10 Phoenix. 10 Ouroboros. For these icons, I made myself start over. I scratched my usual process and came up with something that (miraculously) works so much better. However - once that process was hammered out, I limited myself to that specifically. I sought simplicity: black and white images, and the new routine. However - I sought to portray freedom that can be expressed even with severe limitations, through composition and subject matter. Every person is only as wild as their hair - and that's the theme expressed through all of these icons.
Admittedly, I churned out forty icons while working on this project. All of them can be found here.