More icons are coming soon, I swear! :) This batch has been coming along slowly. So, in the meantime, I'll share something that I've also posted over at valyrian_forged, the fanworks community for the westerosorting communities (House Tully represent!).

We recently (okay, last month) finished the once-a-game contest spree called the Tourney of the Hand. As a moderator, I can't enter any of the contests, and seeing everyone's wonderful fanmixes during one of my contests made me want to make my own using the same idea! And then this happened.

(As a note for the show-viewers only: this is spoilery for Sansa's plotline. Enter if you dare!)

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So, long time no post! Life happened, and by the time I had time to make icons again, the muse was gone. However, I've started to pine for Photoshop again, and so these icons are my attempt to get back into practice (somewhat). Since picking screencaps is probably my least favourite part of making icons, I started with something easy: the screencap challenge at theiconquest (Chapter 5, Sidequest 1). As such, I'm not sure which fandoms most of these come from... sorry!

Also, almost everything is rogue - simple all the way!

30 icons - misc. fandoms (25 + 5 alts.)



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20 Serenity icons for theiconquest (sidequest 1 - wizard and hero palettes, plus alternates).

So, I really (really) struggled with this batch. Apparently, the only way that I can do palette challenges is if I make monochromatic icons. XD I also forgot how much of a pain this movie could be to colour, particularly when you're not sticking to a blue/purple sort of theme, and so... this is what I ended up with. However good or bad these are, though, I figured that I spent way too much time trying to make them work, and even if they aren't to my taste, perhaps they are to someone else's. :)



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Requested by kirtash_girl at Ask the Maker 3.0 (my thread). Hopefully this is what you were looking for! :)

This is a quick guide on how I do black and white icons. I talk a little bit about cap selection (the whys and hows of the caps I pick), my general process for black and white icons, what textures I tend towards when I'm doing a b&w icon, and some random tips and tricks/notes. This is by no means a complete guide, and there's definitely not a 'right' way to do B&W icons (this is just how I happen to think about it).

If you have any questions, please let me know! I'd be more than happy to answer them. :)

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12 Battlestar Galactica (7 + 5 alts/variations)
13 Grimm (10 + 3 alts/variations)
7 Legend of the Seeker (5 + 2 alts/variations)
32 icons total.

This is a completely random icon dump from various challenges I've participated in recently: theiconquest (sidequest 1), grimm_challenge, and icon_talk's anonymous icon battle. As such, this post is rather out of order, and I apologize for that!



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Also, I participated in Ask the Maker 2.0 and was (pleasantly) surprised that I was actually asked to write a few tutorials. :) Since I've got the time (and am a weirdo who actually enjoys writing tutorials, lol), I thought I'd participate again this time.


Ask The Maker || My Thread

10 Legend of the Seeker (7 + 3 alts)
13 Grimm (8 + 5 alts)
17 Firefly/Serenity (10 + 7 alts)
40 icons total (for theiconquest)

I decided to focus on shows that tended to centre around the protagonist's/protagonists' adventures - LotS, Grimm, and Firefly. I'm still not sure how I feel about some of these (particularly the 'wizard' and 'bard' icons, since complex and text are things that I feel I struggle with), so any constructive criticism that people might have is welcome. :)



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theiconquest theiconquest theiconquest

While I'm sure that almost everyone has heard of theiconquest at this point (at least, I have seen it mentioned all over the place!), some more publicity probably couldn't hurt. ;) It looks like it is going to be a whole lot of fun, and I think that if you haven't joined already, you should!

O, photoshop, how I missed you!

Stylistically, this is a pretty simple batch, and I'm working on a new monitor, so hopefully these look alright to everyone else, too! The Tangled icons are also my first foray into iconing something animated (I think I did a couple of How to Train Your Dragon icons last year and that sums up my attempts at an animated subject), but the movie was too adorable to resist!

20 Tangled for landofart challenge #13
20 Game of Thrones (mostly Sansa)
5 Prometheus (from Trailer 2)
45 icons total.



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Long time, no post! I was travelling abroad for the past month, but now that I'm back at home I'm itching to icon, so hopefully I should have another post for you in the near(ish) future. :)

In the mean time, I'm going to post some shameless promotions:


The anonymous icon battle at icon_talk has started!
Sign-ups close on Sunday June 24th!
Click here to go to the sign-up post!


Round 8 sign-ups are open here @ firefly_rumble.

firefly_rumble is back for round 8 with a new layout! The first challenge will be posted once we have (minimum) eight participants, and sign-ups will close two weeks after that.

Challenge five at landofart asked us to make a batch of graphics based on only one TV show. Since my current obsession is Grimm (and I haven't yet seen enough of S2 of GOT to make a full batch of icons), I decided to choose that, and I focused specifically on the leading ladies of the show. As per usual, there are a bunch of alternates, but I've grouped everything together within the post.

20 Grimm icons (+15 alternates/variations)
35 icons total.



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