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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[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

[jsfunction]

Oh right, this thing! I recall us talking about these types of challenges a long time ago, I just didn't know what it was called. They seem like super difficult challenges, but also really great for us who like using text. I'd assume that that part would be difficult for most makers to get into, makers seem pretty divided about either loving or hating text, but then again those two rounds at DW did seem to get a nice amount of icons in, so why not :) (random but wow I'm delighted to see Finnish lyrics in one of those sets, from a really good song too. I thought for years that me and thyla87 are the only Finns making icons but apparently not!)

[tinnny]

They seem like super difficult challenges, but also really great for us who like using text.

Yes, and yes. :D

but then again those two rounds at DW did seem to get a nice amount of icons in, so why not :)

The second round suffered a bit from people being depressed during lockdown (despite it winning the poll, not many people ended up entering). But the first round resulted in our highest number of icons for an activity *ever*. So, yeah, I was surprised how much people loved it.

I'm delighted to see Finnish lyrics in one of those sets

Yes! There are at least three Finns in Guardian fandom that I know of, but only one of them, extrapenguin, made icons for a while. They since seem to have discovered vidding, I haven't seen them participate in icon challenges lately. But hey, vidders are rare creatures, too. :D