☞ 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

[aeolianafay.livejournal.com]

I like your style. It's simple (which, when all is said and done, is rather hard to accomplish), yet conveys emotion quite nicely. I find simple icons more appealing, simply because people can use them for their every day entries. You don't need a billion light effects and bold textures to convey such. Y ou have an awesome way of melding those bold textures and lighting effects with the more simplistic way of doing things.

I think the main reason I probably never grab your icons, is because they are all clamp (OR MOSTLY CLAMP. I loved your Furuba ones and your occasional Ouran icons).

And we could all use work on our shading and lighting. Except those people who are artists offline and understand such concepts (i learned a lot of my shading from my artistic sister). :D

One thing I've found helpful is just watching real people and looking at where the shadows lay on them when faced with a certain kind of light. Even if it's just as you're walking to class, look at them (don't stare, that's rude). I think that's helped me learn how to do better with my lighting and my shading. I think the hardest part is learning how to blend the shadows in without making it too bold or too blah.

And srsly this comment is ending now.

[buddha-loves-me.livejournal.com]

Baww thank you Mary. I never do text because I suck at it lulz.

Thank you so much for the comment! The suggestion to creep on people look at the way light works in real life is a really good idea. I'll be sure to try that next time I make icons!