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[exsequar]

Hmmm. I think the positive comments I receive on my icons give me a false sense of pride. I mean, it's great that people love my icons, and I am so thankful to those people who take the time to look at them and tell me what they think, but at the same time I'm really not that great as icon makers go. I could be SO much better, but I just don't understand how. I'm getting very close to being eliminated in the fandom lims contests I'm in, and I never make it into good_fanicons when I apply. It's like... my style just doesn't jibe with the general perception of what good icons are. At the same time, I sometimes look at icons that are supposedly "amazing" and think they're crap. It's like I'm on a different wavelength from everyone else and I don't know how I ended up here.

Bah.

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[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Well thank you, that's very kind of you to say.

I definitely know what you're talking about, with the overdone icons. But with this comm the problem's more of the opposite. People often submit icons that are basically cropped interestingly, sharpened and brightened, maybe given a touch of color and one line of tiny text - and that qualifies as BRILLIANT! These people are making batches of icons that all look the same. I try to make every icon I do completely unique, but I guess that's just not homogenized enough. :P

Of course, there's something to be said for minimal icons (as I just noticed that's what you said you do and am subsequently trying to extricate foot from mouth...) because, like you said, you can tell what the hell is going on. But I inhabit a space somewhere in the middle... and it's very lonely here! *tear*