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Post 169: "May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope."

These icons are for [community profile] retro_icontest[community profile] fandom10in30 &  [community profile] perioddrama_ic : [41 icons]

My original somein30 challenge post: lullabycharmed.livejournal.com/46169.html

Let's compare them to this round:

I didn't do this round in order but I put my notes on top (lol)

  
- Emily Bronte )  
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Post 164: look back on 2024 progress

So here, I am looking back on 2024 even though I am writing this in 2025. Some of my entries have been back-posted in a different date. Some months (like July and August) were back-dated and posted in December, but I labeled the icons that were created in the appropriate months. 

January 

   
+I started off the year by creating icons for
[community profile] retro_icontest , [community profile] monthlyinspo ,[community profile] perioddrama_ic , [community profile] iconthat , and[community profile] stocklove_ic . I focused on my compositions by focusing on coloring.  I have three posts for January. 

February 


 
+I created icons for   [community profile] fandom10in30 , [community profile] iconthat , [community profile] monthlyinspo , [community profile] screen_icons,
 [community profile] stocklove_ic and [community profile] retro_icontest. I focused on cropping, lighting, and coloring. I have two posts for February. 

March


+I created icons for [community profile]   monthlyinspo, [community profile] screen_icons , [community profile] perioddrama_ic , [community profile] iconthat , and [community profile] retro_icontest  . I focused on complex compositions. I have two posts for March. 

April
  
+I created icons for  [community profile] fandom10in30 . I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions and it was all about the FRAMES :). I have one post for April. 

May


+I created icons for [community profile] monthlyinspo, [community profile] stocklove_ic , and [community profile] fandom10in30    I focused on cropping, lighting, and compositions. I have one post for May. 
 

June


+ I created icons for
[community profile] stocklove_ic and [community profile] monthlyinspo. I focused on lighting and coloring. There is one post for June. 

July

https://i.imgur.com/fgYOpYy.png
+ I created icons for [community profile] retro_icontest, [community profile] stocklove_ic [community profile] screen_icons and [community profile] monthlyinspo. I focused on coloring, negative space, compositions, and textures. There is one post for July. 

August



+ I created icons for [community profile] monthlyinspo ,[community profile] stocklove_ic , [community profile] screen_icons , and [community profile] stocklove_ic . I focused on coloring, negative space, compositions, textures, and stock! There is one post for August. 

September

+I created icons for  [community profile] monthlyinspo[community profile] retro_icontest[community profile] iconthat  , [community profile] perioddrama_ic , and [community profile] icontalking  I had so much fun focusing on coloring, composition, and textures for this post. There is one post for September. 

October
 

+I created icons for

[community profile] characters20in20 and focused on the use of textures/composition. I created one post for October.

 

 November

+I created icons for [community profile] icontalking

[community profile] stocklove_ic,[community profile] characters20in20  and [community profile] monthlyinspo and focused on the use of textures/composition. I created two posts for November.

 



December

 

+I created icons 
[community profile] monthlyinspo

[community profile] screen_icons[community profile] stocklove_ic , and [community profile] icontalking.  I focused on coloring, lighting, textures, and stock. I created one post for December. 

 


Closing Thoughts: I feel like I've probably started out wanting to work on my goals that I usually have working on more complex compositions but due to time crunch I ended up doing my style (negative space I guess or even doing stock icons). So to work on my same goals - complex composition and text work especially when I have the time to do so. - note - same closing remarks as last year!





Prior best icons:  please do not recommend any prior bestof_icons as seen below. 


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Post 163: remakes for 2024 to 2025

So I was asked the following icons to remake:
Old icons (2024)




New icons (remakes):



1. I decided to keep the same subject (Cheryl from Riverdale) and used a more red background (or pink in this case).
2. I think the subject is from Thor: Love and War so decided to keep Valkryie as the subject.
3 and 4. So decided to use Penelope from Bridgerton and kept the Green theme going for her :)
5. I wanted to make Groot be in a dark forest instead.
6. I wanted to use text to quote Elle's quote about orange being seriously distrubed LOL :)
7. I wanted to reverse the color scheme of Marie Antoinette (meaning yellow will be the background and blue will be the color of the dress). The background ended up working like this :)


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Post 162: “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

This is for [community profile] monthlyinspo

I am going on vacation at the end of the month so hence why I am posting this earlier. — Albert Einstein )
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Post 159: “I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”

2024This is for [community profile] monthlyinspo .

I am currently recovering from covid but I created these icons before I got sick.
  
—Anonymous )



The rest of these icons were created for [community profile] stocklove_ic and [community profile] icontalking : 

    
 


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Post 157: "Healing begins where the wound was made."

This is for monthlyinspo:
[12] icons
Fandoms: X-Files, Teen Wolf, Marie Antoinette, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Buffy, Merlin, New Girl, and Pretty Little Liars

- Alice Walker )



Iconthat: 




for icontalking:


perioddrama_ic:
    

for retro_icontest:


 https://i.imgur.com/qIfv3mm.png


alts: 

   





[community profile] fandom_itest :

  
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Ask the Maker Guide: Removing background

[personal profile] impala_chick asked a question at the ask the maker on how to make an icon like this:



Let's see if I can recall all the steps of how I created this icon (LOL) or I can show with a different image which I think I am going to do. I don't know what icon making tools you used. I know that photoshop has the lasso tool to help remove background stuff. I use photopea and use a different tool to help remove background ;) 
Tutorial below )
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Post 155: "Spring is when life's alive in everything." - Christina Rossetti

\This post is for all the icons I created in May: [community profile] monthlyinspo and [community profile] stocklove_ic and [community profile] fandom10in30






   
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Post 154: "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness"

This post is for [community profile] fandom10in30 :
Fandoms: Maestro, Damesel, Alice in Wonderland, The Guernsey Literary  and Potato Peel Society, I am Groot, The Boys, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Eternals, Anne with an E, and Spinning Out. [14 icons]

  


- William Arthur Ward ) 
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Post 152: " Don't tell people your dreams. Show them"

This post is for [community profile] monthlyinspo , [community profile] screen_icons , and [community profile] perioddrama_ic for a total of 27  icons.



- Unknown )