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I'm a little bummed that somein30 is no more. It joins a long, long list of icon challenge comms that existed on LJ and DW over the last 25 years.

Since I'm already running three challenge comms, I don't feel up to running another one - the creation of the challenge/inspiration posts is always the most time-consuming part.

But then I thought to myself, what if we just did some old challenges again? Creating a new challenge comm where existing challenges from old challenge comms are re-done, one each month, from a different comm each month.

What do you think of this idea?

I've been busy and haven't had the time to close the current round or start a new one. I will do so as soon as time permits. In the meantime, you can always check out our list of current challenges:

List of current challenges running on DW

List of current challenges running on LJ

I update both lists in the first week of every month. They are sticky at the top of the comm and can also be reached in the tag https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/tag/current+challenges.

Here are two recs for current challenges on LJ, monthlyinspo and somein30:



Vogue - Show fashion on your icons
https://monthlyinspo.livejournal.com/159130.html


Icon Crossing - Remake some of your old icons into new ones, jsfunction will choose them for you
https://somein30.livejournal.com/90188.html


I know somein30 allows participation without an LJ account, monthlyinspo might too (feel free to ask the mod).

I am feeling nostalgic and thought we might do another Song Set challenge. It's been a little over a year and it was the challenge with by far the most participants and icons we've ever had. (see here)

But it is a tough and time-consuming challenge... what do you think?



If the no's outweigh the yes'es, I will probably make a color challenge, because those are easy and everyone loves them. If you have other ideas, feel free to share in the comments.

The poll is open until Friday, the next challenge will be posted on Saturday.

As you have probably already noticed, seraphina_snape is now an admin in this community, too.

She is taking over the responsibility of keeping the challenge lists up to date, which I'd sadly been neglecting lately. She also has great ideas for icon discussion talk posts. I am very much looking forward to them!

Welcome, and thank you, seraphina_snape!

The current monthly activity - remakes - is still ongoing, and you can also still post your progression posts whenever you like (there is no deadline for them, and there are already three of them posted).

The new activity for February will be posted next Sunday.

We have 35 subscribers now, woot!

21 people took the base poll (at the time I'm posting this. I'm going to leave the poll open). These are the results right now:



The majority of people who are still on LJ, but a large part is exclusively on DW now.



The majority of people say they're medium to good iconmakers, and we also have beginners and newbies. This distribution is great, because it means we have many good people to share their skills with those who want to learn.



This last one is the most interesting part, of course!

The most popular choices are information about active icon challenges on DW and promos for icon comms.

This means there is a lot of interest for icon challenges! If any of you feel like running an icon challenge comm, this is your chance to go and start one! If you need advice or help, ask. I will of course regularly post the list of current challenges here. I'm counting on all of us to get more challenges started together!

I realize that I didn't phrase the question about icon community promos clearly - does it mean personal icon journals, or challenge comms? I personally would like to avoid having a lot of personal icon journal promos here in this comm. My suggestion is that everyone who has an icon comm where they post their icons can link it in the upcoming friending meme. So we can all subscribe to each others' icon communities, if we want. Also, there's an open community where you can promote your icon community: ipromo.

The next point is interaction with other iconmakers. Yay, this is already happening! Every post in this community is an invitation for you to share your work, to ask questions, to squee about icons you've seen, to get to know each other. A few people also mentioned they'd like to add other iconmakers to their circle, which ties into this. I will make a dedicated friending meme post to this community soon.

The next points are icon tutorials and icon challenges to be run within this community. I've already put some thought into this. There are lots of great iconing tutorials around, and I'm planning on going through them and posting links to good ones here. I will also run an icon battle here soon. (If you have requests or battle ideas, let me know!). So those things are all going to happen! :D

Last but not least, people asked for concrit and for the list of current LJ challenges. The concrit comments are always part of the regular posts here (this one, too). So this is ongoing, and nobody is forced to use it, but everyone is welcome to make use of it.

A list of current LJ challenges will be posted regularly, too. I will tag it 'lj', so if you want to keep that off your reading list, you can filter it. But since the majority of people said they have no preference whether challenges are on DW or LJ, I'll definitely post that list. There are still a lot of active communities on LJ, and they all welcome participants with open arms.

So far, so good! Thank you all for joining the community and showing interest in the wonderful hobby of iconmaking!

Feel free to promote this community to your heart's content and tell your friends about it.
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