Icons for fandom20in20: Round Four

[night_ink]

[20] Magic Knight Rayearth (Ferio)
[1] Alternate (Ferio)

Teasers:



THEMES

NC-1701	Engineers	Starfleet	The Captain	Final Frontier
Punch it!	McCoy	Spock	Kobayashi Maru	Communications

CATEGORY - The Enterprise

Category #1	Category #2	Category #3	Category #4	Category #5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

Alternates

Alternate Artist's Choice #1

- Icons were made for round four at fandom20in20.
- Comments are welcome, as well as concrit. I am a beginner at making icons and this is my first big set.
- If taking any, please comment and definitely credit.
- Credit goes to either birgitriddle or night_ink (on LJ, credit birgitriddle)
- Textless icons aren't bases.
- Don't hotlink.
- Resource post can be found here.

Comments

[vane_nt]

Ferio! *___* It's such a joy to see so many icons featuring this character! ♥

[stripped]

The blurring in Punch It is lovely, and I adore Communications. I don't know the character, but I still totally hear a voice in that way that the voice actors seem to have of implying the ?!?! in words alone. :)

[amethystfirefly]

Wow. I really like these!

[turlough]

I really like Spock and AC # 1, such nice colouring.

[lyd]

congrats on finishing! I'm sorry it took so long to answer, I only had enough time to accept it this morning but then I had to rush out.

I think you filled quite good the captain, punch it & KM! so YAY for the fact that any doubt you had on them ended up in such wonderful icons =D I also liked communications and starfleet but I've got to comment on the final frontier, I didn't think of that when suggesting the theme but it's really eye-catching! Although my favourite has to be Spock, IDK why the composition and colouring of that icon just strikes me as perfect.

I've no idea about this show & thus the character but the category set has me thinking that the character at least is the most adorable thing ever just by existing XD. May I ask what his hair colour is? In some of your icons it looks green and in the others more teal like but it all might be due to lights/shadows in those scenes so I wonder /curious.

[pureevil230]

I don't know the anime or the character but he looks pretty cool thanx to your icons. they look awesome for a beginner. hope you had fun on the 20in20 challenge, i know i did. did you find it challenging at times? like it tested your creativity but in a good way? pushing at your creative limits to play around with things.

[kiokushitaka]

AC1 and its variant are very nicely executed. I also really like Spock. :)

[vangirl]

This is actually a very nice batch for a beginner! :O Spock turned out especially well too!

I don't know much about GIMP so I can't give you any specifics, but I noticed you were open for concrit so, I might have some general things that could help?

One big thing that might help is trying to save in .png if you can. I noticed that .jpg tends to get pixelated more often, sometimes even if you set the quality as high as can be. If you can't save as .png or if you find that it makes your browser go bleh, don't worry about that. Just try to save as the highest quality .jpg if you can. :>

Another thing I've noticed is that several of your icons seem a tad bit faded, or even 'flat'; Category #1 especially. Does GIMP have an brightness/contrast tool at all? I use Photoshop Elements and I found that adjusting the contrast can help a lot in making colors stand out if I'm working with a low quality image. :>

Oh! Also on the low quality image front, it might help to play around with sharpen and blur tools. Some icons look a bit too sharp and others seem bit blurred but figuring out how to use those tools can help when you're working with an image that's a bit too much in either direction.

Overall though, I think you have a really good eye for composition and color is used quite effectively. (Spock especially stands out in both categories!) I think if you continue to play around with your program and experiment with all the different settings, you'll be able to make a lot of cool icons. :>