2011 - Icon progression
I feel like this is the year I really grew into an iconmaker, not just a person making icons (does that make sense?), and figured out what kind of maker I am this year. So I figured this would be the time to do a 2011 progress report. It's kinda fun to see what I've done :) Beware of my usual babbeling and some crappy icons ^^
January
I think one of my problems here is that I was really trying to be better but I hadn't figured out how yet. Notice how the whites are so white and that the icons are either to blurry or to sharp? That's because I didn't know any sharpening tools, so when sharpness happened it was by accident and it didn't look good. And I like some of them, but I can see a 1000 ways to make them better :P
February
Again WHITES. Also the first time I did Downton Abbey <3
March
Only one iconpost this month, I guess I was busy with the Big Bang I posted the next month ^^ I started to experiement with colors.
April
It's starting to look a bit more like me here. And I really like some of these ^^
May
My first marcasite battle! I love those ^^
June
It's funny that most of my icons I love from this month was made for trope_overdosed :D But seriously, that comm did me wonders. I challenged myself this month, and it worked out. I can see problems now of course, but I loved them all in June :) Blue is emerging as my favourite go-to color
Stuff happened with me and my family in July/August that had nothing to do with iconmaking, and I didn't make anything. So lets get on with September!
September
First time I did text and really loved how it turned out :P Some of my own favs are from this month. I've finally really figured out sharpening, and that shows. This is also the month I discovered the color balance tool.
October
My first batch for 20inspirations :) I also kinda re-discovered the beauty of Harry Potter <3 Negative space and single color use.
November
I focused on coloring this month, so it's mostly simple crops and clear colors. I learned that Dead Like Me caps were difficult to work with and that Billie Piper is beautiful whatever she does :)
December
This month my coloring went darker. I don't know why, and I didn't really notice it before I saw it all together like this ^^ But I did mostly Dollhouse and it's a dark show in many ways.
So now it's just to get ready for 2012! I've claimed Stargate SG1 for the January round at 20inspirations, but that's the only thing I have planned ^^
January
I think one of my problems here is that I was really trying to be better but I hadn't figured out how yet. Notice how the whites are so white and that the icons are either to blurry or to sharp? That's because I didn't know any sharpening tools, so when sharpness happened it was by accident and it didn't look good. And I like some of them, but I can see a 1000 ways to make them better :P
February
Again WHITES. Also the first time I did Downton Abbey <3
March
Only one iconpost this month, I guess I was busy with the Big Bang I posted the next month ^^ I started to experiement with colors.
April
It's starting to look a bit more like me here. And I really like some of these ^^
May
My first marcasite battle! I love those ^^
June
It's funny that most of my icons I love from this month was made for trope_overdosed :D But seriously, that comm did me wonders. I challenged myself this month, and it worked out. I can see problems now of course, but I loved them all in June :) Blue is emerging as my favourite go-to color
Stuff happened with me and my family in July/August that had nothing to do with iconmaking, and I didn't make anything. So lets get on with September!
September
First time I did text and really loved how it turned out :P Some of my own favs are from this month. I've finally really figured out sharpening, and that shows. This is also the month I discovered the color balance tool.
October
My first batch for 20inspirations :) I also kinda re-discovered the beauty of Harry Potter <3 Negative space and single color use.
November
I focused on coloring this month, so it's mostly simple crops and clear colors. I learned that Dead Like Me caps were difficult to work with and that Billie Piper is beautiful whatever she does :)
December
This month my coloring went darker. I don't know why, and I didn't really notice it before I saw it all together like this ^^ But I did mostly Dollhouse and it's a dark show in many ways.
So now it's just to get ready for 2012! I've claimed Stargate SG1 for the January round at 20inspirations, but that's the only thing I have planned ^^