40 John Quixote Icons

[arevhat]

40 John Quixote Icons for Round 10 of farscape_20in20 .

  

Meh. This is quite possibly my favorite episode of the series, I loved the themes (and they seemed particularly well suited to my choice), but I'm just not satisfied D: I hope you like the results more than I do...



10 THEMES

Two Colors	Sidekick	Zoom	Upside Down	Struggle
Circle	Center Crop	Body Part	Amused	Weird

5 CATEGORY – ALIEN OF THE WEEK

1	2	3	4	5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice 1	Artist's Choice 2	Artist's Choice 3	Artist's Choice 4	Artist's Choice 5

ALTERNATES

1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

11	12	13	14	15

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- Please take and use any icons you like; credit nebari_rebel or Arevhat.
- Please don't hotlink or use icons as bases, thank you!

Comments

[john-scorpy.livejournal.com]

These are lovely, I really don't see why you don't like them. ACs #1 and #5 are my favorites, Chiana looks so fragile and pretty in them. And the B&W always works, although as can be seen in Alt 4, AC5 is gorgeous in color as well.

I LOVE the crops in the category. It's hard to pick favorites, but #1 stands out quite nicely. It's very interesting and I love the colors. #4 is awesome too, 'Harvey' is so cute in that episode.

Of the themes my favorites are Body Part (for the exact reasons Nymeria mentioned), Center Crop (wow, I really really love the bright colors and the overall weirdness of that scene/image), Amused (the crop is lovely) and Struggle (love the creepiness, how we can pretty much see only Scorpy's silhouette, and John's expression is lovely, I think the icon is a perfect interpretation of the theme).

While I think you made the right picks, there are still many Alternatives I also love. #11 is my favorite, the coloring and the crop both work great, and it's such a lovely scene between the two. #12 is my second favorite with awesomely pretty colors.

(I'm having major trouble with my set right now. I have to redo like half of them because I keep producing nothing but amateurish-looking dren D: I also have discovered that I hate making Upside Down icons as much as you dislike Levels - I just don't see their point! So in a way it's good to hear I'm not the only one to whom this round has been a bit rocky. It's not the themes, like you said, it's just... something, probably the pressure from people liking the last set so much.)

[nebari-rebel.livejournal.com]

Thank you SO much for the detailed feedback! I know you're really busy right now and appreciate the time and effort :) And I do feel better about them now - I think I wasn't feeling them because my expectations were way too high. It's my favorite episode (I like to say ...Different Destinations owns my brain, while John Quixote owns my heart) and I love making icons and have put off claiming this for so long...I wanted them to not just be good, but THE BEST ICONS EVER. That's quite the unreasonable and unrealistic goal LOL

I also underestimated how hard the episode itself would be to work with. I have more trouble with S4 than 1-3, in part because of the film quality and lighting differences, and here it seemed difficult to get the shots I wanted...invariably their faces would be too small, or too dark to see...I love the scene at the end when they fall out of the game and she hugs him and that was impossible (for me) to icon :(

But all in all I am feeling much better about them now, and I did my best, and that's a very good feeling :)

I'm having major trouble with my set right now. I have to redo like half of them because I keep producing nothing but amateurish-looking dren D: I also have discovered that I hate making Upside Down icons as much as you dislike Levels - I just don't see their point! So in a way it's good to hear I'm not the only one to whom this round has been a bit rocky. It's not the themes, like you said, it's just... something, probably the pressure from people liking the last set so much.

Aw.. *hugs* I can assure you that they will be neither amateurish nor dren and performance anxiety is a bitch, but you're very good at icons. I can't wait to see them.

I almost did a Levels on purpose for my Jool set...so maybe you will be okay with Upside Down in the future ;)