I think I can, I think I can...maybe? (ooh, look, a poll! And a Willow icon! Shiny!)

[red_satin_doll]

Ok, so I had over 100 icons for the upcoming btvsats20in20 Round 1. I reduced them to 62 or so because several of them were crap. I went back and made some smile and blending catagory icons I can live with. (Not great, but not entirely embarrassed by my relative lack of skill. Yet.) Now I'm back to 102. That's better. *lol*

Oh for the days when I was young and innocent and churned out icons that were no works of art but not half-bad, and didn't worry about the last damn pixel at the tip of SMG's nose, or wacky concepts like "image clarity". It was just two weeks ago but it seems like years. So young, so innocent. *le sigh*

And I can pan-sear or grill a tbone steak* to absolute juicy perfection, and have my "we need to eat less meat!" ladylove knawing the bone and singing my praises in epic verse, but making an icon table template thing-y is still an absolute mystery. (*That was what I made for dinner in fact - with crunchy oven-baked kale chips, gently sauteed bok choy and fluffy steamed quinoa. My ladylove really did knaw the bone. She didn't actually sing or write epic verse. This need to be corrected.)

No, I'm not freaking out, nor am I coming undone. Laying strewn about the floor in shredded and knotted pieces like a skein of cheap acrylic yarn the aforementioned cat shredded,spat out contemptuously and tossed to the floor, more like. Ok, so minor freaking out may be occuring here.

Since I'm entirely new to this whole 20in20 concept, I have questions. I don't see folks talking about how they do these things, y'all just go about and do them. So, I am curious. If you've made an excess number of icons for a 20in20 or any icontest challenge, how do you deal with the overflow?

[Poll #1970795][Poll #1970795]


And to say thank you to the home audience for playing along, and remind myself that yes, I can do a simple one-and-done icon: Willow in AtS "Orpheus". Isn't she pretty? When all else is in doubt, a pretty lady never fails to inspire me.

Comments

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

I usually don't have extras, if I do I put them aside to be reworked for another challenge or post them when I do an icon dump. I do have and icon journal that I display all my icons and a/w. So they are all in one place.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

i like the idea of "all in one place" - I don't know if my brain could handle another journal, but I may end up doing that!

if I do I put them aside to be reworked for another challenge

And is that "kosher"? I guess it depends if the rules specifically state the icons MUST be made new for that challenge. Because I've got some in this huge batch that could be held off and reworked/extended for another time.

[debris4spike]

I always cross-post mine to my icon journal ... that way I can keep track of them, but they get posted in my main LJ first.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I noticed your system of a separate LJ, and that's what got me thinking about duplicating it.

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

I don't know if my brain could handle another journal, but I may end up doing that! The only thing I use the journal for is store my a/w. I usually post my a/w in the icon journal with a link to it in my "real" journal.

And is that "kosher"? I would think so, since I usually use my rejects mainly for ideas and if I rework them, they are pretty different from the original and the original is usually much different than the icon I entered in a challenge. Besides it is not often I have extras, because I usually dump as I go.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

"a/w"?

it is not often I have extras, because I usually dump as I go.

You sound much more disciplined than I am! I need to learn from that. *takes notes* I have a habit of dumping stuff then refilling with new stuff. Or worse, putting icons out there that I should have dumped immediately.

Thank you for all the ideas and feedback this is really a great deal of help to me!

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

"a/w"? Artwork

You sound much more disciplined than I am! I need to learn from that. What I usually do is if I have several with slight changes, I "sleep" on it and the next day I toss all but the one I like best.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Oh duh...

What I usually do is if I have several with slight changes, I "sleep" on it and the next day I toss all but the one I like best.

I have done that as well.

I just posted my entries and I was surprised by how hard it was - but I was really choosing from a very small percentage of what I made, and trying to decide what order to put those in. A lot of the things I was on the fence about can be saved for another time.