15. bestof_icons '19 · and the winner is...
So the results are in and we have a winner...
First of – thank you so much to everyone who took the time to nominate and vote on my icons. I felt the poll pretty much represented most of my favorite icons from this year (plus some I wasn't too fond of but... I'm also my worst critic).
In 2018, an icon I made in January won. In 2019, another icon I made in January won, haha. Will 2020 follow that trend?
In all honesty, I was actually proud of this Elizabeth icon when I finished making it. I liked its colors and its apparent simplicity and how the texture just... fit into the rest. I'm happy with the choice and I think it's a worthy winner.
Rounding up the top 10 we've got...
It's a really good mix of techniques and a good representation of the style I've had this year.
Some of these I'm absolutely surprised by - particularly the Cap icons (where one is the original and the other one is its remake!) because I am not sold on them after so long (the original cap icon is almost a year old, IIRC). I've started to see so much room for improvement that I go '...that?' a lot but I also don't have the talent to make sure I can fulfill that vision. But all in all, this is a worthy top 10, all solid choices.
Which ones I wasn't too surprised by? The Midge icon, which actually won over the Elizabeth icon in that
monthlyinspo January round (where a good chunk of nominated icons come from) and I liked the Fargo icon a great deal – I worked hard on that coloring. It's a worthy top 3. (I also really like the other two icons in the top 5. Pleasantly surprised they're both that high.)
[for the giggles... the rest of the top 19 of 2019]For the giggles, the next nine... because I like the number 19 and it was 2019 after all.
There are many icons I like lots in this bunch, too, even if some of my other favorites didn't get this high – or weren't nominated at all. I think the top row is killer (even if that's not my favorite CJ icon I made this year) and the bottom row has some good ones too (the experimental - for me - composition in that Bones icon; the coloring in Beth's, the texture I was so lucky to find for Rosa's).
Overall, I'm happy with the results! I was quite happy with most of the nominations and I think that the right icon won. Next year will be fun since I barely made icons in January and most of them were stock ;)Watch the Dunkirk icon sweep ;D
For more on my favorites and commentary, check the icon progression post over here and the last section in last year's scrapbook.
But a taste...
[Personal favorites in no particular order...]Personal favorites in no particular order (just by color-ish)... I feel like I'm missing so many others but then again, they're likely represented above or in the scrapbook section. If you asked me to do this tomorrow, they'd change a lot.
(Lbr, in some cases I like them as part of a set rather than individually. And for that, I'd say my favorite "big" sets are the January bingo, May's Opposites Attract, the pink/purple-ish September set, the C.J. "20in20", and March's relationships. Smaller entries would be harder.)
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First of – thank you so much to everyone who took the time to nominate and vote on my icons. I felt the poll pretty much represented most of my favorite icons from this year (plus some I wasn't too fond of but... I'm also my worst critic).
In 2018, an icon I made in January won. In 2019, another icon I made in January won, haha. Will 2020 follow that trend?
In all honesty, I was actually proud of this Elizabeth icon when I finished making it. I liked its colors and its apparent simplicity and how the texture just... fit into the rest. I'm happy with the choice and I think it's a worthy winner.
Rounding up the top 10 we've got...
It's a really good mix of techniques and a good representation of the style I've had this year.
Some of these I'm absolutely surprised by - particularly the Cap icons (where one is the original and the other one is its remake!) because I am not sold on them after so long (the original cap icon is almost a year old, IIRC). I've started to see so much room for improvement that I go '...that?' a lot but I also don't have the talent to make sure I can fulfill that vision. But all in all, this is a worthy top 10, all solid choices.
Which ones I wasn't too surprised by? The Midge icon, which actually won over the Elizabeth icon in that
monthlyinspo January round (where a good chunk of nominated icons come from) and I liked the Fargo icon a great deal – I worked hard on that coloring. It's a worthy top 3. (I also really like the other two icons in the top 5. Pleasantly surprised they're both that high.)[for the giggles... the rest of the top 19 of 2019]For the giggles, the next nine... because I like the number 19 and it was 2019 after all.
There are many icons I like lots in this bunch, too, even if some of my other favorites didn't get this high – or weren't nominated at all. I think the top row is killer (even if that's not my favorite CJ icon I made this year) and the bottom row has some good ones too (the experimental - for me - composition in that Bones icon; the coloring in Beth's, the texture I was so lucky to find for Rosa's).
Overall, I'm happy with the results! I was quite happy with most of the nominations and I think that the right icon won. Next year will be fun since I barely made icons in January and most of them were stock ;)
For more on my favorites and commentary, check the icon progression post over here and the last section in last year's scrapbook.
But a taste...
[Personal favorites in no particular order...]Personal favorites in no particular order (just by color-ish)... I feel like I'm missing so many others but then again, they're likely represented above or in the scrapbook section. If you asked me to do this tomorrow, they'd change a lot.
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