While I haven't yet fully settled everything with my new desktop computer, the scanner works with it and by now its network does too, so I could scan the Rodney!RatCreature doodle I did a while ago and turn it into my 109th icon!
I didn't realize that was a lemon until I looked at the pencils, though. (It *is* a lemon, right?) I think it's because the gray tone is so dark in the icon -- even though it's lemon-shaped, my brain doesn't say "lemon" because it's so much darker than everything around it.
Yeah, it's supposed to be a lemon. I get what you mean. I had it in the light grey at first, but it didn't stand out against the jacket then, and in the end I decided that the lemon-object be noticeable was more important and anyone familiar with SGA and that scene would make the connection, from someone holding something towards Rodney and Rodney shrinking back.
One thing you *could* do (although I'm aware that it'd be a little out of keeping with the rest of your grayscale icons) would be to make the lemon, and only the lemon, yellow. That would also make it stand out from the rest of the icon.
I might be the only person who has trouble making the lemon connection, though, because I'm sort of notoriously dense at picking up the finer points of visual metaphors. (I'd actually thought it was a squeeze bottle of something.)
No, making it yellow would break my icon concept. I only use black, white, and one dark and one light grey for the images and in a few I used a third kind in-between grey on the text. Keeping it that way for overall consistency of my icons is more important to me than visual clarity in a single one.
Well, it's not as if incomprehensibility is out of line with the usual fandom icon ;) (thinks of tiny, tiny fonts, too fast changing gifs and the ton of effects obscuring the pictures in some icons...)
What *is* with the tiny text in people's icons, anyway? I've never really understood that. It doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of point in putting text into an icon if no one can read it ...
Ah well, lots of times I can't read the tiny, effect-ridden text or make out the pictures in other people's icons either, so I can count this as my lemon-y way of getting even. ;)
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I didn't realize that was a lemon until I looked at the pencils, though. (It *is* a lemon, right?) I think it's because the gray tone is so dark in the icon -- even though it's lemon-shaped, my brain doesn't say "lemon" because it's so much darker than everything around it.
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I might be the only person who has trouble making the lemon connection, though, because I'm sort of notoriously dense at picking up the finer points of visual metaphors. (I'd actually thought it was a squeeze bottle of something.)
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Well, it's not as if incomprehensibility is out of line with the usual fandom icon ;) (thinks of tiny, tiny fonts, too fast changing gifs and the ton of effects obscuring the pictures in some icons...)
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(Of course, when I got it, I laughed like a loon. I'm just slow.)
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Ah well, lots of times I can't read the tiny, effect-ridden text or make out the pictures in other people's icons either, so I can count this as my lemon-y way of getting even. ;)
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