Blast From The Past Icontests

08

Thank you all for participating!

( 5 makers caught wild pokemons and made 24 gorgeous icons, 17 of which are shown here in this post )

( and here are the trainer cards for all participants, as promised )

Since each challenge at pokicons was focused on a single Pokémon every week, whereas our rounds run for four weeks, I combined four of the original challenges into this post.

The four challenges below were originally posted to pokicons by poisonfield between February and November 2016.

If you yourself are a mod of an (old, closed) comm, and you'd like to allow us to revisit some of your challenges, let me know! I'm still going through the list and PMing mods of older comms, but I've still barely scratched the surface. All the comms we currently have permission for are listed in the masterlist here.

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All challenges used in this post were originally made by poisonfield.
The example icons provided were made by members of the comm in response to these same challenges.

( 4 Pokemon to catch under the cut )

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ORIGINAL RULES - for reference only

Each week will feature a Pokemon for the main source of inspiration.

To catch the Pokemon you may icon the Pokemon itself, or use colours, type, habitat, etc. as inspiration.

At the end of each challenge, the Pokemon a trainer 'catches' will be added to the Pokemon Storage System.

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NEW RETRO_ICONTEST RULES - mandatory

Consider the original challenge rules and try to stick to them in spirit.

There is nothing more to the original rules than to be inspired by any part of the Pokémon. Please follow those rules bolded above.

-> you can make as many icons for each type of Pokémon as you like.
-> you don't have to make icons for each type of Pokémon. the minimum to enter this round is 1 icon total.
-> 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.
all the images are on squidge, and it's been a little slow/down today. I hope it stays up now. Let me know if the images don't load and I will see what I can do.

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Each challenge will run for roundabout four weeks. There is no voting. I will make a roundup post containing up to 5 icons per person after every challenge. Challenges run roughly mid-month to mid-month every month.

This time, as part of the roundup, I will make a trainer card for everyone who participates! They look like this.

Deadline for round #08: Friday, November 11th 2023 your end-of-day

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