Round 11: Cropping

[neonspider]

This round is all about CROPPING, that is, the positioning of subject(s) in the frame of your icons. This is a simple technical challenge; no different modes this time, the only goal here is for everyone to explore different crops. You can take this as a chance to perfect a specific cropping style, such as extreme close crops, or try to find as many different crops as possible.

A few pointers to keep in mind:

• Every icon has a crop, so in a way any icon would qualify for this round, but to fulfill the spirit of challenge, there needs to be an attempt to use crops other than the basic center crop + negative space style, which is by far the most used.
• This doesn't mean that every crop needs to be obscure or particularly creative; it is perfectly enough if the crop is just a bit off-center in vertical or horizontal direction!
• Even a center crop is totally fine if there's something unusual about the distance (i.e. noticeably closer or further than the subjects usually are in icons), the angle (e.g. shot from the back, or from a weird camera angle), or the image itself (e.g. something obscuring the subject, multiple subjects positioned in a visually interesting way, interesting focus, etc).
• Great cropping is not in any way exclusive or specific to close cropped icons
• If you run out of ideas for how to crop one subject, try screencaps with two or more subjects - this opens up infinitely more cropping possibilities
• While cropping might be one of the technically simplest technical iconing aspects to execute, this doesn't mean that the icons for this round need to be simple. In fact, combining more screencaps in a single icon gives you the chance to use more than one interesting crop in the same icon, or show the same cap with multiple different crops!
• Cropping doesn't need to be limited to the way the borders of the 100x100 canvas crop your icon - see if you can use text, textures and other added elements to crop your subject even more
• A screencap taken from an interesting angle can go a long way when going for an interesting crop
• See the examples below for some inspiration!

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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 11: yourname
+ Use tags maker: yourname, round: 11
+ Please make an effort to look at and to leave comments to other participants' posts
+ Deadline: October 31st 22:00 UTC+2 (COUNTDOWN)

Comments

[neonspider]

Haha that Andy expression :D I'm glad you like the challenge, and hope you'll find the inspiration to enter. I had soooo many icons by you saved for this, it was way too hard to narrow it down!