☞ 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

[buddha-loves-me.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to think of crit for you because your colouring and cropping skills are just beyond phenomenal. You've really improved in such a short amount of time and I'm always blown away by your skills.

I guess all I can think of in terms of crit is that sometimes your colouring is a bit too bright. And other times, the shading is so intense I feel that it might actually take away from the icon itself? Sometimes the icons are so bright and the colours so stark it's actually hard to look at them.

But overall, your colouring is superb. I can tell you spend a lot of time and effort on your icons and it really pays off. I love them. ♥

[herinia.livejournal.com]

I understand what you mean with the shading. I find myself having problems using the right amount of shades lately - while intense shading works well with some shounen series, it looks really awkward in others (Trc being one of them ;A;). But in my opinion this colouring style is more fun to do, so I'm quite reluctant to go back to soft colouring now. xDD I will definitely be more careful with it in the future!

Thank you very much for the comment and the suggestions <3

[buddha-loves-me.livejournal.com]

Mm, I agree. The more intense shading works better for some series but not others (though I think it works for some scenes in Tsubasa. Cloney and Kurogane spring to mind, though the effect might be a bit intense for, say, Sakura)

And hey, if you like it that's what matters! In any case, your icons are always stunning, so~ ♥ Keep up the good work. :3