Just a little showcase of everything that is magnificent about your work: your compositions (blocking, blending, you name it, you can do it!), amazing use of black and white, flawless contrast, flawless use of shadows and highlights, gorgeous interesting unique text work and beautiful close crops, and of course insanely interesting texture work. You can do it all, and in spectacular fashion. So the following concrit, not that great or spectacular because being nit-picky enough was harder than writing the actual concrit.
Concrit Basically, I've come down to one slight crux with your style: your text work. More specifically, the fact that while your block, bold font choices always look spectacular, the cursive fonts look slightly less spectacular. See, very slight indeed.
Where font choice may not work as well (to me) is if it is by itself on the icon without a separate, contrasting font (that generally takes up 50% of the text) or when the font is skinny and has less depth, which I think makes it sort of clash against your really bold, strong, contrasry icons, because it becomes a little too lost in everything else that is going on in the icon, and can't stand out of its own accord because it isn't strong enough (example 01, example 02 and example 03).
That's not to say cursive font and you never work (example 1 | example 2 | example 3) because where you generally succeed with font choice is the combination of text use, and the strong bold quality of the text itself, even if it is cursive format. It's more that your text tends to make more of an impact when you utilise block fonts, like you have in the examples above. Or when you have more minimalism on your side (example 3 from this comment) and the font is more of a focal point rather than colour, composition or texture use impacting on the icon as well.
The worst thing about this observation is that cursive fonts + boldness don't necessarily go hand in hand easily. Also, cursive fonts (of the Calligraphy style) seem generally useless for small, 100x100 boxes of love. However I love font looking, so some possible font suggestions that may fit the cursive but bold and still flowy style: Lauren Script, I'm Fashionista, Last King Quest, Hanshand, Aerofoil, Callie Hand, Bluelmin Sandsfort, Follow Your Dreams & Juliet. There are also some slanted font styles as well because I think that sort of cursive font with more of a slant suits your overall icon style wonderfully. Basically this happened because you probably have every font guide ever saved so I thought it would be useless referring you to them, so font-spiration instead?
And that is honestly it. The one slight suggestion I have. I hope it helped?
AAAAAAAH, JESS! Your concrit is the best concrit, to be honest. I've missed it. Thank you so much, lovely! For the nit picking, the font recs (I looooove those), and the praise. You are an absolute gem! ♥
Just a little showcase of everything that is magnificent about your work: your compositions (blocking, blending, you name it, you can do it!), amazing use of black and white, flawless contrast, flawless use of shadows and highlights, gorgeous interesting unique text work and beautiful close crops, and of course insanely interesting texture work. You can do it all, and in spectacular fashion. So the following concrit, not that great or spectacular because being nit-picky enough was harder than writing the actual concrit.
Concrit
Basically, I've come down to one slight crux with your style: your text work. More specifically, the fact that while your block, bold font choices always look spectacular, the cursive fonts look slightly less spectacular. See, very slight indeed.
Where font choice may not work as well (to me) is if it is by itself on the icon without a separate, contrasting font (that generally takes up 50% of the text) or when the font is skinny and has less depth, which I think makes it sort of clash against your really bold, strong, contrasry icons, because it becomes a little too lost in everything else that is going on in the icon, and can't stand out of its own accord because it isn't strong enough (example 01, example 02 and example 03).
That's not to say cursive font and you never work (example 1 | example 2 | example 3) because where you generally succeed with font choice is the combination of text use, and the strong bold quality of the text itself, even if it is cursive format. It's more that your text tends to make more of an impact when you utilise block fonts, like you have in the examples above. Or when you have more minimalism on your side (example 3 from this comment) and the font is more of a focal point rather than colour, composition or texture use impacting on the icon as well.
The worst thing about this observation is that cursive fonts + boldness don't necessarily go hand in hand easily. Also, cursive fonts (of the Calligraphy style) seem generally useless for small, 100x100 boxes of love. However I love font looking, so some possible font suggestions that may fit the cursive but bold and still flowy style: Lauren Script, I'm Fashionista, Last King Quest, Hanshand, Aerofoil, Callie Hand, Bluelmin Sandsfort, Follow Your Dreams & Juliet. There are also some slanted font styles as well because I think that sort of cursive font with more of a slant suits your overall icon style wonderfully. Basically this happened because you probably have every font guide ever saved so I thought it would be useless referring you to them, so font-spiration instead?
And that is honestly it. The one slight suggestion I have. I hope it helped?
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