Icon Recommendations

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I'm starting a series of recommendations of makers whose work I admire. I've collected icons from >50 makers, thus the series. Let me know how frequently you want to see them, please? I don't know know how often I'll do them but I'd like a feel for how often would be too often.

I recently nominated a bunch of icon makers over at magicawards so I'm kicking off the recs with several of the makers whose work I ran out of time for nominating and a couple who are new-to-me.



winterfish, Icon Tag: I've long admired winterfish's icons; she made many of my favorite SG-1 icons. She has a lovely sense of humor, her images are crisp, and she uses natural, warm colors that I adore but what makes her work stand out for me is the diversity in her icons. She features characters of color alongside the usual suspects found in everybody else's icons. I like that her icons are good AND inclusive.






janie_tangerine at rockin_graphix: Fellow Misha/Castiel fan whose way with words on icons makes me laugh. Whenever there's a Supernatural episode with lots of wordy jokes, I eagerly await her post because I KNOW I'm going to be snagging a ton of icons. She's made quite a few Misha icons that are my tried and true friends.





txduck, Icon Tag: Interesting crops and puns! Txduck's work is a departure from my usual love of color, color, and more color. Her icons' muted colors have a tranquility about them. I envy her cropping skills. Her icons look like no others' icons.






tle_lovie69 at trueasthenight: I discovered this maker when somebody else nominated her at magicawards. The color, composition, use of textures...everything grabs me and makes me wish I made icons like these. So much pretty!





adina_mpj at sick_muse_icons: Another new-to-me maker whose work I "met" at magicawards. An amazing use of color and composition, the icons are just plain old preeeeetty.






Obviously, I did not make these icons. If you wish to use them, please be certain to visit the maker to let her know and be certain to credit as she wishes.

Comments

[txduck.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank You... I'll check those out :)

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