twenty-two

[emiels.livejournal.com]

4 x my hero academia
4 x demon slayer
4 x jujutsu kaisen
4 x haikyuu!!






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05-08
09-12
13-16

For somein30 round 9: Coordinates of Style
I went for the extra hard mode because a) if there's anything I like more than making icons, it's elaborately planning my posts via unnecessary color coded excel sheets, and this time it was even warranted and b) it had galaxy brain in the description and I wanted to be galaxy brain dammit

Can't show all the axes of this table next to the icons, so here is a chart instead:



And explanation because the axis labels are super vague lol
I decided to focus on 2 types of effort I generally put into my animanga icon: base image effort and icon effort (which I consider different from complexity).

Base image effort is how much preparation goes into it: top row is full proper manga coloring - images colored from b&w manga panels in a detailed/painty style; 2nd row is simplified manga coloring - images colored from b&w manga panels but without removing things like speechbubbles or sound effects, and with a simplified flat style; 3rd row is enhanced anime screencaps - so screencaps I scribbled on, added shadows/highlights, changed lighting etc, and last row is just plain ol' anime caps, nothing added (this was hard, I had to stop myself from adding stuff lol). I uploaded all used images into a folder in case someone wants to take a look, idk. (there is no porn in it, idk why imgur tagged it as 18+ lmao)
Icon effort is basically how much stuff I add to it after finishing my work on the base image. So textures, light, adjustment layers, etc.. The icons on the left have barely any adjustments and 0-1 textures added, the one of the right have... many. I was going to label this as complexity, but tbh the top rows aren't really complex? I'm always hesitant to add a lot of compositional elements when I've spent a good chunk of time on the image, so as you can see, it's more like... amount of textures on the icon. But also of adjustment layers and the like, so I'm keeping my effort label ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
...the diagonal axis is just a rainbow. 4x4 grid was perfect for this since it has 7 diagonal lines.

Anyway, this was a 10/10 fun challenge, would speedrun again.

Comments

[neonspider]

HOLY SHIT, WHAT!!?? :O THIS IS INSANE AND AWESOME! How on earth did you make this so fast??

First of all: I love that you did the galaxy brain option! It was a last minute addition to the post and I didn't expect many to actually go there, so wow! And you came up with a reaaaally awesome way to do the z axis, I didn't think of a diagonal axis at all. But also: wow your axes are super clever and interesting, never would have thought of either, and it's super interesting to see the differences and wow, I learned something about animanga iconing here, so thanks :D It's sometimes very hard for me to see how much work goes into manga icons since I've never tried making one myself, and all I've ever done wrt anime icons are the last row type, so it's really awesome that you included the folder for comparison to see what is possible, the differences are absolutely breathtaking, just WOW! *__*

The top row is just insane stuff, idek how you get that much depth in them, the shadows, colors and everything is just perfection. So I guess my favorites are the entire top row??, but also I especially adore 4 which I guess is fitting since it's the most effort into both directions! Love the coloring and the textured background! And 1 is just wow, the color scheme is so lovely and cohesive and I love the subtle 3d effect. Of course the flat colorings in the second row are impressive as well, and I especially love the turquoise color scheme in 8!

I'm repeating myself here again but damn those anime colorings in the second row are really freaking spectacular too, I mean take 10 for example, the cap looks way different, you completely changed the coloring and it looks so natural, and again the DEPTH! The lighting in 11 and the fun colorful textured look in 12 are flawless as well!

I love the framed composition in 15, and the fact that there's a literal rainbow in a ranbow set is so clever and meta :D And the composition in the very last icon is spectacular, love the double repetition and the orange/pink combo is so gorgeous.

Thanks so much for entering, I'm happy you liked the challenge! :>

[emiels.livejournal.com]

What can I say, this challenge was REALLY up my alley :D I even tried to work out a 5x4 or 4x5 grid to make more icons, but it wouldn't fit with the diagonal axis...

Tbh I feel like I'm keeping some dying art alive with my manga coloring icons, no one bothers to do this stuff anymore, I'm the only one still hanging around LJ for this lol
So I was happy there was a challenge that gave me a reason to flex my coloring muscles!

Thank youuu :D ♥