Do I dare call this an Icon Meme?

[hakka_candy]

Call me weird, I'm one of those people who has access to (almost) all of her icons, even those dating all the way back to eight years ago. XD; So hey, thought you guys would get a kick out of my graphics-making growth (lol), or get a kick out of doing this yourself! Even if you've just started making icons, I for one, am always finding terrible

Comments

[lillie_frost]

Oh my god, this is so relatable! I had a nice laugh. I can totally relate to the gaussian blur thing - it seems like such a good idea, but when used poorly... oh so bad.

Well there's an upside to this: you were always able to crop appropriately (can't say the same for me).

Thanks, this was fun!

(Sadly, I can't do this for my graphics. I'm the opposite of you: can barely remember where/if I saved stuff I made last week XD)

[hakka_candy]

I'm glad you can relate! As well as laugh; I meant for people to laugh at them so I'm glad it worked out. XD At the time, I thought everything I did was darn awesome, amazing how that changes huh.

Weeell, I did leave out a lot of icons after all. *whistles*

(Aw, I would have loved to see your old stuff! To laugh with you of course. I'm glad we (sort of) get better over time. XD Do you save all of your icons in separate folders then?)

[lillie_frost]

Lol, I really hope I didn't offend you. I meant that I was laughing with you too!

I used to keep my stuff, but after I lost my files awhile back, I just don't even bother keeping them. I delete them soon after and just hope that imageshack doesn't decide to randomly delete my uploads, lol

[hakka_candy]

Don't worry, I'm not offended at all! I got what you meant. :D

Ah, I lost quite a bit of mine as well, a year ago I think. Tbh I actually made this post before that happened (lol I really did) so that was a good thing! I still have everything from 2004 on, since I've been using the same account. It's amazing that Photobucket hasn't deleted a thing! /tl;dr I'm not sure why, but I have to keep everything, including quite a few .PSDs. XD

[starsystems]

hah. oh, the border. I really don't miss you. I remember when it just didn't feel right to leave the border out. The icons felt so unfinished! :P

Also, the white border set on overlay. I used to love that. xD And I loved tiny text... you seem to have avoided that trend, though. xD

[hakka_candy]

The 1 pixel border was a must! I remember perusing icontests back then, and borderless icons were eliminated, for that reason. How times have changed, look at us now! Haha.

I-I do believe I have some Arashi icons with tiny text. I was a latecomer! XD

[aeslis]

This is pretty fascinating. XD I don't have my old old old icons. I remember some, though! But I do have icons from 2005 that are like, OOF terrible. Really OOF. I liked filters, but filters didn't like me, shall we say. 8)

It's interesting though because those icons don't use a lot of negative space, which I know you love, so I guess that developed late in the game? Then again, negative space is something that only really became popular in icon making lately, I believe. I'm the same, actually--most of my older icons I'm trying to fill negative space in with horrible textures that don't work with the icon at all, lol.

Actually, thinking about it, icon making has developed into a really incredible art form. Way back when (I've been making icons since about 2003 myself), almost no one was making icons on the artistic scale people are capable of now. So we've grown right alongside the art itself! Kinda cool. :D

[hakka_candy]

Weren't they terrible? I have Arashi icons from 2007 that are HIDEOUSLY textured. I would like to bury those in a corner and never see them again. XD

That IS interesting. I guess I was more into center crops; it just made more sense back then. Why would anyone put the subject in the corner when you could have it front and center! XD I probably wasn't great enough at the tools to even make myself negative space, now that I think about it, lol. Apparently I was way too into the filters to even consider nice crops!

You make a great point; that is really neat! As icon makers, we really do change together as well. We all thought those ugly borders were essential, until the right trendsetters paved the way. And together we grow. Or something equally as cheesy. XD

[1nightsupernova]

Do you guys remember the time when an icon wasn't an icon unless it was bordered? What ever happened to that? XD
LOLLL. I'm guilty of doing this, tbh. I'm still doing it, sadly. XD;;

And I can't really do this meme because, well. I'm not as creative as you~ ;o; I mean you can really see here that you have talent, even for the first few icons that you made. ♥

[hakka_candy]

LOL. I think if it didn't take extra time to do the border, I might still be doing it! In the past, I used to make icons 98x98 in Photoshop and transfer it to PSP to add the 1px because it was much easier. Thinking about it, I don't know what I was doing, I'm so complicated! XD

♥♥ I can't believe you're complimenting me on ancient icons, ilu.

[hika86]

Ahahaah!!! I'm not an expert so.. the fact I like most of them... tells you how much I know about icons. I started only 2 or 3 months ago doing them by myself so I don't have anything to show T^T

[hakka_candy]

Haha, thank you! I experimented a lot those days, regardless of whether or not it actually looked good. XD If you continue, I'm sure you'll get better in no time! Experience has nothing to do with making icons, really. A lot of newer icon makers make amazing icons. :D

[hika86]

I'n not one of them XD but I'll do my best to improve! ^^/