Oh please, have another! (I also have cake. And tea.)
I enjoyed reading your reasoning behind your icons and what you were going for. I do not see that often, it was a nice change.
I did that with my last set as you know, but I forgot to give comlodge in particular and also chasingdemons their props for encouraging me to write about my icons, because I was really hesitant about it. And kwritten's post is great too.
And I love doing it because I get to share the icons, share the process (which I also love reading about, not just the success stories; we learn through our "failures:), and keep my cred as a "meta writer"- three birds, one stone!
there are a few of your icons that I just love other than the three you have submitted.
That was why I basically gave Ryan a link to a folder I created in photobucket with all the icons I made for this challenge and said "you decide". Esp with that set I honestly COULD NOT pick out one I loved more.
I think it turned out to be a good idea though : keep icons for each challenge in their own folders to keep me organized for each one. How/where do you store your icons aside from your LJ?
And thank you for the detailed comments on the icon, it makes me very happy, esp when someone likes ones different than ones I do. I like to know why, and then I see them again through their eyes and sometimes appreciate my own stuff better! (Thoughtful con crit is also welcome, always!)
BTW - you are the third person in this thread who picked out #6 in particular, that's interesting - and nifty! *strokes chin* I'm still surprised so many people have singled it out because, again, I'm not happy with the text on #6, it doesn't feel as integrated into the image as #7, where it looks like it's printed on her shirtcollar, and you can see more of her raw, bloodied knuckles in #7. But then a little less of her face than #6 so - agh, still torn here.
And I'm glad you like 13 because I wasn't sure it worked, I worried it was too dark. But lightening or bumping up saturation didn't improve it IMO.
I also love your Willow (15) icon, like you mentioned I like the contrast of the text of 'fire' to the shower image.
I put that and 16 first because those were the first Willow icons I made for this set and yes, I'm really happy with them too. I was going to go with an image in the "drug house" but this image, I really felt the emotions, felt empathy for her, and that was really important to me. The other thing that I worked hard on with that one was not losing the crispness of the water spray.
There is just something about that scene, the way Buffy is trying to hold in the pain she is hiding when her friends hug her that makes it so powerful, so I can see where you were going with it.
I hesitated about that one because that moment is done so often in icons, and beautifully so. I hated to cut Willow and Xander out but I was trying to "reframe" the moment. I might come back to that one and try again.
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Date: 2014-03-20 03:45 pm (UTC)I enjoyed reading your reasoning behind your icons and what you were going for. I do not see that often, it was a nice change.
I did that with my last set as you know, but I forgot to give
And I love doing it because I get to share the icons, share the process (which I also love reading about, not just the success stories; we learn through our "failures:), and keep my cred as a "meta writer"- three birds, one stone!
there are a few of your icons that I just love other than the three you have submitted.
That was why I basically gave Ryan a link to a folder I created in photobucket with all the icons I made for this challenge and said "you decide". Esp with that set I honestly COULD NOT pick out one I loved more.
I think it turned out to be a good idea though : keep icons for each challenge in their own folders to keep me organized for each one. How/where do you store your icons aside from your LJ?
And thank you for the detailed comments on the icon, it makes me very happy, esp when someone likes ones different than ones I do. I like to know why, and then I see them again through their eyes and sometimes appreciate my own stuff better! (Thoughtful con crit is also welcome, always!)
BTW - you are the third person in this thread who picked out #6 in particular, that's interesting - and nifty! *strokes chin* I'm still surprised so many people have singled it out because, again, I'm not happy with the text on #6, it doesn't feel as integrated into the image as #7, where it looks like it's printed on her shirtcollar, and you can see more of her raw, bloodied knuckles in #7. But then a little less of her face than #6 so - agh, still torn here.
And I'm glad you like 13 because I wasn't sure it worked, I worried it was too dark. But lightening or bumping up saturation didn't improve it IMO.
I also love your Willow (15) icon, like you mentioned I like the contrast of the text of 'fire' to the shower image.
I put that and 16 first because those were the first Willow icons I made for this set and yes, I'm really happy with them too. I was going to go with an image in the "drug house" but this image, I really felt the emotions, felt empathy for her, and that was really important to me. The other thing that I worked hard on with that one was not losing the crispness of the water spray.
There is just something about that scene, the way Buffy is trying to hold in the pain she is hiding when her friends hug her that makes it so powerful, so I can see where you were going with it.
I hesitated about that one because that moment is done so often in icons, and beautifully so. I hated to cut Willow and Xander out but I was trying to "reframe" the moment. I might come back to that one and try again.