At the moment there's an Icon Meme floating around LJ called "Icon Redux Meme".
It's all about revisiting old icons and make them new *lol*

That just reminded me of a challenge here.
I know the community is more or less dead at the moment.
But I think the challenge/meme is kind of fun.

Shows you how much you improved.
In case someone wants to see my old and new icons ...
go over here :
clickediclick
*is too lazy to repost them*

I'd love to see some of you guys do this challenge again, too.

50 icons:
20 fasion icons (nude)
20 the virgin sicides icons
5 me and you and everyone we know icons
5 junebug icones


(50@Gleaning)

50 icons:
25 fasion icons
25 bjork icons


(50 @ Gleaning)

40 icons:
14 fasion icons
11 marie antoinette icons
10 mat gordon runway icons
5 cat power icons


(40 @ Gleaning)

40 icons:
14 fasion icons
11 marie antoinette icons
10 mat gordon runway icons
5 cat power icons


(40 @ Gleaning)

Challenge #2: Redos

Before:
I'm still sort of a fan of the light texture, but the washed-out graininess? Not so much.
After:
The picture wasn't so big/high quality, so this was the best I could do.

Before:
After:
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Couple of attempts. I'm not a big brush user. I prefer to fill my negative space with textures.

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In River's icon, I was trying to convey the feeling of dancing away from the problems and fear. Losing herself in the dance for a brief respite from the pain. I desaturated all around her to show how the world goes away when she's dancing.

In Logan's case, I wanted to show how he's feeling the world against him, the weight of all the problems and attacks pressing down.

Yeah, I'm way behind. But I didn't feel I had the skill set until just now to properly attempt it. And I'm a terrible procrastinator.

The debate over negative space was a tad confusing but I think I may have a handle on it.

Just made these icons:

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( Do these count? )

vs.

Icon 01 was made in October 2005 and was one of my first Icons, Icon 02 was made in January 2006.
I guess you can see some progress there *lol*

I didn't hate 01 when I made it, I was kinda proud of it.
But when I see it now, beside 02, I wanna die *lol*

I changed the background to purple in 01, but as you can see, my gradient wasn't big enough for that.
You can still see parts of the darker background.
The font placing is horrible, as was the font itself (well... not really horrible, but pretty much standard & therefore boring)
Even the cropping wasn't the best... so much hair ... sooo... yay 02 *lol*
Changed the background again, but to better colours, tried to focus more on her face instead of her hair, used a better font and ... I like it just better.

But who am I to judge *lol*

Only one icon for the latest challenge.
I didn't really feel inspired enough to make more icons.



Please tell me what you think of it.

I did the negative space and the b/w challenge.

( 5 icons under cut )

  

I forced myself to do natural coloring on Logan. I've been getting carried away by the allure of the Pin Light lately ;)

ETA: in Photoshop, these are both so clear and pretty :( what did I do?

ETA2: hmm, a reminder of how much backgrounds affect things. On my friends list these look as I intended them too. On the creamy pastels though, they look so odd. always have to keep that kind of thing in mind I guess :)

Going with an oldie but a goodie this week, a straight up screencap challenge! Because, once in awhile, it's fun to see how different people interpret the same cap.

You know the drill. You must make an icon with one of the following five caps. Have at it!

( a btvs, firefly, ats, veronica mars and doctor who cap under the cut )

The images can be found here at the Cap Spark site as well.

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If you're not up for the current challenge, why not answer one of the previous ones? You can answer any challenge at any time and you can answer any challenge as many times as you want.

Challenge #6 - Solitude
Create icons inspired by the word 'solitude'.

Challenge #5 - Source: Black and White Caps
Create icons using a black & white cap and by adding colour.

Challenge #4 - Put a Stock in It
Create icons with a stock image.

Challenge #3 - 'Tis the Season
Create holiday icons.

Challenge #2 - Rebirth
Re-create one or more of your old icons to show us how you've grown!

All previous challenges can be found here.

I'll also tag challenge posts so that you can access them that way as well.

Challenge 5: Black and White



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I'm perpetually a week behind. I want to add to this later, because I'm having fun with it, but for now:





Hee, that Scorpy pic makes me giggle.

It so happens that I've just watched BtVS episode Anne and that seemed to fit the Solitude theme perfectly.




I'm not terribly happy with the last one and I had problems with the text on the third one, but I'm happy with the way the first two turned out. Agree/disagree *g*?

Two Narnia and one Highlander icon for Challenge 4 behind the cut.

( Challenge 4 )

Comments and/or critique all welcome.

hi, I'm new here:)

Ok I wasn't really inspired. so here are 2 sucky icons I made for the latest challenge.

This week's challenge is simple. It has a theme and that theme is one word -

solitude

Let that one word inspire you in any way you choose. Stylistically, thematically... doesn't matter how.

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If you're not up for the current challenge, why not answer one of the previous ones? You can answer any challenge at any time and you can answer any challenge as many times as you want.

Challenge #5 - Source: Black and White Caps
Create icons using a black & white cap and by adding colour.

Challenge #4 - Put a Stock in It
Create icons with a stock image.

Challenge #3 - 'Tis the Season
Create holiday icons.

Challenge #2 - Rebirth
Re-create one or more of your old icons to show us how you've grown!

Challenge #1 - Negative Space
Create an icon dealing, in some way, with negative space.

All previous challenges can be found here.

I'll also tag challenge posts so that you can access them that way as well.

I'm going to make a post similar to this one once a month. Just various links and things you should be aware of.

Challenge Suggestions
- Have a great idea for a challenge? Suggest it here!

Past Challenges
- Every challenge I've run at Spark. Feel free to go back and try as many of the old ones as you'd like.

Fandom Poll
- Want to have some say in what screencaps I provide for challenges? Here is the place to do it.

cap_spark
- Interested in helping with the resources side of Spark? Screencaps? Stock images? Etc? Join now!

Resources
- www.cap-spark.com/caps/ - The Icon Spark support site.
- More coming soon! Hopefully.

Challenge #6 coming up soon!