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Dec 23, 2013 22:43







Last few icons for the end of the year. Also, a quick icon progression for 2013.
Avengers, Doctor Who, Fables, Game of Thrones, Elementary, The Vampire Diaries




























→ icon progression: 2013 ←

Unfortunately, though I do make icons consistently, my posting is anything but. So I'll be clumping my progress over the past year in monthly groups, in order to make everything easier to understand.

January/February





Looking back, most of the icons I made at the beginning of last year seem horrifyingly terrible to me. They're generally poorly colored and often strangely sharpened. Nonetheless, there were some that I consider vaguely successful. At this point, I was experimenting with some more complex compositional techniques and cropping. My most successful icons were closer crops, and had natural coloring. I still needed to work on more powerful coloring and cropping.

March





My sharpening sensibility improved greatly in this month, and I pushed myself to attempt bolder colorings and croppings. All in all, a great improvement, though still in need of much improvement. I did make one of my favorite icons ever during this month - the Dean LARPing icon. It's so bright and crisp, and it makes me happy every time I see it.

April





Ah, the text round at 20inspirations. It was an enormously challenging round for me, and I produced some of my best icons during this month. Aside from going all out on composition, I decided to make a rainbow as well. It was a good month. I think my coloring improved, as well as my compositional skills. It was certainly a high point for me.

May





Lots of things happened this month, the biggest being that I decided to move to this new comm, seeing as villeggiatura seemed cluttered with old, bad icons, and I wanted a fresh start. I feel that, during this month, I kept pushing myself to try new things, but ended up with more failures than good icons. I also made A LOT of icons. The battle I had with talipuu was my high point of the month, and the feedback I received from that made me feel wonderful.

June/July/August





I made few icons during the summer, and even fewer posts. I tried to stay inspired and working, but it was hard. So I did small challenges here and there. Still working on cropping and coloring, and sometimes composition. Generally improving, but slowly.

September





After defaulting on a summer round of 20insp, this was the first I'd finished in a while. I worked really hard to push myself on composition and coloring. Though it wasn't my best month overall, I think I produced solid work.

October





Despite really struggling with rl issues and feelings of inadequacy, I tried to motivate myself this month by participating in a round at movieslims and a hair!porn icon battle with raiindust and quite a few others. Overall, my colorings became brighter and more vivid, and I thnk my icons were stronger. It was a tough month in general.

November/December
I've been making very few icons these past few months, and the group above constitutes everything that I've done lately. I would really like to make more and push myself, but unfortunately, I haven't been inspired in a while. I'm hoping that, with a small break, my creativity will refresh itself. Until then, I'll just stare at all the amazing inspiration posts longingly.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been here for me over the past year! Your kind words have never failed to inspire me and push me to try new things. I hope that in 2014 I can continue to challenge myself, and find ways to amaze you all and myself, too.

movie: the avengers, -year end progression, tv: doctor who, -icons, tv: game of thrones, tv: elementary, tv: the vampire diaries, art: fables

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