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Just a bunch of miscellaneous icons for various icontests. ^^

( ...holidays are never long enough... )

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I was initially going to make 20 icons, but this month has been kind of crazy. So here are my 6 icons for monthlyinspo. I also included a brief summary of how the icon is connected to the school subject.

			Geography | Art | Foreign Language
			Literature | Music | Science

1: Geography: The background is a map of the South Pole.
2: Art: At first I was going to categorize the icon under drama (dramatic pose), but then I changed my mind because it reminded me of when a model poses for artists to draw. I think it's an art school thing, and it fit a little better I think.
3: Foreign Language: IU did a collab with Jay Park, and the song title ("Ga Na Da Ra") kind of fit the foreign language category because it's the way that kids go over the phonemes (vowel plus consonant) kind of like we go over the alphabet in English.
4: Literature: I used the first sentence from Emma by Jane Austen as the background text while I used a cutout of Emma from BBC's Emma (2009).
5: Music: Group shot of the Kpop group X1.
6: Science: This was really more for physics, but the equation L = Iω has to do with the physics of a figure skating spin.

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Here is a smallish set for retro_icontest. I really liked the colors and the inspiration, so I put a few icons together. I've been rewatching some different adaptations of Jane Austen and was in the mood to icon period dramas.

Pride and Prejudice (1995) | Emma (2009) | Little Dorrit (2008) | North and South (2004) | Sense and Sensibility (1995)

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Just a few icons, mostly Christmas-y icons, that I threw together for various icontests.

( ...and a Happy New Year... )

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( simple vs. complex )

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( ...in the atmosphere... )

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So, I decided to participate in Round 1 at somein30. I was so excited when the mods decided open the community! ^^ The theme for this round sounded really interesting, so I decided that I wanted to do extra hard mode for this round. It was called extra hard mode for a reason, lol! I did experience some frustration and wasn't happy with some of the icons, but overall, I was pleased with them. Some of the themes were conflicting, so I had to get really creative. #3 was hard because adding a light texture to an already bright and vibrant icon is pretty difficult. I almost wish I had chosen a different fandom because some of themes were difficult to find caps for. I didn't realize there weren't very many full body shots or faraway shots. ^^' I think some of them turned out pretty well though like #2, 10, and 13.

I thought about doing a Kim Yu-na set because I wasn't quite happy with some of my Emma icons. I also thought about doing two sets, but since I've started working again, I didn't have as much time as I planned.

( emma woodhouse: clever, handsome, and rich )

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( lots of choc'lates for me to eat, and lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat )

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( these are some of the things I'm truly thankful for! )
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For the second part of this post, here are some various icons that I made for various challenges, battles, and icontests. These icons are a little different from my usual icons. For my icon-making process, I'm usually a creature of habit and follow the same basic steps. But lately, I've been trying to get out of my comfort zone and try some new techniques.

( various icons of fandom and stock )
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I haven't posted icons in a while, so they've rather accumulated. I plan to post my stock icons in a separate post since they are so many.

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( i'm the queen of procrastination.... )
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