Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Day 12

[soricel]

Random Community of the day...

iconpraise

So I only have this one icon, and it's the only one I've ever had. It's from a little comic I made for my partner. I like it, and I kinda like that it's my one and only icon. But I also get a kick out of seeing the different ways people use icons on here, and some of them are really nice-looking!

I don't think I really give icons the consideration they deserve; I suspect that a lot of thought and care goes into making them! So it was cool to stumble upon this community, which is entirely dedicated to showcasing and praising icons. Lots of cool stuff to look at!

Comments

[merricatb]

Oh that's neat! Most of my icons were given to me, and the others I just did bad screenshots of myself so I get that a lot more goes into that sort of thing lol. I like your icon a lot, btw.

[soricel]

Yeah, it feels like a whole artform unto itself!

And thank you! :)

[lupine_dreaming]

That’s rad! For icons I make myself, I really don’t do anything fancy besides cropping them and editing them a bit in my iPhone photo editor.

But creating cool icons really is an art, and I enjoy how DW lets you have multiple icons. It’s a holdover from the Old Internet that I think should’ve stuck around lol.