☞ icon critique meme

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《ICONCRITMEME》

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♠ reply to this post with your username and/or journal you post your icons at. along with that, post 5-12 icon samples, so everyone can give you some of their thoughts too.

♡ reply to people's ( even people that you aren't familiar with an outsider's perspective is good ) comments with critiques and opinions on their icons. anonymous comments are enabled and ip logging is disabled, if you feel you need to use that option.

♣ try to be polite, but at the same time honest. the purpose of this meme is to be helpful, so any wank will be deleted.

♢ pimp this out in your journal and/or icon community, etcetera.
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Comments

[eletriarnation.livejournal.com]

eletriarnation @ wistful_icons


Idkkk. These are all pretty recent, I'd say. Have at it?

[pinkrum.livejournal.com]

I agree that they can sometimes be a little too bright, because your coloring is rrrreeeeaaally pretty +_+ and it's sort of hard to tell, like, in number five. Number four is really gorgeous, because it's bright but you can still see all the colors.

[buddha-loves-me.livejournal.com]

You know how much I adore your icons, I love how you can make the icons look so soft, but still not get rid of all the details.

But I agree with the two above me: sometimes, the light textures really take away from the icon. I love that you can make your icons pretty and sparkly, but you do try to do too much to them at times. Like the sixth one, it's really hard to tell what's going on (and I can only tell because I know the panel well and have seen the big version of it for your FST)

Sometimes I feel that you blur too much, to the point where it's not a nice softness but more of a blurry image.

So maybe cut down on the blurriness and the light textures? I adore your colouring skills, they're always so beautiful. All the colouring in these icons are amazing, but my favorites you listed are the ones that have minimal light textures on them (1, 2, 3, 8) And if those DO have a lot of light textures, you've set them up in a way that they don't detract from the overall image of the icon, but instead enhance it and make it prettier without washing the colours out.


....If I make any sense. God I fail at crit.

[(Anonymous)]

I really like your icons but some of them seem a bit compressed? try saving them as png instead of jpg.

[tsubame-17.livejournal.com]

I like your use of color but, for me, are too bright. I really love your crops. ^_^ Thanks for the work!