XL. 20 EXO Icons
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So this round was really interesting! I usually give myself something to stick by for inspiration (typically a color palette) but I felt that wouldn't work so well with this theme. So, the first thing I did was read the prompt, and whatever came to mind, that was what I did (there was a lot of hair pulling because of this since I usually let ideas grow and change during the icon process). It was really fun regardless, though it did make me miss my color palettes ;p click the spoiler for my insane ramblings (I had my wisdom teeth done Monday and let me tell you: when they say you'll be sidelined for a couple days, you're sidelined for a couple days).
[ramblings]
1. Land of Confusion: I interpreted this as chaos, so I just layered textures upon textures until I got to the point of "okay that looks good 👍 "
2. Far from normal: The first thing that cam to mind was a fake landscape and far crops, so I used some "mountain" textures and I found and interesting cap from Lucky One and I was just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3. Freaky Friday: my notes for this one are literally: Rediculous colors (COLOR VOMIT)
4. The Sound of Silence: I decided to go with negative space, soft colors, and a space theme (since you can't hear in space)
5. Outside the Window: my initial notes are "standing outside of some kind of window (looking in?)" so I guess I nailed it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I had a lot of fun making this icon and using arbitrary galaxy textures xp
6. The Golden Years Return: I chose a throwback theme (I threw it way back to 2012 with this one) and used a bunch of gold colors
7. Addiction: I associate beauty as a thing you can get addicted to, plus love (I'm so sorry I made you a love addict Kai) and I also used my go to techniques (false coloring, text)
8. Pretending It's Not Broken: I used a bunch of pieces/caps to complie the background and then I wanted the text to display the idea of "I'm good/not really"
9. Summer Storm: Of course I had to use a lightning texture, and I also though to use summer colors and visuals (there's stormy skies on the left and grass in his shirt)
10. Inner Flame: consumed by flame/inside the flame
11. The Ends of the Earth: earthy (GREEN) tones + "ending" promise, you know the ones in the speeches that occur just before the final battle
12. Blood on the Snow: white/snow with red/blood accents and I made like a little background landscape
13. Celebration of the Ordinary: I used really simple techniques and a simple color palette
14. Behind the Gun: My notes read "james bond spiny gun barrel thing" because I have no idea what to actually call it xp
15. The Unimaginable Touch of Time: I wanted to incorporate "youth" and a vintage feel
16. Arabian Nights: I thought of sand dunes (they're there I promise xp) and rich, vibrant colours
17. You Didn't Learn That in School: I had just been staring at the Love Me Right promos and when I got to this prompts I was like "school uniform!!"
18. Maps: there's a texture of a subway line and I've always wanted to use so when I saw this I was like "yes!!!!"
19. Play on Words: In Japanese, the word for moon is "tsuki" while the word for like/love is "suki" and they virtually sound the same
20. The Rennaisance: the words "the rennaisance" always make me think of bright and golden
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