And that's what comes of such a poor paraphrase. I know that 'praise' isn't in it, but couldn't come up with the right phrasing. What it's really addressing, of course, is the tendency of our culture to approximate humility by downplaying the achievement. I've seen you acknowledge praise quite gracefully, so no worries. :)
Perhaps it's a matter of taste for me as well. I've seen few icons that are arranged and framed as well as yours; your photography experience has absolutely a lot to do with it. There are icons out there, though, that are fairly well framed and and have text well-integrated. (These are often of costume dramas, which makes sense; people who are interested in costumes want to *see* the costumes, not a corner of a face.) They don't usually please me as much, however, because they clearly haven't spent as much time as you have. Your color skills have spoiled me rotten. *g* I'm just not satisfied with plain grey or sepia icons any more. :) And the textures and occasional, um, swirly things are marvelous.
What I'm trying to say is that your icons are extremely pleasing to the eye because of the thought and intent and resulting detail that goes into them. It's like reading a marvelous passage of prose, one so marvelous that it just sweeps you along with it, and you don't even think about the hours and painstaking effort that went into crafting each phrase and sentence.
There's a definition of art that involves making the difficult and arduous appear not only effortless but beautiful. That's the track you're on.
I... think I could force myself to read it if you bothered to write out your thought processes for your icons. Probably. *falls down in helpless laughter* I'd be riveted! There was a time, back when I had time, when I liked to do design layouts for poetry. I adored playing with those details of color and text and font and pictures to give just the exact nuance of meaning. I love stuff like that!
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Date: 2007-04-06 03:27 am (UTC)And that's what comes of such a poor paraphrase. I know that 'praise' isn't in it, but couldn't come up with the right phrasing. What it's really addressing, of course, is the tendency of our culture to approximate humility by downplaying the achievement. I've seen you acknowledge praise quite gracefully, so no worries. :)
Perhaps it's a matter of taste for me as well. I've seen few icons that are arranged and framed as well as yours; your photography experience has absolutely a lot to do with it. There are icons out there, though, that are fairly well framed and and have text well-integrated. (These are often of costume dramas, which makes sense; people who are interested in costumes want to *see* the costumes, not a corner of a face.) They don't usually please me as much, however, because they clearly haven't spent as much time as you have. Your color skills have spoiled me rotten. *g* I'm just not satisfied with plain grey or sepia icons any more. :) And the textures and occasional, um, swirly things are marvelous.
What I'm trying to say is that your icons are extremely pleasing to the eye because of the thought and intent and resulting detail that goes into them. It's like reading a marvelous passage of prose, one so marvelous that it just sweeps you along with it, and you don't even think about the hours and painstaking effort that went into crafting each phrase and sentence.
There's a definition of art that involves making the difficult and arduous appear not only effortless but beautiful. That's the track you're on.
I... think I could force myself to read it if you bothered to write out your thought processes for your icons. Probably. *falls down in helpless laughter* I'd be riveted! There was a time, back when I had time, when I liked to do design layouts for poetry. I adored playing with those details of color and text and font and pictures to give just the exact nuance of meaning. I love stuff like that!