Round 06: Inspirations
Rules & Info:
+ All icons must be made specifically for this challenge, and by you.
+ Icons must be inspired by this post and its contents, and fit the theme laid out in this post.
+ Icons must be within LiveJournal standards (.png, .gif, or .jpg format; 40kb or less).
+ When you post your entry to the community, provide 3 examples and a cut (real or fake) leading to a public post.
+ Please take the time to look at other people's entries and leave feedback.
+ Please remember to thank and credit the makers of any resources you find through this community.
+ Tagging guidelines are as follows: entries: yourusername, claim: yourclaim, round: 06. Example: entries: rocketgirl2, claim: Firefly, round: 06
+ Your subject should be: Round 06: Claim. Example: Round 06: Firefly
+ A list of participants and their claims can be found here. Sign-ups will be open until the end of the round.
+ Your icons are due Friday, the 20th of January at 11:59 pm EST. [Countdown clock]
Out of the Box
At the feedback poll, raiindust suggested a round in which participants are challenged to face their iconning fears, whatever they may be. That means that if you're scared of text, you make icons with text. If you can't do negative space, you make icons with negative space. If you think you'll die if you make an icon without textures, you make icons without textures. And so on.
Icons should be guided first and foremost by this theme. The inspirations in this post are both technical and interpretive, but each icon you make should be something you wouldn't normally do.
Words:
monochrome
black & white
pastel
vivid
muted
text
textless
textures
blocking
blending
sharpen
blur
simplistic
warm
cold
negative space
close crop
center
side crop
not square
light
dark
funny
sad
serious
Images:
sarisafari | longerthanwedo | erzsebet | julie_izumi | imaginary_lives
kawaii_chicken | vetica | 12feethigh | raiindust | sarisafari
talipuu | apologizeg | feel_the_fire | julie_izumi | gigi737
biliki | blue_emotion | jokermary | likealight | ofraindrops
fiendie | fouroux | cookiestome | fprintmoon | wildpages
orangelusik | earlydreams | magicallaw | deternot |absolutelybatty
Music:
Click to viewIn Fear and Faith by Circa Survive [lyrics]
The New Year, by Death Cab for Cutie [lyrics]
Resolution, by Motion City Soundtrack [lyrics]
Soft Revolution, by Stars [lyrics]
Textures:
by summer_skin > download
by mosaically > download
by lumsx > download
by midnight_road > download
by sheriff-grahams > download
Theme:
There are no specific requirements this round for how your sets will be divided. You may decide to use your whole set to work on one skill that eludes you, or you may wish to make each icon with a different technique. The only thing that matters is that all icons in your set fall under the theme.
Countdown to the end of Round 06