings]The original icon took me a while to figure out and it was the same with these - finding the background was hard. The original's prompt for the technical game were close up and color explosion, so this is muted and farther away… sort of. I don't love it but the colorful texture I found in the eleventh hour works well? It's a contrast I dig. At least now we can see his froyo and his expression, which is priceless.
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[ramblings]The original icon, from the TV Tropes set in March, is one of my favorites of that batch if only of the almost douchrome aspect + how well that frame works. (I was into frames in February-March, oops.) The new one reminds me of the frames I'd use in 2008-2011 (aka my past LJ life) because of how I played with the background. Fun fact: the song playing during this scene is "Bang Bang" so yeah, the texture had to be there. Overall, I think it still fits its trope (it was The Big Kiss, after all) and has the same spirit as the old one (Josh and Donna in some sort of frame that happened unexpectedly).
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[ramblings]I simply love the simplicity of the original. I really do. The coloring is just pretty. The new ones are just… bad. Nothing I did would top that one. I liked the wave png I found on google (and copied a few times into the icon) but it came off too greenish in most passes. I don't love the cartoonish background vs. the subject all that much.
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[really long ramblings]I adore the original and it's possible most of that love is subjective… but I realy do love it. These icons are special because thye are remakes of a remake! As I might've mentioned in its original post (the Remakes batch from August), it was the last one I made for those because I had an idea rattling around on my brain but I couldn't put it to paper Photoshop. Maybe the background could've/should've been another color (I think it was this color to keep with my gold streak then) so I solved that in the alts below but figuring out how to remake it? Gah. Took me another day of playing around with the canvas and positions because I ended up with something close to the original every time; this one still gives off a similar vibe while being "different" enough. What started to get it there: making C.J. black and white(-ish) with a dark grey/white gradient. What probably got it fully there: this texture by fuuurs that's in the inspo post for this somein30 round. I just realized that I dug the vibe a darker palette was giving off and I kept it going through the vibrant yet 'darker' shades of the alts. (Also that texture looked great with the original in the indigo bg.)
tl;dr: it was all about vibes. I kinda really like this one even if its composition went nowhere like I thought it would (hint: closer to blocks than this). Also wtf, why don't I have as much to say about the others?
ALTS
Unlike what I did in the actual remake thread, I only picked two versions of what I did, since that seemed to be the average. Here are some extras, including some fun tweaking on one of the original icons. (I really love that icon. Have I said that recently?)
OTHERS
I started the year with stock icons so I decided to make a couple to bring it full circle. I also added an alt from the September post that I forgot. (It wasn't until I saw one of my fave tumblrs using the more intense green version that I saw I didn't have a textless version of this softer coloring, which I prefer.) Stock images are from unsplashed.
Bones · Taylor Swift
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stock
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2020's icons
November
September
July/Aug
May
March
February
January
bestof_icons is back this year and I couldn't be more excited. The remakes activity is so much fun (and god, I still have to pick other people's icons!) and this year was no different - even if I really liked most of the icons that got picked and I found it difficult to find a new spin. That's the fun of it, isn't it?
You be the judge of how they turned out. I like a couple of them quite a bit! They're not the best, I'm telling you that for free. They're… fine?
[fandoms]Includes…
TV: La Casa de Papel, The West Wing, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, Bones [19]
Movies: Enola Holmes, Dunkirk [4]
People: Taylor Swift [3]
Others: Stock images [8]
Remakes with "brief" explanations of intention (thread here, with probably more rambling)
-->
[ramblings]Enola was one of the most recent icons I've made (from November!) and one of the first I made after that month-and-three-quarters hiatus. I liked the vision in the original a lot; the frame reminds me of the time period and I liked it was all salmon-ish tones (there are also a few flower textures in there. So this remake was a closer crop slightly more focused on lighting and coloring. Do I love it? No. I think it's okay but I don't really have a better idea.
-->
[ramblings]This is one where I could see things to change in the original - that coloring is cold and the lighting looks off and the background… yikes. I kept it simple and though my intention was to have a closer crop, I took it even further out because the hug is lovely as it is. Maybe the maroon background wasn't the best pick but when I made it, I kinda wanted it to be similar to the jumpsuits. I think the warmer coloring and the new lighting suit the icon better. I made an alt with a grunge texture to keep that from the original.
-->
[ramblings]Aw, I liked this Amy icon. This was for the fandom10in30 Mystery Box challenge @ DW and the texture was one of my items. I liked the orange on lighter orange combo and how Amy looks… but I immediately knew I wanted to have a blue background for complementary color reasons. I like it now but it's lacking something. Haven't found yet what.
-->
[ramblings]The original icon took me a while to figure out and it was the same with these - finding the background was hard. The original's prompt for the technical game were close up and color explosion, so this is muted and farther away… sort of. I don't love it but the colorful texture I found in the eleventh hour works well? It's a contrast I dig. At least now we can see his froyo and his expression, which is priceless.
-->
[ramblings]The original icon, from the TV Tropes set in March, is one of my favorites of that batch if only of the almost douchrome aspect + how well that frame works. (I was into frames in February-March, oops.) The new one reminds me of the frames I'd use in 2008-2011 (aka my past LJ life) because of how I played with the background. Fun fact: the song playing during this scene is "Bang Bang" so yeah, the texture had to be there. Overall, I think it still fits its trope (it was The Big Kiss, after all) and has the same spirit as the old one (Josh and Donna in some sort of frame that happened unexpectedly).
-->
[ramblings]I simply love the simplicity of the original. I really do. The coloring is just pretty. The new ones are just… bad. Nothing I did would top that one. I liked the wave png I found on google (and copied a few times into the icon) but it came off too greenish in most passes. I don't love the cartoonish background vs. the subject all that much.
-->
[really long ramblings]I adore the original and it's possible most of that love is subjective… but I realy do love it. These icons are special because thye are remakes of a remake! As I might've mentioned in its original post (the Remakes batch from August), it was the last one I made for those because I had an idea rattling around on my brain but I couldn't put it to paper Photoshop. Maybe the background could've/should've been another color (I think it was this color to keep with my gold streak then) so I solved that in the alts below but figuring out how to remake it? Gah. Took me another day of playing around with the canvas and positions because I ended up with something close to the original every time; this one still gives off a similar vibe while being "different" enough. What started to get it there: making C.J. black and white(-ish) with a dark grey/white gradient. What probably got it fully there: this texture by fuuurs that's in the inspo post for this somein30 round. I just realized that I dug the vibe a darker palette was giving off and I kept it going through the vibrant yet 'darker' shades of the alts. (Also that texture looked great with the original in the indigo bg.)
tl;dr: it was all about vibes. I kinda really like this one even if its composition went nowhere like I thought it would (hint: closer to blocks than this). Also wtf, why don't I have as much to say about the others?
ALTS
Unlike what I did in the actual remake thread, I only picked two versions of what I did, since that seemed to be the average. Here are some extras, including some fun tweaking on one of the original icons. (I really love that icon. Have I said that recently?)
OTHERS
I started the year with stock icons so I decided to make a couple to bring it full circle. I also added an alt from the September post that I forgot. (It wasn't until I saw one of my fave tumblrs using the more intense green version that I saw I didn't have a textless version of this softer coloring, which I prefer.) Stock images are from unsplashed.
Bones · Taylor Swift
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stock
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2020's icons
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May
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February
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