My icon for lantis_lims this week:



Three icons got voted out this week. My icon was the fourth-worst. Not gonna lie: I was disappointed. I love this icon. It wasn't supposed to look anything like this -- the background was supposed to be vibrant turquoise and it was supposed to have a pop art feel -- but somewhere along the way my muses were like "oh, yes, that's all well and good, but what's actually supposed to happen here is that the beautiful Rachel is supposed to emerge, glowing, from this wacky hot pink floral fog." It was difficult for me to achieve that look (trying to get her hair to fade into the background properly = a bitch), but I was overwhelmingly satisfied with the end result. I think that my complete adoration of this icon is what made it so shocking to get so many negative votes.

However, a strike in my favor: what all the critics disliked about the icon was exactly what I liked about it, so I know it looks like how I meant it to. This is comforting in a strange way.

I also really like the icons I entered at super_icontest last week, and I can't wait for the results from voting to go up so that I can FINALLY HAVE SUPERNATURAL ICONS.