#2

[tiptoetwirl]

5 x Criminal Minds
5 x Wonder Woman
5 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5 x The Witcher

all for somein30





These are for the Summer Rewind 2 round and I chose round 1. To summarise: You're given twenty sets of three technical themes (composition, lighting, textures etc) and for normal mode you have to use the first the first theme, for the hard mode the first two and for extra-hard mode all three themes. Check out the challenge post for a much better explanation!

I went with extra-hard mode for all twenty icons and it lived up to the difficulty level. I'm not very happy with this set but I did enjoy the challenge and also didn't want to waste all work I put into these by not posting them. At the very least, they've pointed out some areas I definitely to improve on. I might take a gander ant using the general idea for a while across other challenges from time to time to make sure I don't get stuck in a comfort zone rut 😁

The themes for each icon are listed after the icons themselves


1 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 15









1 - Main: Contrast/lighting - blobs of light, Hard: Cropping: full body, Extra Hard: Composition - fake background
2 - Main: Textures - borders, Hard: Colouring - vibrant, Extra Hard: Contrast/lighting - bright
3 - Main: Colouring - complementary colours, Hard: Cropping - center crop, Extra Hard: Composition - minimal
4 - Main: Textures - text, tiny text or numbers, Hard: Contrast/lighting - low contrast, Extra Hard: Cropping - no eyes
5 - Main: Colouring - fully black & white, Hard: Composition - silhouette, Extra Hard: Textures - grunge
6 - Main: Colouring - vibrant, Hard: Textures - painty, Extra Hard: Contrast/lighting - shiny
7 - Main: Contrast/lighting - dark, Hard: Colouring - pastels, Extra Hard: Cropping - focus on top (this one broke my brain 🫥)
8 - Main: Contrast/lighting - dramatic, Hard: Cropping - no eyes, Extra Hard: Textures - patterned (I hope choosing a crop from behind isn't cheating)
9 - Main: Cropping - center crop, Hard: Textures - geometric, Extra Hard: Contrast/lighting - shiny
10 - Main: Cropping - no eyes, Hard: Colouring - black & white + colour, Extra Hard: Composition - silhouette
11 - Main: Cropping - subjects from varying distance, Hard: Contrast/lighting - low contrast, Extra Hard: Textures - decorative accent
12 - Main: Contrast/lighting - soft/dreamy lighting, Hard: Cropping - close crop, Extra Hard: Colouring - pastels
13 - Main: Cropping - low/bottom, Hard: Textures - borders, Extra Hard: Composition - levels (given that this had to have both low/bottom crop AND levels I took a bit of artistic licence with this one. The crop themselves on both caps used in this icon are fairly standard but I've organised the levels towards the bottom half of the icon to get that low/bottom focus. Hope this is okay!)
14 - Main: Composition - blending, Hard: Colouring - pastels, Extra Hard: Textures - painty (The colours came out a lot more vibrant than I intended here 🙈)
15 - Main: Composition - levels, Hard: Contrast/lighting - high contrast, Extra Hard: Colouring - black & white + colour
16 - Main: Colouring - duochrome, Hard: Textures: patterned, Extra Hard: Composition - text
17 - Main: Textures - text, tiny text or numbers, Hard: Composition - text, Extra Hard: Cropping - side crop ( I guess this one only meets the first two criteria. I totally read "side crop" as "side profile" 😬)
18 - Artists Choice
19 - Artists Choice
20 - Artists Choice

Comments

[violateraindrop]

Awesome set! I love the colors and composition of 13 so much! The composition of 10 and 17 is also great :D

[tiptoetwirl]

13 and 10 were two icons I was super unsure about so I'm really glad they stood out to you. Thank you!

[sietepecados]

Such an awesome set! I love the crop and light on 4 and 12. Also composition on 13 and 17 is really cool!

[tiptoetwirl]

Ah, you've picked out a couple of icons I really wasn't confident in so thank you very much! Super glad you like them :)

[tinny]

Wow, I've done this challenge twice and never actually dared go for Extra Hard. Kudos! <3

I especially love 1, 5, 10, 11 (the varying distance theme is so tough!), 13 (great interpretation of the theme!), 15, 16, 17, and 20. Awesome job!

[tiptoetwirl]

Yeah I broke records all right for how long each of these icons took. I'm not actually super happy with most of them but I did enjoy stepping out of my comfort zone.

Varying distance is SUPER tough especially since I had naively set myself the additional challenge of segregating the prompts into four separate fandoms (because why not go hard right?). I'm glad you like so many of these, some of them are ones that I didn't personally like a lot so it's really helpful to see that what I think are terrible icons are actually ones that other people prefer the most out of the set 😆

[bold_seer]

Great batch! 9 and 10 are favourites: Diana's costume has beautiful, vibrant colouring in the former and I really like the mood of the latter. Nice work on 4 and 5, as well!

[tiptoetwirl]

Thanks so much! I'm glad there's so many you like from this set :)