16 Lost Tomb Reboot icons for somein30's May round
As usual, jsfunction came up with a very interesting challenge format for this last month's round at somein30: you had to define axes in a number of dimensions (1, 2, or even more), and fill the resulting line/matrix with icons. I chose tough ones that forced me to make clean and muted icons, which was really challenging - but a lot of fun! tinebrella had the brilliant idea
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Really like how it turned out, the neg space axis is really interesting!
My favs are: 1 (great composition and coloring!), 10 (love the subtle text and the soft tones), 13 (this is my fav of favs, perfect muted coloring and neg space!), alt2 (wow, the crop is perfect and the b/w is gorgeous, amazing contrast!).
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Yes I did! I couldn't decide on fewer than three. :DD It was a great idea that I wouldn't have thought of.
Really like how it turned out, the neg space axis is really interesting!
Thank you! <3 I ended up also going from far crop to close crop (mostly). I'm sure I could have done that differently, but I just thought the set would look more balanced if the crops also went in one direction. :)
1 (great composition and coloring!), 10 (love the subtle text and the soft tones)
Heee! Those are the first and last icons I did for the set, respectively. :D
13 (this is my fav of favs, perfect muted coloring and neg space!)
Wooot! I always had to be extra careful not to make them all too vibrant. Choosing vibrance as an axis was really hard for me.
alt2 (wow, the crop is perfect and the b/w is gorgeous, amazing contrast!).
Oooh, thank you for picking that one! I only didn't put it into the set because it overpowered it.
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I fiddled with the last one for so long! (Which is why I have three alts for that spot...) But in the end it clicked after all. :D
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I love how cohesive it looks. The effects of 2 and 4 look really good. The text placement in 1, 5 and is perfect! The crops for the second column are my faves. I also really like how you made the b/w icons, they still have great contrast, especially 16!
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I love how cohesive it looks.
I tried so hard to make that set cohesive, because I considered that to be part of the challenge to line up the icons on the gradient perfectly. (I don't think I quite managed. :D But it's already way more cohesive than my usual sets.)
The crops for the second column are my faves.
Mine, too! :D They're my standard go-to crops. The others were all much harder for me.
I also really like how you made the b/w icons, they still have great contrast, especially 16!
Thank you so much! b/w is something I rarely if ever do, and I specifically chose vibrance as a gradient to challenge myself. I am so happy to hear that they came out well! (16 fought me so hard, omg.)
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Hehee, I would never have thought of that on my own. It was all tinebrella's brilliant idea.
Your clean and B&W set is so good!
Oh my those were such a challenge! I mean, I chose the gradient like that on purpose to make myself work for it. But oh my, clean *and* b/w, it was so hard! :D
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Hee, yeah, I guess I'm contrary like that. When you said it wasn't possible, I immediately tried to make it work, and when I had it, I made a test post with the table style to see if it would come out on LJ as well. Which it did, but there's really no way to tell if it will work for everyone, since you have so many ways to style your journal.
Also, I didn't quite succeed in what I wanted to do. I wanted to have a border on one side of the axis, or even an arrow, but I didn't manage that. So I used a gradient instead to indicate the direction.
What I did is this:
x-axis: style="background: repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, white 0%, grey 100%);
y-axis: style="writing-mode: vertical-rl; vertical-align: center; background: repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, white 0%, grey 100%);
the first two columns for the y-axes ( ... )
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OOoh, that hadn't occurred to me. I probably just thought I'd start with my favorite thing = vibrant + textured. Which of course meant that I had an incredibly hard time with the opposite side. :DD But then I think making b/w look good with a lot of textures would have been harder, since b/w depends on contrast a lot.
Your versatility shows really well here cause I look at the grid and I like icons pretty evenly from all parts of the grid.
Thank you! <3 It was such hard work! I really tried to make the gradients look good - which is also why I absolutely wanted a 4x4 grid, because it would have been "too easy" otherwise. ;D
In the textured, vibrant top row I'm especially into 2 [...] and 1Thank you! They're two of my personal faves, too. (although I can't really say I hate any of the icons in this set. I worked ( ... )
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