Round #25 - Technique20in20 03
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retro_icontestOn to the next challenge! Since I made the poll asking you for your favorite comms to reuse, we've done the top two answers - so here's the third-most-picked answer: technique20in20! I hope you enjoy this round as well!
This challenge was originally posted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
technique20in20 in October 2013 here .
Challenge Post bytechnique_mod
THEMES:
• SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS
- Your icon has to have the darkest color you can achive. It can have some lighter spots, but overall coloring has to be dark.
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library_of_sex | absolutelybatty | dancelittlelies | scoobyatemysnax | octoberprimrose
• SKY IS ABOVE US
- The person in icon must be looking up. But you can't rotate the base, look of camera must be straight in front of the person.
afeastforme | alisea_dream | damsiedam | fancifull | messdestruction
• SILHOUETTE BLENDING
- In bigger picture - silhouette - there must be other picture.
daynawashere | letsey_x | rebel | sarisafari | sietepecados
• AS SIMPLE AS IT CAN GET
- In this one you need to minimalise the base to the absolute minimum.
Delete background (if necessary), make rather normal coloring (not very eye-catching).
One rule - The Simpler, The Better!
juanxyo | prettybutt | sietepecados | vox_mortem | youwatchusrun
• OVERWHELMING TEXT
- Now you have to make icon, where text plays main role, we see it 'before' the picture in the icon.
letsey_x | neversleeps | pamkips | superjesster | theotherayn
• SIGHTLESS
- Now easy one :) The crop of the character in your icon has to be without eyes.
julie_izumi | marcasite | watchpoint | dixon | theotherayn
• WHITE DECORATION(S)
- In your icon need to be visible white texture decoration(s).
cb_janey | lady_kingsley | novindalf | watchpoint | sietepecados
• YOUR HEART'S DESIRE
- As the full quote from HP says: "I show you not your face but your heart's desire",
you need to icon the deepest dreams of a character (of course with the character!).
juanxyo | petite_tomate | dixon | sarisafari | sietepecados
• MOOD COLORING
- You need to show the coloring of the mood of the character while taking the picture, ie. if the character is furious, you must make
red/deep blue coloring, loving/pleasent moment -light reds, yellows, oranges, maybe green, etc.
fouroux | grublets_on_ice | longerthanwedo | messdestruction | ohgollygeedamn
• NEON LIGHTS
- Coloring in the icon need to be pastelly vibrant, looks like neon obviously :)
mm3butterfly | ofthesea | pamkips | rebel | rebel
CATEGORY: [5 icons]
REMAKE YOUR STYLE
Choose your best known techniques from the past. In this 'challenge', you'll need to recreate the style from your iconning past.
First example set:
watchpoint
Second example set:
sietepecados
ARTIST'S CHOICE: [5 icons]
YOUR OWN CHOICE!
If there are any questions, ask me :)
Your table:
RETRO_ICONTEST RULES
I didn't list the original challenge rules, because there were no specific rules that differ from our own. Of course you have to stick to the round's themes. *g* Some of the themes - the category theme in particular - might be a little tricky. I'll try to clear up any questions you might have - if in doubt, we'll do our best to figure out what the original mod intended and try to stick to the spirit of the challenge.
You can use the provided table from the original challenge (see above textarea) but you don't have to. If you don't make all 20 icons, please mention which themes you filled.
The original challenge required exactly one icon per theme. Here, you can pick and choose and even make more than one per theme if a theme especially inspires you.
-> you may enter up to 20 icons as specified by the challenge themes. minimum 1 icon.
-> submit your icons as a new entry into the community. if there are more than five, put the rest under a cut or a link to your unlocked journal post. tag your post with round number and your username (or ask me to tag it for you).
-> submit the URLs along with your icons. I'll only put the first five per person into the roundup post. Either you only list five, or I'll take the first five.
-> make an effort to leave positive feedback on other participants' posts. <3
-> read the full rules here in our userinfo.
This comm generally runs from mid-month to mid-month every month, always ending on Fridays. There is no voting. I will make a roundup post containing up to 5 icons per person after every challenge.
Deadline for round #25: Friday, April 19th 2025
If you'd like to promote the comm, please do! Here's a promo code:
This challenge was originally posted to
technique20in20 in October 2013 here .Challenge Post by
technique_modTHEMES:
• SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS
- Your icon has to have the darkest color you can achive. It can have some lighter spots, but overall coloring has to be dark.
library_of_sex | absolutelybatty | dancelittlelies | scoobyatemysnax | octoberprimrose • SKY IS ABOVE US
- The person in icon must be looking up. But you can't rotate the base, look of camera must be straight in front of the person.
afeastforme | alisea_dream | damsiedam | fancifull | messdestruction• SILHOUETTE BLENDING
- In bigger picture - silhouette - there must be other picture.
daynawashere | letsey_x | rebel | sarisafari | sietepecados • AS SIMPLE AS IT CAN GET
- In this one you need to minimalise the base to the absolute minimum.
Delete background (if necessary), make rather normal coloring (not very eye-catching).
One rule - The Simpler, The Better!
juanxyo | prettybutt | sietepecados | vox_mortem | youwatchusrun• OVERWHELMING TEXT
- Now you have to make icon, where text plays main role, we see it 'before' the picture in the icon.
letsey_x | neversleeps | pamkips | superjesster | theotherayn• SIGHTLESS
- Now easy one :) The crop of the character in your icon has to be without eyes.
julie_izumi | marcasite | watchpoint | dixon | theotherayn • WHITE DECORATION(S)
- In your icon need to be visible white texture decoration(s).
cb_janey | lady_kingsley | novindalf | watchpoint | sietepecados • YOUR HEART'S DESIRE
- As the full quote from HP says: "I show you not your face but your heart's desire",
you need to icon the deepest dreams of a character (of course with the character!).
juanxyo | petite_tomate | dixon | sarisafari | sietepecados • MOOD COLORING
- You need to show the coloring of the mood of the character while taking the picture, ie. if the character is furious, you must make
red/deep blue coloring, loving/pleasent moment -light reds, yellows, oranges, maybe green, etc.
fouroux | grublets_on_ice | longerthanwedo | messdestruction | ohgollygeedamn• NEON LIGHTS
- Coloring in the icon need to be pastelly vibrant, looks like neon obviously :)
mm3butterfly | ofthesea | pamkips | rebel | rebelCATEGORY: [5 icons]
REMAKE YOUR STYLE
Choose your best known techniques from the past. In this 'challenge', you'll need to recreate the style from your iconning past.
First example set:
watchpoint Second example set:
sietepecados ARTIST'S CHOICE: [5 icons]
YOUR OWN CHOICE!
If there are any questions, ask me :)
Your table:
RETRO_ICONTEST RULES
I didn't list the original challenge rules, because there were no specific rules that differ from our own. Of course you have to stick to the round's themes. *g* Some of the themes - the category theme in particular - might be a little tricky. I'll try to clear up any questions you might have - if in doubt, we'll do our best to figure out what the original mod intended and try to stick to the spirit of the challenge.
You can use the provided table from the original challenge (see above textarea) but you don't have to. If you don't make all 20 icons, please mention which themes you filled.
The original challenge required exactly one icon per theme. Here, you can pick and choose and even make more than one per theme if a theme especially inspires you.
-> you may enter up to 20 icons as specified by the challenge themes. minimum 1 icon.
-> submit your icons as a new entry into the community. if there are more than five, put the rest under a cut or a link to your unlocked journal post. tag your post with round number and your username (or ask me to tag it for you).
-> submit the URLs along with your icons. I'll only put the first five per person into the roundup post. Either you only list five, or I'll take the first five.
-> make an effort to leave positive feedback on other participants' posts. <3
-> read the full rules here in our userinfo.
This comm generally runs from mid-month to mid-month every month, always ending on Fridays. There is no voting. I will make a roundup post containing up to 5 icons per person after every challenge.
Deadline for round #25: Friday, April 19th 2025
If you'd like to promote the comm, please do! Here's a promo code:
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Date: 2025-03-15 05:58 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll finally manage to make some icons this year...
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Date: 2025-03-22 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-03-22 09:13 pm (UTC)I think basically you look back through your icons from years ago and figure out what your main style was back then. Maybe you always used a specific crop or made lots of b/w icons, or you did lots of plain backgrounds or lots of blocking, or often used the same font?
If you don't think your style changed at all, you can of course also just pick your current main styles.
You pick five things you often did in your icons. And then you make five icons using these five things (one each).
Since I've known your icons for a long time, if you asked me, I would definitely pick vibrant coloring and text textures as two of your main techniques. Of course your style has always been very varied, so you have a lot of choices of techniques you do well and have used often.
Does that help?
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Date: 2025-03-24 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-28 11:45 pm (UTC)Do we sign up somewhere, or just jump in? And are their claims or just icon anything?