☞ icon critique meme

[thrift]

《ICONCRITMEME》
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♠ reply to this post with your username and/or journal you post your icons at. along with that, post 5-12 icon samples, so everyone can give you some of their thoughts too.

♡ reply to people's ( even people that you aren't familiar with an outsider's perspective is good ) comments with critiques and opinions on their icons.

Comments

[ex_maylene942]

maylene @ postapocalyptic

[januaried]

Nice use of color! I think you should experiment with texture use to make icons a little more interesting though.

[garrus]

Lately I feel like your icons have been a little too muted, or maybe it's an exclusion layer or something, idk. That's more of a personal preference thing, though. But I really like the more radiant coloring in icons 6, 7, and 9~ *__* 9 is especially gorgeous. (who is that? I want to snag that icon sldkjfslf)

[ex_maylene942]

#9 is of becky lou filip~ X3 from the following post:
http://community.livejournal.com/postapocalyptic/5406.html

[ex_maylene942]

you're improving so much! love your three most recent sets. the contrast and coloring choices you made are are nice! my only criticism is for your older, blue-hued icons. some of these icons were absolutely lovely and others seem to be flooded with contrast and color. (like x and x) that style of coloring worked beautifully in these: x x x. the dark tones and the light tones play off of each other perfectly.

just remember that sometimes what coloring looks good with one photograph may not work so well on another. sometimes you can play with the color balance and contrast to make it work, and sometimes you just have to abandon ship and try something else. :)

[puncture]

I always like your icons, but they're never of subjects i'm into? That has nothing to do with your abilty though ;)

Great coloring!

[scrawled]

just a gorgeous blending of bright and delicate. your icons are always so so pretty. I'd love to see what you could do with texture, but your coloring just makes it so interesting.

[ex_maylene942]

I think you're colouring is really good, lately they seem more muted or dark though like someone else said.

[zombieflu]

idc what anyone says, i love your coloring ;;
I think it catches the mood perfectly♥

andandandyour cropping is so pretty

[raleway]

I enjoy the coloring, and exclusion layers are my best friend. I like your cropping (especially in #7, but I'm not overly fond of #11's cropping). You choose interesting images and show them off well. (:

[casiotone]

Wow, your coloring really got me to look twice. 2, 3, 8 and 10 are really strong icons. You do textless very well!

[ridsey]

i like how in most of them, the black is never quite black; it gives a really nice glazed, tied-together look. the only flaw i can discern is with the lips icon & the very blue one, as both are monochromatic and sort of bland.