☞ 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

[sirarie.livejournal.com]

HELLO HELLO.

your icons are hot and skycatcher already noted one of the things I wanted to mention - the speech bubbles, and so since they talked about that already I will just be a wimp and skip right over.

ANYWAYS. the main thing I notice about your icons is that the coloring is really rich, but often the lineart seems a little fuzzy to me, especially in/around the 'skin' area of said icons. idk why - I doubt it's the quality o your caps, but the first thing that pops to mind is that when you color lines, you color them pretty close to the color you're shading that area with - there aren't really any prime examples of that in the ones you've put up, but you can kind of see it in 1, 3, and 8. It could be that, or it could be the very minimalistic shading I see around some of the lines, like in 3 - I don't know why, but it just makes the lineart look fuzzy to me. Then again, I love the lineart in my icons to be sharp and contrasted and such SO it could just be a personal thing. But I thought I'd note it. >:

A-and number 7, 9, and 10 in those are seriously lovely. +_+ The unified color schemes in 7 and 10 make the icon work really nicely overall, and the contrasting colors in 9 do the same.

[stormcoming.livejournal.com]

HOWDY.

I thiiiink I know what you mean. I keep the shading pretty soft, usually, like you said, it's a pretty close color... I do have the habit of using a somewhat transparant screen layer over my lineart, to lighten the starkness of it. Lately, I've started making it more transparent in some of my newer icons, so hopefully that will cut down on the fuzziness of the look? Though, lol I'm afraid it may sometimes be the quality. The one thing that I cannot ever seem to do with any mastery is... clean scans, orz.

Thank you so much for the comment *__*