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Let's get a bit more personal for this round! This is an interpretative round and it's all about you - the icons made for this round should tell us something about who you are. You can make it deep and showcase your personality traits, which will probably require some creative interpretations, or keep it simple and focus on your hobbies, interests, favorite things or even physical attributes. Select the level of depth based on what you're comfortable with sharing. You can check the examples at the end of the post for some potential interpretations, but there's no right or wrong way to go about this, use your imagination :)

NORMAL MODE: Make 5-20 interpretative icons, each telling something about yourself; characteristics/identity aspects/likes/opinions etc. Please include a short explanation or at least a title to each icon so we get what the icon is about. You may take inspiration from the questions listed below, but are not limited to these; this is your chance to freely tell us about yourself in icon form.
HARD MODE: Use the questions below to answer questions about yourself. You can choose the questions freely out of the ones below and make them in any order you like, and make one or more icons for each prompt, as long as the total number of icons is 5-20. Please label the icons so that we know which question each one is the answer to. Think of this mode as if you're filling a friendship book with icons!
EXTRA HARD MODE: Do either Normal or Hard mode, but with the extra restriction that each icon needs to have an interpretation other than simply using a subject that fits the trait; instead, there should be a technical interpretation trying to portray these prompts (of course on top of that the character choice can fit the trait as well). So for example, if you want to icon "confidence", the technical execution of the icon should somehow portray confidence, maybe in bold colors or use of a quote that's about confidence, rather than just having a confident character as a subject choice. This mode probably doesn't work with every prompt on the list, so if you attempt this, plan accordingly!

This challenge was inspired partly by the About Me round at the late [livejournal.com profile] 20inspirations, and partly by the icontest community [livejournal.com profile] your_favourites, which you should definitely check out if you find yourself gravitating more towards the "Favorite ____" questions. Since there is a specific community for these types of prompts, we only included a few in this challenge.

QUESTIONS
  1. How old are you?
  2. What is your relationship status?
  3. What is your current profession or work/student situation?
  4. What profession did you dream of as a child?
    FBI agent | singer | queen
  5. What is your sexual orientation?
  6. Your favorite TV show
  7. Your favorite movie
  8. Your favorite color
  9. Your favorite ship
  10. Your favorite genre of music
  11. Your favorite character
  12. Favorite sport or physical excercise (to watch or participate in)
  13. What is/was your favorite subject at school?
  14. What are your hobbies/how do you like to spend your free time?
  15. A new hobby you'd like to try to get into?
    ukulele | archery | biking
  16. What colour is your hair?
    blonde | red | blue
  17. Which character most resembles your appearance?
  18. Which character do you relate to the most?
  19. Which animal do you relate to the most?
    wolf | stag | squid
  20. What are your most prominent personality traits?
  21. What do you consider your best characteristic?
    logical | positive attitude | patience
  22. What do you consider your worst characteristic?
    envy | grumpiness | vindictiveness
  23. Character or celebrity you're attracted to?
  24. What is your outlook on life, are you more of an optimist or pessimist?
  25. Something you are good at
  26. Something you are bad at
  27. Something you're trying to get better at
    dancing | leadership skills | social skills
  28. An achievement you're proud of
  29. An area of personal growth you're proud of
    letting go of perfectionism | developing more courage | becoming more affectionate
  30. What is on your "bucket list"? (=something that you want to do at least once in a lifetime, e.g. bungee jump, travel to a specific place)
  31. Something that really annoys you?
    being stared at | self righteousness | people talking too much
  32. What is your vice/bad habit or guilty pleasure?
    smoking | drinking | swearing
  33. What is your biggest personal dream or goal at the moment?
    going on adventures | writing a book | getting rich
  34. What is your sense of humour like? (E.g. dark humour, sarcasm, memes, silliness...)
  35. What are you like when you're upset? (E.g. drama queen, crying, sulking, passive aggressive, confrontational, silent treatment?)
  36. What do you value in your relationships?
  37. What values hold particular importance to you?
  38. What kind of people do you respect the most?
    proactive | altruistic | unyielding
  39. Who do you admire/look up to?
  40. What personal problem are you currently struggling with?
    coming to terms with loss | identity crisis | unrequited love
  41. What hard experiences or disadvantages have you overcome?
  42. What time period or specific experience in your life has a special place in your heart?
  43. Which superpower would you like to have?
  44. If you had a time machine, which era would you like to travel to or what historical event would you like to see?
  45. Do you tend to listen to your head or your heart more?
  46. A quote that speaks to you the most
  47. What are you grateful for?
  48. Are you more of an introvert or an extrovert?
  49. What are you afraid of?
  50. Which moral alignment type fits you the best?


Rules
+ Create 5-20 icons for the challenge.
+ Icons must fit LJ standards (100x100px, gif/jpg/png format, 100kb or less)
+ All icons must be new and made specifically for the challenge
+ Post either a link to your icon journal post, or post the icons directly to this community (in a new post)
+ Each entry should have three example icons before the link or the LJ cut
+ If linking to your icon journal, the post must be public at least until the end of the challenge.
+ Use title Round 10: yourname
+ Use tags maker: yourname, round: 10
+ Please make an effort to look at and to leave comments to other participants' posts
+ Deadline: September 30th 22:00 UTC+3 COUNTDOWN

Date: 2021-09-01 20:05 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emiels.livejournal.com
oh man, this reminds me of a fad from my childhood — you'd get a notebook, write out questions of this type on the first page, and then pass it to friends so they could write their answers on another page, decorate with some doodles and stickers and give it back to you........ we'd call it a friend dairy or something like that :D

what a cool round, definitely planning to enter!

Date: 2021-09-06 14:12 (UTC)
neonspider: (t-bag: they always try to run away)
From: [personal profile] neonspider
Yes I remember those as well!! :D

Also, the first time I ever got detention was in first or second class, cause me and my friend filled out someone else's entire friendship book with answers from random imaginary characters. I had a weird mind/overactive imagination even back then, but looking back I definitely shouldn't have ruined someone's book D:

Date: 2021-09-11 10:29 (UTC)
applepips: (Default)
From: [personal profile] applepips
I remembered the same thing as well. We'd call them slam books or friendship diary and we'd pass them around at the end of the school year for friends and classmates to fill out! it was such a privilege to receive diaries to fill out as well as so fun to read all the things that ppl wrote about you!

Date: 2021-09-02 14:48 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erinm-4600.livejournal.com
I...... want to get back to making icons, so badly try this. Mostly because if I can find the right cap, 42 is done. <3

Date: 2021-09-06 14:12 (UTC)
neonspider: (t-bag: they always try to run away)
From: [personal profile] neonspider
YOU CAN DO IT <3

Date: 2021-09-04 08:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tinebrella.livejournal.com
AWESOME CHALLENGE! *_____*

Date: 2021-09-11 10:27 (UTC)
applepips: (Default)
From: [personal profile] applepips
Watch me put a lot more effort into this than I will ever do so for like even a resume or a dating app profile! B-)

Date: 2021-09-12 18:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n-iinza.livejournal.com
Yay, I'm glad you're back with new challenges!! This idea is awesome!

Date: 2021-10-02 15:14 (UTC)
applepips: (Default)
From: [personal profile] applepips
hi! I just wanted to say that I am done with my entry and will be posting it in the next hour!
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