It was the best of icons, it was the worst of icons
I was called out by casett for failing to choose my least and most fave icons that I made during 2010 after I sort of badgered her to choose her faves...and she's right. So here are my picks:
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As I was looking at the icons & talking about them, I realized that I haven't actually changed my relationship with illustrations from when I was a kid. I could read at a very early age but I didn't read books; I looked at their illustrations and made up my own stories. It wasn't until I got an age where picture books didn't exist that I figured out the printed story could be just as fascinating.
The story I'm telling in the icon is influenced by the story on the screen to be sure -- I'm hoping to capture a bit of the on-screen story in the icon -- but I'm still making up stories as I make icons. I think this explains my difficulty in going abstract; it's hard for me to communicate anything about my story that way.
My eye and my imagination is attracted to pretty coloring, which for me is vibrant, and to a sufficiently complex image that I could make up a whole story about it. My icons might be simple (all those head shots I like) but the coloring is pretty, they "feel" 3D due to contrast, and they come from my more favorite moments for the character.
I had this revelation about how important coloring is to me - I'll take a pretty coloring, boring crop icon over an interesting crop, crappy coloring icon ANY day -- but it was 1 a.m. and that sort of meta-thought didn't have a place in the post I envisioned.
The SWAK icon was originally the second one in my MF line. I love that icon. I replaced it with Vader because I thought Vader stood out in my MFs as a very different reason for liking it. SWAK had the composition, the coloring, the clarity I like and the added surprise of turning out much better than it had any right to. It took me utterly by surprise when I finished it. Wasn't at all what I thought I'd do when I started.
Thanks for "making" me do this. I always learn something new about myself and my icons when I talk about it.
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