I finally posted my icon batch for monthlyinspo's round 7 : back to school. The inspiration post flicked something in me, it's just too beautiful. The theme itself is broad, but I'm most inspired by the 'science' section. All the shapes, the bold colors, the texture galore, they're just the perfect beautiful mess I wanted to create. It went well, if I say so myself other than how time consuming the whole set was. I wasn't satisfied and wanted to add something to each of them every time I see them. With the time extension the mod gave me, I managed to make two different complex icons which finally made the cut.


These are the craziest, most colorful icons I've ever made ever.

I was lucky with the first Luhan one, the base was right, it was just how I envisioned it to be. Jungkook, I grabbed the cap on the day they released first teaser for DNA MV. The cap wasn't very good, but I'm very satisfied with the end result. I was working on finishing this batch, focusing on science theme since it requires more complexity. I was scouring through my texture folders and the internet for chemistry and geometrical textures. I was super excited when DNA MV was released and they used chemistry texture on the MV!!! That just made me even more determined to perfect my batch. The MV itself was super colorful with cool artwork and nebulas, I actually took a cap and used it as texture.

Dispatch released an awesome set of photos from their jacket shooting and I think they're even better than the official concept photos. I love the lighting, the quality, the color. I took a photo of V to turn into an artwork for the 'art' theme :


The nebula was from Jin's scene in DNA MV. It's so crazy the nebula made it look like he has funny shaped hair, even I wouldn't actually use it, but it was fun. The last one is the cotton candy version of it partly inspired by... candies and Elris' concept photos.

The thing is, it was such a big project I've been working on since forever. Now that I finished with it, I feel empty inside. I still want to create, I want to make more of them crazy icons. I've browsed around LJ comms to find more challenges but they're not as exciting and or crazy. Many has fall theme which, ... I don't really care about. I live in a tropical country and it's just hard to relate to seasons when you're not experiencing it. I'm thinking to make my own challenge / independent batch just to satisfy my urge to make more crazy icons like above.