20 multifandom (mostly Guardian) icons for 20muses

[tinnny]

The inspiration post for 20muses this month was incredibly beautiful, with themes taken from classic novels. I tried for hard mode (using the technical theme), but I'm not sure I met the criteria 100% for all of them. But I got close, I think.

Comments

[meridian_rose]

Lovely work as always :)
2 and 8, and the last two of the set are faves, and I think I prefer the alternates overall perhaps I'm more drawn to brighter and/or more contrasting icons :)

[tinnny]

I like 2, as well. It's such a funny selfie, a perfect fit for the Mad Alice in Wonderland theme. I didn't even abstract it much, it just looks funnier in real colors.

8 is unusually grungy for me, but I really like his desperate position curled up on the floor. (angst yay)

I like bright and happy too, but the theme called mostly for miserable, so this set is not my usual deluge of colors. Well, not as much, anyway. The Alice icons are vibrant enough. :D

[violateraindrop]

Great set! I love the composition of 9, 14, 17 (my personal favorite) and 20 (lol) :)

[tinnny]

Thank you!

Oooh, I was so unsure about 17! I'm glad you like it!

(Yeah, 20 still cracks me up. Bad form to laugh at your own icons, but... that whole movie was so funny.)

[violateraindrop]

It's been ages since I watched that movie, but it's so funny. I just checked it's actually on Prime.

[magicrubbish]

I really love your text work , be it 1 , 5 or 20. Great way to jazz up the icon. To make it more complex.
Also the coloring is super lovely. Especially in icons 1, 9 , 10 and 17.

[tinnny]

Thank you!

I usually put text on my icons, it's just the Guardian fandom that has left me so emotional that most of my icons ended up textless. (Also, lots of RL stress.)

But it seems like the text is slowly coming back to me, yay! :D

[jsfunction]

Great work here, I love how much thought you put into text. Thanks for the translations!

17 is probably my favorite here, I really love the text, coloring and lighting. The first two are so fun and perfect for the theme, I especially love the cropping and coloring in both. I love both Wuthering Heights inspired icons, the colors are so beautiful, great text work in 9 and the gritty texture use works so well in 8. 13 and 14 have wonderfully creative compositions, and I really love how shiny the text in 20 looks, it looks great against the matte blue background!

[tinnny]

Thank you! <3

Oh yeah, the hazards of cdrama fandom. Nobody speaks Chinese. *g* All the text inspiration has only just come back to me, it feels like I've been making nothing but textless icons in the last half year. I am happy it's changing again.

Thanks for picking 17. It was one of the first ones I made, and as usual, once the end of the set rolls around, the first ones start looking bad. :) That scene is one of my faves, though, and I still like doing that monochrome half-visible background a lot.

I should do more gritty textures. I've seen so many good icons that are gritty *and* pastel in other people's sets this challenge, I didn't think it would work this well. But it totally does. I should try that more.

Thank you for 13 and 14, I have seen 13 around, some people seem to like it enough to use it (and I'm so flattered).

I looked into text tutorials by chance last month, and lighting on text was one of the things that stood out to me, so I decided to try it again. There are a lot of things I can still experiment with, yay!