She's Come Undone (pt 3): Oh so THAT'S why I'm freaking out...

[red_satin_doll]

bangel_4e very kindly extended Round 1 of btvsats20in20 from June 4th to June 7th (midnight our time respective time zones).

Thank goodness, because I need 20 icons....I have about 69. Not counting the 40 or so I already deleted or moved to another folder. I completely scrapped the blending ones I did yesterday due to extreme suckage (and not the fun kind either.) My "smile" icon also sucks goose eggs and needs to be scrapped. In fact, I suddenly loathe a whole bunch of them because all I can see is the flaws. I know this because I've been staring at them - too long. And too closely.  (I'm pretty sure staring at the icons with my eyeball about an inch or two away from this little screen would explain my headache. Or it could be martians changing the radio frequency, but whateve.)But my ladylove took the wireless keyboard to work and left me with her older, slower "hey honey I don't think you've got enough files crammed on this thing" laptop instead. Which is slower and harder on my eyes, and doesn't allow me the same control that I'm used to in terms of the "mousepad" vs the mouse. (I can see why some people get those stylus pads that allow them to "draw".) And she's got it set up so the menu bar at the top plays "peek a boo" with me.

In fact, PB won't even show the image when I try to crop it. It won't let me do much of anything today. But I don't know if it's PB or if it's the laptop....*le sigh*

Sure, take away my french easel and my 100% Kolinsky sable hair size 1 brush with a brass ferrule and leave me with a used card table and the cheapest brush in the craft store. Take away my Corvette and leave me with a Datsun. Then take away the Datsun and leave me with a horse-drawn wagon - and then take away the darn horses. Eh, thanks anyway, I'll walk instead.

Also, I haven't kept up with any other icontest challenges currently, and I'm woefully behind in wishing angearia, teragramm, chic_c and leni_ba very, very happy birthdays.

I'm also woefully behind in in posting my own icons from recent challenges; in keeping up with the latest challenges; thanking everyone who voted my This Year's Girl icon "Best Crop" in slayerstillness challenge #24, in thanking tempertemper for the marvelously electrifying - pun completely intended - banner; and in giving a shout out to all the other winners as well as few personal faves. What a marvelous batch of entries.

*guilt sets in*

Comments

[spikesredqueen.livejournal.com]

Many congrats!!! I voted for that icon, I love it!

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks hon! I thought it might get best crop, but I wasn't invested in that happening, you know? This was such an amazing batch of entries. (I thought one of the Spuffy ones might get more interest than they did. I chuckled like anything making a Broken Halleluliah - I had a blast trying out new effects.)

I'm not going to enter the current round and I don't have time to enter any other challenges until I get this 20in20 out of the way. What about you?

[spikesredqueen.livejournal.com]

I don't think I will for right now, I signed up for character20in20, tvcharacter20in20, and just finished tvshow20in20 last night. I tend to like the 20in20s more I think because they give you more time to work on the icons, but don't get me wrong I like slayerstillness and OWL but they go by too quick at times for me.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I don't think I will for right now, I signed up for character20in20, tvcharacter20in20, and just finished tvshow20in20 last night.

Slacker *lol*

I tend to like the 20in20s more I think because they give you more time to work on the icons, but don't get me wrong I like slayerstillness and OWL but they go by too quick at times for me.

Definite agreement. Sometimes the short time is good - I have to come up with ideas FAST. And since I tend to make 5-9x more icons than I need, I have less time to overthink stuff. But then I can't really explore ideas and I'm always missing deadlines.

My entries for this 20in20 include the comics icons that were inspired by the round and made me decide to sign up for it, all the way to ones made the day before or day of. And I've got several ideas for future claims or at least icon projects. OWL and SS are so specific to their prompts.

I definitely need to get faster at it though. Is making 5-9x more icons than needed (I did the math) unusual? Is that just me or what?

[spikesredqueen.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's just you. I make at least 5 extra or more per challenge because I'll make it and decide to try another one and whatever one I like best goes as my entry. If I like the extras I will add them with it. But trust me, I go through lots that I don't like and trash and start all over lol

I've seen lots of people have a bunch of extras/alternates with their posts before. :)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

But trust me, I go through lots that I don't like and trash and start all over lol

Very reassuring to know, thank you so much! I'm in a "needing much encouragement" mood, sadly.