The ICON CRIT meme

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Anonymous icon critique meme

Do you ever wonder if there's something that you could improve with your icons, or have you ever wanted to tell someone that there's one thing that they do phenomenally, but you're afraid to leave a comment logged in? Do you just want a no-risk place to get icon concrit from, without the stress

Comments

[raelynae]

Here I go, I'll try to be helpful. I've watched your icons for a long time, (residing as a stalker most of the time ^^;; sorry) and you've definitely improved. You've also moved from style to style. For your own personal enjoyment you could look back at icons and see which ones stand out to you.

Your coloring is unique. It has a dream-like quality, being smooth and typically pastel at the same time. This works great for the series I've so far seen you icon, which is mostly CLAMP (absolutely nothing wrong with that >,<). I guess I would just advise to try out different coloring styles for different moods/genres of series to give different impressions. This should help from keeping things too static for you the colorist, and the viewers.

I love your cropping. You're not afraid to have a character's eyes in a corner of the icon. I also love that you icon some of the less obvious characters, or frames in a manga. That sets your icons apart. Also your icons and eletriarnation's are different, but work well together (does that make sense?) I just thought that you'd like to know that. ^^

Also I'm too lazy to log-out, so I fail at the whole annonyomous part. I hope this helps!

[buddha_loves_me]

You were very helpful, thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment! I really appreciate it.

I've tried different coloring styles from time to time, but I've never quite liked how it turned out and ended up not posting most of the ones I made that were a bit different from my typical coloring style. I'm a slave to conformity, I suppose.

But I'll be sure to keep that in mind. I find that when I try new styles they look too much like someone else's, so I'll try to avoid that but try new things. Thanks so much, again!