20 icons - a full set - for somein30's Random Round

[tinnny]

jsfunction really outdid himself with this round at somein30. We got 20 random things to get inspired by, and omg it was so much fun! I passed on another icon challenge I usually always do, just to make a full set for this one. I hope you like it!

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Comments

[violateraindrop]

The Black Sails icon is soooo pretty! I love the text, the blending, and general composition. Your praise was so specific, but you made a very nice icon out of it. I also really like the painted hair on 13 :D

[tinnny]

Thank you! <3<3<3

That specific praise was so hard! Central negative space, okay, but with a location in the background? Waaah! :D I have about half a dozen rejects for that. (Two of them ended up in my free spaces for historamedy, I'll probably post those tomorrow. Easy to recognize if you know what to look for. :D)

I didn't know what to do with the cap in 13, at all. But it very much asked for hair painting. :D

[naginis]

Oh I love 9 so much! The coloring and textures are so gorgeous! Also love the hair painting in 13 and composition in 18 :)

[tinnny]

Thank you! 9 is one of my own faves, too. I love making things look painted.

I didn't know what to do with the cap in 13, at all. But it very much asked for hair painting. :D

The composition in 18 is something I never would have done if I hadn't been trying to imitate that movie poster. This round was so much fun, making me do things I wouldn't have thought of on my own.

[jsfunction]

What a fantastic set! You're a smart iconmaker so I knew your interpretations were going to be spot on and fun to read. But these are also really great icons

[tinnny]

Thank you! \o/\o/

I love 9 as well. Painted style is one of my fave things, and yellow is my fave color - I used a crop of an Emil Nolde painting for the background, and he always uses the most gorgeous colors.

You got such a weird song title I had no idea how I would have interpreted that.

Oooh, true. Funnily, it was the first icon I made for this set. :D The promo pic of Zhu Yilong in front of all those tv screens just jumped out at me immediately for this theme. (Although there were way fewer screens in the pic than in the icon, so it involved quite a bit of manipping after all...) I'm glad you think the color scheme works!

The composition in 7 is freaking spectacular,

Thank you! <3 I think I was in a good mood that day, this was the first attempt, and it immediately came out like this. It's the only icon in this whole set for which I don't have any alts.

Omg your praise icon is perfect - I wouldn't even have thought of "location" in that wayYes, that stumped me for quite a while! But if the negative space is in the middle, I

[jsfunction]

Those sound like awesome ideas for communities! I'm not sure what a songset round is, but I love everything to do with being inspired by music, so it sounds great. I definitely hear you on not having the time though, it takes so much effort to run these things... one is more than enough for me, I don't know how you deal with three, especially since icontest comms might actually need more modding since there are challenges more often.

[tinnny]

OOoh I should have linked you! A songset is a set of icons that contain the lyrics of a song - consecutively. It's a pretty strict challenge format, but I love it.

challenge post:
https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/45110.html

roundups for both rounds:
https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/31977.html
https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/45420.html

[rosy_nic]

Great set, like the colouring and composition of your set, each one you have done as your prompts have said :)

[tinnny]

Well, that was the idea. :D

Thank you!

[n_iinza]

What an amazing set! I love the complexity and colors of 1. The lighting and colors of 5 is just stunning. I love the blended-in background of 7. The colors of 9 and 10 are so gorgeous and vibrant! I really like the softness of 13. I love the text detail and blurred/faded sides of 20!

[tinnny]

Thank you!

I love the complexity and colors of 1.

I was playing around with textures, and then loved the checkered effect and kept it. It works really well for Sherlock, I thought.

The lighting and colors of 5 is just stunning.

Oh, thanks! You're the first person to mention 5. It was pretty difficult to get right - I only had two caps to choose from, and getting the light and shadow right took some work.

The colors of 9 and 10 are so gorgeous and vibrant!

\o/ I love vibrant colors. 10 took ages to get to work, I almost gave up on it. The original cap already has that two-sided coloring, but bringing that out was harder than I thought. :D

I love the text detail and blurred/faded sides of 20!

Ooh, thank you! I'm glad to hear which details worked. <3