my round 3 and 4 sets were - not as good as I thought they were at the time This happens to me ALL the time. When I make an icon, I am 80%of the happy (or semi happy) with the finished icon. If I go back and look at the icons a week later, that number drops to 75%. If I go back a few months later the number is probably about the 60% mark. ~_^

I'm often surprised by how "autumnal" and muted my icons tend to be; even cool tone ones (because I really do love rich jewel tones) although I seem to mostly make warmer toned icons. I, on the other hand, like brighter colors as much as I like muted colors but I rarely do muted colors in my icons.


I need to start posting my huge back catalog of banners I've made this past year because I'm really proud of some of those as well. I know I have mentioned this before but you should really think about getting an icon/artwork journal. Authors have their lj memories and tags, like we have but they also have fanfiction sites and AO3 to store there work. We artists don't have as many options.

I know I can be a bossy little witch sometimes, so please feel free to ignore any and all advise. I sometimes can't help myself with the unsolicited advise. If fact there are several artist I have seen enter icon contests that have pretty good icons but they make (to me) a glaring (easy to fix) era in their work. It sometimes takes all my will power not to pm them and give them advise. I'm sure they wouldn't be too happy to get unsolicited advise, especially since my work is FAR from perfect.