A variation on my existing *explosion* icon for obsessiveicons Icontest #9 - Smite (winners here).


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Another duplicate theme this week, in the form of Challenge 13: Green (winners here). This one isn't a "hush", so there was only one thing I could do:


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An interestingly bizarre yet simple theme: The Number 4 (winners here). What to do? Eek. I played for a few days with large fonts, I looked for a big dice with 4 dots visible, then I tripped over a base with a 2:4 domino at the front. Easy enough to change to a 4:4. A quick Google for an appropriate quote later, and I created my first animated icon ( Read more... )

Another quick and simple icon entry, for Week 50: Black and White (winners here).


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It was late, it was tired, I'd been drinking earlier, and I wasn't feeling particularly inspired, but I felt I really should make something when I saw the reminder say they didn't have many entries yet. I try and support icontest communities, especially the newer ones, so they don't extended contests and end up shutting down. So, here's my (very ( Read more... )

Challenge 36, with a single picture (winners here), entry:


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Contest 19: Sandra Bullock entries (winners here); except that I was only supposed to enter one, so I ended up picking the second.


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Week 18: Non-Square (winners here) entries:


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iconxxchallenge offered us a Textless Colour Challenge - Green (winners here)


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A 'blend' is the LJ-technical term for an image larger than 300x300 pixels, that blends images, brushes, textures etc, into a whole. Kind of like see-through collage. (There are some great examples when you look back through Eclectic Blends challengesMostly swayed by a reminder mentioning that there were only a couple of entries so far, I decided ( Read more... )