08. [multi] October!
October proved to be a busy month at work but I vowed to, at the very least, make icons for some of those biweekly challenges. I'd have liked to make a bigger set but I still feel rusty and inspiration has come and gone. (Thanks, current assignation at work/project that is finally ending but will still give me some headaches for the remainder of the year.)
Here's hoping things become a bit more relaxed and I can participate in something bigger. Soon we'll start with the best icon of the year stuff and that should be fun!
Includes: TWW (9), Bones (5), The Good Place (5), Madam Secretary (4), Sisters (3), Parks and Rec(2), Cardcaptor Sakura (2), House (2), Looking for Alaska (2), various x1 (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, La Casa de Papel, Jane the Virgin, This is Us, Fantastic Beasts, Taylor Swift, Chicago, Chicago Fire, Harry Potter, Borgen, The Help). Hover if you wanna know which one is which! :)
itsabattlefield
Big Battle 10: Close vs. Far
[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-16]
[note]I clearly wanted cohesion in colors, even if it doesn't always work. I was on a soft pink/purple/blues (?) kick. Or when half of them were like this, I just decided to play with the others so they fit in the theme. IDK. I can be super weird like that. The first two alts were in at some point; third one was kind of an alt for the quick battle with the "orange" theme but I also had it as a far icon here. And the last one was another attempt at using that cap, haha.
Quick Battles
Throwback · Provided Screencap (ChiFire)
[17-18]
Alts (for Throwback, x3)
[19-21]
[quick notes/rambling]
Throwback: I went with that TWW scene because D/J were one of the classic Will they/won't they couples of the early to mid aughts, which is around the timeframe of the theme. I also felt inspired by the cap! It is odd because, as much as I like them, that doesn't happen often. Yet I like how the icons I make of the two of them usually turn out.
The other two choices are obvious: HP has always been big but I feel it was huge when the movies were coming out. House was definitely popular while it was on, as well, at least to most tv viewers.
elitesimplicity
Original Background
[22-24]
[25-28]
[note]Loved this theme! Because you have to play with the original background and not make it disappear so easily, which is something I do from time to time. I straight up kept it in 22 and 24 but I added a bunch of textures and coloring to 23 to make Donna stand out.
I love the last two (27, 28) but I felt like they could be seen as more of fake background (the walls of the Diner are/were really that color!). I'm also just realizing that they were probably made as I was preparing the Big Battle from above, but I decided against using them because I felt they weren't close or far enough. I probably considered repurposing one here, since I was finishing both sets at around the same time, but didn't. I'm too lazy to move them up and don't wanna change the numbers again. So they'll stay here.
Symbolic
[29-31]
[symbols]This was a really fun theme that gave me so many ideas I couldn't realize. Mostly because I started making icons hours? a day? before it ended... but it was great fun.
As for the symbols represented here.
Alaska Young and her blue nail polish (and cigarette).
Jason Mendoza and his beloved Jacksonville Jaguars (and Florida). I was so, so lucky to find that JJ logo with both the Jaguar and Florida.
Temperance Brennan and her Jeffersonian jumpsuit.
[32-34]
[symbols for the alts]CJ Cregg and her lectern/podium, very representative of her Press Sec position. Alaska again, trying out a different coloring so it wasn't as pale.
tvshowsic
Blue
[35-38]
[39-40]
[thoughts on this]My thing with blue in here was that I wanted every icon to have its own distinctive shade of blue. I mean, the shade of blue I like most probably changes with my mood, which might be odd. I also played around with them until I was happy enough with them. Only thing I knew was -- the Leslie eating a waffle moment had to be one of them. Iirc the TGP moment had happened recently and it was just a fun cap to play with. It was silly, haha.
Incredibly enough, most of my other icons are for a self-issued challenge, wherein I chose an old character20n20 round I didn't participate in and started to make icons for it. I'm somewhat proud of some icons that have come out of it but I'd say half are from November... so I'm gonna hold off on that until it's finished. (Or at least, the 10 themes half is done.)
BUT I do have a couple of random icons that I'll probably end up tweaking or remaking in the future, especially the first two. I mean, most of these will look familiar because are just slight variations on previous icons, especially 43 (where I retouched many things that aren't that noticeable but the bg is pretty similar, so... it looks like it's the same. But I like it more now so there's that.).
[41-45]
Previous icon posts from this year :)
September
April/May
March
February
January
Here's hoping things become a bit more relaxed and I can participate in something bigger. Soon we'll start with the best icon of the year stuff and that should be fun!
Includes: TWW (9), Bones (5), The Good Place (5), Madam Secretary (4), Sisters (3), Parks and Rec(2), Cardcaptor Sakura (2), House (2), Looking for Alaska (2), various x1 (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, La Casa de Papel, Jane the Virgin, This is Us, Fantastic Beasts, Taylor Swift, Chicago, Chicago Fire, Harry Potter, Borgen, The Help). Hover if you wanna know which one is which! :)
itsabattlefield
Big Battle 10: Close vs. Far
[1-5]
[6-10]
[11-16]
[note]I clearly wanted cohesion in colors, even if it doesn't always work. I was on a soft pink/purple/blues (?) kick. Or when half of them were like this, I just decided to play with the others so they fit in the theme. IDK. I can be super weird like that. The first two alts were in at some point; third one was kind of an alt for the quick battle with the "orange" theme but I also had it as a far icon here. And the last one was another attempt at using that cap, haha.
Quick Battles
Throwback · Provided Screencap (ChiFire)
[17-18]
Alts (for Throwback, x3)
[19-21]
[quick notes/rambling]
Throwback: I went with that TWW scene because D/J were one of the classic Will they/won't they couples of the early to mid aughts, which is around the timeframe of the theme. I also felt inspired by the cap! It is odd because, as much as I like them, that doesn't happen often. Yet I like how the icons I make of the two of them usually turn out.
The other two choices are obvious: HP has always been big but I feel it was huge when the movies were coming out. House was definitely popular while it was on, as well, at least to most tv viewers.
elitesimplicity
Original Background
[22-24]
[25-28]
[note]Loved this theme! Because you have to play with the original background and not make it disappear so easily, which is something I do from time to time. I straight up kept it in 22 and 24 but I added a bunch of textures and coloring to 23 to make Donna stand out.
I love the last two (27, 28) but I felt like they could be seen as more of fake background (the walls of the Diner are/were really that color!). I'm also just realizing that they were probably made as I was preparing the Big Battle from above, but I decided against using them because I felt they weren't close or far enough. I probably considered repurposing one here, since I was finishing both sets at around the same time, but didn't. I'm too lazy to move them up and don't wanna change the numbers again. So they'll stay here.
Symbolic
[29-31]
[symbols]This was a really fun theme that gave me so many ideas I couldn't realize. Mostly because I started making icons hours? a day? before it ended... but it was great fun.
As for the symbols represented here.
Alaska Young and her blue nail polish (and cigarette).
Jason Mendoza and his beloved Jacksonville Jaguars (and Florida). I was so, so lucky to find that JJ logo with both the Jaguar and Florida.
Temperance Brennan and her Jeffersonian jumpsuit.
[32-34]
[symbols for the alts]CJ Cregg and her lectern/podium, very representative of her Press Sec position. Alaska again, trying out a different coloring so it wasn't as pale.
tvshowsic
Blue
[35-38]
[39-40]
[thoughts on this]My thing with blue in here was that I wanted every icon to have its own distinctive shade of blue. I mean, the shade of blue I like most probably changes with my mood, which might be odd. I also played around with them until I was happy enough with them. Only thing I knew was -- the Leslie eating a waffle moment had to be one of them. Iirc the TGP moment had happened recently and it was just a fun cap to play with. It was silly, haha.
Incredibly enough, most of my other icons are for a self-issued challenge, wherein I chose an old character20n20 round I didn't participate in and started to make icons for it. I'm somewhat proud of some icons that have come out of it but I'd say half are from November... so I'm gonna hold off on that until it's finished. (Or at least, the 10 themes half is done.)
BUT I do have a couple of random icons that I'll probably end up tweaking or remaking in the future, especially the first two. I mean, most of these will look familiar because are just slight variations on previous icons, especially 43 (where I retouched many things that aren't that noticeable but the bg is pretty similar, so... it looks like it's the same. But I like it more now so there's that.).
[41-45]
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Previous icon posts from this year :)
September
April/May
March
February
January